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Warner Bros. Discovery partners with Google for AI-generated captions on Max streaming service
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Warner Bros. Discovery is partnering with Google to integrate the internet giant’s AI technology into its Max video streaming platform to automatically generate captions. The two companies said they were working to make Max’s captions more accurate using a new caption-generation tool, which is being referred to internally […]
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Southwest Airlines tells staff ‘difficult decisions’ ahead in push to boost profits
A Southwest Airlines plane takes off from Hollywood Burbank Airport on July 25, 2024 in Burbank, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Southwest Airlines has warned employees that it will have to make “difficult decisions” ahead to boost profits as the carrier faces pressure from activist Elliott Investment Management, which has sought leadership changes at […]
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How Elon Musk hopes his new supercomputers will boost his businesses
Elon Musk is on a mission to build new supercomputers. As the CEO of Tesla and his new artificial intelligence startup xAI, the tech titan has big plans for how artificial intelligence can help to supercharge his businesses. In January, he wrote on X that Tesla should be viewed as an AI/robotics company rather than […]
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Tesla, Nvidia lead tech-heavy Nasdaq to one of best days of 2024 after Fed rate cut
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents the Nvidia Blackwell platform at an event ahead of the COMPUTEX Forum, in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024. Ann Wang | Reuters Investors poured into tech stocks at one of the fastest clips of the year a day after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for the […]
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Amazon introduces Amelia, an AI assistant for third-party sellers
Amazon parcels are prepared for delivery at Amazon’s Robotic Fulfillment Centre. Nathan Stirk | Getty Images Amazon is rolling out an artificial intelligence tool designed to help third-party sellers quickly resolve issues with their accounts and fetch sales and inventory data. The company said Thursday that it’s launching the product, called Amelia, in beta for […]
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Elon Musk’s X ‘declined to send an appropriate witness’ to Senate hearing on election threats
As the riots raged in the U.K., Elon Musk began making incendiary comments about the situation, including the statement: “Civil war is inevitable.” Musk is the owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as X. Aytug Can Sencar | Anadolu | Getty Images While top executives from Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft are headed […]
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Court backs Google’s challenge to the EU’s $1.7 billion antitrust fine over ad product
A Google logo displays on a smartphone screen and the European flag on a computer screen. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images The European Union’s second-highest court on Wednesday said a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) fine imposed on Google by regulators should be annulled, siding with the U.S. tech giant in its challenge […]
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Tech M&A has been thwarted by regulators, but dealmakers skeptical that election will change much
Lina Khan, chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s antitrust division, participate in a discussion on antitrust reforms at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Oct. 4, 2023. Khan assumed the role of FTC chair in June 2021 after being appointed by U.S. President Joe […]
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Looking for tech stocks? CIO names 3 to buy — and says Nvidia is still ‘reasonably valued’
Tech stocks may have had a volatile past few weeks , but one chief investment officer is still bullish. Albion Financial Group’s Jason Ware says that’s thanks in part to the capital expenditure of large tech companies like Amazon , Microsoft , Nvidia and Alphabet ‘s Google that’s “providing a bit of growth support as […]
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Intel stock jumps on plan to turn foundry business into subsidiary and allow for outside funding
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger holds a sample of a wafer during his keynote speech at the Computex conference in Taipei on June 4, 2024. I-hwa Cheng | AFP | Getty Images Intel shares jumped 8% in extended trading on Monday after the company said it plans to turn its foundry business into an independent unit […]
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