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Big Tech

Silicon Valley Gears Up for Crucial Earnings Week

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Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta all report earnings this week. Wall Street is dying for any hint that heavy investment in AI is paying off.

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Technology

Y24K: Three Days After the Biggest IT Outage in History

A single file in a defective software update caused a global IT outage that disrupted airports, banks, hotels, trains, hospitals, and more.

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Media & Entertainment

Microsoft’s Gaming Dreams Enter Their Price-Hike Era

Microsoft’s gaming division Xbox announced it’s splitting its hugely popular subscription service Game Pass into two subscription tiers.

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Big Tech

Microsoft and Occidental Agree to Massive Carbon Credit Deal

Microsoft is is buying 500,000 carbon credits from Occidental Petroleum over the next six years to help reach its carbon-negative goal.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Data Patent Walks the Line of Privacy Versus Nuance in AI Training

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Though keeping privacy front-of-mind could help avoid AI-related data breaches, balancing privacy and nuance in data may be tricky.

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Regulation

AI Enters its Antitrust Era

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According to reports, the DOJ will take the lead on chipmaker Nvidia, while the FTC will run point on OpenAI.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft May Want its AI Models to Speak to the Heart

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Microsoft’s patent for a language model that talks back signals Big Tech’s interest in multimodal AI.

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