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Google accidentally publicized an internal preview of artificial intelligence that takes over a person’s computer to complete tasks, confirming an earlier report in The Information about the product, codenamed Jarvis. The prototype of the AI, known as a computer-using agent, was briefly ...
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Google highlights growth and efficiency as core to an effective AI strategy. Google also calls for secure data governance and responsible AI practices. In recent months, interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has surged, with many business leaders eager to get started but often asking the same question: Where do we begin? This is where understanding... Read more » Read more ›
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Image: AOL via YouTube Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL’s “You’ve Got Mail” greeting, has died at age 74 after a long illness, according to local Ohio news station WKYC, where he was employed for many years. During a 2016 interview, Edwards recounted how he became the voice of AOL. His wife, who worked at Quantum Computer Services (which later became AOL), heard that the company was looking to add... Read more ›
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Leslie Berland was chief marketing officer when Elon Musk bought Twitter. She was fired around a month after he took over the company, now known as X. Read more ›
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Intel has struggled to stay competitive in recent years, causing it to layoff thousands of employees and slash employee perks like free coffee. Read more ›
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The Australian breaker said the criticism she had faced after the Paris Olympics had been "really upsetting" and "impossible to process." Read more ›
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When Image Playground was first introduced in June as one of the key Apple Intelligence features, Apple said that it would generate images in three styles: animation, illustration, and sketch. The version of Image Playground available in the iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 betas only offers animation and illustration as style options, leaving us wondering if sketch might be added a later time. It looks like the... Read more ›
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It's been a good few years since reports surfaced Amazon was looking to adapt Mass Effect for television, but finally - as N7 day rolls around once more - the show has been made official. Read more Read more ›
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One of the first things Trump is expected to do in the White House is enact tariffs on imported goods, which could raise prices and interest rates. Read more ›
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Simon Kinberg has reportedly been tapped to write a new chapter of the Star Wars saga... one that could potentially carry on the Skywalker Saga, or begin a new one entirely. Read more ›
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Set the mood for your family gathering with Fede Alvarez's pleasingly gory addition to the sci-fi horror series. Read more ›
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It's the end of an era (sorta). Nearly all of Apple's devices released in 2024 do not come with Apple stickers in the box, including the latest iPad Pro and iPad Air, iPad mini, all iPhone 16 models, Vision Pro, and more. Unboxing videos shared today confirm that this trend has continued with the new iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro models launching this Friday. Apple has stopped including stickers... Read more ›
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Believe it or not, but some of those engines you see powering cars screaming around the track have made it into production cars. Here are some of our favorites. Read more ›
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YouTuber Zack Nelson, who owns other Teslas, said he's considering selling his Cybertruck due to its polarizing nature. Read more ›
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Max will begin a gradual password-sharing crackdown with "soft messaging" over the next few months, with a potential price increase to follow. The Verge reports: During Warner Bros. Discovery's Q3 earnings call on Thursday, chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels said this initial rollout would be followed by more progress in 2025 and 2026. Wiedenfels called password sharing "a form of price rises," as the company is "asking members who have... Read more ›
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Nvidia has announced its GeForce Now cloud gaming service will soon introduce a playtime cap of 100 hours a month for paying Performance (previously Priority) and Ultimate subscribers, although additional hours can be purchased for a fee. Read more Read more ›
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The storage facility is owned by a man who runs "America's Most Patriotic Venue," a space that's hosted at least eight of Giuliani's events. Read more ›
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Samsung is developing a slim version of its upcoming flagship Galaxy S25 smartphone that could launch in Q2 2025, potentially setting up a direct competition with Apple's rumored iPhone 17 'Air', according to reports from South Korean media and data discovered in GSMA's global mobile registry database. Korea's ET News on October 31 claimed that Samsung could release a slim smartphone during the second quarter of 2025, or between April... Read more ›
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Max, the streaming service previously known as HBO Max, is cracking down on password sharing in the coming months, reports The Verge. During an earnings call today, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery said that customers will start seeing "very soft messaging" about the upcoming change. After that initial message about password sharing, more strict rules will be put into place in 2025 and 2026. Warner Bros. Discovery CFO Gunnar Widenfels... Read more ›
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The 4B movement, from South Korea, calls for women to not date, marry, sleep with, or have children with men. Women are calling for the movement to take off in the US after Donald Trump won the election. Read more ›
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Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky touted the company's co-host program and teased a 2025 expansion into a new business on Thursday. Read more ›
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You could be forgiven for missing, amid the onslaught of tech company earnings news lately, what may be the most startling business story of the week. That would be the plan by enterprise software and bitcoin investment firm MicroStrategy to raise a massive $42 billion over the next three years to buy more bitcoin, using equal parts debt and equity. The total raised would nearly double MicroStrategy’s size, given that... Read more ›
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TikTok parent ByteDance increased its international revenue more than 60% to about $17 billion in the first half of 2024, according to two people with knowledge of the financial results. As TikTok accounts for most of ByteDance’s revenue outside China, the growth suggests that TikTok’s advertising and other businesses have remained strong despite the threat of a U.S. ban. ByteDance’s overall revenue in the first half—mainly coming from advertising and... Read more ›
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Conviction Partners’ Sarah Guo, a former general partner at Greylock Partners who left the firm two years ago to back very young AI startups, is raising around $200 million for her second fund, according to a person with direct knowledge on the fundraising efforts. Guo has also told prospective ... Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence is supposed to transform the business world and boost the software industry that’s selling it. But as companies spend more money on chatbots and other conversational AI (see related chart), some say they plan to reduce spending on other types of software, such as expensive enterprise applications and non-AI cloud services. That could limit the upside from AI for providers of cloud services and enterprise software. Take C1,... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s rapid growth continues to boost the prospects of suppliers and other business partners whose sales are also climbing quickly. Anysphere, which develops Cursor, an artificial intelligence coding assistant powered in part by OpenAI technology, has received investment offers from venture capitalists at a valuation of around $2.5 billion, up more than six times from its valuation in a deal roughly four months ago, according to two people with direct... Read more ›
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Donald Trump used to be TikTok’s biggest threat. But now, four years after he tried to ban the app, he may be TikTok’s last hope for survival. As Americans vote in Tuesday’s election, TikTok’s top executives believe the company would be better off with a Trump presidency than a Harris administration. Trump has come out in opposition to banning TikTok, which under a new law is required if the app... Read more ›
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T-Mobile agreed to pay OpenAI roughly $100 million over the next three years as part of a deal to use the startup’s technology, The Information reported on Monday. T-Mobile is paying to use OpenAI’s models to develop a new customer service chatbot that will aim to remember customer-specific data ... Read more ›
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Shortly after 2 a.m. on a Saturday in a midtown Manhattan sports bar packed with Aussies, Dr. Tom Oxley was feeling stunned. The underdog Brisbane Lions, his longtime favorite Australian rules football club, was up 73 to 27 against the Sydney Swans going into the second half of the championship match. “It’s a good start,” Oxley acknowledged, clad in his typical game-day fit, a maroon, blue and yellow Lions jersey.... Read more ›
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OpenAI has hired Caitlin Kalinowski, who previously led hardware for augmented reality glasses at Meta Platforms, to lead robotics and consumer hardware, she said in a post on X Monday. A spokesperson for OpenAI confirmed her hire. Kalinowski said she will “initially focus on OpenAI’s robotics ... Read more ›
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Google accidentally publicized an internal preview of artificial intelligence that takes over a person’s computer to complete tasks, confirming an earlier report in The Information about the product, codenamed Jarvis. The prototype of the AI, known as a computer-using agent, was briefly ... Read more ›
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