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Why France this week fined Google €250M over web news: Google pulls a few coins from the sofa and says whatever, just clarify who needs to be paid for what
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Why France this week fined Google €250M over web news: Google pulls a few coins from the sofa and says whatever, just clarify who needs to be paid for what
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Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers’ data was used for Gemini
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- Reports suggest that overall IT services growth is affected by global uncertainties like inflation, war, and elections, leading to a decline in spending and slower revenue growth for companies like TCS and Infosys.
- Infosys anticipates a modest 1-3% sales growth in the upcoming financial year due to customers delaying discretionary spending on new tech projects amidst the current economic climate.
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- These upgrades are part of a wave of new large language models being released this year.
- Reasoning and planning are key steps towards achieving 'artificial general intelligence', allowing chatbots and virtual assistants to complete sequences of related tasks.
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French Palme d'Or winner Laurent Cantet dies: French filmmaker Laurent Cantet has died in Paris at 63.
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Snowflake launches Arctic, an open ‘mixture-of-experts’ LLM to take on DBRX, Llama 3
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Bloomberg: France proposes new sanctions to target Russian disinformation, election interference
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