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Data Centers Rise in Fracking Country

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:40:00 GMT

Plus, pairing Nvidia’s chocolate with Broadcom’s peanut butter, Palmer Luckey’s new bank and the Chinese criminals behind your spam texts, in this edition of the Technology newsletter.

By: Bradley Olson

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The Fight Over Whose AI Monster Is Scariest

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:30:00 GMT

Why Anthropic’s Jack Clark is drawing White House ire.

By: Tim Higgins

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The A-List Turned on Marc Benioff. Now He’s Sorry.

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The Salesforce CEO apologized for his comments on the National Guard.

By: Sebastian Herrera

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OpenAI’s Chip Strategy: Pair Nvidia’s Chocolate With Broadcom’s Peanut Butter

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:00:00 GMT

The maker of ChatGPT and Sora wants to control its destiny, which means controlling the hardware that runs its software.

By: Christopher Mims

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Oracle Isn’t Answering the Hardest Questions About Its AI Plans

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:30:00 GMT

The software giant has boosted its long-term financial targets, but paying for an artificial-intelligence build-out is seen stretching company resources.

By: Dan Gallagher

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Teen Sues Maker of Fake-Nude Software

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:18:00 GMT

There is a growing concern over AI sites that generate fabricated naked photos of minors and nonconsenting adults.

By: Julie Jargon

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Goldman Sachs Pursues Bigger Share of AI Infrastructure Financing Boom

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:30:00 GMT

A new team will focus on deals to finance data centers and other artificial-intelligence projects.

By: AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Foxconn Shares Rise After Chairman Says Met With OpenAI, Plans Nvidia Next

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:42:00 GMT

The Taiwanese company’s shares surged in yet another stock jump driven by investor enthusiasm about AI.

By: Sherry Qin

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BlackRock’s AI Consortium to Buy Aligned Data Centers in $20 Billion Deal

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:52:00 GMT

The companies said the transaction ranks among the largest data-center deals ever.

By: Jack Pitcher, Connor Hart

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A Giant New AI Data Center Is Coming to the Epicenter of America’s Fracking Boom

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:06:00 GMT

CoreWeave and Poolside announce partnership for a data center built on a sprawling ranch in West Texas.

By: Bradley Olson

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The Frothiest AI Bubble Is in Energy Stocks

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:30:00 GMT

Concept stocks with no revenue have soaring valuations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has backed the biggest of these energy companies.

By: Jinjoo Lee

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The Age of Flying Cars Has Arrived

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:50:00 GMT

Plus, Waymos of London, AI clones and the ‘bring your own power’ era, in this edition of The Future of Everything newsletter.

By: Conor Grant

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Our Faces No Longer Belong to Us

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Your likeness is now fair game for AI. Anyone is a click away from creating a digital version of you.

By: Nicole Nguyen

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What It’s Like When Our AI Selves Are Having All the Fun

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMT

OpenAI’s Sora video-generation app may look like TikTok, but its core feature plays to the Narcissus in all of us.

By: Wilson Rothman

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Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:30:00 GMT

Driven by a feeling they’ve lost control to screens, twenty-somethings are resurrecting CDs, flip phones and digital cameras.

By: Max Kutner

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The Radical Changes That Are Making Your Smart Home Less Dumb

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Amazon’s Alexa+ and Google’s Gemini for Home provide natural conversations while Ring cameras will soon find lost dogs.

By: Nicole Nguyen, Wilson Rothman

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Why Biotech’s Rally Can Last This Time

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:30:00 GMT

After years on the sidelines while investors piled into the next big thing in AI or crypto, biotech is back in focus.

By: David Wainer

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Johnson & Johnson in Talks to Buy Protagonist Therapeutics

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:13:00 GMT

The two companies are already codeveloping a treatment for ulcerative colitis.

By: Lauren Thomas, Ben Dummett

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Trio Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for Discoveries on Immune System

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:59:00 GMT

One winner was off-the-grid on a backpacking trip before he found out about the award.

By: Brianna Abbott, Junko Fukutome, Gareth Vipers

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Cardinal Health to Build Indianapolis Pharma Plant to Supply Growing Distribution

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:46:00 GMT

The planned 230,000 square-foot plant is the healthcare company’s latest step in a 10-year plan to modernize and expand its distribution network.

