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Alphabet stock surges 11% on blowout earnings, first dividend: The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are set to open higher after both Alphabet and Microsoft posted strong ...
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Alphabet stock surges 11% on blowout earnings, first dividend
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Android 15 could offer you the option to force dark mode on stubborn apps: A new feature called 'make all apps dark' has been spotted in the upcoming ...
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Android 15 could offer you the option to force dark mode on stubborn apps
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Apple intensifies talks with OpenAI for iPhone generative AI features: Firm also remains in discussions with Google about licensing that company's Gemini ...
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Apple intensifies talks with OpenAI for iPhone generative AI features
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Meta's median pay for employees is $379,000 a year: Meta's median salary is significantly higher than many tech jobs, though on par with rivals like Google and ...
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Meta's median pay for employees is $379,000 a year
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Google's Gaza conflict: Why more bosses are cracking down on Israel-Hamas war protesters
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Google's Gaza conflict: Why more bosses are cracking down on Israel-Hamas ...
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Microsoft, Google Reports Lift Nvidia, Super Micro, Other AI Hardware Makers: Technology spending plans by Microsoft and Alphabet's Google boosted AI stocks ...
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Microsoft, Google Reports Lift Nvidia, Super Micro, Other AI Hardware ...
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Google's cookie delay underscores its ad industry dominance: That even a short delay has such a profound effect on an entire industry underscores how powerful ...
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Google's cookie delay underscores its ad industry dominance
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Google surges after buying back billions of dollars of its own stock: Alphabet, the parent company of Google, bounced back from an absolutely dreadful day for ...
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Google surges after buying back billions of dollars of its own stock
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Google’s Sundar Pichai Has No Time for an Employee Rebellion: The tech giant’s business challenges have deservedly curbed its acceptance of political activism on ...
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Google’s Sundar Pichai Has No Time for an Employee Rebellion
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Tesla profits have plummeted. Elon Musk remains all-in on robotaxis: Tesla's sales are down. It's slashing car prices and laying off staff. Yet CEO Elon Musk ...
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Tesla profits have plummeted. Elon Musk remains all-in on robotaxis
Quick Glance: Tesla: Prices Reduced in Germany - Musk's Strategies
  • Tesla lowers prices in Germany to increase inventory and sales.

  • Elon Musk addresses price complaints and emphasizes the need for flexible pricing.

  • Buyers of Tesla vehicles during expensive phases may face depreciation.

  • Tesla implements additional measures to boost sales, such as price cuts in the USA and adjustments in the Supercharger network.
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Microsoft, Google earnings shine as AI drives revenue: Alphabet reported profit of $23.7 billion on revenue of $80.5 billion, Microsoft's revenue was $61 ...
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Microsoft, Google earnings shine as AI drives revenue
Quick Glance: UK Watchdog Scrutinizes AI Partnerships Involving Tech Giants
  • Britain's competition watchdog is reviewing AI partnerships between Microsoft and Mistral AI, as well as between Amazon and Anthropic.

  • Third-party opinions are being sought on Microsoft's hiring of former Inflection AI employees and related arrangements.

  • The CMA is already investigating Microsoft's partnership with Open AI and is awaiting requested information from the companies.

  • Views are invited until May 9 before formal investigations begin on the partnerships.
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Google has fired 50 employees after protests over Israel cloud deal, organizers say
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Google has fired 50 employees after protests over Israel cloud deal ...
Quick Glance: Google dismisses workers following protests on technology deal with Israeli government
  • Following protests regarding the technology supplied to the Israeli government, Google has terminated employees, heightening tensions around a sensitive contract.

  • The confirmed dismissals by Google on Wednesday occurred after nine individuals were detained during sit-in demonstrations in New York and Sunnyvale, California, a day subsequent to police intervention.

  • Demonstrations are predominantly coordinated by a faction known as No Tech For Apartheid. Google states that Nimbus is not utilized for weaponry or intelligence purposes.

  • Stated in a blog post, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai implied a close supervision of employees as the company enhances efforts in advancing its AI technology, marking a crucial phase in the industry and potentially humanity.
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Congress’ first tech crackdown in years is a gift to Big Tech: Meta and Google stand ready to reap a TikTok ban’s rewards.
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Congress’ first tech crackdown in years is a gift to Big Tech
Quick Glance: ByteDance Would Consider Closing TikTok in US Over Sale, Sources Claim
  • ByteDance would prefer to cease TikTok operations rather than engage in a sale if all legal avenues are exhausted to combat potential legislation banning the platform in US app stores, as per four sources.

