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Tech, TV, movies and news: Ellisons on brink of colossal empire
As little as a year ago, Larry Ellison, at 80 years old, appeared to be winding down his long career as a tech mogul. And his son David Ellison owned a lone Hollywood company and a rather minuscule one at that: Skydance Media.
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FedEx says it will return to customers any refunds it gets back from Trump’s illegal tariffs
Delivery company FedEx said in a statement on Thursday that it will return any tariff refund it might get to shippers and customers who paid them.
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Businesses push for tariff refunds as Trump aides hint at fight to come
As federal judges last spring began to consider the legality of President Donald Trump’s punishing global tariffs, the administration offered an assurance: It told the court that a set of suing companies would “assuredly receive payment” if Trump ever lost the fight.
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Gas-guzzler revival risks dead-end future for US automakers
Detroit under Donald Trump has rediscovered its love of the big, roaring engine.
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Samsung rolls out more AI, new privacy shield mode with the new Galaxy S26 lineup
Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its latest Galaxy smartphones, which boast an even bigger toolbox of artificial intelligence technology than the previous two generations and introduce a new privacy shield mode that blocks snoopy bystanders from sneaking a peek at the display screen.
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Warner Bros gets a higher offer from Paramount in heated fight for the storied Hollywood studio
Warner Bros. Discovery said that Paramount has raised the price of its takeover offer to $31 per share, potentially setting the stage for a fresh bidding war with Netflix over the future of the Hollywood giant.
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FedEx joins other US companies in seeking a refund after Trump tariffs are ruled illegal
FedEx is suing the U.S. government, the latest company to request a refund on what it paid for tariffs set by President Donald Trump last year after the Supreme Court ruled that the tariffs are illegal.
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Supreme Court ruling against Trump’s tariffs is unlikely to mean an end to trade policy chaos
The Supreme Court's stunning rebuke of President Donald Trump's most sweeping tariffs means he can't conjure up new import taxes on a whim anymore.
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Trump gets pledges for Gaza reconstruction and troop commitments at inaugural Board of Peace talks
President Donald Trump announced Thursday at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge $7 billion toward a Gaza relief package and five countries have agreed to deploy troops as part of an international stabilization force for the war-battered Palestinian territory.
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EU privacy investigation targets Musk’s Grok chatbot over sexualized deepfake images
Elon Musk's social media platform X faces a European Union privacy investigation after its Grok AI chatbot started spitting out nonconsensual deepfake images, Ireland's data privacy regulator said Tuesday.
