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Coca-Cola Won’t Confirm Trump’s Claim That It’s Switching to Sugar Cane

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-18 14:10:48

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Coca-Cola would switch from using high-fructose corn syrup to real cane sugar in its drinks. The president made his announcement on Truth Social, but people online were skeptical that Trump was telling the truth, and with good reason. Trump lies constantly. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump wrote Wednesday. “I’d like to thank all of those in authority

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Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-01-18 14:03:19

Microsoft is building data centers as fast as it can, and that’s killing its carbon balance sheet. Since 2020, its carbon emissions have grown by nearly a quarter, undermining the pledge it made that year to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it generates by 2030. So Microsoft has been buying massive amounts of carbon-removal credits to attempt to remedy that situation, including a newly announced purchase of 4.9 million metric tons from Vaulted Deep. Neither party disclosed the financ

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Amazon cuts some jobs in cloud computing unit as layoffs continue

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-01-19 04:10:10

Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Amazon is laying off some staffers in its cloud computing division, the company confirmed on Thursday. "After a thorough review of our organization, our priorities, and what we need to focus on going forward, we've made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles across particular teams in AWS," Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser said in a statement. "

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Musk Accuses Trump of Covering Up Epstein Scandal

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-19 03:12:37

It's no wonder multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk sees the Jeffrey Epstein crisis as an enormous opportunity to score political points. The situation has driven a massive wedge between president Donald Trump and his MAGA base. A furious Trump has repeatedly attempted to pour cold water on conspiracy theories surrounding the late sex criminal billionaire's mysterious death and the existence of a purported "client list" — efforts that only enraged his supporters even further. In a Twitter spr

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Amazon’s AI push is undermining its sustainability goals

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-19 04:01:59

Amazon’s decarbonization goals are being undermined by its push to be a leader in generative AI. Its most recent sustainability report concedes its overall carbon emissions grew for the first time since 2022. It reported a six percent increase in its carbon footprint across 2024, laying much of the blame at the feet of its data center rollout. The reported increase is significant given Amazon’s method of reporting its own environmental impact. Critics have suggested the mega-retailer “ dramatic

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The Latest ‘Alien: Earth’ Trailer Adds Even More Alien Monsters

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-19 04:30:25

In the Alien movies, one killer species is more than enough for humanity to deal with. Actually, it’s almost always too much. Most everyone usually dies. But, in Alien: Earth, which comes to FX on August 12, it’s not just that iconic xenomorph the characters will have to deal with. Four other killer monsters have crash-landed on our planet too. Let the fun begin. From the mind of Noah Hawley, Alien: Earth takes a whole new look at the franchise made famous by the likes of Ridley Scott and James

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Taiwan Semi is speeding up U.S. chip production due to demand, CEO says

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2026-01-19 09:57:13

Signage for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) at it's fabrication plant in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on Monday, March 3, 2025. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company CEO C.C. Wei on Thursday said the company is seeing "strong interest" from its leading U.S. customers and is working to speed up its volume production schedule by several quarters. TSMC is the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, and the company has pledged to invest a total of $165 billion in advanced semic

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Uber's latest robotaxi plan involves 20,000 Lucid EVs

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-19 08:59:44

Uber is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Nuro and Lucid, the latest step in the company’s plan to build an extensive robotaxi program that can roll out globally. Uber’s partnership with EV manufacturer Lucid will see it deploy at least 20,000 of the Newark-based company’s vehicles over a period of six years. These will be equipped with the AI-powered Nuro Driver autonomous technology. The vehicles will be owned and operated by Uber or one of its third-party partners, and the service

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Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta bigwigs just agreed to a settlement in $8 billion suit

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-19 09:45:14

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with a group of current and former company directors and officers, just agreed to settle to end a trial that sought $8 billion in damages, according to a report by Reuters . Zuckerberg and the others will actually be paying out to Meta shareholders as a recompense for damages allegedly caused by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users' privacy. The parties have not disclosed the details of the settlement, but one would assume the payout was less than the $

