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Justice Dept. Clears Way for Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

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By: Lauren Hirsch · David McCabe and Benjamin Mullin
The $111 billion deal would unite two major movie studios and put CNN under the same roof as CBS News.

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A merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery would include the Warner Bros. movie studio, above, in Burbank, Calif.
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SpaceX’s Unlikely Journey From Far-Out Idea to $2 Trillion Juggernaut

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By: Ryan Mac · Kenneth Chang and Kirsten Grind
Elon Musk said he had initially given SpaceX less than a 10 percent chance of succeeding. His rocket company has come a long way.

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A SpaceX ad on the Nasdaq MarketSite tower in Times Square. The company, which Elon Musk founded in 2002, began trading on the stock market on Friday.
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Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Stock Begins Trading

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By: Ryan Mac and Ben Casselman
With SpaceX shares soaring 20 percent on their first day of trading, the world’s richest person crossed another milestone — one with 13 digits.

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Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX, in 2022 at the company’s facility in Brownsville, Texas.
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SpaceX IPO: How Our Reporters Assess the Sky-High Valuation and Potential Economic Impact

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By: Megan DiTrolio
Two Times tech reporters and their editor talk about assessing the sky-high valuation of the rocket and satellite maker, the potential economic impact of its public debut and the role of the world’s richest man in it all.

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Elon Musk’s rocket maker SpaceX set a price of $135 a share, which would value it at $1.77 trillion.
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Skeptics Question Whether SpaceX Is Worth $1.77 Trillion

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By: Ryan Mac and Mike Isaac
Elon Musk’s rocket company is spending big and losing money. That has raised questions about whether it can justify its valuation for its blockbuster initial public offering.

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SpaceX has set an initial public offering price of $135 a share, which would value it at $1.77 trillion. Some investors are skeptical that the valuation is justified.
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Jeff Bezos Wants to Build an ‘Artificial General Engineer’

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By: Cade Metz
As co-chief executive of the start-up Prometheus, the Amazon founder is using A.I. to improve how devices ranging from computers to jet engines are made.

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With his new company, Prometheus, Jeff Bezos is training A.I. on the design and manufacturing process of various industries.
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Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella Says ‘Everyone Is a Stakeholder’ in A.I.

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By: Emmy Martin
At The New York Times’s Hard Fork Live event, Mr. Nadella addressed the backlash against artificial intelligence and President Trump’s comments about Americans sharing in the wealth of A.I. companies

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Satya Nadella, left, the chief executive of Microsoft, at the Hard Fork Live event in San Francisco on Wednesday.
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A.I. and the Chip Boom: Take a Quiz on New Korean Slang and Memes

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By: Max Kim
What’s a “silicon-collar”? South Korea’s chip industry has been supercharged by the advent of the A.I. age, inspiring a host of new phrases.

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Canada Moves to Ban Social Media Use for Youth Under 16

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By: Vjosa Isai
The country’s previous attempt to get tech companies to shelter young users failed amid heavy criticism from civil liberty groups.

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People holding up cellphones at a concert in Toronto.
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Trump Muses About Government Taking a Piece of A.I. Companies

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By: Tripp Mickle · Ana Swanson and Cecilia Kang
President Trump touched on what is an increasingly hot topic in Washington: how average Americans can get a piece of the tech industry’s A.I. windfall.

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President Trump, shown here in the Oval Office on Wednesday, has not been shy about the government’s taking a stake in companies.
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Antonio Gracias, Elon Musk’s Friend, Is Set to Reap Billions From SpaceX’s IPO

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By: Theodore Schleifer
Antonio Gracias, an investor who has built a $65 billion stake in the company, exemplifies the economic upside of being Mr. Musk’s ally.

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Antonio Gracias, left, and Elon Musk at a political event in Green Bay, Wis., last spring. Mr. Gracias and his private equity firm control a $65 billion stake in SpaceX.
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SpaceX’s IPO Could Turn 4,400 Employees Into Millionaires

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By: Kirsten Grind
While Elon Musk may soon become a trillionaire, his rocket company’s market debut is set to the change the lives of its current and former employees, too.

© Chelsea Beck

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Why the Real A.I. Threat Is in the Back Office

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By: Ben Casselman
As artificial intelligence spreads, millions of middle-class jobs in human resources, billing and payroll could be at risk. Most are held by women.

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Dutch Authorities Block $115 Million Deal by a U.S. Tech Company

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By: Adam Satariano and Ana Swanson
The Netherlands blocked a U.S. company from buying a Dutch firm that handles its national ID system, saying it would create a “threat to the public interest.”

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Willemijn Aerdts, the Dutch minister for the digital economy and sovereignty, spoke to the news media last month after blocking the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch tech company, by the U.S. firm Kyndryl.
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Meta A.I. Bug Allowed Hackers to Take Over Instagram Accounts

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By: Mike Isaac and Eli Tan
The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over accounts using a bug in the company’s new artificial intelligence software.

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Of the 34,000 accounts, 20,000 were breached, giving hackers access to the account holders’ email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and other personal data.
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Anthropic Releases ‘Safe’ Version of Its Mythos A.I. Technology

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By: Cade Metz
Called Claude Fable 5, it is twice as expensive as the company’s previous flagship system.

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Anthropic’s logo at a company event. The start-up’s Mythos artificial intelligence system caused worries about the security of computer networks.
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OpenAI Files Confidentially for IPO as AI Companies Rush to Wall St.

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By: Cade Metz
The company hopes to raise billions in a highly anticipated public offering that could unlock a new generation of tech industry wealth.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot started the artificial intelligence boom.
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Apple Reveals New A.I.-Powered Version of Its Siri Digital Assistant

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By: Kalley Huang
The iPhone maker revealed its new artificial intelligence products at its developer conference, the last with Tim Cook as chief executive.

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Apple held its annual conference for software developers on Monday in Cupertino, Calif.
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