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AI wants a place in your holiday traditions

Holiday magic is getting a user interface. Pay-per-minute Santa calls, emoji-made videos, and AI elves caught on camera — all wrapped in tinsel

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Instacart’s controversial pricing experiment is now off the menu

Instacart says it’s done testing grocery prices after criticism that shoppers were unknowingly charged different amounts for the same items

22.12.2025 4

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I asked ChatGPT to play Santa this year. Its gift for my mom was deadly

I tried using AI to shop for Christmas gifts, and it kept mistaking intimacy for inventory — right up to the “smart” jump rope it wanted my mom...

20.12.2025 10

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Elon Musk wanted to build a better school. The reality seems to have fallen short

The billionaire who launches rockets can't launch a Texas school. State records show it operates as child care and doesn't serve school-age children

18.12.2025 3

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Tesla has to rename 'Autopilot' because it doesn't actually drive itself, judge rules

After years of self-driving bravado, Tesla now has 60 days to prove Autopilot is actually autonomous in California or admit it's just driver assist...

17.12.2025 3

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OpenAI has launched its answer to Google's viral Nano Banana

OpenAI just upgraded ChatGPT Images with GPT Image 1.5, a faster, cheaper image push that reads like a direct response to Google’s Nano Banana moment

17.12.2025 5

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Trump's top aide calls Elon Musk an 'avowed' ketamine user and an 'odd, odd duck'

Susie Wiles described the whiplash of working around someone who runs on impulse and expects everyone else to call it innovation

16.12.2025 4

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'Slop' is the word of the year. What to do about AI taking over your feeds

Merriam-Webster crowned “slop” word of the year — just as AI junk overwhelms feeds, and platforms offer ways for users to turn the noise down

16.12.2025 10

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Tesla's board is also getting paid big

Tesla froze director pay in 2021 after a lawsuit, but earlier option grants kept compounding, turning board service into a $3 billion windfall

15.12.2025 2

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Oracle's big AI dreams are freaking out Wall Street

Oracle stock fell as much as 16% as earnings made it painfully clear that the AI grid is wired to a very nervous bond market

11.12.2025 5

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Elon Musk's SpaceX is chasing a $1.5 trillion IPO

Musk's company is reportedly working on a mid- to late-2026 IPO that could raise more than $30 billion and give SpaceX the biggest market debut ever

11.12.2025 3

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Does Google owe you money? Here's how to check after its $700 million settlement

State AGs pushed Google into a $700 million Play Store settlement. Millions of US customers will get refunds — of at least $2 via PayPal or Venmo

10.12.2025 3

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Welcome to the AI loop-de-loop economy

A few giants finance each other's buildouts, pre-sell years of infrastructure to each other, and then point to those contracts as proof it can’t...

10.12.2025 10

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Trump's Nvidia move could help China win the AI war, analysts say

Policy experts say Trump’s Nvidia plan weakens America’s only clear advantage in AI compute — even as Beijing limits H200 access and backs local chips

09.12.2025 6

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Nvidia’s China business basically went to zero. A new deal could change that

Nvidia’s year at 0% in China may shift as Washington reportedly moves to license H200s, offering a narrow reopening of a crucial market

09.12.2025 4

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The viral Starbucks Bearista mug that vanished in hours is back — and maybe even harder to get

Starbucks teased a second wave of its Bearista cup, telling fans that their “chance” at the sold-out glass bear is in the app today

08.12.2025 3

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Elon Musk says the E.U. should be 'abolished'

After a $140 million fine over X’s blue checks, ads, and research access, Elon Musk is campaigning against the E.U. itself

08.12.2025 3

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SpaceX reportedly sets a date for IPO liftoff

Elon Musk's space company is sketching out a late-2026 IPO — while also testing an $800 billion valuation, according to The Information

06.12.2025 10

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Amazon could cut ties with the post office

The e-commerce giant could walk away from a $6 billion postal pipeline, putting the USPS’ balance sheet — and rural delivery — on a collision course

05.12.2025 10

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Meta questions the metaverse — $70 billion later

Years after Meta renamed itself for the metaverse, the company is reportedly rethinking the cash-burning boondoggle

05.12.2025 7

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Layoffs this year are the worst they've been since the pandemic

A November hasn't seen this many job cuts since 2022. And hiring continues to lag, hitting its lowest point in 15 years

04.12.2025 6

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OpenAI wants ChatGPT to confess its sins

OpenAI's “confessions” experiment forces ChatGPT to file a second answer, listing the rules it heard, the shortcuts it took, and why it bent the rules

04.12.2025 3

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Salesforce proves its AI story has teeth

Salesforce showed up to earnings priced like a SaaS relic and left with numbers that finally backed the AI pitch, sending the stock up after hours

04.12.2025 3

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AI bubble fears are driving Salesforce stock to historic lows

Investors aren't sold on Salesforce AI. Shares are low, growth is slowing, and bubble fears are turning a cloud giant into a value stock

04.12.2025 10

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A new browser hack lets you blast away 3 years of AI slop

Slop Evader rewires searches to ignore anything written before November 2022, pulling users back into the gloriously unvarnished — and human — web

