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Musk’s XAI deal offers unexpected win for X investors
Elon Musk just acquired the social network formerly known as Twitter for the second time in three years.Musk, the world’s richest person, on March 28 used his artificial intelligence...
Contributor: It’s no metaphor — undersea cables hold together our precarious modern life
In the early days of the pandemic, I began pondering the idea of healing. I stumbled upon a story about a cable repair vessel, the Leon Thevenin, which had...
California in settlement talks with Uber, Lyft over wage theft claims
In early 2020, thousands of drivers — led by Southern California advocacy group Rideshare Drivers United — filed claims with the state against Uber and Lyft. They alleged the...
Musk tells Tesla employees to hold on to their stock amid protests
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk told employees to hold on to their stock and stay optimistic amid a series of blows to his company’s reputation that have sent shares...
Hollywood creatives urge government to defend copyright laws against AI
More than 400 Hollywood creatives, including director Guillermo del Toro and actors Cynthia Erivo and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, are urging the U.S. government to uphold existing copyright protections against artificial...
Tech stocks keep tumbling this year. Here’s why
When President Trump returned to the White House, tech executives from Apple, OpenAI, Oracle and other companies pledged to create thousands of jobs, fuel innovation and invest billions of...
‘The Apprentice’ made Trump a reality TV mogul. Now Amazon is putting it back in the spotlight
More than two decades ago, Donald Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice” became a ratings winner and remade his image as a successful business mogul in a way that would...
Trump’s Justice Department still wants to break up Google
Search giant Google still faces a potential breakup under President Trump’s administration. The Department of Justice on Friday reaffirmed a proposal that a court force the tech company to...
What to know about Trump’s plans for a ‘Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to establish a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” and a stockpile of U.S. digital assets.The move came after Trump’s proposal for a crypto...
Euro falls to more than 2-week low after Trump, Zelensky meeting
THE euro dropped on Friday (Feb 28), after a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump went up in flames, dashing hopes any peace deal...
Investors are scouring emerging markets for Trump-proof bets
FROM China’s artificial-intelligence successes to Dubai’s immigrant-led boom and rising prospects of debt restructuring in Venezuela and Lebanon, the winning emerging-market trades of 2025 all help investors withstand President...
Kwek vs Kwek: The battle for CDL, explained
A REAL-LIFE Succession feud imploded from within property giant City Developments Ltd (CDL) last week, with a father-and-son tussle throwing the Kwek family-controlled group into crisis. Explosive statements from...