Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Tuesday that it plans to begin attacking more than a dozen American companies across the Middle East on Wednesday in retaliation for the killing of Iranian citizens in the ongoing war with the US and Israel. The list of companies includes Apple, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Tesla, and Boeing, which the IRGC accused of

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How The Trade Desk is aiming to remain ‘king of the open web’

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AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics

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OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora

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