04.12.2025 3

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Google’s data centers could actually be going to the moon

As the AI boom overwhelms grids, Google is sketching a 10-year shift toward space-based data centers, starting with hardware racks launching in 2027

03.12.2025 4

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Apple basically admits that its AI strategy was wrong from the start

Apple has a new AI boss, a delayed Siri reboot, and edgy investors. Now, Gemini veteran Amar Subramanya must turn invisible AI into visible upside

03.12.2025 2

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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry on why Tesla stock is 'ridiculously overvalued'

Burry cast Tesla as a giant on stilts, with Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar prize and rolling AI storylines turning investors into a subsidy for the myth

01.12.2025 6

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Black Friday gets an AI power shopper

Shoppers are increasingly using bots, not browsers, for their holiday shopping, as AI agents quietly start steering what shows up — and sells out

27.11.2025 5

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Wedbush calls Nvidia the 'Rocky Balboa of the AI revolution' as Google turns up the heat

Google’s TPU push and Meta’s interest rattled Nvidia stock, but Wedbush says the AI race still runs through Jensen Huang’s corner of the ring

27.11.2025 5

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‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry on why he's shorting Nvidia stock

Burry is stitching together familiar red flags — circular money loops, stretched depreciation — and he doesn’t like the shape they make around Nvidia

26.11.2025 30

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Nvidia CEO tells employees to use more AI — and don't worry about their jobs

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang wants employees to treat AI as the starting point for every task, saying it’s “insane” not to use the tools

26.11.2025 10

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Starbucks made a $30 glass bear cup. Chaos ensued

The Bearista Cold Cup was meant to spread holiday cheer. Instead, it sold out in hours, sparked fights, and turned a $30 cup into a speculative asset

10.11.2025 4

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Tesla's top Cybertruck executive is calling it quits

Siddhant Awasthi, the engineer who turned Elon Musk’s stainless-steel fantasy into a street-legal pickup, is leaving as the Cybertruck faces its...

10.11.2025 2

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Tesla shareholders are expected to bet $1 trillion on Elon Musk

Shareholders at the electric-vehicle maker seem ready to approve the richest CEO pay package in history

06.11.2025 4

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The trade war is now all about rare earths. Here's what they are and why they matter

As the U.S. and China try to resolve tensions, the minerals that power EVs and smartphones are increasingly under lock and key. China holds most of...

05.11.2025 2

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Saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT costs OpenAI millions, Sam Altman says

Being nice to your AI chatbot requires computational power that raises electricity and water costs

03.11.2025 10

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Big Tech has gone industrial

Earnings across Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple showed the same thing: proof and power now matter more than promises

31.10.2025 2

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Microsoft earnings show the cost of building the AI economy

Microsoft’s latest quarter shows that the currency of the cloud is capacity, as the company spent $35 billion to keep pace with power and demand

31.10.2025 4

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Amazon beats the Street's expectations as its cloud finds altitude

AWS grew 20% to $33 billion, its fastest pace in over a year — still trailing Microsoft’s 40% and Google Cloud’s 34%, but closing the gap

31.10.2025 10

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Microsoft powers past estimates on a day its cloud stumbled, but shares still slip

Microsoft beat expectations with $77.7 billion in revenue and a 40% Azure surge, but shares slipped after hours as investors seemed fixated on margins

30.10.2025 10

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Nvidia's next big build is a bridge back to China

Nvidia is inching back toward China’s vast AI market as CEO Jensen Huang blends patriotism with quiet diplomacy to reopen the world’s...

29.10.2025 6

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has become Trump’s most enthusiastic ally in tech

Huang, long the swaggering high priest of Silicon Valley’s AI chip economy, arrived in Washington to deliver a sermon rewritten for the new regime

29.10.2025 5

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Nvidia's AI cars are entering Telsa's lane

The future of self-driving is shifting from charisma to compliance, and Nvidia’s blueprint may prove more durable than Tesla’s belief system

29.10.2025 4

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Here’s everything Nvidia unveiled at its first Washington GTC

Nvidia’s first-ever Washington GTC wasn’t just a product showcase — it was a policy statement, positioning AI as the next pillar of U.S. industry

28.10.2025 2

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Nvidia brings its AI roadshow to Washington

At Nvidia’s first Washington GTC, the company that made GPUs a religion is courting a new congregation: agencies with budgets bigger than data centers

28.10.2025 4

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Big Tech has built the future. Now it has to deliver on the present

The market still believes in the AI revolution. This week’s earnings will test whether Big Tech can stay profitable while waiting for the power to...

27.10.2025 10

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Inside Washington’s new temple to capitalism

At the new Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, ambition is renewable, optimism is merchandised, and irony remains blessedly free

26.10.2025 9

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Intel outperforms in Q3, but the comeback still has miles to go

Better margins, rising PC sales, and a lighter cost structure gave Intel its strongest report in years. Now, it has to catch up to the world it...

24.10.2025 4

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Tesla’s next frontier is convincing everyone that this is fine

Tesla’s latest quarter offered record revenue, shrinking margins, and a familiar promise: that the future’s delays are just part of the design

23.10.2025 3

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