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Shares in iPhone maker have escaped AI sell-off that has hit chipmaker

As smoke from hundreds of burning wildfires spread across Canada and the United States, the first three operational satellites in the Google-backed FireSat program successfully launched into orbit. The satellites will begin providing wildfire detection capable of spotting even small fires in the United States, Australia, and Europe before the end of the year. The

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China’s Moonshot AI unveiled a freely available artificial intelligence model that seemed to narrow the gap with cutting-edge offerings from U.S. tech companies.

Social media giant is considering launching a cloud business as it spends $145bn on infrastructure

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High-flying semiconductor shares fall as ‘momentum trades’ backfire

A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.

This week, San Francisco’s attorney general, David Chiu, sent cease-and-desist letters, demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 so-called nudification apps from their app stores, Wired reported. Nudification apps can make it trivially easy to transform ordinary photos of real people into explicit images. The harmful AI tools allow bad actors to remove clothing, change

Hundreds of thousands of people are creating companies each year, ending a decades-long drought.