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How Bluesky rose out of Twitter’s ashes to challenge X and Threads

Bluesky could be on the verge of a turning point if it continues rapidly attracting users and finds a way to monetize without scaring them off.

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Orange partners with OpenAI, Meta to develop custom African-language AI models

Orange is working with OpenAI and Meta to build custom AI models that can understand West African languages not understood by most conversational systems.

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Crypto market sheds $180 billion in a day as bitcoin slides further from $100,000 milestone

Bitcoin’s price retreated further from the psychologically important $100,000 milestone as investors booked profits from the token’s post-U.S. election gains.

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Huawei launches first phones capable of running its new self-developed operating system

Huawei launched the Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro and Mate 70 Pro+ and foldable Mate X6 on Tuesday that can run HarmonyOS NEXT, its self-developed operating system.

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Video platform Rumble plans to buy up to $20 million in bitcoin in new treasury strategy

Conservative video platform Rumble said it will begin allocating some of its excess cash reserves to bitcoin and could buy up to $20 million in the crypto.

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Zoom surpasses expectations as it calls for another quarter of single-digit growth

Zoom’s business is still growing, but not nearly at the rate of expansion during the pandemic.

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San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie taps OpenAI’s Sam Altman and other business leaders for help with transition

San Francisco’s Mayor-elect, Daniel Lurie, has begun tapping tech heavyweights and business leaders to help with his goal of overhauling the city’s image.

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Wall Street launches new ways to bet on bitcoin

Wall Street launches new trading tools to bet on the price of bitcoin

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Intel and Commerce Department close to finalizing roughly $8 billion CHIPS Act grant, source says

The struggling chipmaker has cut jobs and pared back expansion plans as it grapples with its worst downturn ever, making the CHIPS Act money a welcome boost.

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How tech bros bought ‘America’s most pro-crypto Congress ever’

Crypto showed up in force this election cycle, raising tens of millions to vote out the industry’s critics and vote in its friends.

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