By: Katherine Hamilton

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Genmab to Buy Cancer-Treatment Developer Merus For $8 Billion in Cash

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:26:00 GMT

Genmab said it would pay a cash premium of around 41% on Merus’s closing price on Friday for a deal giving it access to late-stage breakthrough petosemtamab.

By: Dominic Chopping

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Opinion | Artificial Intelligence, Armageddon and the Antichrist

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:56:00 GMT

As technology advances, Peter Thiel asks the same big questions people were asking 2,000 years ago.

By: Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

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Opinion | Free Fountain of Youth for All

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:50:00 GMT

Unless we plan for equitable access, life extension will become privilege extension.

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Opinion | The Banality of Doublespeak

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:53:00 GMT

Tesla has ‘Full Self Driving (Supervised).’ Guard your life at railroad crossings.

By: Andy Kessler

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Opinion | Supercomputers Can’t Compete With Humans

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:48:00 GMT

Our brains are most efficient—and sustainable.

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Opinion | Tilly Norwood and U.S. Renewal

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:28:00 GMT

The AI actress is less interesting than her misguided, panicky critics, from Trump to Blunt.

By: Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

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Opinion | AI and the Fountain of Youth

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:07:00 GMT

Technological advances may turn back aging, extending the average life span by at least a decade.

By: David B. Agus

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Feds Find No Evidence of Tariff Cheating Among Appliance Makers

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:57:00 GMT

Federal officials say they have found no evidence of widespread undervaluing of imported appliances after Whirlpool last month accused its rivals of possible tariff evasion.

By: John Keilman

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Driverless Taxis to Take On London’s Storied Black Cabs

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:00:00 GMT

Waymo plans to launch a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in the U.K. capital next year.

By: Stephen Wilmot

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Oracle Co-CEOs Defend Massive Data-Center Expansion, Plan to Offer AI Ecosystem

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:10:00 GMT

Freshly appointed dual chief executives Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia push back on concerns over Oracle’s margins as investors examine AI bubble.

By: Belle Lin

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Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:01:00 GMT

Find insight on Sandisk, OpenAI’s partnership with Walmart and more in the latest Market Talks covering technology, media and telecom.

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How U.S. Pressured Netherlands to Oust CEO of Chinese-Owned Chip Maker

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:09:00 GMT

Dutch officials moved to take control of Nexperia, underscoring how U.S.-China tensions are reverberating across the tech sector.

By: Sam Schechner, Raffaele Huang

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The Best E-Readers for Every Kind of Book Lover

Wed, 28 May 2025 20:03:00 GMT

We hit our reading goals testing these devices to see which are the most rewarding to read on.

By: Tim Barribeau, and , Nick Guy

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The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones

Thu, 15 May 2025 20:40:00 GMT

We tested noise-canceling headphones in the bustle of Grand Central Terminal, and these are the best.

By: Nick Guy, and , Geoffrey Morrison

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This is the Best Cooling Pillow for a Good Night’s Sleep

Tue, 06 May 2025 21:55:00 GMT

Upgrade your bed with our top-rated pick.

By: Heather Mayer Irvine

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The A-List Turned on Marc Benioff. Now He’s Sorry.

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The Salesforce CEO apologized for his comments on the National Guard.

By: Sebastian Herrera

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Tesla Shareholders Urged to Reject Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:12:00 GMT

Proxy adviser ISS recommends investors reject moonshot pay deal and investment in xAI However, investors have blessed Musk’s prior pay packages despite similar opposition.

By: Becky Peterson

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Teen Sues Maker of Fake-Nude Software

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:18:00 GMT

There is a growing concern over AI sites that generate fabricated naked photos of minors and nonconsenting adults.

By: Julie Jargon

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OpenAI’s Chip Strategy: Pair Nvidia’s Chocolate With Broadcom’s Peanut Butter

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:00:00 GMT

The maker of ChatGPT and Sora wants to control its destiny, which means controlling the hardware that runs its software.

By: Christopher Mims

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A Giant New AI Data Center Is Coming to the Epicenter of America’s Fracking Boom

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:06:00 GMT

CoreWeave and Poolside announce partnership for a data center built on a sprawling ranch in West Texas.

By: Bradley Olson

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