Artificial intelligence
Elon Musk’s Neuralink raises $650 million in fresh capital
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s brain tech startup Neuralink has closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced on Monday. ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and other firms participated in the round, according to a release. Neuralink said the fresh capital will help the […]
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Harvard-trained educator: Kids who learn how to use AI will become smarter adults—if they avoid this No. 1 mistake
Students that copy and paste ChatGPT answers into their assignments, with little thinking involved, are doing themselves a disservice — especially because artificial intelligence really can help students become better learners, according to psychologist and author Angela Duckworth. Instead of distrusting AI, show kids how to properly use it, Duckworth advised in a speech at […]
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Nvidia jumps 5% in premarket trading as results spark global chip rally
Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 20, 2025. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia shares jumped in premarket trading on Thursday after posting a positive set of earnings, sparking a rally in global semiconductor stocks. Shares of Nvidia were 5.22% higher at 05:06 […]
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China’s DeepSeek quietly releases upgraded R1 AI model, ramping up competition with OpenAI
Deepseek’s logo on Jan. 29, 2025. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese startup DeepSeek, which caused shockwaves across markets this year, quietly released an upgraded version of its artificial intelligence reasoning model. The company did not make an official announcement, but the upgrade of DeepSeek R1 was released on AI model repository Hugging […]
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Here’s how many fake reviews Tripadvisor found on its website in 2024
Around 8% of the 31.1 million reviews submitted to Tripadvisor in 2024 were fake, according to the company’s “Transparency Report 2025.” That’s more than twice the number detected in 2022, according to company reports. But that doesn’t mean the number of fake reviews on the site doubled, said Becky Foley, vice president and head of […]
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Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in U.S. government, raising conflict concerns: Reuters
Elon Musk looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 21, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the U.S. federal government to analyze data, three […]
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Microsoft employees say emails with ‘Gaza,’ ‘Palestine,’ or ‘genocide’ won’t send
Security officers block entrance doors after pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to enter the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center Arch building in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Jason Redmond | Afp | Getty Images Microsoft employees are concerned that the company has been blocking Outlook emails containing the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” “genocide,” “apartheid” […]
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Anthropic launches Claude 4, its most powerful AI model yet
In this photo illustration, Claude AI logo is seen on a smartphone and Anthropic logo on a pc screen. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic, the Amazon-backed OpenAI rival, on Thursday launched its most powerful group of artificial intelligence models yet: Claude 4. The […]
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Nvidia says U.S. export controls on AI chips to China were ‘a failure’
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence chips to China were “a failure”, Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Wednesday. “All in all, the export control […]
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Google launches Veo 3, an AI video generator that incorporates audio
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, speaks at the Google I/O developer conference. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio. The artificial intelligence tool competes with OpenAI’s Sora video generator, but its ability to also incorporate audio into […]
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