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Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot AI chatbots into a single application as it tries to create a more formidable competitor to Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a Microsoft executive told staff Thursday morning.
In a 1,200-word memo, Jacob Andreou, an executive vice president, said the new unified app will also feature AI coding tools and new AI agents that customers would need to pay extra for, according to a copy of the memo, which The Information viewed.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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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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Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... Read more ›
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Like other software leaders these days, Palantir CEO Alex Karp is on a mission to convince businesses they need a trusted intermediary between their wallets and Anthropic or OpenAI, rather than dealing directly with the two AI firms.I spoke to Karp shortly after his fiery appearance on CNBC, where he appeared to accuse OpenAI and Anthropic of stealing data from and overcharging their customers, and positioning Palantir as a critical... Read more ›
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This tablet PC is not just for browsing the internet and editing; it features a full version of Windows and, combined with a powerful AI CPU, offers a complete solution. Read more ›
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Trump’s Truth Social feed is filling with AI-generated posts, including fake celebrities, Teddy Roosevelt, and a golden eagle. Read more ›
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Softbank Group Corp. and its telecom unit SoftBank Corp. said Thursday they will start renting AI computing resources to U.S. companies, starting in April. The capacity will come through a new neocloud venture, SB Neo, Inc., with plans to scale to 10 gigawatts to meet the growing demand for AI ... Read more ›
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Классическая картина для многих крупных российских компаний: рабочая группа из методологов, ИТ-архитекторов и приглашённых консультантов на несколько месяцев запирается в переговорных, чтобы создать «идеальный» регламент по управлению данными. На выходе появляется документ на 300–400 страниц: словарь из тысяч терминов, матрица ролей с десятками стюардов, пошаговые правила валидации и график заседаний совета по качеству данных на годы вперёд. Документ торжественно принимается, иногда даже переплетается в кож Read more ›
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The European Court of Justice dismissed Google’s final appeal on Thursday in an antitrust case over its Android operating system, ending an eight-year legal battle that began when the European Commission first fined the search giant in 2018. As a result, Google will have to pay 4.1 billion ($4.7 ... Read more ›
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Tesla told staff last month it would impose a $200 per week limit for staff’s AI spending beginning July 6, according to an internal memo, a sign that even companies committed to using the technology to transform their operations and products are having to watch their costs. Over the past few months, software engineers at Tesla were often consuming thousands of dollars’ worth of tokens each week, according to two... Read more ›
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London-headquartered Marleybones, which makes shelf-stable and gently-cooked dog food, has named wheelchair tennis champion Andy Lapthorne as its first brand ambassador. It is also the first time the startup puts its logo on anyone’s kit. The announcement came on June 30, as Lapthorne – an 18-time Grand Slam champion and Britain’s world No.1 quad wheelchair ... Read more ›
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The newly-public company's shares are the largest issuer-sponsored tokenized stock at launch, aiming to make a point against rival third-party stock token issuers. Read more ›
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The Godot Foundation will stop accepting AI-authored code, agent-submitted pull requests, and AI-generated text in contributor communications after maintainers were overwhelmed by low-effort submissions. "It is time for us to recognize that these problems aren't going away and therefore we need to take steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while ensuring we still have a pipeline to mentor new contributors to become future maintainers," the Godot Foundation said in... Read more ›
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Marriott outspent every hotel brand on national TV, yet Airbnb's World Cup ads have out-reached Marriott's so far. Marketers should note that focus, rather than budget, wins marquee experiences. Read more ›
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Tech creator Austin Evans reflects on 17 years on YouTube, building a team, using AI, and the metrics that matter now. Read more ›
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Utz Quality Foods voluntarily recalled select varieties of potato chips due to potential salmonella contamination in the seasoning powder. Read more ›
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Some customers may be paying more for Anthropic and OpenAI products than they should be due to billing inaccuracies, according to data from Vaudit, which sells an AI bill-auditing tool.Between March and June, Vaudit audited bills sent to 60 companies totaling $34 million, mostly for usage of Anthropic’s Claude Code, and found about $1.7 million in mistaken overcharges, CEO Michael Hahn told me. Vaudit customers include Panasonic, HP, and Honda,... Read more ›
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Google is tightening the screws on news publishers. In recent months, the tech giant has been pitching publishers on a pilot program to test new AI features in Google News. The program, announced in December with initial partners such as The Washington Post and The Guardian, offers publishers promotion in “AI-powered article overviews” in Google News and its AI chatbot, Gemini. That’s a valuable offer at a time when publishers... Read more ›
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For AI companies on the verge of releasing cutting edge new AI models, there’s a new normal in the wake of the Trump administration’s tense showdown with Anthropic in recent weeks. On Wednesday, for example, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman informed staff during a Q&A session that the company would release its latest model, GPT 5.6, in a limited preview to a small group of partners, according to two people familiar... Read more ›
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Citigroup wants to tackle the murky ownership problems that have proliferated among private tech firms as more special purpose vehicles have popped up promising to connect investors with the hottest startups. The bank this month said it is launching a new service that lets investors trade private company shares on a blockchain. It’s initially limited to foreign investors—it will expand to the U.S. later. And Citi needs the companies to... Read more ›
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Remember back to last December, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order designed to “remove barriers to United States AI leadership”? Trump said he was revoking former President Joe Biden’s “attempt to paralyze this industry” and planned a “minimally burdensome national standard” for regulation. It’s a different story now.Today, The Information reported that in response to a request from the Trump administration, OpenAI was releasing its latest model only... Read more ›
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Samsung Group, the South Korean tech giant, plans to unveil an investment package of more than 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) next week, a record pledge aimed at chips, AI data centers, batteries and display, according to the Maeil Business Newspaper. The investments, amounting to half of ... Read more ›
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Up until two months ago, DeepSeek, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab, was an anomaly in the increasingly costly global AI battle. It had relied entirely on CEO Liang Wenfeng’s personal wealth and never raised outside money. That changed in the middle of this month, when DeepSeek completed a $7.4 billion fundraising that valued the startup at more than $50 billion, the biggest ever first-time fundraising by a Chinese startup. The... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s recent bond sale is weakening in the secondary market, with investors now demanding a significantly bigger yield premium versus U.S. treasuries from when the offering priced on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported on Friday. A large dealer was quoting SpaceX’s 2056 bonds at as much as 0.28% ... Read more ›
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One after the other, four men jumped onto a stage at the front of a darkened, crowded hall one recent evening in central Beijing. Each of them was fired up. The subject: superadvanced batteries. One of these batteries, a man said, was perfect to power ultra-cheap electric vehicles and another for ultraexpensive ones. A third could almost completely charge a car in 11 minutes, while a fourth could do so... Read more ›
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When people ask me what I've learned about leadership from reporting on tech companies for 20 years, I always say the same thing: that the most successful CEOs are more pragmatic than zealous. Tech CEOs are notorious for using visionary language and tying it to their personal beliefs about improving the world. They brandish mission statements about organizing all the world’s information and make us believe that their products are... Read more ›
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