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Tech Across the Globe

DeepSeek returns: The globeshaking Hangzhou startup rolled out its V4 AI model in a couple of preview versions. Check out the details.

Intel’s blockbuster forecast: The chipmaker easily topped expectations, sending shares soaring in late trading and suggesting its turnaround efforts are taking hold. These are the reasons things are looking up.

Comcast’s strong quarter: Investors were pleasantly surprised after the cable and entertainment company reported results that beat estimates. See the numbers here.

Paramount gets a yes: Warner Bros. shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve a $110 billion merger with Paramount, despite widespread opposition to the deal in Hollywood. Read what’s next for the deal.

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OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.5 to Field Tasks With Limited Instructions

OpenAI is introducing an artificial intelligence model that’s intended to be better at completing work without much direction, part of a push to keep pace with rivals like Anthropic PBC in courting business customers.

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Netflix Buying Back $25 Billion in Stock After Share Decline

Netflix Inc. plans to buy back another $25 billion in stock after a disappointing financial outlook sent shares of the streaming pioneer plunging.

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The EU’s policymakers have been in the throes of a digital regulation short circuit, Gian Volpicelli reports in today’s Tech In Depth. The EU, often portrayed as way too eager to investigate technology giants, is shrugging after four tech companies said they’d be scanning Europeans’ private communications for the presence of child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, even though the law doesn’t allow it. Privacy groups are protesting the lack of action. The debate, Volpicelli writes, pits two central values: preserving online privacy and protecting children from online predators.

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In San Francisco, the CEO running a boutique selling coffee table games, tote bags and household items is an artificial intelligence agent named Luna, Shirin Ghaffary writes in this week’s Q&AI. The bot decides what to order and how much to charge for the items. The founders of the startup behind the store say this experiment in AI technology is a look at what soon will be possible, Ghaffary writes.

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