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OpenAI Is Making Journalism an Offer It Can’t Refuse

The content deals between AI companies and top publishers are coming fast and furious. The latest, and claimed to be the biggest, was announced on...

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Google’s New Search Engine Is Bad News for the Web Economy

For more than two decades, a simple handshake has shaped how people find information online. It works like this: Websites allow Google’s web...

15.05.2024 50

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Apple’s Tone-Deaf iPad Ad Triggers Our Darkest AI Fears

I find it hard to believe that no one on Apple Inc.’s marketing team saw this coming. Maybe they were too timid to speak up. Perhaps they were...

09.05.2024 50

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Apple Needs to Move the iPad Beyond the Toddler Stage

Every now and then, I’ll be tempted by an iPad. I’ll spot some slick individual at a departure gate using one. Look at how neat it is, I’ll...

07.05.2024 10

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Want to Buy TikTok? Beware of Used Goods

ByteDance Ltd.’s Hail Mary legal effort to avoid selling or shutting down TikTok relies on convincing a judge the social network will disappear...

02.05.2024 10

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Amazon’s Top-to-Bottom Spending on AI Is Paying Off

The storm clouds are finally starting to clear over the head of Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy. After taking over from Jeff Bezos,...

01.05.2024 60

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Meta Results Are Best Viewed Through Rose-Colored AI Glasses

Meta Platforms Inc. investors must ask themselves one thing about Mark Zuckerberg: Do they trust him? Expectations were high for the first quarter...

25.04.2024 10

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Google’s Sundar Pichai Has No Time for an Employee Rebellion

It has become clear over the last year that Silicon Valley companies, which for the longest time could keep Wall Street happy with enormous growth...

24.04.2024 10

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If TikTok Is Such a Threat, Show Us the Receipts

As expected, the bill banning TikTok, now packaged with vital foreign aid, flew through the House over the weekend and seems set to be passed by the...

23.04.2024 7

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Beware the Small Print With That Buzzy New Social App

A common practice among tech startups is using boilerplate language in their terms and conditions, bits of legaleze that are slathered all over their...

17.04.2024 5

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The Lesson in Humane's Epic AI Gadget Flop

The reviews of the Humane Ai Pin are in — oh boy, are they in. Called the first "major" new consumer device of the artificial intelligence era, the...

16.04.2024 20

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Hey Google, Please Set YouTube Free

Shares in Google-parent Alphabet Inc. have lagged competitors so far this year. There is worry its faltering progress in artificial intelligence means...

05.04.2024 8

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Amazon Labor Union Never Stood a Chance

On a recent Friday, there was little sign of the drama in 2022 that made JFK8 the most talked about warehouse in America, save for some tattered...

01.04.2024 20

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AI Gives Football Fans Another Thing to Argue About

It’s impossible to overstate the devotion that Liverpool fans have to their soon-departing manager, Jurgen Klopp. Picking the team up from mid-table...

23.03.2024 10

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The US Shouldn’t Force Apple to Make a Worse iPhone

The biggest challenge that the Department of Justice has in winning its antitrust case against Apple Inc. is this: The iPhone is really, really...

21.03.2024 20

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The ‘GeminiPhone’ Would Fix Apple’s and Google’s AI Problems

There are many reasons Apple Inc.’s stock hasn’t been so hot lately, but a big one is that investors feel the company lacks a compelling...

19.03.2024 20

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Health Care Hack Exposes Deadly Flaws and Danger of Apathy

As senators squabble about the theoretical vulnerability of those who use TikTok, they might want to find more time to give greater consideration to a...

18.03.2024 4

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TikTok Needs to Sell While It Can Still Get Top Dollar

It’s panic stations at TikTok. Last week’s lightning-fast creation of a bill that would force the platform’s divestiture or bar it in the US,...

12.03.2024 30

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If Apple Has Something Up Its Sleeve, Now’s the Time

Last year, when I described Apple Inc.’s 2023 as “miserable,” my inbox took something of a battering. Many readers questioned how I could...

06.03.2024 20

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TikTok’s Scammy Shop Insults Users and Hurts Its Business

On TikTok Shop, the e-commerce bazaar from the popular video-sharing app, a truly fantastic deal is being offered. A user called “Basketball...

29.02.2024 10

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So Long, Apple Car, We’ll Never Know What We Missed

What could Apple have done with the humble automobile? Ideas, some credible and others less so, have dripped out for a decade. For a time, the company...

28.02.2024 10

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Reddit’s Biggest Risk Is Its Reliance on Unpredictable Users

Reddit’s prospectus for its initial public offering finally dropped on Thursday, complete with the customary list of “risk factors” that the...

23.02.2024 8

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Amazon Deserves to Be Called Out for Swindling Users

In June 2023, a California man named Wilbert Napoleon renewed his yearly subscription to Amazon Prime at the recently increased price of $139. Part of...

19.02.2024 40

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Here’s How to Name Your AI Chatbot

Had he known ChatGPT was going to change the world, Sam Altman said last year, he would have spent more time considering what to call it. “It’s a...

13.02.2024 30

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Mark Zuckerberg’s 20-Year Formula for Success Has Expired

The other day I did something I haven’t done for years. I browsed Facebook. By which I mean: I really took a look around. Good grief, what a mess!...