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Boulevard raises $80M to power self-care boom driven by Botox and GLP-1 surge

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-01-19 09:29:46

The beauty industry has seen an explosion of offerings recently. Customers can now access treatments far beyond basic hair and nail care, from wrinkle-smoothing Botox and fillers to permanent laser hair removal and even weight management through GLP-1 medications. Riding this wave of industry growth is Boulevard, a provider of scheduling and payment software for the self-care sector. The nine-year-old Boulevard just raised $80 million in Series D funding, valuing the business at nearly $800 mi

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Another big car company gives up on hydrogen

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-19 18:30:11

Stellantis, the automotive giant behind Chrysler, Citroen, Fiat, Jeep and Peugeot, is pulling out of hydrogen. The company said it’s killing its fuel cell development program in the face of “limited availability of hydrogen refueling infrastructure, high capital requirements and the need for stronger consumer purchasing incentives.” To put that another way, it’s realized hydrogen EVs are facing the same set of challenges it’s not been able to overcome in the last two or three decades. It’s a st

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Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-19 18:00:10

Back in 1999, Wall Street lost its collective mind over the internet. Companies with no revenue were suddenly worth billions, “eyeballs” were treated as currency, and market analysts predicted a frictionless future where everything would be digital. Then the bubble burst. Between March 2000 and October 2002, an estimated five trillion dollars in market value vanished into thin air. Today, it is happening again. This time, the magic word is not “.com.” It is “AI.” According to Torsten Slok, the

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A Meteor Impact May Have Caused a Giant Landslide in the Grand Canyon

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-19 18:30:00

Researchers have long puzzled over the presence of driftwood and lake sediments in Stanton’s Cave in the eastern Grand Canyon, whose mouth sits 150 feet (45.7 meters) above the river. How could the material possibly have reached that height? According to Karl Karlstrom, a geologist from the University of New Mexico, it would have had to be carried by flood levels ten times bigger than any seen in the past several thousand years. An international team of researchers proposes a surprising chain o

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Delta Set to Expand AI-Powered Dynamic Ticket Pricing by the End of 2025

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-19 23:40:29

Last year, Delta Air Lines announced it was testing out dynamic pricing on some flights using tools built by the tech company Fetcherr. And while the test was initially limited, executives from the company announced that 3% of flights now use AI pricing, and they hope to sell 20% of all tickets using a dynamic price by the end of the year. Edward H. Bastian, the CEO of Delta, explained the strategy on an investors call last week, noting that it was “optimizing revenue through [its] partnership

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Slack bolsters search with AI, adds transcriptions and summaries for huddles

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-19 23:00:00

As the race to bake in AI features into productivity apps intensifies, Slack is bolstering search on its app with AI features, adding transcription and summaries for huddles, and a way to see recaps of channels and threads. Using AI, Slack now lets you search across channels as well as connected apps (like Google Drive, Salesforce and Teams) to surface relevant files and conversations. This feature will be available on Slack’s Business and Enterprise plans. Image Credits: Slack The company is

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A Top Engineer Reveals OpenAI’s Culture of Secrets and Chaos

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-20 09:00:07

Calvin French-Owen only worked at OpenAI for a year, but he saw more in twelve months than most engineers do in a lifetime. As a successful founder turned employee, he joined the world’s leading artificial intelligence company in May 2024 and left in June 2025. What he walked into was not a typical corporate tech job. It was a startup strapped to a rocket ship, powered by GPUs, Slack notifications, and a culture of secrecy that makes Apple look like an open book. “The first thing to know about

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Trump’s Meme Coin Empire Is About to Explode With Millions of New Tokens

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-20 09:05:48

Millions of Trump meme coins could flood the crypto market starting this week, potentially reshaping the future of one of the most controversial cryptocurrencies in circulation. Entities affiliated with President Donald Trump now have the right to sell a large portion of the meme coin named after him, $TRUMP, starting Wednesday July 17. The move could unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in digital tokens, intensifying scrutiny over Trump’s growing involvement in crypto and raising fresh ques

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TSMC forecasts 38% jump in third-quarter revenue after results beat on AI chip demand

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-20 11:54:33

A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday reported a near 61% year-on-year rise in second-quarter profit, beating estimates, as demand for artificial intelligence chips stays strong. The world's largest contract chip manufacturer expects third-quarter revenue

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Microsoft is saving millions with AI and laying off thousands - where do we go from here?

