Jordan Novet
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Technology reporter
@cnbc.com
in San Francisco.
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Intel told reporters last year that it "expects to return to process leadership in 2025" with the launch of 18A. today is the last day of 2025. last week Reuters reported that Nvidia looked at building on top of 18A but passed
www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
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David Mack
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Relevant to anyone who sends time-sensitive payments, taxes, legal documents, or ballots through the U.S. Postal Service: the USPS has changed its rules for postmarking mail; postmark date might be days later than actual date of mailing, unless customers take specific steps:
nstp.org/article/usps...
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USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
https://nstp.org/article/usps-announces-changes-postmark-date-system
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a 300-hour Discord call with your long-distance-relationship partner
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/t...
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She Fell in Love With ChatGPT. Then She Ghosted It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/technology/ai-boyfriend-chatgpt.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
3 days ago
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wow. Nvidia to acquire Groq per investor
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/n...
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Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion in its largest acquisition on record
Nvidia is making its largest purchase ever, acquiring nine-year-old chip startup Groq for about $20 billion.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html
8 days ago
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still thinking about this
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8 days ago
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Devindra Hardawar
9 days ago
My look at a terrible year for Xbox and where MS is headed next
www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/...
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2025 was the year Xbox died
The Xbox brand effectively died this year. But can it be resurrected as a PC platform?
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/2025-was-the-year-xbox-died-130000467.html
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will the IRS pick up $1 trillion in incremental corporate income tax?
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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IRS Takes a New Shot at Meta’s Foreign Tax Strategy
U.S. government seeks $16 billion as it alters approach in long-running court fight
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/meta-platforms-irs-international-tax-df4693f7
14 days ago
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happy 100th birthday Calvin Tomkins
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
14 days ago
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"On average, AI-generated pull requests (PRs) include about 10.83 issues each, compared with 6.45 issues in human-generated PRs. That's about 1.7x more when AI is involved, meaning longer code reviews and increased risk of defects."
www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/a...
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AI-authored code needs more attention, contains worse bugs
: CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/ai_code_bugs/
15 days ago
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Excel -> File -> New on the bottom right is a new Copilot icon this is the same place where Clippy used to show up
15 days ago
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still thinking about this
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
15 days ago
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"The key part of Meta’s strategy, in my view, is that they’re going to get as much of this built out with what the industry calls OPM: Other people’s money." -Andrew Rocco, Zacks Investment Research analyst
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/t...
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How Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the A.I. Boom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-risks-debt.html
16 days ago
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"Chateau Montelena’s website now is getting three times more traffic from AI chatbots than from Yelp."
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Millennials and Gen Z are using AI for Napa winery recommendations. Is it any good?
Some wineries have been pleasantly surprised by how younger generations are using AI to plan trips to Wine Country.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/napa-winery-ai-chatgpt-21209600.php
17 days ago
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"Less than half of current AI projects had generated more in returns than they had cost, respondents said."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ceos...
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Exclusive | CEOs to Keep Spending on AI, Despite Spotty Returns
Teneo’s annual survey finds 68% of chief executives plan to increase AI spending in 2026.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ceos-to-keep-spending-on-ai-despite-spotty-returns-2eaeb6b9
17 days ago
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"What was meant to be a reflective, thought-provoking discussion on slavery and human resilience was flattened into copy-paste commentary."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.
The end of critical thinking in the classroom
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/high-school-student-ai-education/684088/
20 days ago
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why did i ever get rid of my Game Gear
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgl8nj8nvzo
21 days ago
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developers might be into Claude, but it's not a smash hit with teens
www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
22 days ago
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wonder if many countries will require US travelers to submit social media histories before visiting
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
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U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.html
22 days ago
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guessing it's a no for Aptos too
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23 days ago
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Erika McEntarfer
23 days ago
A nice piece on algorithmic pricing worth your time. A question I got frequently when I led BLS was why the agency went into stores and didn’t just collect prices online. My answer, “prices online are often different than in the store, so we do both” often surprised people.
