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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024.Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft had all the pieces to win in vibe coding, thanks to the near ubiquity of GitHub, which the company bought for $7.5 billion in 2018. But repeated outages, executive turnover, and the soaring popularity of newer tools like Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code have eaten away at GitHub’s early advantage in generative artificial intelligence, creating another challenge for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as he attempts to straighten out his company’s AI story. GitHub’s reliability…

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President Donald Trump suggested last month he would look out for companies that didn’t seek tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down his wide-ranging global duties. At first, some major firms like Amazon appeared to be holding off on asking for money back over concerns they’d offend the often transactional president and end up in his crosshairs, CNBC reported earlier this year. But now some of the largest U.S. companies from Walmart to Apple have confirmed they’re seeking what they’re owed — regardless of the consequences. Home Depot, General Motors, John Deere, FedEx and Costco are among the other…

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Plug-in hybrid powertrains were developed to be the best of both worlds: a combustion engine and fuel tank that can handle those longer journeys exactly the same as a non-hybrid car, with an electric motor and a battery large enough for most or all of someone’s daily driving range. But only if you plug it in. And it is often taken as a statement of fact that plug-in hybrid owners don’t plug in their plug-in hybrids. Instead, they were seduced into buying a car with far too big a battery, no doubt as a result of generous incentives, the theory…

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U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersNATO will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on defense in the coming years, its Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Friday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged thousands of new troops to its eastern flank. Speaking to reporters ahead of a NATO meeting in Helsingborg, Sweden, on Friday, Rutte said “the money is really coming in,” with allies “committing more and more.”Last year, NATO member states agreed to raise…

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An Estee Lauder Cos. concession in the beauty department inside the John Lewis Partnership Plc department store on Oxford Street in London, UK, on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesEstée Lauder’s shares were up almost 10% in premarket trading after talks over a potential merger with Spanish beauty group Puig were “terminated.”The British beauty giant, which owns the Clinique and Tom Ford Beauty brands and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, said in March that it was in discussions with Puig, the owner of Charlotte Tilbury and Jean Paul Gaultier, to combine the companies.But…

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A view of the Syncrude refinery at its Mildred Lake facility, which has a capacity of bitumen conversion to synthetic crude oil of 350,000 barrels per day, in the Wood Buffalo municipality of Alberta, Canada, on May 5, 2026.Daphne Lemelin | Afp | Getty ImagesAlberta Premier Danielle Smith has announced plans for the oil-rich province to hold a non-binding vote in the fall on whether its residents wish to remain a part of Canada — or move ahead with a second binding vote on separation. The move marks the first time in Canadian history that a province other than Quebec…

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