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he company previously raised over US$5 billion in debt to cover tax costs tied to employee stock sales.

We may not have a concrete release date for the first foldable iPhone, but Apple may already be looking into a smaller device that will follow it up. According to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, Apple is exploring a “square, clamshell-style foldable phone,” with the caveat that this potential device is “far from guaranteed to reach the…

After protests broke out in early January, the Iranian regime shut down the internet, starting the longest blackout in Iranian history. Despite this attempt to stop the protests from spreading, they did not stop. Still, the internet shutdown slowed down the spread of information both inside and outside Iran. Behind the heavily policed borders and…

Enterprises have moved quickly to adopt RAG to ground LLMs in proprietary data. In practice, however, many organizations are discovering that retrieval is no longer a feature bolted onto model inference — it has become a foundational system dependency. Once AI systems are deployed to support decision-making, automate workflows or operate semi-autonomously, failures in retrieval…

A new app called Known seeks an end to the swiping era by using artificial intelligence to play matchmaker. A new dating app called Known, which went live earlier today in San Francisco, wants to offer users a dating experience that is far less gamified—and far more enabled by artificial intelligence. The app, which uses…

How many of the companies with recent layoffs are truly adapting their workforces to the efficiencies and challenges of artificial intelligence? And how many of them were just using AI as an excuse to cover other problems? That’s the question posed by a New York Times article on the trend of “AI-washing,” where companies will…

These cleantech companies in Asia have attracted tons of investors and have the resources to spend on assets, talent, and expansion.

Apex Legends developer Respawn said it’s ending Nintendo Switch support for the game this summer, with the release of Season 30. After that point, it’ll work with the Switch 2 and all other currently supported platforms, but not the original Switch. “Season 29 will be the final update for Apex Legends on Nintendo Switch,” the…

Reports of Bill Gates’ connections with Jeffrey Epstein grow more lurid with each dump of documents from the Department of Justice. The latest includes somewhat confusing emails that Epstein may have been drafting on behalf of someone named Boris, who worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The messages claim that Bill contracted an…

Music’s biggest night will take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles tonight, and cord-cutters can catch the action live. You are going to want to turn up the volume on your television sets. It’s time for the 68th Grammy Awards, which take place on Sunday, February 1.