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Artificial Intelligence

Tech Giants Deliver AI-Powered Earnings Growth

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Quarterly earnings at tech giants Meta and Microsoft surged, indicating that multi-billion dollar AI investments are starting to pay off.

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Policy & Power

Judge Approves Microsoft-Activision Merger

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Sucks It Up

Microsoft’s carbon capture work may help it break out of the “net zero paradigm” tunnel vision.

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Patent Drop

NVIDIA Reads Between the Lines

NVIDIA wants it’s chatbots to get to know you really, really well.

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Finance

Can the Magnificent Seven Ride Again?

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After serving as the driving force for a blistering market rise, the so-called Magnificent Seven have taken an epic stumble in 2025.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Off the Clock

Microsoft wants to keep your boss from bugging you after hours.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft’s AI Ad Play

Microsoft is using AI to stretch advertising budgets.

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Patent Drop

Baidu Flaps Its Lips

Baidu wants to surpass the uncanny valley in AI-generated videos.

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CIO Upside

Google Patent Makes Cloud Infrastructure Simpler

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Patenting this kind of tech could benefit Google in more ways than one.

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Patent Drop

Google Investigates the Cloud

Google wants to track down what really causes a rainy day in the cloud.

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Semiconductors

A Surge in Chip Stocks Puts NVIDIA Near $1 Trillion Market Cap

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Patent Drop

Big Tech’s Super Vision

Baidu and Microsoft want to use computer vision for security checks.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft’s Data Center Pullback Raises Questions About AI Infrastructure Boom

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“People are freaked out. And with uncertainty comes cautiousness with capital-heavy investments.”

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Finance

As Nvidia Reports Earnings, Magnificent Seven Investors Rethink Their Bets

Hedge funds are still all in on the AI boom that drove the Magnificent Seven’s gains, they just think it’s creating value elsewhere now.

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CIO Upside

What Enterprises Actually Need to Know About Quantum

“There are still going to be things that classical computers are better at.”

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Artificial Intelligence

Whatever Happened to All Those AI Copyright Lawsuits?

Last Tuesday, content conglomerate Thomson Reuters notched a big legal win against AI firm ROSS. Is it a sign of what’s to come?

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