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Google reportedly in advanced talks to acquire cyber startup Wiz for $23 billion, its largest-ever deal
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford’s 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity firm Wiz for $23 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The people familiar told the […]
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AT&T’s massive information breach deepens disaster for Snowflake seven months just after hack was disclosed
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake and formerly co-founder and CEO of startup Neeva, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 21, 2022. Eóin Noonan | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Illustrations or photos Snowflake has spent the previous seven months dealing with the fallout of a key cyberattack that compromised delicate buyer info […]
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Just after leaving Google, Jakob Uszkoreit started out Inceptive to implement AI to drug progress
Prior to co-founding biotech startup Inceptive, Jakob Uszkoreit experienced an plan that would at some point make generative artificial intelligence doable. As a researcher at Google in 2017, Uszkoreit was striving to velocity up the training of neural networks. He advised utilizing a new way to interpret knowledge named self-notice. That thought gave way to […]
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Tesla shares fall 6% after report of robotaxi unveiling delay
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X speaks during the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024. David Swanson | Reuters Tesla shares fell about 6% on Thursday after Bloomberg reported that the electric vehicle maker is delaying […]
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China’s robotaxi push sparks concerns about job security for drivers
More than 70% of Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi rides in Wuhan were fully driverless as of April, and the company said in May it expected 100% of the rides to be completely autonomous in coming quarters. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s yearslong effort to develop robotaxis is starting to gain traction […]
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HubSpot shares plunge 11% on report that Alphabet is shelving interest in acquiring software company
HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan speaks at the company’s Inbound conference in Boston on Sept. 6, 2023. Chance Yeh | HubSpot | Getty Images HubSpot shares plunged 11% on Wednesday after a report said Alphabet isn’t going forward with plans to buy the software company. According to Bloomberg, Alphabet was in talks with HubSpot earlier this […]
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Aidan Gomez aided invent the transformer at Google. At Cohere, he is now using AI to organizations
Aidan Gomez was an intern at Google Brain in 2017, when he assisted co-writer the “Consideration Is All You Need” paper that conceptualized the transformer and inevitably kicked off the generative artificial intelligence boom. “You will find no a single in the field who was all over again then doing work who could have foreseen […]
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China leads the patents race for generative AI, with Tencent and Baidu topping the list
TIANJIN, CHINA – JUNE 20: A humanoid robot Xiao Qi is on display during the 2024 World Intelligence Expo at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Tianjin) on June 20, 2024 in Tianjin, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China dominates the global race in generative […]
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AI drive-thru ordering is on the rise — but it may take years to iron out its flaws
The drive-thru menu at a McDonald’s restaurant showing various meal options and promotions, in Buttonwillow in Kern County, California, on 23, 2024. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Searching for ways to lower labor costs, restaurants are hoping that artificial intelligence can take down drive-thru orders — but it will likely […]
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