11.02.2024 7

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Great Internet Cookie Crumble Will Leave Risky Morsels

Thanks to the humble cookie, our favorite websites can remember us, greeting our return visits like a conscientious barista. But also thanks to these...

07.02.2024 10

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Finally, a New Apple Device Really Worth Talking About

By now, we all know the routine: An early start. A line down the street. Apple Inc. store employees whooping and hollering with such coordination it...

02.02.2024 20

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A Revived Meta Buys the Permission to Keep Spending

Meta Platforms Inc.’s efficiency-obsessed investors don’t like to see the company spend money. Unless — and this will shock you — it’s going...

02.02.2024 10

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Needs to Start Putting Out Fires

As the market prepares for Apple Inc.’s earnings on Thursday, all I can think is this: Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has problems. Plenty of...

01.02.2024 30

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Microsoft Omits the AI Progress Report Investors Wanted

If artificial intelligence is going to live up to the hype, Goldman Sachs analysts said recently, the excitement stage of AI needs to shift...

31.01.2024 10

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Reddit Flirts With Wall Street and Potential Disaster

The earliest mention I can find of Reddit Inc.’s ambitions for an initial public offering comes from a Variety report in 2017 — the online...

30.01.2024 10

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Microsoft’s Rise to $3 Trillion Took Much More Than Windows

The first time I met Satya Nadella, I committed what I thought was a cringeworthy faux pas. It was summer 2015, and he was just over a year into his...

26.01.2024 30

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AI Is Much Better at Evolution Than Revolution

We’ve had almost a year now to assess whether Microsoft Corp.’s plan to add ChatGPT to its Bing search engine made any difference in the great...

22.01.2024 10

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Apple Supreme Court Reprieve Won’t Deter Push for Fairness

The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a blow to those who want to see Apple Inc.’s walled garden come crumbling down. The court declined to hear...

17.01.2024 8

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Meta Can Ride Apple’s Coattails to Victory in Mixed Reality

It’s generally accepted that Mark Zuckerberg, in the two years since he renamed Facebook to Meta Platforms Inc., has done a poor job of selling his...

16.01.2024 10

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Slow-and-Steady Waymo Is Winning the Self-Driving Race

Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving unit Waymo announced on Monday that it plans to unleash its cars onto the freeway in Phoenix “soon.” The city has...

09.01.2024 20

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US Must Stop ‘Swatting’ From Becoming an Election Weapon

Already it’s being referred to as the “Season of Swatting.” In the past couple of weeks, political figures on both the left and the right have...

04.01.2024 5

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I’ve Had Trouble Hearing. Then I Tried New Glasses.

Earlier this year, my left ear, previously every bit as capable as my right, started letting me down. I at first had many explanations for this — a...

27.12.2023 10

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Meta Lends a Crowbar to Open the Gates of Social Media

It didn’t receive much fanfare outside of tech circles, but Meta Platforms Inc. took a pretty monumental step last week. For the first time, it...

20.12.2023 10

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Apple Watch Ban Is a Cherry on Top of Cook’s Miserable Year

Barring a last minute (and unlikely) presidential veto, the Apple Watch is largely coming off US shelves. Starting Thursday, Apple Inc. will stop...

20.12.2023 10

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Google’s and Apple’s Walled Gardens Are Still Standing — For Now

A San Francisco jury took less than four hours to decide on Monday that Google was running an illegal monopoly designed to exact huge fees from app...

13.12.2023 8

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Apple Is Holding the Final Nail for X’s Coffin

With the reinstatement of Alex Jones on X this week, Elon Musk is playing with fire. Precedent suggests X is teetering on the brink of a ban for...

12.12.2023 10

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When Push Comes to Shove, Amazon Does Cut Prices

So how about that? When Amazon.com Inc. faces real competition, it lowers its prices. Drastically so, it turns out: Starting next year, its...

11.12.2023 20

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Spotify’s Axed Podcasts Are No Ominous Sign for the Industry

When Spotify Technology SA ditches two popular and award-winning podcasts, does that tell us more about the company or the viability of the podcast...

06.12.2023 9

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Bandaged Up OpenAI Faces a Tougher Task Now

“I have never been more excited about the future,” wrote Sam Altman, the reinstated chief executive officer of OpenAI, to his subordinates on...

30.11.2023 10

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What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About AI

Ever since Alan Turing’s “imitation game,” we’ve been acutely aware of the importance of measuring the capabilities of computers against our...

29.11.2023 10

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Sam Altman Exposes the Charade of AI Accountability

When the news hit late Friday afternoon that OpenAI had forced out founder and Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, almost immediately the comparisons...

21.11.2023 20

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Meta Is Right. Apple and Google Can Do More to Protect Kids.

The question of age verification on the internet has always been fraught. Every now and then, a usually well-intentioned politician sees requiring age...

17.11.2023 4

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Amazon and TikTok Leave Opening in Next E-Commerce Boom

I’m not totally yet sold on the idea of “social commerce.” The concept, already big in Asia, takes what was previously the role of the grinning...

14.11.2023 6

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Obama Is the AI Czar We Need for Global Cooperation

Not long after President Joe Biden unveiled his sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence, it emerged he had enlisted some notable outside...

09.11.2023 4

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