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After a little over three months, Intel has a new CEO to replace ousted former CEO Pat Gelsinger. Intel’s board announced that Lip-Bu Tan will begin as Intel CEO on March 18, taking over from interim co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus. Gelsinger was booted from the CEO position by Intel’s board on December … Read more
Would it be histrionic to say that Trump has turned these ten senators? Perhaps so. But it’s worth noting that Republicans now think that this is the case, and they intend to act on it accordingly. As NBC News’ Sahil Kapur reported Friday night, “Two Republican senators told me … this vote shows they can … Read more
A Touch ID fingerprint reader is embedded in the power button; the headphone jack is gone; the iPad branding has been removed from the back; and there’s a USB-C port on the bottom (one benefit of upgrading for me—the old iPad Air was the last Lightning device in the house, give or take a Magic … Read more
Photo Illustration by ABC News / Getty Images Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced that he’s directing three House committees to start investigating whether President Biden benefited from his son Hunter’s business dealings overseas. McCarthy accused the Biden family of “a … Read more
US lawmakers have hit out at the Home Office for “attempting to gag” US companies by preventing them from telling Congress whether they have been subject to secret UK orders requiring them to hand over their users’ data. In an unprecedented intervention, five lawmakers from both sides of the US political divide, led by … Read more
Protesters lined the streets outside a San Diego Tesla dealership on Saturday. Many were carrying signs with swastikas and other Nazi imagery that mirrored lies about Elon Musk spread by the legacy media and their partners in the Democrat Party. One even displayed a drawing of a burning Cybertruck, claiming he was fighting intimidation. Yep, … Read more
On March 5, Chinese tech giant Alibaba released its latest AI reasoning model, QwQ-32B, resulting in an 8% spike in the company’s Hong Kong-listed shares. While less capable than America’s leading AI systems, such as OpenAI’s o3 or Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the model reportedly performs about as well as its Chinese competitor DeepSeek’s model, … Read more
Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ Much to the base’s chagrin, a handful of Senate Democrats voted to advance the House Republican continuing resolution to passage Friday — which Republicans could not have done without Democratic support. The vote ended a turbulent week, with Democrats tense and tight-lipped as they fought intense, internecine … Read more
Daniel Thomas Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Almost 80% of smartphones sold in the US are made in China Deena Ghazarian had only been in business for a year when the trade policies of President Donald Trump’s first term of office sent her company into a tailspin. It was 2019 and her California-based firm, … Read more
President Trump has promised to create an age of American exceptionalism with policies that put the United States first, and ahead of other nations. But Mr. Trump’s moves in the early days of his administration have had the opposite outcome for the American stock market. The S&P 500, which for years had been soaring above … Read more
