Google’s parent company narrowly topped revenue and profit expectations, driven by its search engine and cloud unit, and it said A.I. investments were “driving new growth.”
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Congress Calls for Tech Outage Hearing to Grill CrowdStrike C.E.O.
The House Homeland Security Committee called on the chief executive of the cybersecurity firm to testify on the disruption.
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Google’s Plan to Buy Wiz for $23 Billion Falls Apart
Wiz’s chief executive said the company walked away from a “humbling offer” and would pursue an initial public offering instead.
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Mark Zuckerberg Stumps for ‘Open Source’ A.I.
The chief executive of Meta said in an open letter that it was important that the technology was not controlled by a handful of giant companies — including his own.
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Artificial Intelligence Has a Math Problem
A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past.
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The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) In the AI world, there’s a buzz in the air about a new AI language model released Tuesday by Meta: Llama 3.1 405B. The reason? It’s potentially the first time anyone can download a GPT-4-class large language model (LLM) for free and run it on their own hardware....
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Win With Black Women raise $1M for Kamala Harris within 3 hours
Kamala Harris’s journey to earning the Democratic Party’s nomination for the 2024 General Election got a huge boost on July 21. Win With Black Women held a Zoom call after President Joe Biden announced he was not running for re-election this year. After making the statement, Biden’s first move was to endorse Vice President Kamala...
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#OccupyParliament: Protests have erupted in Kenya over tax hike proposals
NAIROBI, Kenya — Thousands of mostly young people demonstrated Thursday in Kenya’s capital and across the country against new tax proposals by the administration of President William Ruto in its annual budget legislation. The protests are driven by concerns that higher taxes will exacerbate the cost of living, which is already a issue for many...
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Brittney Griner ‘blessed’ to return to Europe for Olympics
Andscape at the Olympics is an ongoing series exploring the Black athletes and culture around the 2024 Paris Games. Brittany Griner is back in Europe for the first time since being detained in Russia. But this time with USA Basketball’s women’s national team, she feels safe with her sisters and she is focused on a...