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Overnight brought the biggest heist in crypto history, as hackers drained $6.3 billion from Binance. Amazon’s AI spending soared while retail growth stalled, Spotify eyed a $5-a-month AI remix tool, and longreads covered El Niño forecasting and old-time fiddlers. Binance says ini ...  Show more

I covered the NYT report that US officials think Megaspeed’s Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who cozied up to Jensen Huang, the leak of 41,000 DHS workers’ data, DoorDash’s $17B Instacart grab, and Alphabet’s ugly free cash flow. US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huan ...  Show more

Microsoft unveils a cloud-based version of Windows; Twitter says goodbye to Fleets; a $60 mesh WiFi system; Ring enables end-to-end encryption for all; Verizon introduces a filter to stop neighborhood scam calls; Alexa introduces a new wake word, ESPN raises streaming prices; App ...  Show more

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Meta held its Connect conference this week and showed off some chonky augmented reality glasses, among other things. Plus, OpenAI shakes things up and DoNotPay agrees to, well, Pay.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.