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Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire
Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and coauthor of the excellent boo...
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Apple touts $1.4 trillion in App Store billings and sales, 90% without a commission
Apple's App Store generated $1.4 trillion in sales, up from $1.3 trillion last year, with $149 billion in sales for digi...
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Let us filter AI slop, you cowards
It's almost impossible to avoid seeing AI-generated content online, but it doesn't have to be this way. YouTube, Instagr...
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AI leaders call for tougher protections against AI-aided bioweapons
Some of the AI industry's biggest rivals have put their many, many grievances aside for a common cause: making it harder...
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Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade
Amazon is offering its AI shopping technology to other retailers through a new Agentic Shopping Assistant built on AWS,...
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Amazon develops a warehouse robot workers can speak to
Amazon has announced a new version of its fully autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus, that will can interact using langua...
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Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise
The legendary abandons its more than 20 year tradition of keeping its funds to about $425 million.
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Lovable signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says
Lovable and Google signed an expanded multi-year deal athat involves a 5x expansion of Lovable's footprint on Google Clo...
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Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal
If Alphabet's record-breaking, $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see tha...
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Substack’s new ‘Reply Rules’ feature lets creators control how people respond
Substack's new Reply Rules feature is currently available for all English-language publications and is designed to give...
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Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon
Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated "stories" culled from the personal data in your Google account.
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As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise
This week we've got tandem hands-ons with Google's new Gemini AI agent - Spark - from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay...