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The third coming of Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman

Microsoft employees stream down a hallway by the dozen, smartphones and paper coffee cups in hand, many clad in heavy coats on this frigid February morning. The setting is idyllic—Lake Washington is in full view through floor-to-ceiling windows—but they stride purposefully. As they do, they pass a digital sign with a tersely worded call to action:

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Popular female streamers are bringing on security after stars were attacked during an IRL stream

Female streamers are being told to hire security after a spate of recent attacks. 

Popular Twitch stars Valkyrae, Cinna, and Emiru were out in public at the Santa Monica Pier on March 2 as part of their “sisathon” streaming marathon, when a man lunged toward them, saying, “I’ll kill you right now.” The streamers called for help from security as the man chased them before the stream turned off. He had tracked their location using the live broadcast and earlier had g

Trump’s crypto reserve is a payoff for loyalists

President Donald Trump has found a new way to reward his supporters.

On Sunday, Trump announced in a Truth Social post that he will issue an executive order creating a “Crypto Strategic Reserve” that will include Bitcoin, Ethereum, and three other cryptocurrencies. “I will make sure the U.S. is the Crypto Capital of the World,” Trump wrote.

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MrBeast lost ‘tens of millions’ on his Amazon show. That’s a sign for other creators

Hollywood is waking up to the power of influencers. That starts with MrBeast. 

Amazon’s Beast Games cost hundreds of millions to produce. Some of that came from the streamer, but much of it came from the pockets of MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson. On the Diary of a CEO podcast, he estimated “tens of millions” in losses from the show, admitting that he w

EV-maker BYD seeks to raise $5.2 billion with share sale

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has launched a sale of its Hong Kong shares to raise up to $5.2 billion via an accelerated book-building, according to a deal term sheet seen by Reuters on Monday.

AI Chatbots have telltale quirks. Researchers can spot them with 97% accuracy

There’s a cat-and-mouse game between those using generative AI chatbots to produce text undetected and those trying to catch them. Many believe they know the telltale signs—though as a journalist fond of the word “delve” and prone to em-dashes, I’m not so sure.

Researchers at four U.S. universities, however, have

More Americans watch YouTube on TV than on their smartphones—here’s what that means for creators and viewers

YouTube celebrated its 20th birthday last month. Currently, users watch more than a billion hours of content on the Google-owned video platform every day. And increasingly, that content is streamed on TVs rather than smartphones. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan recently announced that YouTube’s TV viewership surpassed smartphone viewership in the United States for the first ti

How and when to use voice AI like Letterly and Oasis

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Typing isn’t always the best way to get your thoughts down. Sometimes talking through an idea leads to better clarity. New AI tools can reliably transform those spoken thoughts into clean, organized text.

Everything you need to know about the Oscars’ AI controversy

Sometimes, authenticity can be a film’s most special effect.

It took months for Best Actress front-runner Mikey Madison to learn how to pole dance like the titular exotic dancer in Anora and for her fellow nominee Timothée Chalamet to passably pla


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