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Matic’s robot vacuum is getting a $250 price hike in September
The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum by a pretty comfortable margin. If you’ve been thinking about buying one, you may want to plan on doing it sooner than later. The company will raise its price by $250 on September 9th, going from $1,245 to $1,495. Matic told The Verge that the new price reflects…
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AMC Theatres CEO Shares Detailed Account of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Wedding: ‘It Did Not Look Like Madison Square Garden’
AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron took to X on Friday night to share a detailed account of what went down inside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Madison Square Garden wedding. “It did not look like Madison Square Garden,” Aron wrote in the since-deleted post. “Immediately upon entry, everything… floors, walls, ceiling… was draped in peach…
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman wants to negotiate a 5% stake in company for US if competitors agree to key provision
Sam Altman reportedly met with Trump and Bernie Sanders about offering 5% of OpenAI to the public, but only if Anthropic and Meta do the same.
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Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up
Guardian analysis of X feed shows how keen world’s richest person was to air his views and ‘interfere’ in British politics Elon Musk posted about race and immigration in the UK on his social media network X twice as often as he did about SpaceX, which he also owns, in the run-up to the aerospace…
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Pokémon Trading Card Game’s awful scalping problem finally caught Nintendo’s attention
Unfortunately, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa is still placing the responsibility to fix it on The Pokémon Company
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OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment
Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypotheticalIt was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project – would represent “a major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership”.But the plans were paused in…
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As auto costs rise, will the US miss the golden age of electric vehicles?
Shifting demands and political ideology have left the industry vulnerable to global competition from cheap Chinese carsEarlier this month, an intriguing new Detroit-based electric vehicle startup hit the market – Slate Auto, a Jeff Bezos-backed venture offering something US buyers rarely see these days – a pick up truck billed as “affordable”.Its base price is…
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Art heir sues claiming his late mother’s Chinese art scrolls potentially worth millions were sold for as little as FORTY FIVE dollars
An Oregon man hired an estate sale company to sell his late mother’s belongings. It was not until he gave up the items that he discovered precious scrolls hidden at the bottom of two chests.
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Alexi Cory-Smith, Bella Figura Co-Founder and CEO, Dies at 58
The firm, which acquires and manages rights across music publishing and recordings, announced Cory-Smith’s unexpected passing on Friday (July 3).