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"Shawn Arita, a senior research economist at North Dakota State University, estimates crop producers will lose between $35 billion and $43 billion on what they just harvested this fall, as the trade war with China is not their only problem."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
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Trump Promises Farmers $12 Billion to Blunt Fallout From His Trade War
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/politics/trump-farmers-aid-bailout.html
23 days ago
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"Born to a poor Polish-Jewish family in Toronto on Feb. 28, 1929, Frank Goldberg showed an aptitude from an early age for what would become his life’s craft. ... He adopted the new surname Gehry in an effort to avoid the antisemitism of postwar Los Angeles"
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Frank Gehry, Architect Whose Eccentric Exteriors Earned Acclaim, Dies at 96
Postmodernist was hailed for designs of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
https://www.wsj.com/style/design/frank-gehry-architect-whose-eccentric-exteriors-earned-acclaim-dies-at-96-284a8b51
27 days ago
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something new in Salesforce earnings. the company hasn't renamed itself, but it did rename its subscription and support revenue categories
29 days ago
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honestly every AWS service needs a mascot
30 days ago
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leg day before going to Vegas for a conference? what was i thinking
about 1 month ago
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"He has 708 tech investments, including at least 449 stakes in companies with ties to artificial intelligence that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis of his financial disclosures."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
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Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/technology/david-sacks-white-house-profits.html
about 1 month ago
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loved going to Tekserve
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about 1 month ago
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Lora Kolodny
about 1 month ago
data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...
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AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why
Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/ai-data-center-frenzy-is-pushing-up-your-electric-bill-heres-why.html
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new: people across Wisconsin are increasingly standing up to AI data centers. at the old Foxconn site, citizens are thankful for Microsoft, but they said no to a new Microsoft data center 20 miles away. worries range from a loss of open land to meager tax payments
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: 'Horses are skittish'
Tech giants are increasingly facing community backlash as they select places to build mammoth AI data centers.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/microsoft-ai-data-center-rejection-vs-support.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
about 1 month ago
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"The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
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What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html
about 1 month ago
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"Epic Games shifted a $10 million Fortnite project to Google Cloud after AWS failed to provide enough quota for Bedrock, according to the document."
www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-ca...
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Amazon's AI capacity crunch and performance issues pushed customers to rivals including Google
Amazon is seeing huge demand for AI cloud services. Keeping up with this demand has been a challenge, though.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-capacity-crunch-pushed-customers-to-rivals-google-anthropic-2025-11
about 1 month ago
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tens of billions in capex but they still keep showing you ads for products you've already purchased
about 1 month ago
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this website has got a way to go in the US
www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
about 1 month ago
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transfer of risk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
about 1 month ago
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Carl Quintanilla
about 1 month ago
Oh, they “danced” alright. 😏 $GOOGL $MSFT
www.barrons.com/articles/goo...
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Microsoft hearts Anthropic now
about 1 month ago
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how long will it take for Anthropic to spend $30 billion on Azure
about 1 month ago
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has anyone asked Jay Powell for comment
apnews.com/article/us-m...
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US Mint presses final pennies as production ends after more than 230 years
The U.S. has ended production of the penny. The last 1-cent coins were made Wednesday at the mint in Philadelphia.
https://apnews.com/article/us-mint-treasury-department-penny-end-production-86139df5644ef0885a9baf98e9677380
about 2 months ago
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Paresh Dave
about 2 months ago
Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.
www.wired.com/story/google...
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Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data
Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-microsoft-and-meta-have-stopped-publishing-workforce-diversity-data/
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yeah that's one way to cut costs
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
about 2 months ago
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"Jerome Bouyer, vice president of retail operations for Save A Lot, a discount-grocery chain with hundreds of stores, said consumers in recent weeks shifted away from fresh meat and produce to more-processed items like hot dogs, deli meats, ramen and pasta"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
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Low-Income Shoppers Cut Spending and Businesses Worry
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/business/low-income-shoppers-spending-snap.html
about 2 months ago
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Warren Buffett, at 95, says he's in the office five days a week
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/w...
about 2 months ago
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wonder if we'll break past 2001
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
about 2 months ago
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Jacob Aron
about 2 months ago
"clanker" is clearly the much better choice, not least because it's actually a single word
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘Vibe coding’ beats ‘clanker’ to be Collins dictionary’s word of the year
AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/06/vibe-coding-collins-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2025
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11/10 would slather
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about 2 months ago
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among today's headlines: Job openings in October slumped to the lowest level since February 2021, Indeed measure shows
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/j...
First-time homebuyers are older than ever
www.axios.com/2025/11/04/h...
about 2 months ago
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"As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation, we also honor the legacy of the newspaper that has focused on uniting America as we evolve to be the platform that powers its voice." -Mike Reed, CEO of Gannett, which will rebrand to USA Today
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
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https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251104885039/en/Gannett-Rebrands-to-USA-TODAY-Co
about 2 months ago
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going to take me a good long time to get hip to the new Excel and Word icons
about 2 months ago
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"The stock market incorporates both real economic activity per capita and prices; job openings do not. So as living standards rise and inflation occurs, I’d expect the series to drift apart."
@econberger.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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Nathaniel Rakich
2 months ago
Only two World Series have ever been won on walkoff home runs. The last was by the Blue Jays in 1993.
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