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Meta Is Flooding the Market With Smartglasses. Privacy Advocates Are Up in Arms.

The company is betting that AI-enabled smartglasses capable of capturing everything you see and hear are the future.

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California, Other State AGs Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Megadeal

A coalition of a dozen states alleged the Hollywood merger would boost prices for consumers and lower quality for film and television.

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Data-Center Builders Are Racing to Offload Stakes Worth Billions

Unrelenting demand for computing power has investors looking for chances to own the physical infrastructure behind AI.

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CEO of Jack Daniel's Maker Brown-Forman to Retire

Lawson Whiting, who has led the spirits giant since 2019, will remain in the role until a successor is appointed.

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Chinese AI Startup DFSX Releases Chip to Take on the West

Dongfang Suanxin, or DFSX, introduced its self-designed AI chip-the DF1000-using a fully domestic supply chain to bypass restrictions on high-end technology that have hindered Chinese firms' ability to produce cutting-edge semiconductors.

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Appeals Court Revives Lawsuits Alleging Tylenol Causes Autism and ADHD

The decision puts mass litigation against the drugmaker back on course by overturning a ruling that the science was unreliable.

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Volkswagen Warns It May Need to Cut 50,000 More Jobs

German automaker seeking to cut costs amid growing competition from China.

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SpaceX Plans Starship Test Flight After End of FAA-Required Investigation

The company said it is preparing to launch the flight test as soon as Thursday, with a launch window set to open in the evening.

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Former Sequoia Head Roelof Botha Exits Firm After More Than Two Decades

Botha, who led the firm between 2022 and 2025, plans to focus on his board seats and work with founders of several emerging private companies.

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First Hawaiian to Merge With TriCo Bancshares in $2 Billion All-Stock Deal

The parent company of First Hawaiian Bank has agreed to acquire TriCo Bancshares in an all-stock transaction valued at $2.01 billion.

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Williams Gets $5.34 Billion Investment from Blackstone-led Group

As part of the deal, Blackstone and its partners will receive 49% noncontrolling equity interest in five power-infrastructure projects.

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Intel to Invest €5 Billion for Expanded Manufacturing in Ireland

The upgrade is part of chipmaker's effort to meet AI chip demand and strengthening Europe's semiconductor supply chain.

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Serta's Landmark Liability Management Deal Backfires on Participating Lenders

A bankruptcy judge last week ordered the mattress maker's lenders in the 2020 debt exchange to pay damages to nonparticipating creditors based on loan face values.

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Meta Lifts Cost of Louisiana Data Center to $50 Billion

The company scaled up the size of its massive data-center project in Northeast Louisiana to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity and said it would now cost more than $50 billion.

 

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