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This week was a mixed bag for the tech industry.

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Electric vehicles are back in the spotlight this week, with major automakers — namely those owned by the Hyundai Motor Co. — touting their growing sales of the cleaner cars. Xiaomi, Tesla’s newest rival in China, is building — and selling — the new SU7 like hotcakes. And California was proud to announce that its EV…

Wendy’s said it’s being careful about pricing, likely in an effort to avoid the public relations fiasco of February. McDonald’s is seeing a slowdown in sales, which it is chalking up to consumers in the U.S. being more “discriminating with every dollar.” And Walmart plans to close its health centers, while…

Novo Nordisk responded this week to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) suggestion that it filed ‘junk’ patents to prevent competition and raise prices. Moderna stock surged on Thursday after its first-quarter earnings report blew past Wall Street’s expectations. And Johnson & Johnson announced its plans to pay nearly…

The growing demand for artificial intelligence is heating up the talent war among companies, and putting heat on the government. On Wednesday, Google sent a letter to the Department of Labor, urging it to update its immigration policies to include AI and cybersecurity to keep up with the demand for these workers,…

Bird flu continues to be a real public health threat, but apparently not to our food supply at least. The Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture separately announced late Wednesday that their tests of pasteurized milk and ground beef failed to find any live H5N1 in samples at risk of being…

As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the Moon as part of the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, the space agency still needs to resolve a few lingering issues with its Orion capsule that could jeopardize the safety of the crew on board, according to a new report.

If you were born early enough to come into semi-adulthood in 1999, you used to have a Nokia 3210. OK, maybe you didn’t, but your friend or a family member had one, or they had a slightly later model. Maybe you forgot about it completely because, for hell’s sake, it’s been 25 years. But you’d recognize the silhouette,…

Apple CEO Tim Cook sidestepped questions about its AI strategy during its second-quarter earnings call with investors Thursday.