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Google May Use Drones to Keep Data Centers Healthy

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Google’s filing emphasizes the importance of continuity of services among cloud providers.

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Amazon is Narrowing the Gap in the AI Race

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The company filed a patent for a way to make AI models easily using pre-built machine learning models.

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Big Tech

Meta’s Paid Ad-Free Plan Gets Hit With Privacy Lawsuit

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Mark Zuckerberg’s newest nemesis, Max Schrems, says Meta’s new pay-for-privacy subscription doesn’t comply with EU laws.

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Big Tech

Amazon’s Healthcare Dreams Are Fractured

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Amazon, along with its Big Tech brethren, has long been trying to break into the healthcare market. But it’s not going as planned.

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Special Report: Patent Drop’s Gift Guide of the Future

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Consumer tech is getting up close and personal this holiday season.

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Special Report: How Big Tech Makes You Buy

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As the holiday season approaches, consumers and tech companies alike have shopping on the brain.

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Artificial Intelligence

Meta Stamps Out its Responsible AI Team

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Meta has disbanded a team in charge of making sure the company developed AI in an ethical way, according to The Information.

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Autos

Hyundai Says it Will Start Selling on Amazon

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Hyundai will sell its cars directly on Amazon, marking the first major auto brand to list on the massive e-commerce platform.

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Patent Drop

Google Wants to Clean Up its Data to Train AI Safely

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Avoiding data security slip-ups involving its AI tools is vital in keeping its strong position in the market.

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Patent Drop

Apple Wants to Track Your Eyes Without Draining Power

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The company filed a patent for tech that tracks the light reflecting off a user’s eye to initiate certain actions.

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Technology

The Former ‘Russian Google’ Wants Out of Russia

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Yandex, once Russia’s largest tech company, is looking to sell all of its Russian assets, Reuters and Bloomberg reported on Monday.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft’s Automatic Data Center Patent Could Take on AWS

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Microsoft’s patent to sublet data centers close to the source could surpass the physical barriers that cloud innovation faces.

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Big Tech

Tech Giants Win Regulatory Case in EU, But Tax Clouds Loom

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Meta, Google, and TikTok successfully argued that individual European countries can’t cook up their own laws for large digital platforms.

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Patent Drop

Apple Could Use Generative AI to Visualize Your Feelings

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The tech further adds to the company’s reported investment in generative AI, and shows that it wants to build up its health tech even further.

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Healthcare

Amazon Offers Prime Members a Discount For its Posh Healthcare Service

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Amazon said Wednesday it plans to offer Prime subscribers low-cost annual memberships to its boutique One Medical primary care business.

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Big Tech

FTC Gets Specific in its Amazon Antitrust Case

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Amazon, at the behest of its billionaire founder, intentionally packed its search results pages with junk ads, the FTC alleges.

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Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s AI News Poll Ticks Off UK Newspaper

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The Guardian submitted a complaint to Microsoft on Tuesday after a grotesquely inappropriate AI-generated poll next to a Guardian article.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Guards its Models at All Angles

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Microsoft’s AI protection patent shows the vulnerabilities that models face amid rapid growth.

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Media & Entertainment

WPP Slashes Profit Outlook After Sluggish Quarter

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WPP issued a reduction of its profit outlook for the second time in consecutive quarters on Thursday, citing major headwinds.

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Technology

Amazon Spins Up New Cloud Division for Europe

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Amazon said Wednesday that its Amazon Web Services cloud division is launching a “European Sovereign Cloud.”

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