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Perplexity Tiktok revised merger proposal
Photo illustration of TikTok app logo on a smartphone screen displayed with the American flag.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPerplexity AI on Sunday revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance. The…
Retro Remake opens preorders for its PS One FPGA clone
Retro Remake’s Taki Udon announced last night that preorders had opened for the SuperStation One, a clone of the PS One variant of the original PlayStation. The $149.99 Founders Edition preorders are sold out already, but you can still…
Meta is paying creators to promote Instagram on other video apps
Instagram added a new short-form video feature to the image-focused platform in a direct challenge to TikTok.Chris Delmas | AFP | Getty ImagesMeta is offering deals to creators to promote Instagram on other short-form video apps,…
Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok
Oracle and a group of investors that includes Microsoft are in talks to take over TikTok’s global operations, reports NPR. The deal, which the White House is reportedly negotiating, would see ByteDance keeping a minority stake in TikTok…
Twilio shares pop 20%, biggest gain since 2020 on growth forecast
Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler speaks at Twilio's Signal event in Sao Paulo on Aug. 14, 2024.Courtesy: TwilioTwilio shares soared 20% on Friday, their biggest gain since the early days of the Covid pandemic, after the cloud…
All the news about Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs
Nvidia is revealing a big upgrade to its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology today. DLSS 4 will include new neural rendering capabilities that, on systems with the new RTX 50 Series GPUs, can do Multi Frame Generation,…
Crypto gets quick return on Trump investment after funding campaign
FRANCE - 2025/01/20: In this photo illustration, Trump Meme , Trump the Crypto president, is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Romain Doucelin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Romain Doucelin | Getty…
SEC revokes unpopular banking rule that blocked Wall Street banks from adopting crypto
After years of lobbying by the crypto industry, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rescinded an accounting rule that forced banks to treat bitcoin and other tokens as a liability on their balance sheets.The guidance was a…
Apple makes a change to its AI team and plans Siri upgrades
Apple is making an executive change to try and improve its AI efforts and Siri. Kim Vorrath, who recently helped get the Vision Pro software out the door and has been at Apple for 36 years, has been brought over to Apple’s artificial…
Alphabet shares close above $200 for first time since stock split
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc.Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAlphabet shares closed at $200 per share for the first time on Friday as investors grow increasingly bullish on the company's opportunities in artificial…
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he has a big AI data center, too
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it…
Trump crypto plans have Wall Street CEOs excited about digital assets
A cartoon image of US President-elect Donald Trump with cryptocurrency tokens, depicted in front of the White House to mark his inauguration, displayed at a Coinhero store in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.Paul Yeung |…
Tesla starts sales of revamped Model Y in U.S. for about $60,000
Tesla will start deliveries of a revamped version of its Model Y SUV in the U.S. in March, according to new listings on the company's website.The Model Y Juniper has a price tag of $59,990, not including a federal tax credit of $7,500…
Tesla brings its redesigned Model Y to the US, but keeps selling the old one too
Just a couple weeks after launching the refreshed “Juniper” Model Y in China and other Asia-Pacific markets, Tesla has started taking orders in the Americas (US, Canada, Mexico, and Chile) and Europe. The Launch Series is the only trim…
Trump signs executive order on crypto, digital asset stockpile
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on cryptocurrencies in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 23, 2025.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to…
Meta’s MAGA heel turn is about much more than Trump
On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re diving into an especially messy set of ideas. It’s been a chaotic couple of weeks for big tech companies as the second Trump administration kicks off an unprecedented era of how we think about who…
Apple and Google hit with UK antitrust probe into mobile ecosystems
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesLONDON — Britain's competition regulator on Thursday launched an investigation into Apple and Google's huge mobile ecosystems to determine whether the tech titans are in breach of the U.K.'s…
Nvidia supplier SK Hynix posts record quarterly profit on strength of AI boom
Illustration of the SK Hynix company logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesSouth Korea's SK Hynix, one of the largest memory chipmakers in the world, posted record quarterly earnings Thursday…