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Google flexes with its new “Deep Research” AI tool
Not too long ago, many of us were perplexed by Google’s slow start in the generative
This holiday season, Walmart’s innovations in data science are enabling its stores to make deliveries to 12 million more households.
The company has rolled out a new data-driven process for more precisely calibrating the delivery areas—what it calls “catchment areas”—around each of its thousands of U.S. stores. The new model, built with a mix of open-source software and in-house code, takes into account such factors as customer demand, driver capacity, and drive t
Dozens of massive data centers humming at the outskirts of Dublin are consuming more electricity than all of the urban homes in Ireland and starting to wear out the warm welcome that brought them here.
Now, a country that made itself a computing factory for Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok is wondering whether it was all worth it as tech giants look around the world t
As decision-makers chart their course to meaningful efficiencies through AI, many still need clarification about the best strategies for achieving transparency, profit, and collaboration through this emerging and often complex tech.
At this virtual event, leading AI experts weighed in on the latest developments in generative AI beyond text and image generation, ethical AI consider
A decade ago, BuzzFeed was redefining what news and entertainment on the web meant. The website’s mix of hard-hitting news, in-depth features, and viral listicles offered a vision of the future for journalism that many sought to follow. (I should know: I was a regular freelancer for the company.)
In 2014, BuzzFeed closed a $50 million round of investment from Andreessen Horowitz that valued the
President Joe Biden and his administration have spent years tackling what they call “junk fees,” which are mandatory fees that are not transparently disclosed to consumers.
The Federal Trade Commission issued a “junk fees” rule under Biden on Tuesday, expected to go into play in April just as the Trump administration is ramping up its plans for the next four year
The impressive intelligence gains in OpenAI’s models over time have mainly come from training them with progressively more training data, for longer amounts of time, and with massive computing power. But in 2024 new training data has become scarce and it’s become very expensive to further scale up computing power, so AI labs have sought new ways to continue pushing models toward
Two lifelong skateboarders rolled into New York City’s Times Square on Saturday, completing their cross-country odyssey that started from Los Angeles’s Venice Beach, and traveled all 1,600 miles exclusively on their boards.
Jason VanPorppal, who goes by Jay, and his friend Orio Ramirez, both 25, kicked it off September 30, with VanPorppal posting daily updates to his
Look, Google Maps is fine. It’s arguably even great—probably one of the most-opened apps on lots of our phones and absolutely one of the most indispensable.
But for as good as Google Maps can be when it comes to helping us navigate the physical world
An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin was on Friday accused of contempt of court after he filed a 911 billion-pound ($1.18 trillion) lawsuit against Twitter founder Jack Dorsey‘s payments firm Block in Britain.
Craig Wright claimed to have been the author of the foundational text of bitcoin published under the pseudonym “Sato