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Google might move slowly but it gets there eventually. Well, at least that’s the theory. A shake-up in the management ranks of the tech giant, unveiled on Thursday, belatedly fixes a flaw in the company’s artificial intelligence organization, one that had constrained its ability to compete with ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI.CEO Sundar Pichai today moved the team behind Google’s Gemini AI chatbot from its search and ads unit to its DeepMind AI research team, a change announced alongside the appointment of a new.
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The new rules will go into effect after a transition period, and also require that phones meet volume-control benchmarks. Read more ›
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Sam Altman is OpenAI's CEO and public face. He's also taking on a bigger role in product and tech. Management experts warn about taking on too much. Read more ›
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Tech companies from Amazon to Google are betting on nuclear power to fuel the AI boom. Read more ›
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Some iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro users have been experiencing excessive and unexplainable battery drain, according to complaints on Reddit, the Apple Support Communities, and the MacRumors forums. While many of the reports are from iPhone 16 users, older iPhones running iOS 18 may also be experiencing battery life issues. There is a long-running iOS 18 battery life complaint thread on MacRumors that was started while the update was... Read more ›
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Former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden has suggested the continuing push toward more powerful - and more costly - console hardware is unsustainable, arguing that "fighting over teraflops [is] no place to be... We need to compete on content". Read more Read more ›
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Alison Emerick and her family rent a modern, three-bedroom house with a pool in Bali for about $2,200 a month. Read more ›
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Not very long ago, it was reasonable to wonder how Netflix would pay its bills. Not anymore. Read more ›
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Apple is working behind the scenes to get ready to add new Apple Intelligence features to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15. We'll get the first set in the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1 updates, but Apple is preparing for the next batch, too. In backend code, MacRumors has discovered new references to Siri's ChatGPT integration as Apple prepares to implement ChatGPT support. Siri code mentions options... Read more ›
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The Meta perk is intended for employees who work late at the office and may need to order food to eat. Read more ›
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Liam Payne died on October 16 after a fall from a hotel balcony in Argentina. His former One Direction bandmates reacted to the news on social media. Read more ›
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With similar libraries, as well as near-identical music quality and pricing, can YouTube Music stand up to Spotify's stalwart UI and excellent music discovery? Read more ›
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There's still no exact date for season eight other than "2025," but that portal gun's gonna be in use for years to come now. Read more ›
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Taylor Swift is self-publishing a book, cutting traditional publishers out of the deal. This is not the first time she has circumvented an industry. Read more ›
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Almost two years after its was confirmed to be in the works, Amazon's live-action TV adaptation of Sony Santa Monica's God of War series is reportedly getting a "do-over" after the companies involved decided on a "different creative direction". Read more Read more ›
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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is going to need some new business cards printed up because it’s dropping the “coin” in its name. The OpenAI CEO’s startup is shifting from cryptocurrency to focus more on its identification technology and it just unveiled a new version of its signature gadget. Bloomberg reported that the new company called (wait for it) World will focus its eye scanning tech on confirming identities, something that could... Read more ›
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In June, Apple discontinued its "buy now, pay later" service called Apple Pay Later, which let qualifying customers split a purchase made with Apple Pay into four equal payments over six weeks, with no interest or fees. Instead, Apple said customers in the U.S. would be able to apply for loans from select other "buy now, pay later" services when they check out with Apple Pay on the web and... Read more ›
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Billionaire Mark Cuban will appear on Kamala Harris' behalf in three swing states by the end of the week. Read more ›
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Bloober has announced its next game will be an original sci-fi survival horror called Cronos: The New Dawn. Read more Read more ›
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X is updating its privacy policy with new language that allows it to provide users’ data to third-party “collaborators” in order to train AI models. The new policy, which takes effect November 15, 2024, would seem to open the door to Reddit-like arrangements in which outside companies can pay to license data from X. The updated policy shared by X includes a new section titled “third-party collaborators.” Depending on your... Read more ›
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Former PlayStation exec Shawn Layden has discussed the state of the games industry, stating there's a "collapse of creativity" and that relying on blockbusters is "a death sentence". Read more Read more ›
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Score one for OpenAI? Before we get to today’s column, we should flag Aaron’s scoop yesterday about OpenAI hiring one of Microsoft’s most prominent artificial intelligence researchers. It must be a welcome relief for OpenAI to be on the receiving end of such a move for a change.Onto today’s issue…Between headlines about OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar financing and executive drama, you might have forgotten it’s also reworking its convoluted structure so that... Read more ›
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You certainly can’t accuse Wall Street of being taken in by a glitzy presentation, at least not this week. Elon Musk’s big robotaxi reveal on Thursday night went down like a lead balloon with investors today. Tesla shares fell 9%, while shares of Uber, whose business is theoretically at risk from a Tesla robotaxi, rose nearly 11% to $86. That puts Uber stock a few dollars above where it was... Read more ›
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When Andrew Gounardes needed help rallying support for two social media bills he’d introduced in the New York State Senate earlier this year, he knew who to call: Mothers Against Media Addiction. The New York-based nonprofit parental advocacy group had caught Gounardes’ attention even before it officially launched in March, thanks to its founder, Julie Scelfo, whom a colleague had introduced Gounardes to earlier that year. “It was a match... Read more ›
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Crusoe, a data center company focused on artificial intelligence, is in advanced discussions to raise several billion dollars in debt financing for a data center it is building for OpenAI in Texas, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. Crusoe, which previously focused ... Read more ›
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The artificial intelligence race is lifting previously unknown data center startups that say they can move faster than bigger developers. The latest is Crusoe Energy, which on Tuesday announced a deal to borrow $3.4 billion to develop a data center that could eventually become one of the largest in the world. Oracle, a cloud provider, will lease the site and rent servers with Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI, The... Read more ›
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Last year, TikTok helped woo sellers to TikTok Shop by footing the bill for incredible discounts on its new e-commerce service. These encouraged merchants to sell items at rock-bottom prices, which led to a deluge of sales. But this year, TikTok is taking a different tack to grow its e-commerce sales by encouraging more brands to go live—a lot.That’s one of the takeaways from a story Ann Gehan and I... Read more ›
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When it comes to recruiting and retaining artificial intelligence researchers, OpenAI has faced tougher competition this year from old and new rivals. Now it’s facing pressure from a very recent former employee: ex-chief technology officer Mira Murati.Murati, whose last day was Friday, October 4 and now is as an advisor to the company, has been speaking with OpenAI employees about potentially joining her next venture, though she hasn’t disclosed exactly... Read more ›
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Amazon announced three nuclear energy projects on Wednesday, including two deals with utilities and an investment in a nuclear developer, marking the latest example of a big tech company backing clean energy projects to power data centers. Amazon has signed agreements with utilities in Virginia ... Read more ›
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Could a breakup be good for Google? The gang had a lot to debate and discuss. Plus, Jessica recaps The Information's WTF. Enjoy! Apple Spotify YouTube Read more ›
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Nvidia and OpenAI may get the headlines, but their microprocessors and artificial intelligence wouldn’t be possible without the good people of Taiwan—specifically, more than 70,000 employees and leaders of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.A few years ago, my colleague Wayne took readers into the deep relationship between TSMC and Apple, which is still its top customer, and he later reported in detail how TSMC is even more secretive than Apple, which... Read more ›
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