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Trump Organization says Amazon, Walmart, eBay sellers are hawking knockoff shirts, hats, mugs
The Trump Organization is seeking to prevent some online businesses from hawking counterfeit merchandise promoting President Donald Trump. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Florida, the company accused unnamed merchants of selling “inferior imitations” of Trump-branded products on several online marketplaces, including Amazon, Walmart and eBay. The Trump Organization company, which […]
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Alibaba to launch AI-powered glasses creating a Chinese rival to Meta
Alibaba announced plans to release a pair of smart glasses powered by its AI models. The Quark AI Glasses are Alibaba’s first foray into the smart glasses product category. Alibaba Alibaba on Monday unveiled a pair of smart glasses powered by its artificial intelligence models, marking the Chinese firm’s first foray into the product category. […]
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Meta names OpenAI’s Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI Superintelligence Lab
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said Shengjia Zhao, the co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, will serve as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Zuckerberg […]
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Musk’s Grok AI is now on the Kalshi, Polymarket betting apps. What could go wrong?
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk is now a driving force in prediction markets. Musk’s xAI on Thursday announced a partnership to integrate its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with Kalshi’s prediction markets service. In June, xAI announced a similar deal with Polymarket, a Kalshi rival. Kalshi, the company that turned heads with a made-with-AI […]
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Astronomer HR chief Kristin Cabot resigns following Coldplay ‘kiss cam’ incident
Chris Martin of Coldplay performs live at San Siro Stadium, Milan, Italy, in July 2017. Mairo Cinquetti | NurPhoto | Getty Images Days after Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigned from the tech startup, the HR exec who was with him at the infamous Coldplay concert has left as well. “Kristin Cabot is no longer with […]
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Musk’s Starlink hit with outage day after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink said it had a “network outage” on Thursday. The company said it was working on a solution. There were more than 60,000 reports of an outage on Downdetector, a site that logs issues. Starlink is owned and operated by SpaceX, which is […]
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Trump says he won’t ‘destroy’ Musk’s companies by taking away subsidies
Elon Musk receives a golden key from U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard Nathan Howard | Reuters President Donald Trump on Thursday denied claims that he wants to wreck Elon Musk’s companies and their work with the U.S. government. “Everyone […]
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Commerce Sec. Lutnick says TikTok will go dark if China won’t agree to U.S. control of the social media app
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that TikTok will go dark for Americans unless China agrees to give the U.S. more control over the popular short-form video app. “We’ve made the decision. You can’t have Chinese control and have something on 100 million American phones,” Lutnick told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday. TikTok’s future in […]
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Amazon venture fund backs startup developing fix for return fraud
Packages ride on a conveyor belt during Cyber Monday at an Amazon fulfillment center on December 2, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo | Getty Images Amazon is turning to the startup world to find a potential fix for one of its thorniest logistics problems. Retailers of all sizes have in recent years […]
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Google’s $85 billion capital spend spurred by cloud, AI demand
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford’s 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google is going to spend $10 billion more this year than it previously expected due to the growing demand for cloud services, which has created a backlog, executives said Wednesday. […]
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