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Paramount Skydance's CEO confirmed to employees that the company had settled the lawsuits that were holding up its deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.
Car companies signaled they were discontinuing V8 engines a few years ago. Now, they're making a big U-turn — and Detroit is leading the way.
President Donald Trump stressed the US will "be careful" in how it handles AI.
Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they're under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why would they?
From Alice Walton to MacKenzie Scott, the richest women in the world are all heiresses who own stakes in some of the biggest companies.
The United States took a big step toward greater state ownership or control of the economy—a form of socialism—in 2025. This change is occurring under unified Republican domination of the US government, not under a Democ...
Despite admitting to a “component issue,” the company refuses to say what went wrong, how many units are affected in how many countries, and why it won’t recall its $500 AI toothbrush.
The UN has condemned continued cross‑border attacks by Houthi forces against Saudi Arabia, including an attempted strike on the capital Riyadh, as fighting inside Yemen drives one of the country’s fastest displacement su...
Russian collaboration. Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev suggested Moscow could work with Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party
Bank of America reiterates its Buy rating and price target on a popular plane maker even after its shares fell on its CEO’s warning.
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It’s actually pretty good for an iPhone, given Apple’s long-standing reticence to make its products repairable.