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Google Patent Could Overcome Quantum Cooling Barriers

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Google could help cool down quantum computers while they work with classical ones.

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Fidelity Joins BlackRock, Vanguard in Offering Annuities in 401(k) Plans

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Retiring Advisors Push M&A Deals to $2.5T

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Fox Places Big Bet on Streaming with $22 Billion Roku Deal

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OpenAI Patent Could Improve Voice AI Models’ Focus

OpenAI wants to work on its active listening skills.

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Intel ‘Cobots’ Patent Highlights Growing AI Robotics Market

Intel wants to make AI robots more collaborative and scalable. But it faces steep competition.

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Who’s at Fault in the CrowdStrike-Delta Summer Meltdown?

Delta Airlines is suing CrowdStrike, which was behind the glitchy software update that sparked a global outage of critical flight systems.

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Meta Readies AI Search Engine to End Reliance on Google, OpenAI

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Meta is developing an artificial intelligence-based search engine to stake its claim in a rapidly growing market.

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Snap’s Generative AR Patent May Target Developers, Brands

But Meta’s AI may have Snap’s beat “just in sheer volume” of data, one expert said.

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PayPal Blockchain Security Patent Could Build Crypto Trust

PayPal wants to make crypto transactions less risky.

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Nvidia Eyes AI Guardrails Patent as Chip Sales Soar

It’s hard to place exactly how much responsibility chipmakers have in ensuring that their tech is used the right way.

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Tech FOMO Can Hurt on the Comedown. Can the Cycle Be Broken?

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Shiny new innovations draw in ambitious founders and investors, and then FOMO brings in everyone else, making the eventual fall harder.

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Klarna Shareholders Toss Director Overboard Amid Founder Feuding

Shareholders of Klarna ousted a board member closely affiliated with one of its feuding founders in advance of its IPO.

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Amazon Privacy Patent Highlights ‘Data Repatriation’ Movement

A cloud privacy patent from Amazon highlights the growing movement toward data repatriation, and the tricky situation it presents for cloud providers.

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Meta Patent Could Make AI Both Personalized and Private

Tech like this could keep Meta’s models from prompt attack data slips — or at least give it some “thought leadership brownie points.”

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Salesforce Multilingual AI Patent Could Boost AI Agent Ambitions

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AI that only performs well in so-called “high-resource languages” isn’t going to be useful for many people.

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