  • Despite TikTok's massive popularity with over a billion users, it remains unprofitable, contributing a small fraction to ByteDance's overall revenues and daily active user base.

  • ByteDance stated on Thursday in a release on Toutiao, a media platform it possesses, that there are no intentions to sell TikTok, in response to claims from The Information about ByteDance exploring sale scenarios for TikTok's US operations excluding the recommending algorithm for user videos.

  • As of December, ByteDance's valuation stood at $268 billion when it proposed a buyback of approximately $5 billion in shares from investors.
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Google delays its removal of cookies again: Google delayed its removal of third-party cookies on Chrome until 2025 and cited industry and regulatory pushback as ...
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Google delays its removal of cookies again
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Android 15 improves screen sharing while maintaining sensitive data privacy: Google recently released the first beta version of Android 15. Since then ...
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Android 15 improves screen sharing while maintaining sensitive data ...
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Google Spent Years Researching the Best Way to Get New Employees Up to Speed Significantly Faster. The Secret? A Simple 15-Minute Conversation
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Google Spent Years Researching the Best Way to Get New Employees Up to ...
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The "I'm not a robot" captcha tests are getting harder: It's getting increasingly difficult to prove you're not a robot using captcha tests ...
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Inside Google’s Plans to Combat Misinformation Ahead of the E.U. Elections: "Prebunking" is Google's latest effort to fight fake news.
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Inside Google’s Plans to Combat Misinformation Ahead of the E.U. Elections
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Woman distraught when doctor 'tells her to use Google' to diagnose mystery pain: Bianca Padurariu, 20, has 'lost all hope' of NHS treatment curing her ...
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Woman distraught when doctor 'tells her to use Google' to diagnose mystery ...
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Woman Leaves Bad Review After Hating Haircut - Salon's Response Shocks Her: The salon's owner called her after reading the negative review and made her an offer ...
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Woman Leaves Bad Review After Hating Haircut - Salon's Response Shocks Her
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Google-Backed AI Firm Is Hong Kong’s Latest Stock Debut Flop: Mobvoi Inc., a Chinese artificial intelligence developer backed by Alphabet Inc.’s Google ...
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Google-Backed AI Firm Is Hong Kong’s Latest Stock Debut Flop
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Google's dividend upstages its cloud battle with Microsoft: Google will pay a quarterly dividend of twenty cents, which is surprising, but also one of the lowest ...
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Google's dividend upstages its cloud battle with Microsoft
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Meta had a really good first quarter. The stock is tanking anyway: The Facebook parent's stock price sank as much as 12% after it reported earnings
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Meta had a really good first quarter. The stock is tanking anyway
Quick Glance: Meta Quarterly Results: Revenue Expectations Lowered, Stock Fell
  • Meta's quarterly results exceeded expectations, but the revenue forecast for the next quarter was lowered.

  • Despite successful ad business and increasing user numbers, Meta's stock experienced a drop of over 10 percent.

  • Analysts caution about Meta's reduced revenue expectations for the second quarter, leading to investor skepticism.

  • Zuckerberg plans to significantly increase investments in AI models in the coming years to enhance Meta's leading position in the artificial intelligence domain.
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Travels with Perplexity AI: Generative search wouldn’t exist without the Internet Bob Kahn helped create
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Travels with Perplexity AI
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AI Chatbots Need Large Language Models. Here's What to Know About LLMs: Chatbots may sound human, but they don't think the way we do.
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AI Chatbots Need Large Language Models. Here's What to Know About LLMs
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Google delays post-cookie plan again amid pressure from ad tech industry: Google is pushing back its cookie deprecation plans yet again.
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Google delays post-cookie plan again amid pressure from ad tech industry
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Power plant emissions targeted by EPA; Google parent to pay its 1st dividend: EPA issues strict rule on power plants
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Power plant emissions targeted by EPA; Google parent to pay its 1st ...
Quick Glance: New EPA Rules Target Emissions Reduction at Power Plants
  • The Biden administration aims to compel coal-fired power plants to capture smokestack emissions or close down.

  • The rules target limiting greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel power plants and reducing toxic pollutants from coal-fired plants.

  • The plan includes measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, toxic wastewater pollutants, and safely manage coal ash.