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2026-01-20 11:00:14

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Last week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft shared internally that it had saved $500 million in call center costs, thanks to AI -- shortly after the company laid 9,000 people off, the third round in a series of layoffs totaling 15,000. What does this mean for the tech industry -- and job security for humans -- at large? Also: 60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including whom to promote and fire - does yours? Microsoft's layoffs, despite huge profits Acc

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Trump Sues to Fire Big Bird’s Boss

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-20 11:15:38

Back in April, Donald Trump fired three Democratic members of the board at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a move similar to his efforts to oust Democrats from the Federal Trade Commission and the Kennedy Center, among others. The board members—Laura Ross, Thomas Rothman, and Diane Kaplan— simply never left. Now, the Trump administration is suing to remove them from their seats. Trump gave notice of the attempted firings on April 28, which led to the CPB and its would-be unemploy

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The FCC plans to ban Chinese technology in undersea cables

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-20 23:52:07

The Federal Communication Commission plans to vote on new rules that will ban the use of Chinese technology in undersea cables, according to a press release from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. The proposed rules will apply to any company on the FCC's existing list of entities that pose "an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States." Besides "prohibiting the use of 'covered' equipment," the FCC's new rules will also limit the ability for Chinese companies to receive a license t

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Trump Appears to Go TACO on Rumors He’ll Fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-21 02:35:02

Reports leaked Wednesday that President Donald Trump was getting ready to fire the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. The news caused markets to dip, but TACO, the popular Wall Street acronym that stands for Trump Always Chickens Out, appears to be the dish of the day, as the president denied he was going to fire Powell while speaking to reporters in the White House. “He should have cut interest rates a long time ago. Europe has cut ’em 10 times in the short period of time, and we

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New Research Shows Data Breaches Keep Coming. Here's How to Protect Yourself

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-21 02:50:00

The personal data of Americans continues to be under threat from cybercriminals looking to steal it for their own financial gain, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center. The nonprofit group, which focuses on helping victims of identity theft, said Wednesday that 1,732 data compromises were reported for the first six months of this year, resulting in 165.7 million victim notifications. The number of reported compromises represents an 11% increase from the same period

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OpenAI says it will use Google's cloud for ChatGPT

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-01-21 09:42:29

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to members of the media as he arrives at a lodge for the Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference on July 8, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho. OpenAI said Wednesday that it expects to use Google's cloud infrastructure for its popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence assistant. The reach for additional capacity aligns with OpenAI's desire for more computing power to meet heavy demand after initially relying exclusively on Microsoft for cloud capacity. The two companies' relations

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Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

news.ycombinator.com Mike Rogoway 2026-01-21 09:08:39

Intel's campus in Aloha was the company's first Oregon site -- and its first manufacturing facility outside California -- when it opened in the 1970s. Mike Rogoway/The Oregonian Over the five decades Intel has operated in Oregon, its local footprint had moved in just one direction: Upward. From a single factory in Aloha that opened in 1976, the chipmaker grew into the state’s largest corporate employer and one of Oregon’s primary economic engines. Intel spent billions of dollars every year to

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Tesla's change in bylaws to limit shareholder lawsuits slammed by New York state officials

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2026-01-21 14:33:36

In May, Tesla changed its corporate bylaws in a way that would require investors to own 3% of the stock, today worth about $30 billion, in order to file a derivative lawsuit against the company for breach of fiduciary duties. Authorities in New York State are now asking Tesla to delete the bylaw entirely. Overseers of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, which owns about 0.1% of Tesla's shares, submitted a formal proxy proposal and letter to the company on July 11, and shared it with CNBC

