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Try saying no when a child asks for a smartphone. What comes after, parents everywhere can attest, begins with some variation of: “Everyone has one. Why can’t I?”
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Look, I’ll be honest: By and large, I’ve found most of the AI hype of our current moment to be pretty underwhelming from a practical perspective.
Oh, another app now has a way to generate poorly written text or offer up answers of questionable accuracy, you say? Yaaaaaaay. Color me sarcastically ecstatic.
So whe
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigated the potentia
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Oracle on Thursday said it will invest more than $1 billion over the next 10 years in artificial intelligence and cloud computing in Spain, as it looks to meet increasing demand for its services in the country.
The investment will be used to set up a new cloud region that
When Elon Musk, Karlie Kloss, Travis Kelce, and a who’s-who of media, branding, and tech execs all converge, there’s plenty of buzz. From the Cannes Lions festival in the south of France, Autodesk’s Dara Treseder talks about the key themes, lessons, and intrigue that emerged. She explains why AI and women’s sports dominated much of the conversation, how the attention economy is giving way to the ‘intention economy’, and why influencers don’t want you calling them “influencers” anymore.
Amazon is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge o