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Universities Are Woefully Under-Resourced For AI Research. They’re Fighting To Change That. | Commentary
Stanford University has 300 GPUs. Microsoft will have 1.8 million. Here’s what’s needed to make academia relevant in AI research.
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Amazon Pours Another $4 Billion Into Anthropic AI
The new investment brings Amazon’s total stake to $8 billion, with Anthropic now using Amazon Web Services as its “primary training partner”
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Threads Newsfeed Will Prioritize Showing Accounts Users Follow Instead of Recommended Content
Instagram head Adam Mosseri tells creators that the change is a “work in progress”
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Jeff Bezos Fires Back at Elon Musk’s Claim He Thought Trump Would Lose: ‘100% Not True’
Musk on Wednesday said the Amazon founder was “telling everyone” to sell their SpaceX and Tesla stock
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US Regulators Call for Google to Sell Off Chrome Browser
Google says the Department of Justice’s “radical” proposal would stifle its business and hurt consumers
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Netflix, Meta Sued Over Anticompetitive Streaming Agreement That Led to End of Facebook Watch
The suit argues that the deal between Reed Hastings and Mark Zuckerberg “decreased consumer choices” while “at the same time increasing consumer costs”
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Department of Justice to Compel Google to Sell Chrome, Bloomberg Reports
Google recently said selling off Chrome would “break” the popular web browser
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ESPN Testing Generative AI Avatar FACTS to Break Down Complex Analytics for Fans
The technology, which is in the research and development phase, is being tested with SEC Nation
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Bluesky Hits Top of Apple App Store as Users Seek X Alternative
Users ditching X because of owner Elon Musk’s support for Donald Trump have helped Bluesky’s daily user count increase 62% post-election
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Trump Bump: Threads Enjoys Post-Election User Increase – Along With Elon Musk’s X
In the U.S., Meta’s platform has had a 7% daily user increase, while X is up 5%
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Threads Will Start Showing Ads in Early 2025 | Report
Meta plans on monetizing the X-like app after it hit 275 million monthly users in Q3, according to The Information
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The AI Story Will Roll On in Trump’s Second Term | Column
History often repeats itself, but the AI story is now too consequential to take a backseat again as Trump returns to the White House
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Elon Musk Hangs With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Advises President-Elect on Staffing Decisions | Report
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins says Musk has “loomed” over the golf resort since Election Day
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Tech’s Winners and Losers From Trump’s Election | Commentary
Prediction markets thrived, Elon got his wish, Facebook sat out, podcasts dominated and Silicon Valley mattered.
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OpenAI Copyright Lawsuit From Raw Story, AlterNet Dismissed
The outlets couldn’t show “any actual adverse effects” from the AI company using their content to train ChatGPT, a judge rules












