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SpaceX’s Starlink has become a big benefactor of Trump’s tariff trade war, leaked memos show

SpaceX’s satellite internet service, Starlink, is directly benefiting from the Trump Administration’s tariff trade war, according to leaked State Department memos obtained by the Washington Post.   The memos show the U.S. pushing countries to adopt Starlink. Some show that countries … Continue reading

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Lucid Motors’ Gravity SUV dealing with early ‘hiccups,’ interim CEO says

Lucid Motors has been working through some quality “hiccups” in the early stages of delivering its long-awaited electric SUV, according to interim CEO Marc Winterhoff. “It is true that we had some technical issues that we had to overcome around … Continue reading

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New court filing shows that Meta execs agreed that Facebook was losing to TikTok

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri, and other Meta execs thought that TikTok was beating Meta at its own game. That’s according to a new filing in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant, … Continue reading

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Amazon debuts a warehouse robot with a sense of ‘touch’

Amazon says that it has developed a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” some of the items it touches. The two-armed Vulcan, which can maneuver goods inside the storage compartments Amazon has in its warehouses, uses force sensors to help … Continue reading

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ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks

Enterprise workflow management platform ServiceNow on Wednesday announced its second AI-related acquisition this year. ServiceNow said that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Data.World, a cloud-native data catalog and data governance platform. Austin, Texas-based Data.World was founded in … Continue reading

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OpenAI wants to team up with governments to grow AI infrastructure

OpenAI is launching a program, OpenAI for Countries, that the company says will enable it to build out the local infrastructure needed to better serve international AI customers. As a part of the new program, OpenAI will partner with governments … Continue reading

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Figma releases new AI-powered tools for creating sites, app prototypes, and marketing assets

Design company Figma today announced multiple features, including AI-powered site and web app creation, a way for marketers to create assets in bulk, and a new drawing tool. With this launch, the company is taking on other creative solutions such … Continue reading

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Apple is looking to add AI search engines to Safari

Apple is looking at adding AI search engines from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic into Safari, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, made the statement during his testimony in the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit against … Continue reading

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Microsoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agents

Microsoft says that it’s embracing Google’s recently launched open protocol for allowing AI “agents” to communicate with each other. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it would bring support for Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) spec to two of its AI development platforms, … Continue reading

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Uber invests $100M in WeRide to fuel robotaxi expansion across 15 more cities

Uber has committed $100 million to Chinese robotaxi firm WeRide as they expand to 15 more cities.

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