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Artificial Intelligence

WINNER: There’s Nothing Fake About AI’s Hype

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Shares of Nvidia soared over the past year as investors found a stock on which to pin their ultimate AI hopes and dreams.

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M&A

Dealmakers Fall Short of Decade-long Standard

For the first time in exactly 10 years, Wall Street dealmakers will fall short of facilitating at least $3 trillion worth of deals.

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Big Tech

VR Headsets Sales Are Way, Way Down

Sales of virtual-reality headsets, consumers’ conduit to the metaverse, plummeted 40% between November 2022 and November 2023.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft May Turn to Cryogenic Energy to Power Data Centers

Microsoft’s latest patent may keep its data centers cool and its energy even cooler.

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Industries

The American Dream of Tiny Nuclear Power Plants Hangs By a Thread

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Funding for startups developing small modular nuclear power plants looks like it’s beginning to dry up.

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OP-ED | Power Corridor

OpenAI: It’s Complicated

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The first large-scale rebellion among artificial intelligence workers raises some serious questions.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Bots Struggle to Transition from Novelty to Money-Maker

Sam Altman thinks big and spends big. But when it comes to a product that makes money, the whole AI thing can feel a little Metaverse-y…

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Patent Drop

Microsoft’s Automatic Data Center Patent Could Take on AWS

Microsoft’s patent to sublet data centers close to the source could surpass the physical barriers that cloud innovation faces.

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Big Tech

Tech Giants Win Regulatory Case in EU, But Tax Clouds Loom

Meta, Google, and TikTok successfully argued that individual European countries can’t cook up their own laws for large digital platforms.

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Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s AI News Poll Ticks Off UK Newspaper

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The Guardian submitted a complaint to Microsoft on Tuesday after a grotesquely inappropriate AI-generated poll next to a Guardian article.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Guards its Models at All Angles

Microsoft’s AI protection patent shows the vulnerabilities that models face amid rapid growth.

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Media & Entertainment

WPP Slashes Profit Outlook After Sluggish Quarter

WPP issued a reduction of its profit outlook for the second time in consecutive quarters on Thursday, citing major headwinds.

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Big Tech

Microsoft Looks at User Protection After Log-in

The patent highlights Zero Trust, the concept that cybersecurity shouldn’t stop at the gates to entry.

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