The world’s richest person, not known for his humility, is still learning the cutthroat courtier politics of Donald Trump’s inner circle — and his ultimate influence remains an open question.
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Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door
One of 2024’s coolest hacking tales occurred two years ago, but it wasn’t revealed to the public until Friday at the Cyberwarcon conference in Arlington, Virginia. Hackers with ties to Fancy Bear—the spy agency operated by Russia’s GRU—broke into the network of a high-value target after first compromising a Wi-Fi-enabled device in a nearby building...
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Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival
On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in the AI startup by $4 billion, bringing its total stake to $8 billion while maintaining its minority investor position. Anthropic makes Claude, an AI assistant rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. One reason behind the deal involves chips. The computing demands of training large AI models...
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US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome to Fix Search Monopoly
In a landmark antitrust case, the government asked a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser.
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How Google Spent 15 Years Concealing Its Internal Conversations
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
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Nvidia’s Profit Doubles as A.I. Chip Sales Soar
The company, which dominates the market for chips used to build artificial intelligence, expects another big jump in the current quarter.
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Gary Wang, a Top FTX Executive, Is Given No Prison Time
Mr. Wang is the last close colleague of the FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for the fraud that caused the crypto exchange to collapse in 2022.
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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Exchange Posts About Trump on X
The world’s two richest men are longtime business rivals, but now one of them has the ear of the next president of the United States.
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5 charged in “Scattered Spider,” one of the most profitable phishing scams ever
Federal prosecutors have charged five men with running an extensive phishing scheme that allegedly allowed them to compromise hundreds of companies nationwide, gain non-public information, and steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. The charges, detailed in court documents unsealed Wednesday, pertain to a crime group security researchers have dubbed Scattered Spider. Members were behind a...
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U.S. Plans to Propose Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopoly
In a landmark antitrust case, the government will ask a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser, people with knowledge of the matter said.