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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while holding a photo of the new ballroom during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on October 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Salwan Georges | Washington Post | Getty ImagesBig Tech and other publicly traded companies are helping finance President Donald Trump’s planned $300 million White House ballroom.The East Wing of the White House is being demolished to make way for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, sparking public outrage after President Trump promised in July that the building would not be affected.President Trump said construction of the…

Meta brings AI-powered photo and video editing tools directly to Instagram Stories, allowing users to enter text prompts to add, remove, or completely change elements in photos and videos. Meta already offers image editing features on Instagram, but those tools were limited to interacting with the Meta AI chatbot. These editing features are now even easier to use with the addition of text-based prompts to Stories. You can find the new feature in the Restyle menu at the top when you tap the paintbrush icon in your Instagram Story. To edit an image, select Add, Delete, or Change, then explain…

A sign outside Applied Materials’ headquarters in Santa Clara, California, USA, on Thursday, May 13, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imageschip equipment manufacturers applied materials plans to lay off 4% of its workforce.The company said in a statement Thursday that it has begun notifying affected employees around the world “across all levels and groups.” Applied Materials provides equipment, services and software to industries including the semiconductor industry.According to its August 2025 filing, Applied had approximately 36,100 full-time employees. The 4% workforce reduction equates to approximately 1,444 employees.”Automation, digitalization and geographic mobility are redefining workforce needs and skill…

What is baked makeup? Baked makeup is named for its unique manufacturing process, in which the pigments start as liquids, turn into creams, and are then baked. This is different from powder, which is ground and compacted. The differences will mainly be noticed in the texture and pigment of these products. Powder doesn’t give you the same color or smoothness as baking. Most baked goods are made in Italy, where “swirls of creamy pigment are baked for 24 hours on terracotta tiles,” like Laura Geller’s famous (and beloved) Baked Powder. Its silky texture makes it perfect for dry and mature…

Priscilla Chan (left), Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Lauren Sanchez are among the guests attending Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th US President on January 20, 2025, in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesMeta announced Thursday that it will lay off an undisclosed number of employees in its risk department as the company uses artificial intelligence to automate its compliance review process.Michel Protti, Meta’s chief privacy and compliance officer for products, revealed the layoffs to members of the company’s risk department on Wednesday, Business Insider reported. CNBC confirmed the content. Meta’s risk organization is…

5 million users. 8-digit annual recurring revenue. 20,000,000 new users join every day. These are solid numbers for a startup called Turbo AI, launched in early 2024 by 20-year-old college dropouts Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan. Most of this growth has happened in the past six months, founders told TechCrunch, during which time the company’s AI-powered note-taking and learning tool grew from 1 million to 5 million users while turning a profit. They say the idea for Turbo came from a classroom problem many college students face: trying to pay attention to lectures and take notes at the same time.…

The story of how Jelly Rolly and Bunnie Xo metBunny Zoe and Jelly Roll’s love story began in Las Vegas.As she recalled on Bussin’ With The Boys, she met the singer when they performed at a country saloon in Las Vegas in August 2015. This was before jelly rolls became famous. At the time, he was living in a van and estimated about 20 people came to the show.Instead, their spark took center stage.”When I met him, I tell people this is the craziest cliché, but literally my soul was like, ‘I’m there,'” Bunny said on a 2023 podcast. “And…

humanity and google This is a deal that gives the artificial intelligence company access to up to 1 million of Google’s custom-designed Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).The deal, worth tens of billions of dollars, is the company’s largest TPU commitment to date and is expected to bring well over gigawatts of AI computing power online by 2026.Industry estimates put the cost of a 1 gigawatt data center at about $50 billion, of which about $35 billion is typically allocated to chips. While competitors have touted loftier plans, including OpenAI’s 33-gigawatt “Stargate” head, Anthropic’s move is a quiet power play rooted in…

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has acquired Software Applications, Inc., a maker of an AI-powered natural language interface for Mac computers called Sky. This software product had not yet been released to the public, but it was designed to accompany you throughout the day as you write, plan, code, and use apps on your computer. Like an AI browser, Sky can see what you see on your screen and take actions within the app. This move is an important step toward embedding OpenAI’s technology into consumers’ daily lives and businesses running on Macs. “We’ve always wanted computers to be more…

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz rejected the theory that artificial intelligence will make cloud-based software obsolete. “I don’t really buy that,” Kurtz told Jim Cramer on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Streets” Thursday morning. “I think you need software to protect AI. They’re interconnected. You don’t have to have one without the other.” There are two sides to the central debate about AI-killing software, which has evolved since agent AI, a new class of autonomous agents, gained traction as a more automated way to run business. First, the perceived threat is that customers who integrate AI-enabled tools do not have to pay…