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The most popular consumer internet services usually figure out how to make money even after a decade or more of losses. Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Snap all started generating cash by raising prices or leveraging their large audiences to sell ads or other services.
OpenAI’s growing audience would seem to put it in a similar position. Its three-year-old ChatGPT business is closing in on 1 billion users and $10 billion in subscription revenue from millions of customers just this year. But as investors buy Open
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Jane Goodall's powers of observation revealed facts scholars had overlooked for years. She died at 91 on October 1. Read more ›
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Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies. Read more ›
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Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while doing what she’s done for most of her later years — touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence. Goodall, who revolutionized what we know about chimpanzees and animal intelligence, was interviewed as […] Read more ›
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Elon Musk's posts come amid some online criticism of the Netflix animated show, "Dead End: Paranormal Park," and its creator. Read more ›
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BYD said in an exchange filing on Wednesday that it sold 396,270 cars in September, a 5.5% decline from a year earlier. Read more ›
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Beijing’s national security drive hits European groups even as Huawei maintains its business on the continent Read more ›
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AMD is in early talks to be an Intel Foundry customer, according to reports from Semafor. It's the latest in a line of companies considering an investment in the American fab. Read more ›
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iFixit today disassembled the AirPods Pro 3, giving us a look at what's inside and how the AirPods Pro 3 have changed in comparison to the AirPods Pro 2. Apple designed the AirPods Pro 3 with a new foam-infused tip, and the design change is mainly visible under a microscope. You can see a small layer of foam at the top of the earbud where it meets the ear. The... Read more ›
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Lionsgate is releasing Quentin Tarantino's two-part masterpiece as one film on December 5. Read more ›
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At midnight on Wednesday, the federal government shut down. Democrats made good on their promise to vote against a continuing resolution if Republicans didn’t extend expiring Obamacare tax credits, and funding expired. Now, both sides are digging in to play the blame game. Democrats argue that Republicans are to blame for refusing to budge on […] Read more ›
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Affordable Care Act subsides and Medicaid funding are at the center of October's government shutdown. Read more ›
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As of 12:01 am ET, the US federal government has been shut down. Workers deemed “nonessential” are staying at home, meaning that many government functions (like national parks) will be closed because of a lack of staff. “Essential” workers, ranging from soldiers to air traffic controllers, will be working even after money for their paychecks […] Read more ›
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The new offering comes as there is an increasing demand for hedging instruments across the full spectrum of crypto products. Read more ›
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Uncle Sam has closed up shop. The federal government shut down on Wednesday, as Congress failed to extend its annual appropriations. Now, food will go uninspected, Superfund sites uncleaned, and IRS helplines unanswered. Millions of Americans will suffer from disrupted government services, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are liable to miss paychecks, and economic […] Read more ›
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Samsung has announced that it's working on bringing detection and monitoring of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD) to its smartwatches in a world first. This is a serious cardiovascular condition responsible for approximately 50% of all heart failure cases and is more fatal than some cancers. Thus, early detection is critical to lower the risk of death and reduce hospitalization. Samsung will be using AI algorithms developed in collaboration with... Read more ›
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Olivia Munn was very proactive about breast cancer screenings. A 2-minute online test led to her stage 1 diagnosis. Read more ›
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We discuss whether Sora poses a threat to incumbent platforms like TikTok, and how users and brands might feel about an AI-generated feed. Read more ›
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Today, the Lego Game Boy officially goes on sale. It’s surprisingly good. But in Australia, one woman has already created a more amazing version. Natalie the Nerd, the self-taught circuit board designer and Game Boy modder whose gorgeous transparent Game Boy we featured in August, is doing what Nintendo and Lego didn’t: make it playable. […] Read more ›
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The White House wants to move at least 50% of U.S.-bound chip production into the United States, but Taiwan says no. Read more ›
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The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck. Read more ›
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ChatGPT remains by far the most widely used chatbot among people responding to The Information Pro’s latest subscriber survey, but it lost ground over the past seven months. So did most other chatbots, possibly a sign that our readers are experimenting with fewer chatbots and have decided on those they want to primarily use. Overall, the use of artificial intelligence services has become even more widespread among our readers since... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms plans to acquire the chip startup Rivos, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal comes after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in July said his company would spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” on expanding its computing capacity to enable its ambitions in artificial ... Read more ›
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This summer, Meta Platforms offered multiple researchers at artificial intelligence startup Thinking Machines Lab sizable compensation packages to join its new AI lab. When all of the researchers declined the offers, Thinking Machines CEO Mira Murati sent a flattering news report about Meta’s attempted raid to her staff over Slack. At the same time, Murati—until a year ago chief technology officer of OpenAI—cautioned Thinking Machines staffers that there was no... Read more ›
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These days, it seems like each week another artificial intelligence startup announces it’s surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue, a milestone that historically meant a startup had achieved “product-market fit”—in other words, customers really want to pay for its products.In the last five months, our reporting shows that at least five “AI native” startups that sell apps to enterprises and software developers—ElevenLabs, EliseAI, Replit, Synthesia and Lovable—have joined the “$100... Read more ›
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After AI coding apps like Cursor and Replit popularized “vibe coding,” Microsoft wants to make “vibe working” happen.Microsoft on Monday unveiled Office Agent, which lets people create complex PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets based on simple written prompts in the Copilot chatbot. Read more ›
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As artificial intelligence developers increasingly rely on reinforcement learning to improve their models, investors are funding startups that focus on helping businesses utilize the technique to automate more tasks. In the latest example, Applied Compute, founded in May by three former OpenAI staffers, is in talks to raise new funding at a $500 million valuation just three months after a round that valued it at $100 million, according to people... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms staffers have had discussions with Google Cloud about the possibility of using Google’s artificial intelligence models to improve Meta’s ad business, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. The discussions are the latest sign of how Meta’s stumbles with its own AI have prompted it to consider using other companies’ technology, at least as an interim measure while its newly overhauled AI teams improve its models. Read more ›
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Elon Musk has been paying closer attention to his artificial intelligence company, xAI, over the past few months, pushing staff to move as quickly as possible to catch up with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. The xAI CEO’s increased involvement has led to frequent reorganizations, demotions and firings on the teams building the company’s AI models and products. At the same time, xAI has been integrating the social media site... Read more ›
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There’s nothing like an earth-changing new technology to get the tech industry’s dealmaking juices flowing. That’s been good news and bad news for bankers, who have pocketed fees but have been boxed out of some of the biggest deals. We’ve pulled together a list of the bankers who have led the way on artificial intelligence dealmaking. The winners include people from boutique firms such as Qatalyst Partners and Centerview Partners... Read more ›
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You might think the $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts would be today’s biggest business event. But that’s yesterday’s news—word of the deal broke on Friday. (For more on that, see below). Today’s biggest news, in reality, is OpenAI’s launch of its shopping feature, which puts the ChatGPT creator in competition with everyone from Amazon to Instagram. OpenAI unveiled what it calls an Instant Checkout feature, which it said was... Read more ›
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