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• Amazon faced an outage affecting tens of thousands of shoppers globally on Thursday afternoon.
• Downdetector reported a surge in complaints of Amazon issues, peaking at 20,000 by 3:49 p.m. ET.
• Amazon's outage involved checkout and pricing

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei confirmed that the Pentagon has effectively blacklisted the AI startup.
• Amodei said Anthropic has had "productive conversations" with the Defense Department.
• However, Undersecretary of Defense Emil Michael said the Defense Department isn't in talks with Anthropic

If you were having issues shopping on Amazon or loading your playlists on Amazon Music on Thursday, you weren't alone. For over three hours today, Downdetector showed a sizable spike in people reporting issues with checkout, search, and logging in. The problem seemed to be affecting both the site and the mobile apps. But an Amazon spokesperson tells The Verge that the issues are now fixed

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday, many great iPad deals are available outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts come and go like changing winds, so there’s often some amount to be saved, particularly on Apple’s most

In 1979 - nearly 50 years ago - Lego jazzed up its very first spaceships with an iconic sloped computer brick that was just painted plastic. In 2022, we introduced you to the engineer who fit an actual tiny computer inside.

Now, industrial designer Paul Staal has flipped the script with a working desktop PC that's a super-sized homage to the classic

• Sam Altman and OpenAI face backlash after Pentagon deal raises ethical concerns.
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected Pentagon terms, prompting a heated response from officials.
• Anthropic's Claude app surged in downloads as users react to OpenAI's Pentagon deal.

Days after triumphantly declaring victory and landing a big deal with the US government, Sam Altman is

• Madeleine Collins left home at 22 and spent 15 years abroad before settling in San Diego.
• As a British expat raising kids in the US, she gravitated toward other Brits.
• Now, in her 50s, it's her friendships with Americans that have instilled a sense of belonging.

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Today, X announced some updates to its creator subscriptions platform. The leading change gives participating accounts the option to make part of tweet threads only visible to subscribers. This new Creator Subscriptions feature is called Exclusive Threads, an ironic name choice given X's main text-based social media posting competitor is called Threads.

• An article profiling four young finance bros in designer clothes has gone viral.
• One of them told Business Insider that he expected a big reaction because "controversy sells."
• Meme accounts have mocked the piece, which violates Wall Street's unspoken rule against flashiness.

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• Naoko Takeda wrote on LinkedIn that Block offered her a pay bump and retention bonus after its recent layoffs.
• Takeda said she quit instead. "That's not an honor. It feels shameful and dehumanizing," she wrote.
• Business Insider viewed messages in which two employees said their retention bonuses were $60,000 and $80,000.

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