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Tesla Patent Gives its Cars Better Situational Awareness

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Tesla and other self-driving car firms face both regulatory battles and public perception hurdles.

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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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Amazon Patent May Lower AI’s Barrier to Entry

Amazon wants everyone to fight fraud with machine learning with its latest patent for “automated machine learning pipeline generation.”

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Semiconductors

Nvidia’s Never-Ending Rally Has Hedge Funds Off to a Good 2024

The AI semiconductor giant’s stock tripled last year — and it’s jumped nearly 50% already in 2024.

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Adobe Patent Tackles Bias in Image AI Tools

The tech relies on oversampling of images with “minority attributes” to make sure the outputs actually reflect the inputs.

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Google Wants to Use Context to Drop Wakewords

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Without a wakeword, a digital assistant has to monitor its users more closely.

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Visa Takes Biometrics On-the-Go Without Privacy Issues

The patent could add another form of frictionless payment to the landscape, and present competitors to Apple Pay and Amazon’s Just Walk Out.

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Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Expects AI to Get Cheaper as Computing Power Expands

Jensen Huang seems to think that Sam Altman’s quest for $7 trillion to invest in AI chips is maybe a little overkill.

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Roku Patent Could Make Ads Better Without Violating User Privacy

Roku wants its previews to make you feel the same way the movie does.

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Nvidia’s Neural Network Patent Adds to AI Software Expansion

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Nvidia may use AI to troubleshoot its games with its patent to analyze and respond to feedback using neural networks.

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Baidu’s Data Generation Tech May Sharpen its Self-Driving Reflexes

Baidu’s patent to tune up self-driving cars could help its fleet account for crazy drivers.

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Social Media

Meta and TikTok Take EU to Court Over Content Moderation Fees

The sector’s top platform say that Europe’s decision to charge fees based on profit could distort which sites need policing.

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Microsoft May Give its AI Chatbots a Personal Touch

Its patent to speed up interactions between you and your chatbot signals a growing interest in personalized AI.

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Google May Bring AI to YouTube Shopping

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The filing adds to its AI-powered ad tech, and fuels growing competition to make social media shoppable.

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