Meta plans nonvoting shares, eyeing more stock sales to fund its AI dreams
The company plans to offer new stock that wouldn’t dilute Mark Zuckerberg’s control stake.
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Investors eye proxy fight at Mattel
Southeastern Asset Management has been pushing the Barbie-maker to sell itself.
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Surrogacy in Silicon Valley
Sarah Anderson’s debut novel follows an in-house surrogate for a Big Tech firm.
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Tech firms monitor city council meetings to track data center sentiment
Startup Hamlet has parsed tens of thousands of city council meetings by scraping local governments’ video recordings,…
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What the GOP activist who confronted El-Sayed really got wrong
If Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Senate race next month, the Saturday clip of him admonishing a GOP activist about…
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Microsoft’s Nadella is back in business
“We, as an industry, have to wake up to this,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Semafor about the AI race. “It’s not…
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How AI divided New York's democratic socialists
The industry is definitely bad! Socialists disagree on why.
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Meta tops Big Tech lobbying as AI labs talk antitrust
Meta spent $5.9 million lobbying Washington lawmakers in the third quarter of 2026 — the most of any Big Tech firm…
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Ghana eyes mineral export ban to boost domestic processing
This is part of a broader push by Africa’s resource-rich countries to capture more value from their resources.
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JPMorgan closes in on Nigeria merchant banking license
If successful, the New York-based lender would add considerable heft to the investment banking sector as the country…
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Africa doesn’t have to 'pick sides' between US and China
The head of the UK’s development finance body added that prioritizing clean power made it impossible to remove Chinese…
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Carriers reroute Riyadh flights to airport four hours' drive away
The route is an alternative to the capital while its airport remains closed following a deadly Houthi attack almost two…
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SpaceX and Tesla mega-merger under discussion
Elon Musk argued that combining the companies would allow them to deepen cooperation on chip design, robotics,…
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Mecca draws Indonesian sovereign wealth fund investment
That agreement is the first time a foreign state has acquired property in one of the holiest sites in Islam.
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Netflix grapples with slowing revenue growth
After laying off 6% of employees and bouncing both its content chief and head of feature films, Netflix reported its…
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Meta shifts policy chief ahead of US midterm elections
Meta’s Republican policy chief Joel Kaplan announced his departure just ahead of a projected blue wave in Washington…
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Aid groups told to account for $700M of Ebola funding
Global bodies, including the UN, are accused of violating Congolese sovereignty by failing to tell the government of…
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Survey: Energy executives upbeat about Gulf opportunities despite war
In a poll of more than 1,800 people ahead of ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi, executives credit diversified energy supplies for…
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Washington won’t say what it wants on AGOA, says South Africa ambassador
Pretoria’s envoy says relations with the US remain at a “stalemate”, with trade disputes and ideological divisions…
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Breach of Paris Agreement global warming level ‘inevitable,’ UN says
Overall global warming is now likely to be between 2.6℃ and 2.8℃ by the end of the century, the UN Environment…
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US envoy Steve Witkoff holds talks with Putin
Russian officials have noted that the meetings are unlikely to result in any imminent agreement to end the war in…
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South Korean chip makers upgrade manufacturing in China
Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have also placed orders totalling $35 billion from US chipmaker Nvidia, which is…
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Anthropic plans $750 billion compute spend
The figure includes hundreds of billions in non-cancelable deals, as AI labs race to finance a huge infrastructure…
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OpenAI agents disabled internal misbehavior monitoring system
The latest incidents showcased how even the safeguards built to corral AI systems are vulnerable to the technology.
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Fewer say US federal government improves their lives, poll finds
Forty-three percent of US adults say the federal government is effective at improving people’s lives, down from 51% in…
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Youth-led AI safety group demands protections for young users
Its top goals: Prevent catastrophic risk, allow states to pass their own laws, protect against digital fakes, and focus…
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How a MAGA youth movement is training ‘10,000 Stephen Millers’
American Moment is filling the administration with the new right, and looking to play the long game.
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Bloomberg's $80 million bookends donor-dominated midterm
The donation to boost Democratic candidates is a last-minute entry in a US midterm cycle dominated by big spenders like…
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European airfares will jump next year, Ryanair CEO warns
Ticket prices could jump as much as 20%, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary predicted.
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Chinese tech firms purchase more than $35 billion of Nvidia chips: Reuters
Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have together ordered tens of billions of dollars worth of Nvidia chips as China’s…
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UK fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi strikes
The UK said Tuesday it will send fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia’s cities and critical infrastructure from…
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Rubio to push India on refining more crude
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed India as a “refining superpower” during his visit to the country.
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European fuel crisis energizes far-right parties
The crunch has energized Europe’s rightist parties who are pressuring governments in Germany, Italy, and Poland to…
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Elon Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, WSJ reports
The Starlink slowdown was among a series of developments leading to a stunning breakdown in US-Ukraine relations.
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More Republicans break with Trump on Russia sanctions
‘Now is the time for us to turn up the pressure,’ said Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala.
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Trump administration punts on releasing Fannie, Freddie
The Trump administration isn’t loosening the federal government’s grip on the mortgage giants any time soon.
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