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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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Microsoft is finally testing its Recall photographic memory search feature. It’s not perfect

Microsoft on Friday finally started letting people test Recall, a so-called photographic memory search feature for the latest Copilot+ PCs. It’s not perfect.

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How Elon Musk’s plan to slash government agencies and regulation may benefit his empire

Donald Trump has said the Department of Government Efficiency would end government “bureaucracy,” relax “excess” regulations and cut “wasteful” expenditures.

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Why X’s new terms of service are driving some users to leave Elon Musk’s platform

Elon Musk’s X implemented new terms of service that are driving some users off the microblogging platform. 

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The Pentagon’s battle inside the U.S. for control of a new Cyber Force

The Defense Department has made its position clear that any new federal cybersecurity fighting force should not be centralized outside Pentagon authority.

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Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival

Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives.

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Apple and Google could face a competition probe over their huge mobile ecosystems in the UK

The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority’s independent inquiry group recommended the watchdog investigates Apple and Google’s activities in mobile ecosystems.

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