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Apple Is Stepping Into the Metaverse. Will Anyone Care?

Mark Zuckerberg embraced a digital world known as the metaverse when he said in November 2021 that he was changing his company’s name from Facebook to Meta.A month later, Bill […]




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Reid Hoffman Is Praising the Virtues of AI

Reid Hoffman, billionaire entrepreneur and venture capital investor, is worried about artificial intelligence — but not for the doomsday reasons making headlines. Instead, he worries the doomsday headlines are too […]







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Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple’s.

Credit…Desiree Rios/The New York TimesEight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech […]







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E.U. Approves Microsoft’s $69 Billion Deal for Activision

Microsoft’s faltering $69 billion bid to buy the video game company Activision Blizzard received a glimmer of hope on Monday when European Union regulators approved what would be the largest […]




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White House Unveils Initiatives to Reduce Risks of AI

The White House on Thursday will host its first gathering of chief executives of companies building artificial intelligence since a boom in A.I.-powered chatbots has prompted growing calls to regulate […]




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Stock Markets React After U.K. Blocks Microsoft’s Activision Bid

British antitrust regulators on Wednesday dealt a major setback to Microsoft’s plans to acquire the video game giant Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, blocking the proposed deal and handing a […]




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In A.I. Race, Microsoft and Google Choose Speed Over Caution

In March, two Google employees, whose jobs are to review the company’s artificial intelligence products, tried to stop Google from launching an A.I. chatbot. They believed it generated inaccurate and […]




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How the S&P 500 is Dominated By Apple and Microsoft

The fate of the S&P 500 index — used by investors as a barometer for the health of corporate America, and cited by presidents as a measure of their handling […]