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It’s not always easy for customers of Lowe’s Home Improvement to locate employees when they need to ask for help inside its cavernous facilities. But the retailer is at least giving its employees access to artificial intelligence so they can be a lot more helpful in answering questions when customers do track them down.Over the last year, the company has used models from OpenAI to develop a voice and text app to answer employees’ questions on selling points for products or key differences between similar it
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Millennials who are childfree and married are cashing in, with high net worths and more in retirement savings. Read more ›
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Charity Kreher moved her family from Oklahoma to Puerto Rico in November. Their lifestyle is more active now than it was on the mainland. Read more ›
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MrBeast is creating a new animated series based on top-selling action figure toys in hopes of hooking the next generation on his videos. Read more ›
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"Digital storefront Itch.io is reindexing its free adult games," reports Engadget, "and is talking to its partnered payment processors about plans to gradually reintroduce paid NSFW content..." In a statement included in the Itch.io update, Stripe said it hasn't closed the door on the possibility of being able to support adult content again in the future. In the meantime, Itch.io says it is talking to its other payment partners about... Read more ›
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Apple remains a long way behind when it comes to AI, but executives are confident about the future. Read more ›
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In 2023, a tourist stumbled upon a jellyfish species not seen since 1976. A follow-up investigation strongly suggests these jellies are very much alive and swimming. Read more ›
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Gen Xers know you pay more attention to Gen Zers, millennials, and boomers. They don't care. Read more ›
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Some student-loan borrowers who benefited from Biden's SAVE plan voted for Trump. They say they're on edge now that they're facing higher payments. Read more ›
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This is the Infinix Hot 60 Pro, and it's the more conventional phone in the new series. While its sibling, the 60 Pro+, is a bit thinner and curvier, the Hot 60 Pro is nearly as thin and light, but has a flat design that some will like better. The regular Hot 60 Pro also has a few hardware advantages over its Pro+ counterpart - you get a dedicated AI... Read more ›
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Looking for some end-of-summer fun? These are the best outdoor games you can play with family or friends. Read more ›
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Elon Musk posted on X that Grok Imagine, his AI-powered video-to-text generator, "is AI Vine," adding that he was working to restore the defunct app. Read more ›
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We recently asked readers to share with us their biggest turnoffs in the job search process. Here's what you told us. Read more ›
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GOG has launched an all-new project to raise awareness of censorship in gaming: FreedomToBuy.Games. Read more Read more ›
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UK-based cyber security group steps up investment plans following takeover by US private equity firm Thoma Bravo Read more ›
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See how much Target pays in 2025, with software engineers earning up to $353,000. Salary data shows pay ranges across tech and analytics teams. Read more ›
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Is the Honor Magic V5 the thinnest horizontal foldable on the market right now? Honor says so, but the more important question is whether you care – thinnest or not, the V5 has a lot going for it. It already launched internationally and will debut in Europe in less than two weeks. Do you plan on buying one? Honor Magic V5 colorways Depending on which color you pick, the Magic... Read more ›
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With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering. Read more ›
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OpenAI roughly doubled its revenue in the first seven months of the year, reaching $12 billion in annualized revenue, according to a person who spoke to OpenAI executives. That figure implies the ChatGPT maker is generating $1 billion a month, compared to about $500 million a month at the start of the year. The growth comes as the company logs roughly 700 million weekly active users for its ChatGPT products... Read more ›
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Groq, a richly funded chip startup trying to take on Nvidia, told investors early this year it was on track to have more than $2 billion in revenue for 2025. Within the past month, the number it gave to investors has fallen to more than $500 million, according to documents viewed by The Information. Groq’s $2 billion projection came around the time it inked a $1.5 billion deal with Saudi... Read more ›
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This year’s torrid deal-making pace is definitely not taking a pause for summer. On Wednesday, I reported that OpenAI is months ahead of schedule in raising money for its $40 billion megaround. Investors are pouring in money at a moment when OpenAI is generating $12 billion in annualized revenue and hitting 700 million weekly active users for its ChatGPT products, including both consumers and business customers. Investors are also keen... Read more ›
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Fireworks AI, a three-year-old startup that rents out Nvidia chip servers to developers that use artificial intelligence models, is in talks to raise funding at a $4 billion valuation in a round led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners and Index Ventures, The Information reported. A ... Read more ›
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When Google’s billionaire co-founder, Sergey Brin, needs something done at the company’s artificial intelligence unit—AI chips allocated to a team, a researcher hired, an employee moved to a new department—there’s one person he messages: Koray Kavukcuoglu. Kavukcuoglu isn’t Google’s flashiest AI leader, though he’s the chief technology officer of its AI unit, Google DeepMind, and the chief AI architect for the entire company. He lacks the celebrity of Brin and... Read more ›
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Before we get to today's column, my colleague Valida and I reported Tuesday that Canadian AI model maker Cohere is in talks to raise up to $500 million in a new funding round at a $6.3 billion valuation. Existing investors Inovia Capital and Radical Ventures are in talks to invest in the round. This company recently generated revenue at an annual pace of $100 million. At a $6.3 billion valuation,... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley royalty are set to be the big winners from Figma’s initial public offering this week. Former Meta and Google executive Sheryl Sandberg, former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and venture capital firms Greylock Partners and Kleiner Perkins are all turning modest investments into windfalls ranging from tens of millions to more than $1 billion. Sandberg and Weiner were among the participants in Figma’s seed round, via a roughly $1.5... Read more ›
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Amazon is taking steps to keep other companies’ artificial intelligence shopping tools from swarming its e-commerce site. In recent weeks, Amazon updated the code underpinning its website to add language warding off new AI agents from Google. These changes follow restrictions Amazon added earlier this year calling out bots from Perplexity, Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Read more ›
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OpenAI made waves across the industry in December when it published the results from its tests of artificial intelligence that performs better on tasks when it gets more time and computing power to process them. The results implied ChatGPT customers were about to be blown away by what the new AI could do. But the euphoria was short-lived. When OpenAI researchers turned the new AI into a chat-based version called... Read more ›
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Nearly everywhere I look, I’m seeing signs of how artificial intelligence is shaking up the way we engage online, from shopping to social media. OpenAI is reportedly working on a new checkout feature, betting that more consumers will turn to chatbots like its ChatGPT to find and purchase products. At the same time, I’m seeing an influx of realistic AI videos on my social media feeds, while a new generation... Read more ›
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