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A year after Meta Platforms introduced its artificial intelligence assistant, a picture is emerging of how people are using it—and how that differs from usage of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the leading conversational AI.
Most people who use Meta AI daily do so through WhatsApp, according to a person who has seen recent internal data; the second biggest group arrives from Facebook. Few Instagram users are tapping Meta AI. Among monthly users, Facebook has a slight edge over WhatsApp, the person said.
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Microsoft is in the midst of a deal that would bring the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant back to life, according to reporting by The Washington Post. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because the Pennsylvania plant was home to a partial meltdown of one of its reactors back in 1979. The deal would make Microsoft the plant’s sole customer for 20 years, meaning it’ll hoover up 100... Read more ›
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I thought cruises were awful but sailing on Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas with my family changed my mind. The food and entertainment was great. Read more ›
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A big legal fight is looming over how far Combs can go in attacking his ex in order to save himself from a potential life sentence. Read more ›
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A worker demonstrates how lithium is recovered from brine at a Standard Lithium facility in El Dorado, Arkansas, US, on Thursday, July 20, 2023. | Photo: Getty Images The US Department of Energy announced today plans to dole out more than $3 billion to over two dozen battery projects across 14 states. The money will go toward processing critical minerals, building batteries and their components, and recycling batteries. It’s part... Read more ›
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Nintendo and The Pokémon Company's shock move to launch legal action against Palworld looks to hinge on a patent relating to how players throw Pokéballs. Read more Read more ›
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YouTube channel REWA Technology today shared an iPhone 16 Pro teardown video, offering a first look inside of the device following its release. Notably, the video reveals that the smaller iPhone 16 Pro is equipped with a metal-enclosed battery, confirming a rumor from last year. The battery has a capacity of 3,582 mAh, which matches the figure that surfaced earlier this week in a Brazilian regulatory filing. For comparison, the... Read more ›
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Tech giants, including Microsoft, are increasingly exploring nuclear energy as a power source for energy-hungry AI data centers. Read more ›
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The data centers that train all the large language models behind AI consume unimaginable amounts of energy, and the stakes are high for big tech companies to ensure they have enough power to run those plants. That's why Microsoft is now throwing its weight behind nuclear power. From a report: The tech giant on Friday signed a major deal with nuclear plant owner Constellation Energy to restart its closed Three... Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg encouraged his daughter to be herself, not Taylor Swift. A therapist said it's a great lesson for parents. Read more ›
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Speaking at an antisemitism event on Thursday, former President Donald Trump suggested that US Jews would be partly to blame if he lost the election. Read more ›
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Victoria Thorsen says one set of grandparents lives hours away and the other is not in great health. She thinks JD Vance is out of touch. Read more ›
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Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge A security researcher revealed a ‘catastrophic’ vulnerability in the Arc browser that would have allowed attackers to insert arbitrary code into other users’ browser sessions with little than an easily findable user ID. The vulnerability was patched on August 26th and disclosed today in a blog post by security researcher xyz3va, as well as a statement from The Browser Company. The company says that... Read more ›
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Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Microsoft just signed a deal to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. If approved by regulators, the software maker would have exclusive rights to 100 percent of the output for its AI data center needs. Constellation, the owner of the Three Mile Island plant, announced a power purchase agreement with Microsoft earlier today, which should see the site coming back... Read more ›
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It's finally been confirmed that the Silent Hill 2 Remake will be exclusive to PlayStation 5 for one year. Read more Read more ›
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Billionaire Mark Cuban accused former President Donald Trump of lacking character, continuing his recent criticism of the 2024 GOP candidate. Read more ›
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We know it’s been a busy week, and with so much happening worldwide, it’s easy to miss some of the smaller but equally important stories. Here’s a brief roundup of news we have missed this week (September 16 – 20). Flink raises €134.6M to double down in Germany and the Netherlands Based out of Berlin, ... Read more Read more ›
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AMD's Ryzen AI Max family is reportedly detailed: Strix Halo will feature up to 16 cores and a massive GPU. Read more ›
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Microsoft has revealed the best PC specs for budding pilots hoping to get into the cockpit when Fight Simulator 2024 releases in November. Read more Read more ›
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Insight Partners has $10 billion in commitments from its investors for its latest fund to back private tech startups, according to a person briefed on its plans. While that’s half the $20 billion it had originally targeted at the tail end of the 2021-2022 bull market, it’s still a massive fund ... Read more ›
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CEO letters to staff are usually written with so much bombast and blather that they say little of note. But that’s not the case with one that came from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy today. Despite a sleepy headline, “Strengthening Our Culture and Teams,” Jassy’s letter delivers some home truths. Most notably, he made it clear that Amazon has evolved into a lumbering bureaucracy, with too many managers and some processes... Read more ›
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Perhaps I was a little too harsh on Sam and Dave in this episode when I accused them each of blindly following their favorite tech CEO. But that's part of the fun of More or Less, where we give you our real views on people and companies—and call each other out on our quirks. I enjoyed this episode very much. It's the kind of discussion and debate that looks back—and... Read more ›
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As director of IBM Research and co-chair of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Dr. Dario Gil oversees one of the world’s largest research institutes. He shapes IBM’s AI vision and, as chair of the National Science Board, has a rare vantage point into the technology’s many evolutions and uses. As part of The Information’s recent San Francisco AI Summit, Amir Efrati, executive editor of The Information, sat down with Gil... Read more ›
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Three federal appeals court judges hearing TikTok’s suit against the U.S. government over legislation that would ban the app in the U.S. focused their questions on the government’s claim that TikTok posed a national security risk. The line of query signaled the judges may be unswayed by TikTok’s ... Read more ›
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Penny Lane, a Boykin spaniel living in the East Bay, is a bolter. It comes naturally to her: The Boykin, which is the state dog of South Carolina, was bred to fetch game during a hunt. “We live in the suburbs, so there’s some retrieving to be done, but not as much as one wishes,” said Penny’s owner, Allison Braley, a Bain Capital Ventures partner. “The concern is always, ‘Does... Read more ›
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Startups that can cut down on costly paperwork for lawyers using generative artificial intelligence continue to draw investor dollars, despite the high costs of developing that software and the difficulties the startups face in acquiring exclusive legal data to train their models.The latest: San Francisco-based EvenUp, which develops AI software to help personal injury lawyers compile claims using medical documents and case files, is in talks to raise a new... Read more ›
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Google’s YouTube isn’t the focus of the Justice Department’s second antitrust case against Google, now on trial in a Virginia courthouse. The case centers on the tech giant’s dominance of tools used by other companies buying and selling ads across the web and whether that sway hurts independent publishers. But YouTube benefits from Google’s ad-buying tools, which have helped it become the leader in the market for streaming video ads.... Read more ›
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One of Google's efforts to catch up to OpenAI in the artificial intelligence race is struggling. Google’s conversational AI, Gemini, is too difficult for app developers and businesses to use compared to rivals’ technology, according to interviews with developers and several Google employees that help companies use the AI. Read more ›
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Microsoft will raise the quarterly dividend that it pays investors to 83 cents a share, up from 75 cents, beginning in November, the company said late Monday. The software maker will also buy back $60 billion in stock, replacing its previous $60 billion stock buyback that the company initiated ... Read more ›
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