Microsoft pledges $4.3 billion investment at Macron’s ‘Choose France’ summit
PARIS (AP) — Microsoft announced its most substantial commitment yet to France, pledging on Monday to invest 4 billion euros ($4.3 billion) this year to bolster the country’s burgeoning artificial...
View ArticleWhat to stream this week: Billie Eilish and Zayn Malik albums, 'Bridgerton,'...
Billie Eilish’s third studio album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft” and the return of “Bridgerton” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming...
View ArticleAmazon's self-driving robotaxi unit Zoox under investigation by US after 2...
DETROIT (AP) — Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government's highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists....
View ArticleUS company Booking Holdings added to European Union's list for strict digital...
LONDON (AP) — Booking Holdings, the U.S. company that owns Booking.com and a number of other travel websites, has been added to the European Union's list of companies now under heightened digital...
View ArticleChina and US envoys will hold the first top-level dialogue on artificial...
GENEVA (AP) — High-level envoys from the United States and China are set to meet in Geneva on Tuesday for talks about artificial intelligence, including the risks of the fast-evolving technology and...
View ArticleOpenAI launches GPTo, improving ChatGPT's text, visual and audio capabilities
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI's latest update to its artificial intelligence model can mimic human cadences in its verbal responses and can even try to detect people's moods. The effect conjures up...
View ArticleWho's laughing? LateNighter, a digital news site about late-night TV, hopes...
NEW YORK (AP) — At first glance, Jed Rosenzweig's new venture would seem like a fool's errand: launching a digital news site during brutal economic times for the media to cover an industry that, by...
View ArticleWaymo is latest company under investigation for autonomous or partially...
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo's self-driving vehicles. The National...
View ArticleTop US and Chinese officials begin talks on AI in Geneva
GENEVA (AP) — Top envoys from the U.S. and China huddled in closed-door talks in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss ways to ensure that emerging artificial intelligence technologies don't become existential...
View ArticleSidewalk video ‘Portal’ linking New York, Dublin by livestream temporarily...
NEW YORK (AP) — The video screen “Portal” that lets people in New York and Dublin peer into life on opposite sides of the Atlantic in real time has been a source of whimsical delight for sidewalk...
View ArticleTikTok content creators sue the U.S. government over law that could ban the...
Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based...
View ArticleOpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces departure from ChatGPT maker
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, one of the original creators of the artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT, said Tuesday he is leaving the company after a nearly...
View ArticleA second scourge is battering Brazil's flooded south: Disinformation
SAO PAULO (AP) — While flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state has yet to subside, another scourge has spread across the region: disinformation on social media that has hampered...
View ArticleSenators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on AI after finishing...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial...
View ArticleBillionaire Frank McCourt says he's putting together a consortium to buy TikTok
Billionaire businessman and real estate mogul Frank McCourt said Wednesday that he’s putting together a consortium to purchase TikTok’s U.S. business, adding to the number of investors hoping to...
View ArticleJustice Dept makes arrests in North Korean identity theft scheme involving...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday announced the arrests of three people in a complex stolen identity scheme that officials say generates enormous proceeds for the North Korean...
View ArticleWhat to stream this weekend: 'Bridgerton,' Billie Eilish and Zayn Malik...
Billie Eilish’s third studio album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft” and the return of “Bridgerton” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming...
View ArticleUK watchdog decides not to investigate Microsoft's AI partnership with...
LONDON (AP) — British regulators said Friday they don't need to open a competition investigation into Microsoft's partnership with French artificial intelligence company Mistral, a month after asking...
View ArticleGoogle wants judge, not jury, to decide upcoming antitrust case in Virginia
Google on Thursday asked that a judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising. To bolster its case,...
View ArticleElon Musk launches Starlink satellite internet service in Indonesia, world's...
DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Elon Musk traveled to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Sunday to launch Starlink satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation. Wearing a green...
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