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Google promotes ‘AI Mode’ on home page ‘Doodle’
Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty Images The Google Doodle is Alphabet’s most valuable piece of real estate, and on Tuesday, the company used that space to promote “AI Mode,” its latest AI search […]
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How a beer-making process is used to make cleaner disposable diapers
Disposable diapers are a massive environmental offender. Roughly 300,000 of them are sent to landfills or incinerated every minute, according to the World Economic Forum, and they take hundreds of years to decompose. It’s a $60 billion business. One alternative approach has been compostable diapers, which can be made out of wood pulp or bamboo. […]
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Figma files for IPO on Nasdaq, plans to ‘take big swings’ with M&A
Design software company Figma filed for an IPO on Tuesday, and plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol FIG. The offering would be one of the hotly-anticipated IPOs in recent years given Figma’s growth rate and its high private market valuation. In late 2023, a $20 billion acquisition agreement with […]
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Apple sues former Vision Pro employee for allegedly stealing ‘thousands of documents’ before joining Snap
A customer tries on the Apple Vision Pro headset during the product launch at the Apple Store in New York City on February 2, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Apple has accused a former engineer for its Vision Pro headset computer of stealing company trade secrets before starting a new job at […]
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Bay Area commuters get free rides Tuesday morning due to Clipper card outage
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) passengers walk off a train at the Richmond station on March 15, 2023 in Richmond, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Commuters in and around San Francisco rode into work for free on Tuesday morning due to an outage in the Clipper card system, which is used to handle payments […]
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Public companies bought more bitcoin than ETFs did for the third quarter in a row
Ozan Kose | Afp | Getty Images Corporate treasuries have surpassed ETFs in bitcoin buying for a third consecutive quarter as more companies try to benefit from the MicroStrategy playbook in a more crypto-friendly regulatory environment. Public companies acquired about 131,000 coins in the second quarter, growing their bitcoin balance 18%, according to data provider […]
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AeroVironment stock drops 7% on offering plan to pay off debt
An image of a Quantix drone made by AeroVironment. David Mcnew | Getty Images News | Getty Images AeroVironment shares fell 7% Tuesday after the defense contractor said it plans to offer $750 million in common stock and $600 million in convertible senior notes due in 2030 to repay debt. The drone maker said it […]
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Web giant Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping content by default
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Internet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners’ permission or compensation by default, in a move that could significantly impact AI developers’ ability to train their models. Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked […]
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China’s Huawei open-sources AI models as it seeks adoption across the global AI market
In recent years, the company has transformed from a competent private sector telecommunications firm into a “muscular technology juggernaut straddling the entire AI hardware and software stack,” said Paul Triolo, partner and senior vice president for China at advisory firm DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group. Ramon Costa | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Huawei has […]
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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI
Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said. Half of that sum was clinched […]
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