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Trump just gave a new signal he isn't going to let up on Big Tech

President-elect Donald Trump is making it clear he doesn't intend to ease up on the nation's technology giants once he is back in the Oval Office.

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Twos is a to-do app that uses AI to suggest actions to complete your tasks

The overarching promise of companies working on AI-powered productivity tools is to build solutions that would do a task for you. A to-do list app called Twos is approaching this problem differently. For instance, if you write “Buy paper napkins,” you will get suggestions for links to Amazon, Walmart, and eBay with paper napkins as the search terms.

After selling his last startup to IBM, this founder now wants to bring 'agentic memory' to enterprise data

It's against such a backdrop that fledgling AI startup, Across AI, is coming out of stealth to develop a "dynamic memory system" for complex enterprise workflows. Across AI targets the likes of chief revenue officers and sales teams with a platform that connects with all their internal and external enterprise data sources. It then creates a shared "agentic memory" that can be used to identify and qualify fresh sales opportunities, spot risks, and suggest questions sales teams should be asking their customers.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: DOGE has a real shot at cutting costs, and new technologies could help

Elon Musk has a good shot at cleaning up government waste by way of DOGE, explains Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff.

Meta buys credits from four big US solar projects

The agreement is the latest in a string of announcements Meta has made this year aimed at meeting the energy needs of its power-hungry data centers without harming the climate. In its latest move, Meta signed four contracts with Chicago-based energy project developer Invenergy for 760 megawatts of solar electricity. The projects will connect to the power grid between 2024 and 2027 and will be located in Ohio, Texas, New Mexico and Arkansas, Meta and Invenergy said in a joint statement.

OPEC+ delays oil output hike until April, extends cuts into 2026

LONDON/MOSCOW/DUBAI (Reuters) -OPEC+ on Thursday pushed back the start of oil output rises by three months until April and extended the full unwinding of cuts by a year until the end of 2026 due to weak demand and booming production outside the group. OPEC+, which pumps about half the world's oil, had been planning to start unwinding cuts from October 2024 but a slowdown in global demand and rising output elsewhere forced it to postpone the plans on several occasions. OPEC+ groups the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies such as Russia.

European satellites launched to create artificial solar eclipses in a tech demo

A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy formation flying in space. “We are a very happy science team here” in India, the European Space Agency's mission scientist Joe Zender said via email. Billed as a tech demo, the two satellites will separate in a month or so and fly 492 feet (150 meters) apart once reaching their destination high above Earth, lining up with the sun so that one spacecraft casts a shadow on the other.

Google Split Still on the Table, New EU Antitrust Chief Says

(Bloomberg) -- A potential split of Google’s business is still under consideration, according to Teresa Ribera, the European Union’s new competition chief, who also pledged to build bridges with incoming US President Donald Trump.Most Read from BloombergAs Wars Rage, Cities Face a Dark New Era of Urban DestructionKansas City Looks Back on its Long, Costly Ride With MicrotransitRiyadh Metro Partially Opens in Bid to Ease City’s Traffic JamsRibera, a Spanish socialist who started her five-year ter

OPEC+ output cuts turned US into top energy exporter, Rosneft's Sechin says

Igor Sechin, the head of Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft, said on Thursday that the OPEC+ group's decisions to reduce oil output in 2016 and 2020 helped the U.S. shale industry and made it a leading global energy exporter. Sechin, speaking at a forum in the United Arab Emirates, said Russia and its partners have made the main contributions to the global energy market stabilisation in the past 10 years. A long-standing ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sechin has previously expressed scepticism about Russia's cooperation with the OPEC, saying that the United States benefited most from the deal, struck in 2016.

IPhone Maker Hon Hai Posts 3% Sales Growth After AI Demand Slows

(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc.’s major manufacturing partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported a second consecutive month of single-digit sales growth, raising concerns that demand for AI infrastructure won’t be able to offset weak iPhone sales.Most Read from BloombergAs Wars Rage, Cities Face a Dark New Era of Urban DestructionKansas City Looks Back on its Long, Costly Ride With MicrotransitRiyadh Metro Partially Opens in Bid to Ease City’s Traffic JamsHon Hai, also known as Foxconn, is a key

Oilfield service consolidation to increase under Trump, report says

The oilfield service sector is poised for more consolidation in 2025, according to Deloitte's 2025 Oil and Gas Industry Outlook, with President-elect Donald Trump expected loosen regulations on the U.S. oil and gas industry. The uptick in deals in the services sector would follow a wave of mega-mergers among oil producers, including Exxon Mobil and Pioneer Natural Resources and ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil.