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Sources: Fidelity Investments is in the advanced stages of testing its own stablecoin, managed by its digital assets arm, as Trump pledges to back stablecoins (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)

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Kaiserpunk melds multiple genres while succeeding in none

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Cardi B's Daughter Did What To Her 60k Birkin Bag?!

The Root

GeoGuessr is coming to Steam after 12 years in your browser

The Verge - All Posts

PS5 owners really want to play Xbox games, as Microsoft tops Sony’s preorder charts

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Microsoft unveils AI deep reasoning agents for 365 Copilot: Researcher, based on OpenAI's deep research model, and o3-mini-based Analyst, rolling out in April (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

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Why it still takes days for banks to give you your money

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You should be setting rejection goals

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Sources: the EU's Huawei corruption probe is looking at alleged gifts like soccer tickets exchanged for political favors; one detainee was a Huawei lobbyist (Laura Dubois/Financial Times)

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Databricks details Test-time Adaptive Optimization, or TAO, a new approach to boost LLM performance without requiring labeled data, available now to customers (Will Knight/Wired)

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Reolink’s wireless camera easily transitions from vanlife to homelife

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The US adds export restrictions to 80 entities, primarily targeting Chinese companies, including server maker Nettrix and customers of Nvidia, Intel, and AMD (Ana Swanson/New York Times)

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Bain Capital agrees to acquire a majority stake in Italian IT company Namirial from private equity firm Ambienta, sources say valuing Namirial at €1.1B (Bloomberg)

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What to Know About Applying for Unemployment in New York City

THE CITY - All

A cross-party committee of UK MPs casts doubt on the UK's plan to boost the public sector with AI, citing outdated tech, poor data, and a lack of digital skills (Delphine Strauss/Financial Times)

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Q&A with Careem CEO Mudassir Sheikha on the MENA ride-hailing giant becoming a super app, the spinout of its non-ride-hailing services from Uber, AI, and more (Anup Kaphle/Rest of World)

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Power chip companies Renesas, Infineon, and others are cutting jobs and spending, as disappointing EV market growth leaves them saddled with excess capacity (Nikkei Asia)

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Porsche’s next Taycan gets an infotainment upgrade — but no new CarPlay

The Verge - All Posts

A look at the origins of RISC architecture, the Arm vs. RISC-V war, and RISC's lasting impact, as its increasing global adoption risks US companies' dominance (Jason Kehe/Wired)

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Surround yourself.

Ru Singh