Tech
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Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wants to build a massive $100 billion data center in rural Utah. Residents are revolting
Local residents are revolting against a $100 billion Utah data center project backed by Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary that would use more electricity than the entire state does in a year. Commissioners in Box Elder County—a rural county of just under 60,000 residents in the northwest corner of Utah—unanimously voted to advance the 9-gigawatt project…
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‘It’s here’: Google issues dire warning after catching hackers using AI to break into computers
Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company’s previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries across government and private industry about AI’s risks for cybersecurity. Google shared limited information about the attackers and the target, but John Hultquist, chief analyst at the tech giant’s threat…
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Roger Bennett’s message to A-Rod is one for the country: Soccer has already overtaken baseball in America
Roger Bennett walked onto Alex Rodriguez’s podcast a few months ago and delivered the news with the calm of a man who had been waiting decades to say it. A-Rod kept asking some version of the same question — “When’s this soccer thing finally going to take off?” — and Bennett, Liverpool-born, Everton-supporting, and Lower-Manhattan-dwelling…
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Apple and Andreessen Horowitz alums raise $20 million to bring AI to ‘real economy’ businesses
AI is swiftly rewiring the way people work, but an outsize amount of this workplace revolution has so far been confined to Fortune 500-style companies. Ciridae has raised $20 million in seed funding on the promise of bringing AI to the many U.S. businesses that don’t hold quarterly earnings calls. The funding round was led…
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AI wins have Alphabet poised to become world’s biggest company
Over the past year, Alphabet Inc. has gone from an artificial intelligence afterthought to the one firm in the market with dominant positions in nearly every aspect of the technology. Now it’s on the brink of overtaking AI chip giant Nvidia Corp. as the largest company in the world. “Alphabet holds a significant spot in…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Z and millennials are using ChatGPT like a ‘life advisor’—but college students might be one step ahead
As ChatGPT becomes more sophisticated, its practical use cases grow. And as it turns out, different generations use the product differently, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “Gross oversimplification, but like older people use ChatGPT as a Google replacement. Maybe people in their 20s and 30s use it as like a life advisor, and then,…
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‘The gains will be substantial’: The AI shock is looking a lot like the China shock, and a top economist says that’s actually good news
In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization, sparking a manufacturing surge for the country. China became the “world’s factory,” and its export rate grew 30% each year from 2001 to 2006, more than double the growth rate from the previous five years. While the U.S. reaped the benefits of cheap imports from its new…
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UFO files show Buzz Aldrin saw a ‘sizeable’ object close to the moon and a ‘fairly bright light source’ that the Apollo 11 crew felt could be a laser
Buzz Aldrin observing a “fairly bright light source” while aboard the Apollo 11. A mysterious object making “multiple 90-degree turns” at a speedy clip. A blaringly bright object doing corkscrew twists over the skies in Kazakhstan. Those are some of the details in a new batch of files on UFOs that the Pentagon began releasing…
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Qualcomm’s CEO is working with ‘pretty much all’ major AI players on top-secret devices—and powering OpenAI’s first push into hardware
Cristiano Amon won’t tell you what’s coming, but he’ll tell you who’s building it. “There are some secret form factors that I cannot tell you about,” the Qualcomm CEO said in an interview with Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell on the Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast. “But I think we’re working with pretty much…
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Goldman Sachs’ tech boss says tracking individual AI usage isn’t useful. He just watches how fast his 12,000 engineers move from idea to production
Goldman Sachs chief information officer Marco Argenti thinks monitoring every employees’ AI use is the wrong way to measure whether it’s actually making people more productive. As companies increasingly push employees to adopt the technology to try to spur productivity, Goldman’s Argenti is taking a different approach by measuring how quickly his engineering teams can…