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The Brazilian playbook for defending democracy
The "A Justiça" statue, sculpted by Alfredo Ceschiatti, in front of the Supreme Federal Court in Brasília, Brazil. | Ton Molina/Bloomberg via Getty Images Brazil’s former president was sentenced to...
Perplexity joins anti-ad camp as AI companies battle over trust and revenue
AI search startup Perplexity is distancing itself from ads amid fears users won't trust chatbots with an agenda to upsell. The move highlights an emerging crossroads for the AI industry as the...
Meta will run AI in WhatsApp through NVIDIA's 'confidential computing'
Meta just announced a deal to buy "millions" of NVIDIA Blackwell and Rubin GPUs in a new long-term partnership. As part of that, the social media giant will deploy NVIDIA's...
America After Trump
American democracy is not in a good place. Institutional breakdown and mistrust define our political moment. Polarization has broken our politics, and President Donald Trump has elevated fealty to...
The country that beat its Trump
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva greets supporters after a ceremony marking three years since the attacks on Brazil’s institutions. Brasília, Brazil, January 8, 2026. | Arthur Menescal...
Tesla won’t use the term ‘Autopilot’ in California anymore
Tesla is no longer using the term "Autopilot" to describe the self-driving capabilities of its vehicles in California, avoiding a 30-day sales suspension in the state. The California Department of...
YouTube was down for thousands of users in the US
YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia also having problems with accessing the website....
YouTube is down for thousands of users in the US
YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia also having problems with accessing the website....
Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips
Meta has struck a multiyear deal to expand its data centers with millions of Nvidia's Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs. While Meta has long been using Nvidia's hardware for its AI...
Samsung teases mobile AI photography tools ahead of Unpacked
Anyone who's been paying even a little bit of attention to tech news lately could have made a reasonable guess that AI will be a big topic at Samsung's Unpacked next week. Ahead of the...