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Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race (Mon, 29 Apr 2024)
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.
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A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check (Mon, 29 Apr 2024)
The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.
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In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
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‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.
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‘Smartphones on Wheels’ Draw Attention From Regulators (Tue, 30 Apr 2024)
Modern cars are internet-connected and have hundreds of sensors. Lawmakers and regulators have concerns about what’s happening with all that data.
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Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks (Tue, 30 Apr 2024)
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.
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Getir, a Rapid Grocery-Delivery Service, Exits the U.S. and Europe (Tue, 30 Apr 2024)
The company had expanded quickly to keep ahead of rivals, but like other pandemic darlings, its business lost steam after lockdowns were eased.
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Bumble Tells Women They No Longer Have to Make the First Move (Tue, 30 Apr 2024)
As dissatisfaction with online dating grows, the app that put women in control is shifting course.
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Meta Faces EU Investigation Over Election Disinformation (Tue, 30 Apr 2024)
The inquiry is intended to pressure the tech giant to more aggressively police Facebook and Instagram ahead of the European Union’s closely watched elections in June.
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From Baby Talk to Baby A.I. (Tue, 30 Apr 2024)
Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?
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Binance’s Founder Plans a Comeback Even as He Faces Prison Time (Tue, 30 Apr 2024)
Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance, has networked across the United States to set up his next act.
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U.S. Investigating Tesla Recall of Autopilot (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
The National Highway Safety Administration also released an analysis of crashes involving the system that showed at least 29 fatal accidents over five and a half years.
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TikTok on the Clock, Tesla’s Flop Era and How NASA Fixed a ’70s-Era Space Computer (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
“A clock is ticking on one of America’s most famous apps.”
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How to Claim Your Part of a $5.6 Million Ring Settlement (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments to customers who had certain Ring home security cameras and accounts during a particular time period, the agency said.
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Racist AI Deepfake of Baltimore Principal Leads to Arrest (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
A high school athletic director in the Baltimore area was arrested after he used A.I., the police said, to make a racist and antisemitic audio clip.
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Alphabet’s Revenue Jumps 15% to $80.5 Billion (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
Google’s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.
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Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.
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F.C.C. Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.
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Key Solar Panel Ingredient Is Made in the U.S.A. Again (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut down in 2019.
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Honda Commits to E.V.s With Big Investment in Canada (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
The Japanese automaker, which has been slow to sell electric vehicles, said it would invest $11 billion to make batteries and cars in Ontario.
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TikTok Broke the Tech Law Logjam. Can That Success Be Repeated? (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.
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How Pastor Chad Nedohin Helped Turn Trump Media Into a Meme Stock (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Chad Nedohin, a part-time pastor, is among the fans of Donald J. Trump who helped turn Trump Media into a meme stock with volatile prices.
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Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I. (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.
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On TikTok, Potential Ban of App Leads to Resignation and Frustration (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
While Congress says the social app is a security threat, critics of the law targeting it say it shows how out of step lawmakers are with young people.
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Binance Founder Should Get 3 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
Lawyers for Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the crypto exchange Binance, countered that he should receive no prison time.
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Elon Musk Clashes With Australian Court Over Violent Videos on X (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
Mr. Musk’s defiance over removing content is testing the boundaries of international legal systems.
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Inside Lawmakers’ Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app.
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Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.
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The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
The robotic nerd depicted in “The Social Network” has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What’s going on?
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How a Virtual Assistant Taught Me to Appreciate Busywork (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family’s grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems.
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Former Boeing Manager Says Workers Mishandled Parts to Meet Deadlines (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
Merle Meyers, who left Boeing last year after a 30-year career, said he was speaking publicly about his experience because he loved the company “fiercely.”
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Biden Signs TikTok Ban Bill Into Law. Here’s What Happens Next. (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s hostility.
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How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since.
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Tesla Earnings Report: Revenue Fell to $21.3 Billion, Adding to Strategy Concerns (Tue, 23 Apr 2024)
The first-quarter results are likely to fuel worries that competitors will continue grabbing a bigger slice of a market dealing with slowing electric car sales.
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