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A Timeline of Elon Musk’s (Ongoing) Bid to Buy OpenAI

The nearly $100 billion acquisition offer could put a wrench in OpenAI's profit conversion plans.

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Coca-Cola, Breweries and Automakers Prepare for Trump’s Tariffs

Coca-Cola is considering making more Coke in plastic bottles instead of aluminum cans.

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For Apple, Bing and Google Maps Users, It’s Now the Gulf of America

For Apple, Bing and Google Maps Users, It’s Now the Gulf of America

The Gulf of Mexico will now appear as the Gulf of America for U.S. users of Apple Maps, Bing Maps and Google Maps.

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Overreliance on A.I. Erodes ‘the Quality of Human Thought,” Microsoft Study Finds

Overreliance on A.I. Erodes ‘the Quality of Human Thought,” Microsoft Study Finds

A new study warns that overreliance on A.I. could cause cognitive abilities to deteriorate.

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Biggest Risk in A.I. Is ‘Missing Out,’ Says Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Biggest Risk in A.I. Is ‘Missing Out,’ Says Google CEO Sundar Pichai

"The opportunity with A.I. is as big as it gets," said Sundar Pichai, head of Google and Alphabet.

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LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Warns Against Big Tech’s Fact-Checking Rollback

LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Warns Against Big Tech’s Fact-Checking Rollback

Reid Hoffman cautions against the tech industry's shifting stance on free speech.

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Jeff Bezos’ $10B Climate Fund Undergoes Shakeups in the Wake of Trump Policies

Jeff Bezos’ $10B Climate Fund Undergoes Shakeups in the Wake of Trump Policies

The Bezos Earth Fund has quietly removed a page about an environmental commitment after President Trump revoked a Biden-era initiative.

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Here’s Where Each Big Tech Company Stands on DEI Efforts in 2025

Here’s Where Each Big Tech Company Stands on DEI Efforts in 2025

In recent annual filings, Big Tech companies have omitted or changed former diversity commitments.

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Boston Dynamics Partners with Its Former CEO to Build a Humanoid Robot

Boston Dynamics Partners with Its Former CEO to Build a Humanoid Robot

The company is looking to supercharge its development of Atlas, an electric humanoid robot.

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Anthropic, an A.I. Company, Urges Job Applicants Not to Use A.I.

Anthropic, an A.I. Company, Urges Job Applicants Not to Use A.I.

"We want to be able to assess people’s genuine interest and motivations for working at Anthropic," a company spokesperson told Observer.

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Google’s A.I. Spending Spree Spooks Wall Street

Google’s A.I. Spending Spree Spooks Wall Street

Google parent company Alphabet is spending money more quickly than making it. 

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is ‘Very Good’ for Palantir, Says CEO Alex Karp

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is ‘Very Good’ for Palantir, Says CEO Alex Karp

Palantir's values closely align with the mission of DOGE, the company's CTO said.

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Facebook Turns 21: 5 Key Moments Mark Zuckerberg Redefined the Company

Facebook Turns 21: 5 Key Moments Mark Zuckerberg Redefined the Company

The 21-year-old company has undergone a series of dramatic changes since its 2004 founding.

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Canada’s Retaliation of Trump Tariffs Takes Aim at Elon Musk Companies

Canada’s Retaliation of Trump Tariffs Takes Aim at Elon Musk Companies

Trump's proposed tariffs could eventually harm Elon Musk's SpaceX and Tesla.

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4 Space Missions to Watch in February 2025: NASA, SpaceX and More

4 Space Missions to Watch in February 2025: NASA, SpaceX and More

The global space industry is starting off 2025 with a bang.

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A.I. Voice Startup ElevenLabs Triples Valuation to $3.3B in One Year

A.I. Voice Startup ElevenLabs Triples Valuation to $3.3B in One Year

Fresh off a $180 million funding round, the startup has tripled its valuation in just a year.

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Tesla’s EV Business Is Slowing—But Investors Are Buying Elon Musk’s A.I. Promises

Tesla’s EV Business Is Slowing—But Investors Are Buying Elon Musk’s A.I. Promises

Tesla's core EV business is slowing, but Elon Musk said it's no cause for concern.

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Mark Zuckerberg Envisions 2025 to be an ‘Intense’ A.I.-Focused Year for Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Envisions 2025 to be an ‘Intense’ A.I.-Focused Year for Meta

Meta will hike up its A.I. spend this year it goes all in on Mark Zuckerberg's vision to dominate the emerging technology.

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Sam Altman’s $5.4B Nuclear Fusion Startup Helion Baffles Science Community

Sam Altman’s $5.4B Nuclear Fusion Startup Helion Baffles Science Community

Helion's nuclear fusion promises have garnered the attention of Silicon Valley—and raised concerns amongst scientists wary of its aggressive timeline.

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What Silicon Valley Leaders Are Saying About China’s A.I. Miracle DeepSeek

What Silicon Valley Leaders Are Saying About China’s A.I. Miracle DeepSeek

DeepSeek's A.I. breakthroughs have got Silicon Valley talking.

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Reid Hoffman Bets on A.I. Drug Discovery with a Pulitzer-Winning Cancer Physician

Reid Hoffman Bets on A.I. Drug Discovery with a Pulitzer-Winning Cancer Physician

Hoffman, like many tech billionaires, believe A.I. can significantly shorten the time of drug discovery.

