Tech
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Apple COO Jeff Williams to Exit After 27 Years
Apple VP Sabih Khan takes over for Williams, who will continue to report to CEO Tim Cook and oversee several departments until the end of 2025
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Latest Trump-Musk Battle Spurs $70 Billion Stock Decline for Tesla
“I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks,” the president says
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Joe Rogan Says OpenAI’s Sam Altman Comes Across Like He’s Running for President | Video
The podcaster argues that tech and AI companies are often run by “odd people,” but Altman is still a “very nice guy”
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X Says AI Will Create, But Never Rate, Community Notes
AI bots “make mistakes” and “hallucinate things,” X’s VP of Product says, so they cannot be allowed to grade fact checks
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X Goes Down: ‘Did Elon Finally Kill Twitter?’
American users were unable to post or see new posts in their timelines on Wednesday morning
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Microsoft to Cut 9,000 Employees in Latest Round of Layoffs
Wednesday’s cuts come after the Xbox tech giant laid off another 6,000 employees in May
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Musk Says He Plans to Form ‘Alternative’ Political Party if Trump’s ‘Insane’ Budget Bill Passes
The Tesla boss is once again sharing his displeasure with his once-political ally’s “big beautiful bill”
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Netflix to Stream Live Space Programming With NASA+ Starting This Summer
“Together, we’re committed to a Golden Age of Innovation and Exploration — inspiring new generations, right from the comfort of their couch or in the palm of their hand,” a NASA spokesperson says
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Controversial AI Provision in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Reduces State Regulation Ban to 5 Years
The proposal to ban states’ ability to regulate AI was previously set to last 10 years
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Trump’s Priority Right Now Is Keeping TikTok in the US App Store, White House Says
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s update comes after President Trump said “a group of very wealthy people” are set to purchase TikTok’s U.S. operations
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Canada Ditches Tech Tax After Trump Threat
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney scrapped a digital services tax that aimed to bring in $3 billion from companies like Amazon and Meta after President Trump called it a “blatant attack”
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Jeff Bezos-Lauren Sánchez Wedding in Photos: Celebrity Arrivals and Venice Protests
The Amazon founder and Lauren Sánchez were forced to move their wedding location due to “No Space for Bezos” events
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Trump Cuts Off Trade Talks With Canada Over Digital Services Tax
In what the president called a “blatant attack” on American tech companies, Canada’s government expects to gain $3 billion from Meta, Google and others
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Disney Cuts Staff in Product and Technology Division
The entertainment giant’s latest layoffs impact less than 2% of the team led by chief product and technology officer Adam Smith
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AI Companies Can Use Copyrighted Books to Train Language Models, Judge Rules in Anthropic Case
Anthropic’s Claude AI model gave users answers that were “exceedingly transformative” and did not violate fair-use law, a California judge rules