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Businesses such as IBM and Salesforce have long used chatbots to greet their website visitors and offer them assistance with getting more information about their products. In recent years, generative AI has livened up these chatbots so they are no longer confined to a small set of canned responses. But some technology providers are having trouble keeping these AI chatbots from going off-topic. For instance, earlier this month, Sierra, a $10 billion-valuation startup co-founded by former Salesforce CEO Bret.
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Xbox's newly-appointed head Asha Sharma is sunsetting the company's Copilot initiative, which was once envisioned as an AI-driven "personal gaming sidekick", designed to offer real-time advice in games such as Minecraft. Read more Read more ›
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The far-left Twitch streamer says AI is rotting our brains. He’s also addicted to Twitter and listens to at least eight podcasts. Read more ›
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Remote Plex streaming should not cost extra. These fixes help you avoid the paywall. Read more ›
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Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority effectively repealed a 1982 amendment to the Voting Rights Act that required some states to draw a minimum number of majority-Black or majority-Latino legislative districts. The GOP justices’ decision has already kicked off another round of skirmishes in the gerrymandering wars. Louisiana suspended its US House elections until […] Read more ›
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The activist fund Parvus has become Accor's largest shareholder without telling anyone why. Read more ›
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The British Business Bank has committed an initial £1m to co-invest with Angel Academe, a founding signatory of the Investing in Women Code. Investing in Women Code is a commitment to support the advancement of female entrepreneurship in the UK by improving female entrepreneurs’ access to tools, resources and finance from the financial services sector. ... Read more ›
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Images of the Samsung Galaxy Wide Fold and Z Fold 8 have both been spotted in Samsung code. Read more ›
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Don't be surprised if AI comes up in your next check-in. Managers are getting in the weeds to help encourage wider adoption. Read more ›
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Всем привет! 👋👋👋👋👋Мы — Java-разработчики Т-Банка: Андрей, Арсений, Роман, Константин и Константин. Собираем интересные новости, статьи, туториалы и другие материалы из мира Java-разработки и делимся этим со всем сообществом.В этом выпуске рассказываем, когда ждать релиз Java 27 и как Oracle планирует регулировать использование генеративного ИИ при написании кода. Посмотрим детальное интервью о Spring Framework 7 и Spring Boot 4 с самой командой создателей Spring. Почитаем, как безопасно работать с нативной. Read more ›
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Xiaomi is offering higher-capacity battery replacements for older Xiaomi 13 phones in China, giving users a practical way to extend device life. Read more ›
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MindsEye's dismal launch - and the chaos surrounding its production and release - continues to be one of the games industry's most intriguing sagas in recent memory. The bad news seems far from over, though, as reports suggest around 170 employees have been laid off in the past week. Read more Read more ›
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Apple's iPhone 17 was the best-selling smartphone globally in the first quarter of 2026, capturing 6 percent of worldwide unit sales, according to Counterpoint Research's latest Global Handset Model Sales Tracker. The iPhone 17 series dominated the top three spots, with the iPhone 17 Pro Max in second place and the iPhone 17 Pro in third. The previous-generation iPhone 16 also held on at sixth place, suggesting there's still strong... Read more ›
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A Finnish AI startup, co-founded by an executive whose last startup was sold to US semiconductor giant AMD, has raised €25m in an angel round, giving it a €325m valuation, just months after its launch... Read more ›
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If there was ever a time to be buying cybersecurity stocks such as CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks, this would be it. A spate of hacks has hit high-flying startups this month, including data-labeling firm Mercor and software development company Vercel. Also this month, Anthropic announced it had developed an AI model, Mythos, that it deemed “too powerful” for a full public release. Mythos identified thousands of previously unknown cybersecurity... Read more ›
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AI developers have been desperately scrambling to get ahold of Nvidia server chips lately, as we wrote last week. When developers do get the graphics processing units, they’re under a lot of pressure to wring as much performance as possible from that expensive hardware.That’s easier said than done. Training AI models can be “bursty,” meaning that there can be sudden spikes in GPU usage followed by periods of lower activity... Read more ›
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Blackstone is folding its growth equity business into a new unit called BXN1 that will focus on AI-related investment, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Information. Jas Khaira, Blackstone’s head of Americas for tactical opportunities, will relocate from New York to San Francisco to ... Read more ›
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Bankers and investors, especially when they are sitting in front of an audience, are not shy about offering their opinions. Yet when I asked a panel of money types at our Financing the AI Revolution conference on Monday about risks in the current market, I got near silence.We had been discussing the billions of investment dollars pouring into AI. The question was: “Anytime there’s a boom, there are risks built... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service quadrupled its individual subscribers between 2023 and 2025—but the average revenue each subscriber brought in fell 18% to $81 a month in that period, a draft version of SpaceX’s initial public offering prospectus shows. The decline in Starlink’s ARPU reflects the service’s introduction of cheaper plans and expansion outside North America, where average prices tend to be lower. SpaceX says in the prospectus that it... Read more ›
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Meta is launching stablecoin payouts for creators, using Stripe as its payment provider, according to its webpage. Meta is offering Circle’s stablecoin on the Solana and Polygon blockchain to pay out creators, starting with those in Colombia and Philippines, the webpage shows. Once creators ... Read more ›
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OpenAI is banking on subscribers to a cheaper, ad-supported ChatGPT subscription will drive revenue from advertising over the next several years, The Information reported late Tuesday. Earlier this year, OpenAI forecast that consumer subscribers to ChatGPT Go, which costs $8 a month in the U.S. ... Read more ›
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The CEO of T-Mobile, which is the only mobile network in the U.S. to offer SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile for backup service in areas not served by cell towers, says the service is seeing “a lot less usage” than it originally expected. Gopalan made the remark on T-Mobile’s earnings call with analysts ... Read more ›
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PayPal is reorganizing its corporate structure to make Venmo a standalone business unit, CNBC reported Wednesday, making it easier to potentially sell off. Venmo is considered to be the most valuable part of PayPal’s business because of its consumer base of around 100 million and its growth ... Read more ›
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The European Commission said Meta Platforms failed to prevent children under 13 from accessing its Instagram and Facebook services as it is required to do, potentially breaching the region’s law. In preliminary findings from its nearly two-year investigation, the EU said on Wednesday that both ... Read more ›
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