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Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI (Mon, 02 Feb 2026)
The deal further intermingles Mr. Musk’s companies and creates the most valuable private company on earth.
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Waymo Raises $16 Billion to Fuel Global Ambitions (Mon, 02 Feb 2026)
The self-driving car company, an arm of Google’s parent company, is rapidly expanding its service beyond a handful of cities.
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A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed. (Mon, 02 Feb 2026)
A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of artificial intelligence.
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Move Fast, but Obey the Rules: China’s Vision for Dominating A.I. (Mon, 02 Feb 2026)
Beijing wants to lead the world in developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence, but it also wants companies to adhere to an increasingly complex set of rules.
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Netflix Leader Pushes Warner Deal Before Skeptical Lawmakers (Tue, 03 Feb 2026)
Senators asked Ted Sarandos about whether the acquisition would raise prices, squeeze talent and degrade the moviegoing experience.
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‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home (Tue, 03 Feb 2026)
A group of cryptocurrency investors backing a memecoin hopes the statue will soon be installed at one of Mr. Trump’s golf courses in Florida.
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Spain Aims to Ban Social Media for Children Under 16 (Tue, 03 Feb 2026)
The announcement is part of a broader push by countries to curb access to online platforms for minors. It also points to Europe’s stricter approach to regulating social media.
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Siemens Energy Bets $1 Billion That A.I. Power Demand Will Last (Tue, 03 Feb 2026)
The German manufacturer announced plans to expand factories in several U.S. states and build a new plant in Mississippi.
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Chaos in Minneapolis Exposes an Internet at War With Truth (Tue, 03 Feb 2026)
Technological advances and an erosion of trust have transformed the way news unfolds online, distorting shared reality.
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Trump Unveils $12 Billion Critical Minerals Stockpile (Mon, 02 Feb 2026)
The “Project Vault” initiative is intended to reduce U.S. reliance on China for key technology components.
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Energy Bills Have Soared Recently. How Can States Bring Costs Down? (Mon, 02 Feb 2026)
Energy experts said governors and legislatures had tools to keep electricity prices from rising further, and might even be able to lower them.
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Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon (Mon, 02 Feb 2026)
The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at least two years as the company prioritizes NASA contracts.
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Tesla’s Model S, Soon to Be History, Changed the Auto Industry (Fri, 30 Jan 2026)
The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said this week that it would stop making the car, an electric pioneer in 2012, as well as the Model X.
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Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT (Fri, 30 Jan 2026)
In Minneapolis, it has become a battle of phone versus phone.
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The Tech Arsenal That ICE Has Deployed in Minneapolis (Sat, 31 Jan 2026)
Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.
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Apple Reports Record iPhone Sales Amid Holiday Bump (Thu, 29 Jan 2026)
New phone designs, coupled with robust holiday spending, continued to lift iPhone sales in the quarter and drove the company to record profits.
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OpenAI in Talks to Raise as Much as $100 Billion (Thu, 29 Jan 2026)
OpenAI’s discussions with Microsoft, Nvidia, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and others could value it at $750 billion or more.
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How the A.I. Boom Could Push Up the Price of Your Next PC (Thu, 29 Jan 2026)
A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.
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Amazon and Google Eat Into Nvidia’s A.I. Chip Supremacy (Thu, 29 Jan 2026)
The rivals made billions of dollars in the business over the past year, showing other companies that Nvidia isn’t the only game in town.
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Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60% (Thu, 29 Jan 2026)
The company said on Wednesday that revenue in the most recent quarter was $81.3 billion, but its share price dropped more than 7 percent in after-hours trading.
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Meta Forecasts Spending of at Least $115 Billion This Year (Thu, 29 Jan 2026)
That would be a major jump from $72 billion last year, as the tech giant aims to compete in the artificial intelligence race.
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Tesla Profit Slumps, but Investors May Not Care (Thu, 29 Jan 2026)
The automaker also said it would invest $2 billion in xAI, the artificial intelligence company controlled by its C.E.O., Elon Musk, and stop making the two oldest models in its lineup.
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With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint (Thu, 29 Jan 2026)
AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery.
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Amazon to Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs (Wed, 28 Jan 2026)
The e-commerce giant has been cutting costs while pouring resources into building data centers to compete in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
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