Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is facing off with the Federal Trade Commission on Monday, for Day 1 of a landmark antitrust trial that could result in the tech giant’s breakup. The historic trial will be the first big test of President Trump’s FTC’s ability to challenge Big Tech. The […]
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Manhattanites are growing increasingly reliant on parents purchasing or passing down properties to them. Last year, the share of Manhattan home sales involving trusts leaped to 28 percent, Bloomberg reported, citing data from Attom. Three years ago, those transactions represented 17 percent of transactions. The use of trusts isn’t exclusive to deals involving parents and
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OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.1, a successor to the GPT-4o multimodal artificial intelligence model launched by the company last year. During a livestream on Monday, OpenAI said GPT-4.1 has an even larger context window and is better than GPT-40 in “just about every dimension,” with big improvements to coding and instruction following. GPT-4.1 is now available
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The Star Wars strategy game announced in 2022 finally has a name: Zero Company, as EA revealed today. A website about the game describes it as a “single-player turn-based tactics game,” includes an image, and says that a “first look” will be shown at Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 19th. Bit Reactor, a studio
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Samsung has announced new versions of its rugged tablets and smartphones designed for use in environments where they’re going to get dirty, wet, and knocked around. Both the Galaxy XCover7 Pro and Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro feature improved battery life, but the tablet goes one step further with a “dual hot-swap” feature allowing the battery
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As the deadline for applications approaches, a trio of proposed casino projects may be imperiled by state bureaucracy. Three casino proposals in Manhattan may be disqualified from the competition for a downstate gaming license because of the state’s Gaming Commission’s failure to initiate required environmental reviews, Crain’s reported. People involved with the bids raised concerns
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Nvidia has brought some of its chip production stateside. On Monday, Nvidia announced that it has started producing its Blackwell AI GPUs at TSMC’s plant in Phoenix, Arizona, while companies within the state package and test them. Additionally, Nvidia announced that it’s teaming up with the electronics manufacturers Foxconn and Wistron to build supercomputer production
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Broadway producers Jordan Roth and Richie Jackson are selling their Superior Ink condo. The couple’s apartment at 400 West 12th Street was the priciest home in Manhattan to land a signed contract last week, with an asking price just under $20 million, according to Olshan Realty’s weekly report. Roth, the son of Vornado Realty Trust’s
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Tishman Speyer is forging ahead with its massive Jersey City residential development. The firm scored a $331 million loan for 50 Hudson Street, Bloomberg reported. The 924-unit building represents slightly fewer than half of the units Tishman is developing on adjacent waterfront lots. Canadian pension fund Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec led the
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A long-awaited trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicks off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Judge James Boasberg will hear arguments about whether Facebook illegally monopolized the market for personal social networking services through its 2012 and 2014 acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC first brought the
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