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Britain’s Keir Starmer Needs to Curb His AI Enthusiasm

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants the country to be a trailblazer for artificial intelligence. This makes sense in theory for a place that gave the...

16.01.2025 2

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Parmy Olson

Be Wary of Sam Altman’s AI Doublespeak

Be Wary of Sam Altman’s AI Doublespeak

Remember when OpenAI’s nonprofit board unceremoniously fired Sam Altman? It was a four-day spell in the wilderness for the chief executive officer,...

09.01.2025 10

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Google's Most Serious Rival Isn't Microsoft. It’s a Startup.

Google's Most Serious Rival Isn't Microsoft. It’s a Startup.

The AI boom of the past two years has largely been a two-horse race. Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.-funded OpenAI have duked it out...

08.01.2025 10

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ChatGPT’s $8 Trillion Birthday Gift to Big Tech

Saturday marks two years since OpenAI posted an oddly named widget called ChatGPT to the web. Its staffers placed bets on how many users it would...

30.11.2024 10

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Google’s Chrome Divorce Would Be Just a Warm-Up Act

News broke this week that the US Department of Justice wants to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell Chrome, its dominant web browser. That has led...

20.11.2024 2

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Does Nvidia’s CEO Dream of Electric Androids?

One of the memorable moments of Nvidia Corp.’s most recent conference for developers came toward the end of the chip giant’s semi-annual event....

07.11.2024 40

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Masayoshi Son Inflates the AI Bubble Even More

Masayoshi Son is man of extremes. His $20 million bet on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. became the most successful of all time when it swelled to more...

25.10.2024 2

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Nobel Prizes Give Google the Glow It Craves

An executive from a large technology firm has just won a Nobel. On Thursday, the top prize for chemistry went to the head of Alphabet Inc.’s AI...

09.10.2024 2

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Want to Kill Grunt Work With AI? Careful What You Wish For

Common wisdom about generative AI is that it will displace lots of professional jobs. The more nuanced take: It’ll take lots of entry-level jobs....

07.10.2024 6

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OpenAI Is Shattering Big Tech's Promises of a Better World

At a recent tech industry event, a software engineer approached me and said he was in the middle of looking for a job, and that the next company he...

29.09.2024 2

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Sam Altman Is Spreading Himself Too Thin

Are you really a technology billionaire if you’re not multitasking in a way that would send most mortals toward a nervous breakdown? Sam Altman...

24.09.2024 1

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Salesforce Is a Dark Horse in the AI Race

In the frothy business of selling artificial intelligence service, Salesforce Inc. has been punching above its own weight. “Salesforce?” I hear...

19.09.2024 1

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Big Tech’s Easy Ride Is Coming to an End

Tech companies of a certain size have long expected an easy ride from authorities, and for good reason. They always got it. Apple Inc. for years...

12.09.2024 30

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AI Started as a Dream to Save Humanity. Then, Big Tech Took Over.

This essay is an edited excerpt from “ Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World ,” publishing Sept. 10, 2024, by St....

09.09.2024 10

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Telegram’s Hands-Off Approach to Content Faces a Reckoning

The recent arrest of Telegram founder and Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov at Le Bourget airport near Paris has sent shockwaves through the tech...

28.08.2024 3

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AI Giants Can Learn a Thing or Two From Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg may have a history of copying of others’ ideas, but when it comes to navigating the generative AI hype cycle, he’s the one forging...

26.08.2024 10

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AI Phones From Google and Apple Will Erode Trust in Everything

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is racing to stuff its products with the most advanced artificial intelligence features, including some that will make you...

16.08.2024 4

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Elon Musk’s X Drove Lies Right Through a UK Loophole

With Britain struggling to put down far-right rioters, Elon Musk is only fanning the flames. Days after Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned social...

07.08.2024 2

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Big Tech’s Sneaky Route to Swallowing the AI Market

Big Tech is following a crafty playbook to hoover up AI talent: Instead of buying the hottest AI startups, the giants hire their leadership and...

06.08.2024 1

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AI Is Getting Cheaper. That Won’t Fix Everything.

For a technology that promises to help businesses cut costs, artificial intelligence has had a big problem with being so costly. AI’s scaling...

05.08.2024 2

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Elon Is Playing a Dangerous Game With Kamala Harris Deepfake

A video that Elon Musk posted on X over the weekend has the voice of Kamala Harris speaking over her first big campaign ad, describing herself...

29.07.2024 2

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AI’s Hype Correction Is a Healthy Pause for Breath

Is generative AI worth the money? Technology leaders like Microsoft Corp. Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott says costs will come down and...

26.07.2024 2

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Google’s $23 Billion Snub From Wiz Will Sting Them Both

Money talks, but even $23 billion didn’t convince the founders of Wiz Inc. to sell to Alphabet Inc. Wiz, a New York-headquartered cybersecurity...

23.07.2024 3

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CrowdStrike’s Global Outage Doesn’t Have to Be a Recurring Nightmare

One of the most disturbing things about Friday’s devastating global outage of IT systems is how routine such ruinous events have become. In the...

19.07.2024 10

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JD Vance Wants to Make Silicon Valley Great Again

Deep inside their glass-walled corridors, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture capitalists are smiling to themselves about Donald Trump’s...

17.07.2024 3

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Tony Blair Should Stop Fueling the AI Hype Now

With the world mired in confusion about how useful the AI boom really is, an odd contribution has come from Britain’s former prime minister, Tony...

17.07.2024 4

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