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It’s back to pattern for Adobe, which had been selling off for many quarters on its earnings reports, then had a big jump up at the last report, in June, and is now down ni
OpenAI continues attracting unprecedented levels of funding, but the company’s one-model-to-rule-them-all approach to generative AI comes with its own set of risks.
OpenAI is already the best-funded AI startup by far, having raised an estimated $13.5 billion. Reports say the company is now seeking $6.5 billion in additional venture capital at a valuation of $150 billion (it was valued at around $86 billion back in F
Microsoft Excel is the de facto standard for a lot of corporate number crunching, but even some frequent users don’t know everything that’s possible to do in the spreadsheet program.
And many data scientists and machine learning experts still prefer to do some of their work with other tools, including the programming language Python and its popular data science libra
A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers.
SpaceX‘s capsule splashed d
Intel lost out on a contract to design and fabricate Sony’s PlayStation 6 chip in 2022, which dealt a significant blow to its effort to build its fledgling contract manufacturing business, according to three sources with knowledge of the events.
Investigations into companies by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can be market-moving events. And for those looking for an early tip as to the agency’s movement, it’s possible to gain some insight into which companies might soon fall under investigation by tracking the data of smartphones that spend a lot of time in SEC offices during the day.
That’s the finding of a new paper by academics at fou
All tech companies start from the same premise: “Our industry is big and bloated. The model doesn’t work, and we tech disruptors are here to change that.” Techbios are no different. We are united in our belief that technology should be able to change the pharma industry for the better.
New drug discovery is extremely inefficient. Estimates of the average R&D cost per new drug are less than $1 billion to more than $2 billi
There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?
Ahem. I’ve come to an extremely important and highly scientific revelation:
Approximately 47% of my life is spent dealing with piddly little time-wasters—tasks that seem insignificant in the moment but that absolutely add up over time, with 20 seconds here, a minute there, and so on.
That’s why I’m always so excited when I encounter a new tech tool that’s genuinely effective at eliminating annoyances and making life a little easier. It doesn’t have to be gunnin’
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