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DeepMind Patent Shrinks Model Size Without Compromise

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Small and energy-efficient models have garnered growing attention in recent months.

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Mastercard Patent Could Prevent Biometric Data Attacks

Mastercard’s efforts add to those of several companies looking at ways to prove real from fake.

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Technology

Can Meta’s Threads Power the ‘Fediverse’ into the Mainstream?

Threads’ user count is a big deal for the federation of decentralized but interconnected social networks — the fediverse — it’s part of.

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Finance

How Will Wall Street’s AI Experiment End?

Like money, artificial intelligence never sleeps. Financial institutions have pulled out all the stops to fit AI into their own operations.

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Media & Entertainment

Netflix’s New Homepage Pushes Users to Watch, Not Scroll

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Netflix is rolling out the first major redesign of its home hub since 2013, hoping people might watch more if inundated with less.

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Patent Drop

OpenAI Adds to its Small Pool of Patent Filings

Because of the massive head start that bigger tech firms have, OpenAI may “find themselves boxed out.”

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Toyota Carbon-Tracking Patent Could Incentivize EV, Hybrid Buyers

“Any potential cost savings based off a vehicle’s lower-than-average carbon footprint could influence more price-conscious consumers.”

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Artificial Intelligence

Chipmakers Reaffirm Winner Status in the AI Economy

Investors are showing a lot of love to the computer chip supply chain. Nvidia, Samsung, and TSMC are all clawing back gains this week.

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Industries

Space X’s Mars Mission Gets a Boost From Accelerated Launches at Texas Colony

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Walmart AI Patent Signals Continued Pressure to Compete with Amazon

A patent from Walmart for an in-house machine learning development framework highlights that the company’s strategy to compete with Amazon extends to…

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Patent Tracks Down Software Vulnerabilities, Cyberattacks

In the face of a wide-spread outage, such as what occurred with Crowdstrike last Friday, there’s only so much the company can do, one expert said.

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Patent Drop

Zoom’s Work-Life Balancer Adds to AI-Powered Productivity Tool Race

Tech firms like Microsoft and Google already have a massive head start in workplace tools.

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Industries

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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