Big Tech

Meta’s $35 Billion Bet on AI Fuels the Tech Arms Race
Meta’s $35 Billion Bet on AI Fuels the Tech Arms Race
April 26, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Meta announced a $35 billion investment in artificial intelligence (AI) for this year, signaling an aggressive push in the escalating tech arms race. This colossal...

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This Week in AI: Beyond LLMs, AI Forklifts, Weather Forecasting
This Week in AI: Beyond LLMs, AI Forklifts, Weather Forecasting
April 26, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news, as large language models (LLMs) near technical limits, the focus shifts to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which combines information...

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As British Regulators Scrutinize Microsoft and Amazon AI Deals, Industry Braces for Impact
As British Regulators Scrutinize Microsoft and Amazon AI Deals, Industry Braces for Impact
April 24, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

British antitrust authorities are soliciting opinions on the implications of partnerships between tech giants Microsoft and Amazon and smaller generative artificial intelligence (AI) model developers amid growing...

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Regulations, Innovations and AI Define This Week in Big Tech
Regulations, Innovations and AI Define This Week in Big Tech
April 18, 2024  |  Big Tech

Big Tech companies, including Meta, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, aren’t getting any smaller. Not only do these businesses represent many of the world’s most valuable...

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Big Tech Taps AI Agents to Drive Revenue Growth
Big Tech Taps AI Agents to Drive Revenue Growth
April 18, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Big tech companies are reportedly in a race to unveil software to fuel AI spending. For example, Microsoft is at work trying to automate tasks such as invoicing or the ability...

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Canada Considering Digital Services Tax Targeting Largest Tech Companies
Canada Considering Digital Services Tax Targeting Largest Tech Companies
April 17, 2024  |  Taxes

Canada’s Parliament is considering a tax on digital services revenue that would impact the world’s biggest tech companies. The legislation would cover companies’ digital services...

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Intel and Partners Want to Solve Enterprise AI’s Interoperability Problem
Intel and Partners Want to Solve Enterprise AI’s Interoperability Problem
April 17, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Few innovations throughout history have progressed as fast as generative artificial intelligence (AI) has. And with the news Tuesday (April 16) that Intel, working with...

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Google Halts Links to California News Sites
Google Halts Links to California News Sites
April 14, 2024  |  Google

Google is pulling links to California news sites ahead of pending news-focused legislation. That bill, dubbed the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), would require Google to...

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Regulators Not ‘Dazzled’ by AI Companies’ Attempts to Avoid Scrutiny
Regulators Not ‘Dazzled’ by AI Companies’ Attempts to Avoid Scrutiny
April 14, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Antitrust regulators are reportedly not convinced by artificial intelligence (AI) firms’ suggested hands-off policy. Speaking at an antitrust conference in Washington last week, Federal Trade...

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