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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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