New phone designs, coupled with robust holiday spending, continued to lift iPhone sales in the quarter and drove the company to record profits.
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Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60%
The company said on Wednesday that revenue in the most recent quarter was $81.3 billion, but its share price dropped more than 7 percent in after-hours trading.
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County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation. The case was brought by Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn, two penetration testers who at the time were employed by Colorado-based...
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Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think?
Anthropic’s secret to building a better AI assistant might be treating Claude like it has a soul—whether or not anyone actually believes that’s true. But Anthropic isn’t saying exactly what it believes either way. Last week, Anthropic released what it calls Claude’s Constitution, a 30,000-word document outlining the company’s vision for how its AI assistant...
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Tesla Profit Slumps, but Investors May Not Care
The automaker also said it would invest $2 billion in xAI, the artificial intelligence company controlled by its C.E.O., Elon Musk, and stop making the two oldest models in its lineup.
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Meta Forecasts Spending of at Least $115 Billion This Year
That would be a major jump from $72 billion last year, as the tech giant aims to compete in the artificial intelligence race.
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Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60%
The company said on Wednesday that revenue in the most recent quarter was $81.3 billion, but its share price dropped more than 7 percent in after-hours trading.
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Amazon to Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
The e-commerce giant has been cutting costs while pouring resources into building data centers to compete in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
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With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint
AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery.
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Site catering to online criminals has been seized by the FBI
RAMP—the predominantly Russian-language online bazaar that billed itself as the “only place ransomware allowed”—had its dark web and clear web sites seized by the FBI as the agency tries to combat the growing scourge threatening critical infrastructure and organizations around the world. Visits to both sites on Wednesday returned pages that said the FBI had...