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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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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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Big Tech

Meta’s Losing AR Developers to Snap

Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that Meta is bleeding third-party augmented reality developers to its rival, Snap.

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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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Artificial Intelligence

Perplexity Wants Its Next Stage of Growth, Legal Troubles Be Damned

Perplexity is looking for a few hundred million more dollars to scale its burgeoning business — oh, and maybe cover some pesky legal fees.

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Palantir Patent Highlights Need for Zero-Trust Security in AI

A patent from Palantir highlights the importance of data security in AI when used in government and defense contexts.

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Adobe Seeks AI Motion Patent As Generative Video Race Heats Up

Major tech firms seemingly see generative video as the next frontier of AI.

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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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Big Tech

The EU Might Regulate the Muskiverse as One Big Company

Bad news for X: EU lawmakers might start looking at the companies in CEO Elon Musk’s stable as one interconnected web.

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IBM Patent Highlights Security Risks of Quantum Development

“If quantum computers can break encryption, they can also encrypt in a way that other quantum computers can’t break.”

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Microsoft Builds Enterprise AI Stable With Recent Patents

Given the company’s dominance in workplace and productivity tech, it may have an edge in embedding generative AI into work routines.

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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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