Technology

How a war-torn Myanmar plays a critical role in China’s rare earth dominance

While China has a near monopoly on rare earth element processing and refining, it has quietly become reliant on raw…

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Easy returns cause big trouble for Amazon sellers, but return rates show signs of slowing

Returns are causing big trouble for Amazon sellers, leading them to hike prices and reduce business on Amazon. But some…

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Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO

Meta plans to hire Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub Nat Friedman to beef up the company's AI…

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Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staff $100 million bonuses, as Mark Zuckerberg ramps up AI poaching efforts

While Meta had sought to hire "a lot of people" from OpenAI, "so far none of our best people have…

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Taiwan blacklists China’s Huawei and SMIC, further aligning with U.S. trade policy

Taiwan has added China's Huawei and SMIC to its trade blacklist in a move that further aligns it with U.S.…

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Nvidia-mania took over Europe this week. Here’s what I learned from Jensen Huang

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang is truly the current rockstar of the tech world.

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China’s racing to build its AI chip ecosystem as U.S. curbs bite. Here’s how its supply chain stacks up

U.S. export controls on Nvidia have incentivized China to develop alternatives, while also making it more difficult for domestic firms…

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Temu and Shein are pivoting to Europe to deal with U.S. tariffs. But they may not get a warm welcome

Temu and Shein's business shift from the U.S. to Europe could be at risk as the e-commerce companies encounter familiar…

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‘Bitcoin Family’ hides crypto codes etched onto metal cards on four continents after recent kidnappings

After a wave of crypto kidnappings, the “Bitcoin Family” replaced its old security system with a decentralized, analog setup spread…

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Omada Health prices IPO at $19 per share, in middle of expected range

Omada Health is set to start trading on the Nasdaq, hitting the market a few weeks after Hinge Health, another…

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