AI giants Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia investigated for possible antitrust violations

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OpenAI and Microsoft

With the AI race heating up between Big Tech companies and fast-growing startups alike, some companies may be violating antitrust laws in order to gain an upper hand on their competition.

At least, that's what both the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are investigating.

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia are now under a regulatory microscope after the DOJ and FTC

I drove to Chicago to try out McDonald's little-known CosMc's test location. Dunkin Donuts should be on alert.

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CosMc's drive-thru restaurant in Bolingbrook, Illinois
I visited the first CosMc's in Chicago.

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  • McDonald's now has four CosMc's locations open, one near Chicago and three near Dallas.
  • The chain will test 10 locations of the small-format, limited-menu restaurant concept this year.
  • I visited the original Chicago location. My takeaway? Dunkin' Donuts should be on alert.

After a year of buzz, CosMc's is up and running.

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TikTok’s AI efforts reportedly exploit loopholes to use premium Nvidia chips

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The US has banned companies like Nvidia from selling their most advanced AI chips to China since 2022. But if loopholes exist, profit-hungry corporations will find and exploit them. The Information published a bombshell report on Thursday detailing how Oracle allows TikTok owner ByteDance to rent Nvidia’s most advanced chips to train AI models on US soil.

ByteDance, which many US lawmakers believe

Suicide Squad left a $200 million hole in WBD’s video game division

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A screnshoot from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
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Warner Bros. Discovery took a $200 million hit after the launch of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the troubled looter shooter released in February — and now we have a sense of what went wrong. A new report from Bloomberg details some of the studio’s struggles behind the scenes, including inexperience with the multiplayer genre and a

See Elon Musk's Starship shredding apart as it descends to Earth, with a whole fin almost ripping off

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side by side images show starship fin intact and shiny then shredding apart in a cloud of debris
This flap on Starship looked very different at the beginning and end of the plummet back to Earth.

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  • SpaceX's Starship flew to space and returned, but suffered visible damage on the fall back to Earth.
  • The rocket's fin started ripping off mid-fall, and the camera lens cracked.
  • Starship's splashdown was a big step toward reusability though, and Elon Musk claimed victory.

SpaceX's Starship

The best 75-inch TVs of 2024

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A side-by-side image of a 75-inch Samsung QN900C 8K TV displaying red patterns and a 77-inch Samsung S95D 4K TV displaying swirling blue colors.
The best 75-inch TVs include displays from brands like Sony, Samsung, Hisense, and TCL.

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For a long time, 60- and 65-inch displays were the pinnacle of the big-screen TV market. But in recent years, 75-inch TVs have hit the mainstream, with entry-level and high-end models from

Best Buy is shutting down its Samsung repair program

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It’s getting harder to get a Samsung phone fixed. | Image: Best Buy

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for people who want ways to get their Samsung phone fixed, between revelations about the company’s onerous repair shop contracts and a failed iFixit contract renegotiation. To add to that, Best Buy’s Geek Squad is in the middle of shutting down its Samsung authorized