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  • Palantir beats Wall Street expectations amid Trump immigration crackdown

    CEO Alex Karp hails ‘iconic’ financial results despite criticism over contracts with ICE and homeland security Palantir celebrated its latest financial results on Monday, as the tech company blew past Wall Street expectations and continues to prop up the Trump administration’s push to deport immigrants. Palantir has secured millions of dollars in federal contracts amid…

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  • ‘It’s really sad’: US TikTok users rethink app over concerns about privacy and censorship

    Some users are stepping away from the app after it made a deal to create a US entity and updated terms and conditions Many TikTok users across the US say they’re rethinking their relationship with the platform since its ownership and terms and conditions have recently changed, with some citing censorship and lack of trust…

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  • Why TikTok’s first week of American ownership was a disaster

    App endured a major outage and user backlash over perceived censorship. Now it’s facing an inquiry by the California governor and an ascendant competitor A little more than one week ago, TikTok stepped on to US shores as a naturalized citizen. Ever since, the video app has been fighting for its life. TikTok’s calamitous emigration…

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  • US authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages

    A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has denied US authorities have reportedly investigated claims that Meta can read users’ encrypted chats on the WhatsApp messaging platform, which it owns. The reports follow a lawsuit filed last week, which claimed Meta “can access virtually…

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  • How the left can win back the internet – and rise again | Robert Topinka

    In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide Robert Topinka is a reader in digital media and rhetoric at Birkbeck, University of London Part one: How liberals lost the internet Part…

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  • Amazon tells workers it will cut 16,000 jobs worldwide in second big wave of layoffs

    Workers informed after message erroneously said affected employees in US, Canada and Costa Rica had already been told Business live – latest updates Amazon has told workers it is cutting 16,000 jobs around the world to streamline its operations, hours after sending out a message to staff about the layoffs apparently in error. It is…

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  • TikTok announces it has finalized deal to establish US entity, sidestepping ban

    Majority US-owned venture includes Larry Ellison’s Oracle, private-equity group Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGX TikTok announced on Thursday it had closed a deal to establish a new US entity, allowing it to sidestep a ban and ending a long legal battle. The deal finalized by ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, sets up a majority American-owned…

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  • The year of the ‘hectocorn’: the $100bn tech companies that could float in 2026

    OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and Stripe are rumoured to be among ten of the biggest companies considering IPOs You’ve probably heard of “unicorns” – technology startups valued at more than $1bn – but 2026 is shaping up to be the year of the “hectocorn”, with several US and European companies potentially floating on stock markets at…

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  • Bezos’s Blue Origin announces plans to deploy thousands of satellites in 2027

    Deployment will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into market dominated by SpaceX Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin on Wednesday announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into a satellite constellation market dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Deployment…

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  • Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO ‘an idiot’

    Tesla boss clashed with Michael O’Leary when airline boss rejected installing Starlink technology on aircraft Business live – latest updates Elon Musk has floated the idea of buying the budget airline Ryanair, escalating his public spat with the Irish carrier’s boss, Michael O’Leary. The two outspoken businessmen have locked horns since last week, when O’Leary…

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