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Over the past month, Meta Platforms has overhauled its stumbling efforts in artificial intelligence by making a head-spinning series of hires of leaders and researchers from outside the company. But a key question has lingered: Why has Meta struggled so badly in AI that it’s injecting so much fresh blood into the company to lead a turnaround?
One outgoing research scientist from Meta’s generative AI group has come up with his own diagnosis of the company’s AI problems—and his assessment isn’t pretty. In a.
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Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund, said it had voted against the Tesla CEO's proposed pay deal. Read more ›
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Google Maps is rolling out live lane guidance to drivers of the Google-powered electric Polestar 4. The company announced Tuesday that the new feature relies on the EV’s front-facing camera to “see” lane markings and road signs. That information feeds into Google Map’s AI and provides the driver with customized audio and visual cues about […] Read more ›
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Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes has led to a major reckoning in the Republican party. Read more ›
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The footage shows how Ukraine is scrambling to defend the embattled city from brutal Russian assaults. Read more ›
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“I can't, for the life of me, figure out why we are still so rigid and moderating everything when we have nothing to lose for the first time,” a Democratic digital strategist tells WIRED. Read more ›
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More cases and deaths in new states have been detected over the past month, health officials report. Read more ›
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Jesse D'Ambrosi, originally from the US, lives in the Cotswolds, AKA the "Hamptons of England." She runs a luxury deli serving Americans and locals. Read more ›
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The new Apple Watch app should provide better access to WhatsApp's features beyond just replying to notifications. Read more ›
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Chinese provinces offer steep power discounts to AI companies using domestic chips Read more ›
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Apple quietly added a small but notable enhancement to Spotlight in macOS Tahoe 26.1, which was released on Monday. The update introduces new Clipboard history controls for Spotlight, allowing users to decide how long copied items remain accessible in search results. Previously, Spotlight could optionally retain clipboard contents for up to eight hours, but the latest update expands that flexibility with three options – 30 minutes, 8 hours, or 7... Read more ›
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New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is ahead in the polls, but most New York VCs are bullish on Cuomo. The numbers back that up. Read more ›
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The Amazon Music app now integrates with Alexa+ on iOS and Android, allowing users to navigate its extensive catalog via intuitive conversation. Amazon today announced that Alexa+, its upgraded AI-driven assistant, is now available in beta to members of the Alexa+ Early Access program using the Amazon Music app across all subscription tiers. The assistant introduces new ways for users to discover, organize, and engage with music through natural conversation... Read more ›
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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Tesla’s proposed $1 trillion CEO compensation package for Elon Musk, the fund said on Tuesday. Norges Bank said in a disclosure that it was “concerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk.” The ... Read more ›
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AI is fueling a surge in cyberattacks. Startups, especially in Israel, are rushing to use their own AI to stay one step ahead of the bad guys. Read more ›
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Many Americans are going to have sticker shock when they sign up for health insurance this year. For the roughly half of Americans who get insurance through their work, premiums are set to grow by another 6 percent on average, up to roughly $27,000 per year for family coverage. That is a 26 percent increase […] Read more ›
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The REDMAGIC 11 Pro survived the JerryRigEverything teardown tests, and proved its even cooler inside than we thought. Read more ›
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PC builders and enthusiasts are starting to notice catastrophic increases in the price of RAM kits. Read more ›
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A weaker rupee gives IndiGo one more reason to look outward. Expanding internationally helps the airline bring in the dollars and euros that can soften future currency shocks. Read more ›
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Users over the weekend reported seeing incorrect end-of-life messages on Windows 10 despite either being enrolled in the ESU program or running Enterprise/LTSC versions of the OS that are automatically set to receive security updates for a few more years. Microsoft has already said this was a bug and pushed a cloud configuration fix. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Before the potential of the internet was appreciated around the world, nations that understood its importance managed to scoop outsized allocations of IPv4 addresses, actions that today mean many users in the rest of the world are more likely to find their connections throttled or blocked. So says Cloudflare, which last week published research that recalls how once the world started to run out... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, OpenAI is continuing its trend of diversifying its cloud compute providers away from Microsoft. Monday morning, the ChatGPT maker announced that it has signed a seven-year, $38 billion cloud deal with Amazon Web Services. OpenAI will immediately start using compute from AWS, with the goal to deploy all capacity before the end of next year, with the option to use even more compute into... Read more ›
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Things have never been better for Shopify. The e-commerce firm’s stock is trading near all-time highs. And a recent deal with OpenAI has put Shopify in a position to capitalize on AI-fueled shopping by easily allowing its merchants to sell products through ChatGPT. And yet Shopify is seeing the kind of executive turnover normally associated with companies that are struggling. Read more ›
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About half of subscribers to The Information who responded to our latest survey said they bought or sold cryptocurrency, crypto exchange-traded funds or crypto treasury stocks in the past three months. Notably, more of our readers are buying than selling: 47% of all respondents said they bought crypto or something related in the past three months, while just 25% said they sold. The survey’s findings are based on 528 responses. Read more ›
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Stock market investors fell in love with crypto this year, setting off a big rally in public markets. Now the buying frenzy has rebounded back to privately held companies like crypto exchange Kraken and payments firm Ripple, whose valuations have soared. Kraken, one of the oldest crypto exchanges, is raising money at a $20 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter, after getting $500 million in new... Read more ›
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Payments tech giant Fiserv’s stock collapsed 45% on Wednesday morning after the company slashed its revenue growth outlook for 2025 and announced a management shakeup. Fiserv, whose Clover payments service competes with companies such as Square, reported 1% revenue growth for the third quarter ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s revenue could reach $100 billion in 2027, Sam Altman said on a podcast published Friday with Altimeter Capital and OpenAI investor Brad Gerstner. Altman said the ChatGPT maker was already “doing well more revenue,” than $13 billion, an apparent reference to its annualized pace, which ... Read more ›
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Microsoft last year got more aggressive about getting people to pay up for artificial intelligence features in its Office productivity suite, such as those that draft emails or summarize documents. It began including AI features by default and raising the baseline price of Office for individual consumers by 30%. The maneuver paid off, as revenue from that business line has been growing at its fastest rate in years. Read more ›
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One August morning, Kaarage woke up and took the train from the Japanese countryside into the city. She went to a restaurant and enjoyed a lunch of vegetables and soup, as well as an iced coffee. Afterward, she studied a musical score on her iPad, then went home to relax. Kaarage is not a person: She’s an internet-beloved Moflin, an AI-powered robopet made by Casio—yes, Casio—who shares a charming, bucolic... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Inside Benchmark’s high-stakes pressure test • Artificial Intelligence: The VCs who turned vibe code into whimsical passion projects• Artificial Intelligence: Venerable Casio’s surprise hit? An AI robopet • WTF: Behind the scenes at our summit for the most powerful and influential women in tech, media and finance • The Arena: WNBA owner Clara Wu Tsai has a $1 billion plan• Plus, our... Read more ›
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A memo from California’s attorney general suggested that Elon Musk’s federal lawsuit against OpenAI will be unaffected by the artificial intelligence startup’s restructuring. But now that the restructuring has occurred, it may be hard to unwind the change even if Musk wins. Both the attorneys ... Read more ›
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