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Meta Glasses Are Getting a Nasty Reputation
3+ hour, 58+ min ago (211+ words) Smart glasses keep getting smarter, but their reputation appears to be getting worse. At Engadget, Karissa Bell writes that online criticism of the devices critics have dubbed... Meta Glasses Are Getting a Nasty Reputation A male videographer, Christian Eisenbarth, tells…...
How AI Is Making People of 'Modest Means' Rich
8+ hour, 48+ min ago (267+ words) A rural Pennsylvania township where a proposed hog barn once sparked fierce opposition is now making way for something far, far bigger. The Wall Street Journal 's Will... How AI Is Making People of 'Modest Means' Rich A rural Pennsylvania…...
AI Selloff Pulls Stocks Down
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (398+ words) The sell-off for winners of the artificial intelligence boom deepened Friday and yanked stock markets lower worldwide. Oil prices, meanwhile, continued to jump because of the... AI Selloff Pulls Stocks Down The sell-off for winners of the artificial intelligence boom…...
Reports: Meta Weighs $10B AI Cloud Deal With Anthropic
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (311+ words) Meta may be angling to turn its AI spending spree into a rental business. The New York Times reports that the company is in early talks to lease computing capacity from its... Reports: Meta Weighs $10B AI Cloud Deal With Anthropic…...
As AI Surges, So Do Threats Against Execs
2+ day, 58+ min ago (265+ words) Tech's AI leaders aren't just talking about existential risk anymore—they're hiring bodyguards. The Wall Street Journal reports that threats against artificial-intelligence... As AI Surges, So Do Threats Against Execs Tech's AI leaders aren't just talking about existential risk anymore…...
Solid Earnings Reports Fail to Outweigh Slumping AI Stocks
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (431+ words) Newser Solid Earnings Reports Fail to Outweigh Slumping AI Stocks Drops for computer chipmakers and other AI winners dragged down stock markets worldwide on Thursday. - The S&P 500 fell 38.63 points, or 0.5%, to 7,533.77, even though more stocks rose within the index…...
AI Chiefs Call on US to Police Frontier Models
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (276+ words) The titans of cutting-edge AI suddenly seem to be reading from the same script on one point: regulate us, and do it soon. In separate essays published over the last five weeks,... AI Chiefs Call on US to Police Frontier…...
Biden Memoir Will Tackle His Disastrous 2024 Campaign
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (456+ words) Former President Biden will publish a memoir this fall, publisher Little, Brown and Company told the AP. Promise Me, America, which Biden says will touch upon everything from... Biden Memoir Will Tackle His Disastrous 2024 Campaign Former President Biden will publish…...
Engineer Cracks Adobe HQ's Longtime Semaphore Puzzle
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (257+ words) Newser Engineer Cracks Adobe HQ's Longtime Semaphore Puzzle For three years, four spinning circles atop Adobe's San Jose headquarters have been quietly hiding a Renaissance secret. The company now says that software engineer Brian Vincent finally cracked the rooftop "San…...
Buffett Says He Personally Drove Berkshire's Alphabet Buy
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (231+ words) Warren Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway's big bet on Google's parent company was his idea. In a Wednesday interview with CNBC, Buffett said that while Greg Abel is now... Buffett Says He Personally Drove Berkshire's Alphabet Buy Warren Buffett says Berkshire…...