  • The actions are expected to face opposition from industry groups and Republican-leaning states, while environmental groups see it as a crucial step in combating climate change.
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Men caught having sex in the bush of Lidl car park in Cardiff: Two men were caught having sex in the bush of a Lidl car park in Cardiff next to shoppers.
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Men caught having sex in the bush of Lidl car park in Cardiff
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Don’t fear the pause ads: Display ads that appear when you pause a video are about as unintrusive as it gets. You might not like them ...
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Don’t fear the pause ads
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Google’s productivity expert says this is the best way to start your day: Here's what your morning routine should look like, according to Laura Mae Martin ...
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Google’s productivity expert says this is the best way to start your day
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Biden OKs TikTok Ban-Or-Sell Bill. Here's Impact On Meta, Google, Oracle.: President Biden signed the TikTok sell-or-ban bill. Here's what analysts say ...
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Biden OKs TikTok Ban-Or-Sell Bill. Here's Impact On Meta, Google ...
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Google Taiwan opens new AI workspace in Taipei | Taiwan News | Apr. 26, 2024 15:05
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Google Taiwan opens new AI workspace in Taipei | Taiwan News | Apr. 26 ...
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Google Fires Another 20 Employees in Retaliation for Project Nimbus Protest: Google has fired another 20 employees in retaliation for last week’s protest against ...
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Google Fires Another 20 Employees in Retaliation for Project Nimbus ...
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Youth-oriented group gets climate funding from Google: Climate Cardinals has a different focus on translating climate information globally.
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Youth-oriented group gets climate funding from Google
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Are we ready for Nvidia's Blackwell chip?: Nvidia aims to power a new era in AI computing with its Blackwell chip, but competition from Google, Meta ...
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Are we ready for Nvidia's Blackwell chip?
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US Supreme Court examines firings of pro-union Starbucks workers: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday stepped into the contentious unionization drive at Starbucks ...
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US Supreme Court examines firings of pro-union Starbucks workers
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Bay Area gas station staffing company shutting down, cutting workers: Bay Area gas station staffing company shutting down, laying off over 300 employees
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Bay Area gas station staffing company shutting down, cutting workers
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Clarks employee sacked with a few days' notice after spending 68 years in same shop
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Clarks employee sacked with a few days' notice after spending 68 years in ...
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Arianne Zucker Sues Days of Our Lives Producer Albert Alarr/Ken Corday: Days of Our Lives' Arianne Zucker is, essentially out, as she sues producers Albert ...
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Arianne Zucker Sues Days of Our Lives Producer Albert Alarr/Ken Corday
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Altman handpicked for Homeland Security's AI safety board: The new board will advise DHS on how to make sure AI is safely applied in "critical ...
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Altman handpicked for Homeland Security's AI safety board
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Human-centered journalism - Editorial - The Jakarta Post: Human-centered journalism - Editorial - The Jakarta Post
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Human-centered journalism - Editorial - The Jakarta Post
Quick Glance: AI Revolutionizing Call Centers: TCS Insights
  • The head of Tata Consultancy Services predicts chatbots will reduce the need for human call center agents significantly, revolutionizing the industry.

  • TCS's generative AI projects have doubled in value to $900 million by March, highlighting the increasing demand for tech talent and the need for workforce training.

  • 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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Exclusive: New evidence challenges the Pentagon’s account of a horrific attack as the US withdrew from Afghanistan
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Exclusive: New evidence challenges the Pentagon’s account of a horrific ...
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Vietnam parliament chief quits amid deepening political turbulence: The chairman of Vietnam's parliament Vuong Dinh Hue resigned over unspecified
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Vietnam parliament chief quits amid deepening political turbulence
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Road rage incident on Devon M5 saw 'projectile fired at car': A driver is said to have gesticulated and sworn at another vehicle before allegedly firing at it ...
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Road rage incident on Devon M5 saw 'projectile fired at car'
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Singapore Bank Fires Workers Over Misuse of Medical Claims: CNA: Bank of Singapore Ltd., the private-banking arm of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. ...
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Singapore Bank Fires Workers Over Misuse of Medical Claims: CNA
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Best Android FRP Bypass Tools for PC [Free Download 2024]: Learn some of the best methods and discover the best Android FRP Bypass Tools for PCs in 2024 ...
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Best Android FRP Bypass Tools for PC [Free Download 2024]