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Scale AI’s 28-Year-Old Billionaire CEO Warns About This Scarily Good Chinese Startup

Scale AI’s 28-Year-Old Billionaire CEO Warns About This Scarily Good Chinese Startup

The A.I. gap between the two countries is becoming narrower, according to the tech founder.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Believes A.I. Could Double Human Lifespans in 5 Years

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Believes A.I. Could Double Human Lifespans in 5 Years

"We can make 100 years of progress in areas like biology in five to ten years," said Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

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CEO of World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Disagrees with Trump’s Climate Policy

CEO of World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Disagrees with Trump’s Climate Policy

The financial impacts of climate change are "just a totally different picture" than in the past, said Nicolai Tangen.

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A.I. Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Warns About A.I. Models’ ‘Self-Preserving’ Ability

A.I. Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Warns About A.I. Models’ ‘Self-Preserving’ Ability

At this year's Davos, Bengio raised the alarm over "very strong agency and self-preserving behavior" in A.I. systems.

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Netflix Tops 300M Subscribers in 2024, Raises Plan Prices Again

Netflix will stop disclosing subscriber numbers in future quarterly reports.

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TikTok’s Future Is Now Tied to Trump’s Tariff Threats on China

What does Trump's TikTok lifeline mean for China tariffs?

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Stack Exchange Founder Pledges to Give Away Half His Wealth in 5 Years

Stack Exchange's Jeff Atwood is donating half of his wealth to bolster access to the "American dream."

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Wall Street CEOs Are Eagerly Awaiting Trump’s Pro-Business Policies

Expectations for a pro-business climate under the incoming Trump administration has lifted the spirits of major bank executives.

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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, an LA Native, Weighs In on Wildfire’s Impact on Insurance

The BlackRock head warned of a lengthy recovery process for the city.

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Finally Reaches Orbital Milestone

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket has finally taken flight.

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How Biden Is Solidifying His A.I. Legacy in His Last Week as President

With less than a week left in office, the Biden administration is making moves in the world of A.I.

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This $10B Texas Startup Wants to Bring Back Extinct Animals Through Gene-Editing

It's the first startup founded in Texas to be valued at more than $10 billion.

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As a TikTok Ban Looms, Users Are Flocking to Another Chinese-Owned App

TikTok users are migrating to alternative social media apps like Red Note.

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Aims to Implant 10 Times More Brain Chips in 2025

Neuralink recently implanted its brain device into a third patient, according to Elon Musk.

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Speaker Maker Sonos CEO Patrick Spence Steps Down After Failed App Revamp

The aftermath of a botched app launch is still being felt at the audio equipment company.

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5 Space Missions to Watch in January 2025: NASA and Firefly Shoot for the Moon

SpaceX’s Starship rocket will take flight again in January. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images As 2024 comes to a close, 2025 is shaping up to be...

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4 SpaceX Milestones to Watch in 2025: Starship, a Company Town and Trump Policies

What will 2025 bring for Elon Musk’s SpaceX? Miguel J. Rodriguez/AFP via Getty Images There’s no question that 2024 was a good year for SpaceX. The...

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Canada, an Early A.I. Hub, Fights to Stay Relevant

Toronto was the scene of much of A.I.’s pivotal early research. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images In the late 1980s, Geoffrey Hinton was a few...

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5 A.I. Trends to Watch in 2025: Agentic A.I., 3D Models, Synthetic Data and More

A.I. companies like ChatGPT ballooned in value in 2024. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images In the first eight months of 2024, Microsoft (MSFT),...

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Telegram Closes 2024 With $1B in Revenue and Its First Profit, Says CEO Pavel Durov

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov boasts a net worth of $15.5 billion. Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images Telegram, the private messaging app with almost a...

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Former Google Researchers are Dominating the A.I. Startup Scene

Ex-Google employees Dario Amodei, Aravind Srinivas and Arthur Mensch now run some of the world’s largest A.I. startups. Photos by Chesnot and Saul...

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Geoffrey Hinton Has Used His Nobel Prize Winnings to Create a New Award for A.I.

Geoffrey Hinton delivers a speech during the Nobel Prize banquet in Stockholm, Sweden on Dec. 10, 2024. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images...

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How Much MacKenzie Scott Gave Away Each Year Since 2019

MacKenzie Scott’s newest round of donations total more than $2 billion. Todd Williamson/Getty Images for Amazon In 2019, philanthropist MacKenzie...

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A.I. Answer Engine Maker Perplexity Is Valued at $9B After Latest Fundraising

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas previously worked at OpenAI. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images At the beginning of 2024, the San Francisco-based...

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Alphabet’s Waymo Expands Beyond US to the World’s Most Populous City

Tokyo’s Shibuya crossing at night. Timo Volz Waymo’s self-driving cars are taking a “road trip” to Japan, according to the Alphabet (GOOGL)-owned...

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Cohere, a $5.5B Canadian A.I. Startup, Is Quietly Working with Peter Thiel’s Palantir

Aidan Gomez has served as Cohere’s CEO since its 2019 founding. Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images Since bursting into the A.I. scene five years...

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A.I. Data Centers Are Emitting as Much Greenhouse Gases As Commercial Airlines: Study

The U.S. is home to over a third of the world’s data centers. Getty Images for Unsplash Data centers, the nondescript facilities that dot the...

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AMD Is Pouring Cash Into A.I. Startups: Companies It Has Backed So Far

Lisa Su has acted as AMD’s CEO for more than a decade. Noam Galai/Getty Images for TIME AMD (AMD), a Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker that has...

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Ilya Sutskever Warns A.I. Is Running Out of Data—Here’s What Will Happen Next

Ilya Sutskever founded the A.I. startup Safe Superintelligence after leaving OpenAI. AFP via Getty Images Ilya Sutskever, an OpenAI co-founder and...

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