The Midwestern Burger Chain That’s Going Full MAGA

Steak ’n Shake is betting that beef tallow and grass-fed beef will draw diners and lift sales.

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Micron's Taiwan workers to get rewards worth up to 68 months of pay

Micron Technology said on Friday its employees in Taiwan would receive bonuses equaling 35 to 68 months of pay ​for fiscal 2026, with minimum cash compensation of T$1.7 million ($53,809.39), as the U....

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Moonshot Secretly Routed User Requests Through Claude, Anthropic Says

Anthropic PBC accused China’s artificial intelligence champion Moonshot AI of covertly routing thousands of user requests to the US firm’s Claude models and passing off the responses as its own in a b...

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BREAKING NEWS: George W. Bush And Condoleezza Rice Discuss 9/11 At Anniversary Event

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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The Cinema in China’s National Discourse: From Soft Power to Propaganda and Diplomacy

A look at two recent Chinese movies that have stirred up different discussions and reactions over China state propaganda and overseas influence campaign.

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国际打击电信网络诈骗联盟成立-新华网

国际打击电信网络诈骗联盟成立-

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Google to Invest €13 Billion in AI Infrastructure in Finland

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is spending €13 billion ($15.1 billion) on artificial intelligence infrastructure in Finland, its biggest European investment, as the Nordic country’s cold climate and carbon-fr...

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Tesla and the Musks 'Chinamaxx' as rumors swirl over EV maker's plans

World's No. 2 economy and richest man still need each other despite geopolitical risks

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Philippines unveils AI infrastructure plan to forge niche as regional hub

Aims to attract $21bn in private-sector investment by 2033

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AWS Plans 420 Tbps Subsea Cable Between United States and Japan

AWS plans a 420 Tbps transpacific subsea cable linking Washington state and Japan by 2029, adding a geographically distinct route designed to strengthen cloud connectivity and reduce reliance on conce...

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Thailand puts brakes on 49 data centre projects as it reviews regulations - Developing Telecoms

Thailand reportedly suspended construction of 49 data centres on Friday over concerns of their impact on local communities, making it the second Southeast Asian country after Malaysia to rethink its d...

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DeepSeek Plans Big Huawei AI Chip Order to Power New Data Center

DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies Co.’s top accelerators at a massive data center it’s building in Inner Mongolia, which could create one of the largest known clusters o...

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China is secretly fueling America's data center rage

Polling shows that the opposition is already widespread.

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EXCLUSIVE: China's Xi to bring large CEO delegation on US visit, sources say

President Xi Jinping is preparing a large business delegation to accompany him on his visit to Washington, two sources said, an ​unusual move given U.S. scepticism towards Chinese investment and Beiji...

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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security

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How Jensen Huang became AI’s Taylor Swift

When the Nvidia boss returns to his native Taiwan, things get a little weird

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AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find

AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.

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Nearly 9 in 10 Americans report widespread government corruption after Trump's return

It's the first time the U.S. ranks No. 1 for perceived corruption.

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GoPro joins AI bonanza with pivot into data centers as shares skyrocket 40%

Action camera maker GoPro is merging with private photonics company Starman Optical and joining the AI wave.

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Cable Faults Cut Vietnam’s International Internet Capacity by 30%

Four undersea cable faults are disrupting Vietnam's international internet connectivity, with operators rerouting traffic as earlier outages reduced available capacity by about 30%, highlighting conce...

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China’s Scientific Rise Is Increasingly Fueled by Scientists Coming Home

As Chinese scientists working abroad increasingly return to China, the payoff for Chinese science has been deep and wide

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ICANN Terminates Two Registrars as DNS Abuse and Compliance Failures Escalate

ICANN has terminated two registrar accreditation agreements after unresolved compliance failures, citing Trustname's handling of DNS abuse and IPIP's failures involving RDAP, registration data escrow,...

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China Rebukes Anthropic, Sets Terms for Key US-China AI Dialogue

China laid out conditions for artificial intelligence talks with the US, striking a strident tone ahead of a much-anticipated meeting while accusing American AI company Anthropic PBC of bad behavior.

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China's AI Governance Offensive Threatens U.S. Tech Leadership

China’s diplomats are on an “AI governance” offensive. At a May 5 United Nations meeting, China’s vice minister of science and technology championed

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Took a Call From Donald Trump in the Middle of an All-Hands

The unexpected interruption came hours before the president wrote a congratulatory post on Truth Social about the company’s most recent earnings report.

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China Is Flatlining

The country’s “stability” hides a host of problems.

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Explainer: Settlement requires Meta to check young users' ages. How will that work?

Meta has agreed to improve how it verifies the age of users of its platforms such as Facebook and Instagram as part of an $18 billion legal settlement with ​U.S. states that is aimed at curbing childr...

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Huawei H1 profit drop quickens to 36% on rising costs, R&D spending

China's Huawei Technologies reported a 36% ‌plunge in first-half net profit on Monday as soaring input costs and heavier spending on research and development outweighed revenue growth.

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