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Apple Gets Six Months to Bring iPad Under EU Law
Apple Gets Six Months to Bring iPad Under EU Law
April 29, 2024  |  Apple

European regulators are giving Apple six months to bring its iPad up to code. The European Commission said in a Monday (April 29) news release that...

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AI Firms Rake in Billions Without Having Products
AI Firms Rake in Billions Without Having Products
April 29, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

AI may represent a “field of dreams,” but investors are reportedly seeing a potential nightmare. As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday (April 29),...

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Google: DOJ ‘Made Up Markets’ as Excuse for Antitrust Suit
Google: DOJ ‘Made Up Markets’ as Excuse for Antitrust Suit
April 28, 2024  |  Google

Google has accused the federal government of fabricating a market for its antitrust suit against the tech giant. Despite this, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has...

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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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