Category Archives: Business

The Rise and Fall of the World’s Largest Gay Dating App

The new book The Wall Dancers explores the uneasy relationship between Chinese internet users and a government that is always watching.

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How iPhones Made a Surprising Comeback in China

Huawei’s and Xiaomi’s flagship devices are packed with impressive features, but Apple is dominating the Chinese smartphone market again—for now.

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A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

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Mistral’s New Ultra-Fast Translation Model Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money

“Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup’s vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major US AI companies.

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AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic

New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.

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Epstein Files Reveal Peter Thiel’s Elaborate Dietary Restrictions

The latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files shed light on the convicted sex offender’s ties to Silicon Valley—and Peter Thiel’s exacting approach to food.

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Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

By fusing SpaceX and xAI—which acquired X last year—Elon Musk tightens his grip over technologies that shape national security, social media, and artificial intelligence.

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The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files

The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s who shows up from Big Tech the most often—and what the files reveal.

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After Minneapolis, Tech CEOs Are Struggling to Stay Silent

Silicon Valley’s power brokers spent the past year currying favor with President Trump. Two deadly shootings in Minneapolis are now exposing the price of that bargain.

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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Are Campaigning to Get ICE Out of US Cities

Even as Big Tech CEOs curry favor with President Trump, Silicon Valley employees are calling on their bosses to use their influence to help stop his immigration policies.

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