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Big Tech

DOJ Pressures Google to Adopt ‘Sharing is Caring’ Data Ethos

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To Google, user search data is the all-important secret sauce that enables it to innovate and outperform rivals.

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Big Tech

Apple Card Plays ‘Spin the Bottle’ With Finance Giants

Visa has offered $100 million replace Mastercard as the network of choice for Apple’s credit card, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Blockchain

Circle Plans IPO as Stablecoins Flex Market Muscle

Circle could debut on the NYSE as soon as next month and is eyeing a valuation of up to $5 billion — a $4 billion drop from its SPAC era.

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Healthcare

Google-Backed AI Drug-Developer Isomorphic Labs Secures $600 Million

Though Isomorphic is burning through millions in R&D costs now, investors have high hopes for the potential of AI drug development.

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Big Tech

Apple Leads Manufacturing Pivot to India

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Apple shifting production to India is just the latest sign that the world’s most populous nation may be a winner in global trade reordering.

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Technology

CoreWeave’s First Day of Trading Highlights Fizzling AI Enthusiasm

Markets were left with no gains, no losses and a lot of questions about where the artificial intelligence boom is headed.

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Technology

Smaller CoreWeave Valuation Signals Slower Start for AI-Focused IPOs

Hype climbed for AI cloud services provider CoreWeave’s IPO after it signed a $11.9 billion deal with OpenAI earlier this month.

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CIO Upside

Why Factory Floors Are the Best Place to Start with AI Robots

“The problem is bounded,” one expert said.

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Technology

IBM Joins Tech Giants Pouring Billions into US Production

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IBM is booting up its domestic production, setting aside $150 billion to make computers in the US over the next five years.

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Technology

23andMe Bankruptcy Leaves 15 Million Customers’ Genetic Data in Limbo

CEO Anne Wojcicki stepped down, but the cofounder remained on the board and says she is trying to buying it back.

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Artificial Intelligence

Big Tech Wants to Settle the ‘Fair Use’ AI Question Once and For All

Several years into the great AI revolution, it still remains an unsettled question whether firms are committing mass copyright infringement.

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Artificial Intelligence

Tech Giants Are Betting Billions on AI Smartphones. But Consumers Aren’t Sold

Big Tech is hoping AI-powered smartphones will be the first of many great returns on its eye-popping AI investments.

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Big Tech

What Does Google’s Search Monopoly Mean in the Age of AI?

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Back in 2020, Google’s huge market share of the internet search market hovered at about 92% by most metrics

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