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GE HealthCare taps Amazon Web Services to build generative AI for medical use
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images GE HealthCare on Thursday announced it is teaming up with Amazon Web Services to build new generative artificial intelligence models and tools that can efficiently analyze complex medical data. The health-care industry is responsible for generating nearly one-third of all data globally, but much of this information isn’t […]
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Alphabet to invest $5 billion in self-driving car unit Waymo
A Waymo rider-only robotaxi is seen during a test ride in San Francisco on Dec. 9, 2022. Paresh Dave | Reuters Alphabet is again investing in its self-driving car unit Waymo — this time with $5 billion. “This new round of funding will enable Waymo to continue to build the world’s leading autonomous driving company,” […]
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Alphabet set to report Q2 earnings results after the bell
Google parent company Alphabet is set to report its second-quarter earnings Tuesday after the market closes. Here’s what analysts are expecting: Earnings per share: $1.84, according to LSEG Revenue: $84.19 billion, according to LSEG Wall Street is also watching several other numbers in the report: YouTube advertising revenue: $8.93 billion, according to StreetAccount Google Cloud revenue: $10.20 […]
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Meta debuts newest Llama AI model with help from Nvidia and cloud partners
Meta on Tuesday announced the latest version of its Llama artificial intelligence model, dubbed Llama 3.1. The newest Llama technology comes in three different versions, with one variant being the biggest and most capable AI model from Meta to date. Like previous versions of Llama, the newest model continues to be open source, which means […]
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Comcast reports earnings before the bell
A Comcast service van in Miami. Getty Images Comcast reports second-quarter earnings before the bell on Tuesday, and Wall Street will be paying close attention to subscriber growth — for both the broadband and streaming businesses. Here is how Comcast is expected to perform, according to estimates from analysts surveyed by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.12 […]
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Wiz walks away from $23 billion deal with Google, will pursue IPO
Wiz has walked away from a $23 billion deal to be acquired by Google, in what would have been the search giant’s largest-ever deal, telling employees it would pursue an initial public offering as it initially planned. “Saying no to such humbling offers is tough,” Wiz co-founder Assaf Rappaport said in a memo obtained by […]
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Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers
\Trade fair visitors walk past a Google logo at the Google stand at Hannover Messe 2024. Julian Stratenschulte | Picture Alliance | Getty Images After years of delay, Google says it will no longer cancel and replace third-party cookies — a practice long used by advertisers — for its internet browser Chrome. Cookies are small […]
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Republican representatives call on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify
Passengers seen waiting after a major disruption in Microsoft Corp.’s cloud services caused widespread flight cancellations and delays at T3 IGI Airport in New Delhi, India, on July 19, 2024. Vipin Kumar | Hindustan Times | Getty Images Republican representatives on Monday called on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify in front of the House Committee […]
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CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say
A general view from Dusseldorf Airport as passengers gather and wait due to the global communications outage caused by CrowdStrike, which provides cyber security services to US technology company Microsoft, on July 19, 2024 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Hesham Elsherif | Anadolu | Getty Images Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, […]
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Microsoft, CrowdStrike shares fall in premarket trading after major outage hits businesses worldwide
CrowdStrike makes software to help firms manage their security in IT environments. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike saw its shares plunge Friday, after an update led to a major outage, impacting businesses across the world. Shares of the company, which makes software to help firms manage their security in IT […]
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