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Aiming to challenge what he perceives as ideological bias, Elon Musk's company xAI has launched Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia intended to compete with Wikipedia. The new site, currently in its initial version (0.1), had amassed over 885,000 articles by Monday evening. While significantly smaller than Wikipedia's extensive collection of over seven million English-language articles, Musk claims the existing Grokipedia is already "better than Wikipedia" and that a future version 1.0 will be "10X better.”

Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate roles, starting this week, according to sources familiar with the matter. While this number represents only a small fraction of Amazon's global workforce of about 1.55 million, it amounts to nearly 10 % of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees. 

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A trade deal between the United States and China is drawing closer, officials from the world’s two largest economies said Sunday as they reached an initial consensus for President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to aim to finalize during their high-stakes meeting.

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In a sudden and seemingly contradictory move, President Donald Trump announced Thursday he was ending trade talks with Canada, reversing course shortly after a cordial White House meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney. The stated reason was an anti-tariff advertising campaign that Trump, in a post on his Truth Social network, deemed "fake." Trump claimed the ad, produced by the Canadian province of Ontario, misquoted former President Ronald Reagan and was designed to influence the Supreme Court's upcoming decision on his sweeping global tariffs.