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OpenAI Engineer Quits, Says Company Is Pure Chaos Inside

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-21 12:04:09

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is setting a breakneck pace with his company, rolling out feature after feature to keep the multibillion-dollar gravy train steaming ahead. And that kind of drum beat, especially paired with ChatGPT's meteoric rise, is bound to cause plenty of chaos behind the scenes. In a blog post, former OpenAI engineer Calvin French-Owen, who helped build the company's new coding agent Codex, said there "wasn't any personal drama in my decision to leave" — but he did recap his experie

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Over Half of Teens Regularly Use AI Companions. Here's Why That's Not Ideal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-21 16:58:00

Is your teen using a chatbot for companionship? If you don't know, you might want to ask. Common Sense Media released a study on Wednesday, in which it found that more than half of pre-adult teenagers regularly use AI companions. Nearly a third of the teens reported that conversations with AI were as satisfying as conversations with actual humans, if not more so. Researchers also found that 33% of teens use AI companions such as Character.AI, Nomi and Replika "for social interaction and relatio

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WeTransfer Backtracks on AI File Training After Backlash: What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-21 17:14:37

WeTransfer, the service that allows users to send large files to others, is explaining itself to clients and updating its terms of service after a backlash related to training AI models. The company published a blog post, "WeTransfer Terms of Service -- What's Really Changing," that details more updates the company made to its policies, after users noticed that recent changes seemed to suggest WeTransfer was training AI models on the files users are transferring. In the blog post, the company

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Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’

theverge.com Hayden Field 2026-01-21 18:02:01

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Scale AI, the AI industry’s chief data dealer, will lay off 14 percent of its workforce, or about 200 employees, just one month after Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company and hired its CEO and other staff. The layoffs include 500 of its global contractors, Scale spokesperson Joe Osborne told The Verge, adding th

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Latest Tech News

Coca-Cola Won’t Confirm Trump’s Claim That It’s Switching to Sugar Cane

Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep

Amazon cuts some jobs in cloud computing unit as layoffs continue

Musk Accuses Trump of Covering Up Epstein Scandal

Amazon’s AI push is undermining its sustainability goals

The Latest ‘Alien: Earth’ Trailer Adds Even More Alien Monsters

Taiwan Semi is speeding up U.S. chip production due to demand, CEO says

Uber's latest robotaxi plan involves 20,000 Lucid EVs

Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta bigwigs just agreed to a settlement in $8 billion suit

Boulevard raises $80M to power self-care boom driven by Botox and GLP-1 surge

Another big car company gives up on hydrogen

Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist

A Meteor Impact May Have Caused a Giant Landslide in the Grand Canyon

Delta Set to Expand AI-Powered Dynamic Ticket Pricing by the End of 2025

Slack bolsters search with AI, adds transcriptions and summaries for huddles

A Top Engineer Reveals OpenAI’s Culture of Secrets and Chaos

Trump’s Meme Coin Empire Is About to Explode With Millions of New Tokens

TSMC forecasts 38% jump in third-quarter revenue after results beat on AI chip demand

Microsoft is saving millions with AI and laying off thousands - where do we go from here?

Trump Sues to Fire Big Bird’s Boss

The FCC plans to ban Chinese technology in undersea cables

Trump Appears to Go TACO on Rumors He’ll Fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell

New Research Shows Data Breaches Keep Coming. Here's How to Protect Yourself

OpenAI says it will use Google's cloud for ChatGPT

Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

Tesla's change in bylaws to limit shareholder lawsuits slammed by New York state officials

OpenAI Engineer Quits, Says Company Is Pure Chaos Inside

Over Half of Teens Regularly Use AI Companions. Here's Why That's Not Ideal

WeTransfer Backtracks on AI File Training After Backlash: What You Need to Know

Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’

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