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OpenAI is reportedly getting close to closing a $100 billion deal, with backers including Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft. The deal would value the ChatGPT-maker at $850 billion. Source

Meta's CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms. Source

If completed, the project would be among the largest and most expensive natural gas power plants. Source

The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messenger’s standalone desktop apps for Windows and Mac. Source

The governor of New York pulled a robotaxi expansion proposal that was viewed as a win for Waymo. Source

A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links. Source

Split View, PDF annotations, and 'Save to Chrome' features come to the Chrome browser. Source

Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too. Source

Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that's been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay men, at the upper echelons of tech, quietly raising up their own networks the way powerful people have always done. Source

The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger. Source