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Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI
Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots
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California sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect user data in 2023 breach
California’s attorney general is suing the genetic testing company formerly known as 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected nearly 7 million people across the country
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Anthropic vaults to a $965 billion valuation with new funding as Claude demand surges
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it raised $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 billion, a whopping number that makes the 5-year-old research laboratory behind the Claude chatbot one of the world’s most valuable startups as it careens toward a likely Wall Street debut
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Google employee charged with using confidential search data to make $1.2 million on Polymarket
U.S. prosecutors slapped insider trading charges against a Google employee this week, alleging the software engineer used confidential company information to pocket more than $1.2 million on prediction market platform Polymarket
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Chinese online retailer Temu hit with $232 million fine over unsafe toys and electronics
European Union regulators have fined Chinese online retailer Temu for failing to protect consumers from illegal products
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In a tourist-friendly move, China's Tencent to allow PayPal payments through its WeChat networks
Tencent says users of PayPal will be able to make payments in China using QR codes through WeChat Pay's extensive merchant network, in a tourism friendly move
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Carney says Canada will buy European surveillance planes over two American options
Canada plans to buy early warning radar planes from Sweden’s Saab and Canada’s Bombardier, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Wednesday
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Iranians are back online after a monthslong shutdown but still face heavy restrictions
Iranians have begun to regain internet access after authorities ended a monthslong shutdown
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Introducing Argus, a robot with 20 legs and eyes built to move and see in any direction instantly
Robots that look like dogs or people try to replicate symmetrical shapes found in nature
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Zelenskyy asks Trump for more US air defense help against Russian missile attacks, Kyiv says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written to U.S. President Donald Trump and Congress asking for more air defense ammunition
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