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Microsoft Holds Out on OpenAI Nonprofit Plan

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Microsoft hasn’t signed off on OpenAI’s dramatic reversal of its onetime plan to become a for-profit venture.

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Intel ‘Cobots’ Patent Highlights Growing AI Robotics Market

Intel wants to make AI robots more collaborative and scalable. But it faces steep competition.

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Who’s at Fault in the CrowdStrike-Delta Summer Meltdown?

Delta Airlines is suing CrowdStrike, which was behind the glitchy software update that sparked a global outage of critical flight systems.

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Big Tech

Meta Readies AI Search Engine to End Reliance on Google, OpenAI

Meta is developing an artificial intelligence-based search engine to stake its claim in a rapidly growing market.

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Industries

DoorDash Scoops up British Rival Deliveroo in Global Push

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DoorDash binged Wednesday on British delivery rival Deliveroo, which it is set to acquire in a $3.9 billion deal.

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PayPal Blockchain Security Patent Could Build Crypto Trust

PayPal wants to make crypto transactions less risky.

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Nvidia Eyes AI Guardrails Patent as Chip Sales Soar

It’s hard to place exactly how much responsibility chipmakers have in ensuring that their tech is used the right way.

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Tech FOMO Can Hurt on the Comedown. Can the Cycle Be Broken?

Shiny new innovations draw in ambitious founders and investors, and then FOMO brings in everyone else, making the eventual fall harder.

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Technology

Grand Theft Auto VI Delay Steals the Thrills From Video Game Industry

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The delay of Grand Theft Auto VI’s release threw a multibillion dollar wrench in forecasted revenues for a gaming industry in need of a hit.

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Amazon Privacy Patent Highlights ‘Data Repatriation’ Movement

A cloud privacy patent from Amazon highlights the growing movement toward data repatriation, and the tricky situation it presents for cloud…

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Meta Patent Could Make AI Both Personalized and Private

Tech like this could keep Meta’s models from prompt attack data slips — or at least give it some “thought leadership brownie points.”

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Salesforce Multilingual AI Patent Could Boost AI Agent Ambitions

AI that only performs well in so-called “high-resource languages” isn’t going to be useful for many people.

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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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