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Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype

Enlarge / A video still of Project Astra demo at the Google I/O conference keynote in Mountain View on May 14, 2024. (credit: Google) Just one day after OpenAI revealed GPT-4o, which it bills as being able to understand what’s taking place in a video feed and converse about it, Google announced Project Astra, a...

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Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away

Enlarge (credit: Getty) A study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to a higher rate of employees, especially senior-level ones, leaving the company, often to work at competitors. The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The...

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The hunt for rare bitcoin is nearing an end

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Andriy Onufriyenko) Billy Restey is a digital artist who runs a studio in Seattle. But after hours, he hunts for rare chunks of bitcoin. He does it for the thrill. “It’s like collecting Magic: The Gathering or Pokémon cards,” says Restey. “It’s that excitement of, like, what if I catch...

The WNBA’s progress needs to be seen
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The WNBA’s progress needs to be seen

Every time I looked from left to right, there was an A’ja Wilson jersey. Thousands of jerseys, both Las Vegas Aces and South Carolina Gamecocks, filled the seats. Courtside was full of current Gamecock players, longstanding supporters, family members, South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley, and South Carolina’s biggest “FAM” of them all, rapper...