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Amazon Pharmacy medical chief Gupta is latest health exec to leave company
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Amazon Pharmacy medical chief Gupta is latest health exec to leave company

Vin Gupta, Chief Medical Officer at Amazon Pharmacy, speaks during Amazon’s “Delivering the Future” event at the company’s BFI1 Fulfillment Center, Robotics Research and Development Hub in Sumner, Washington on October 18, 2023.  Jason Redmond | Afp | Getty Images Amazon has lost the chief medical officer of its pharmacy division after five years at […]

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Google-Wiz deal is ‘litmus test’ for Trump administration’s handling of Big Tech
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Google-Wiz deal is ‘litmus test’ for Trump administration’s handling of Big Tech

The Wiz logo on a smartphone arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Seven months ago, Alphabet lost a marquee case against the Biden administration’s Justice Department, which accused the company of maintaining an illegal monopoly in search. Weeks earlier, Google’s pursuit of cybersecurity vendor […]

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How the U.S. is losing ground to China in nuclear fusion, as AI power needs surge
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How the U.S. is losing ground to China in nuclear fusion, as AI power needs surge

China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. After decades of U.S. leadership, China is catching up by spending twice as much and building projects at record speed. Often called the holy grail of clean energy, nuclear fusion creates four times more energy per kilogram of fuel […]

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Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King will crew Jeff Bezos’ next Blue Origin spaceflight
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Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King will crew Jeff Bezos’ next Blue Origin spaceflight

Katy Perry performs during the opening ceremony of the 2025 Invictus Games at BC Place on February 08, 2025 in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Samir Hussein | Wireimage | Getty Images Singer Katy Perry and CBS’ Gayle King will join Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez on his rocket company Blue Origin’s next crewed mission. The company […]

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Jeff Bezos orders Washington Post opinion pages to support ‘personal liberties and free markets’; top editor resigns
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Jeff Bezos orders Washington Post opinion pages to support ‘personal liberties and free markets’; top editor resigns

(L-R) Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.  Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Jeff Bezos, the […]

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Bezos’ Blue Origin to layoff about 10% across its space, launch business
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Bezos’ Blue Origin to layoff about 10% across its space, launch business

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 10, 2025. Joe Skipper | Reuters The CEO of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced in an all-hands call on Thursday company-wide layoffs of “about 10 percent” of its employees, a sweeping […]

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to meet with Trump at White House
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to meet with Trump at White House

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is in Washington, D.C., and will be meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon, CNBC has confirmed. The main topic Huang and Trump are expected to discuss is U.S. artificial intelligence policy, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to […]

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Here’s why Trump’s pursuit of Greenland is really about the control over the Arctic
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Here’s why Trump’s pursuit of Greenland is really about the control over the Arctic

President Donald Trump has reiterated his desire to buy Greenland, and refused to rule out using military or economic coercion to achieve his goal of controlling the autonomous territory of Denmark. . However, the United States isn’t the only country with an eye on the region. In 2018, a Chinese state-owned company bid roughly $550 […]

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Sam Altman posts letter from senators concerned about OpenAI efforts to ‘cozy up’ to Trump
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Sam Altman posts letter from senators concerned about OpenAI efforts to ‘cozy up’ to Trump

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023.  SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. Senators on Friday expressed concern to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that he’s attempting to “cozy up to the incoming Trump administration” with […]

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TikTok CEO expected to attend Trump’s inauguration, NBC reports
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TikTok CEO expected to attend Trump’s inauguration, NBC reports

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing entitled “TikTok: How Congress can Safeguard American Data Privacy and Protect Children from Online Harms,” as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 23, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected […]

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