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This week at At its annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, Google showcased a dizzying array of projects and products powered by or enhanced… Read More »The boring future of generative AI

Another medium-sized bank faced a confidence crisis on Thursday, as Pacific Western Bank said it had lost nearly 10 percent of its deposits over the… Read More »PacWest Bank, loses billions in deposits and enters a renewed market spiral

Developers of self-driving cars initially had a similar philosophy of data maximization. They generate video from arrays of cameras inside and outside the vehicles, audio… Read More »Self-driving cars are put on a data diet

On a dusty roadside on the outskirts of Dubai, Sohrab Fani is taking advantage of the West’s response to the war in Ukraine: his shop… Read More »Luxury imports to Russia Detour around sanctions – via Dubai

“If we as EU can oblige service providers to scan for certain content through a back door, other states will also be able to say… Read More »Europe’s moral crusader lays down the law on encryption | WIRED

Across China, many local governments are on the brink of insolvency. Some cities have cut wages for civil servants. Cuts in municipal health insurance have… Read More »Why China has no property tax

Follow for live updates on the Trump CNN town hall meeting. Should a leading presidential candidate be given the opportunity to address voters live on… Read More »Donald Trump appears on CNN Town Hall

As a debt limit crisis loomed in 2011, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. the early negotiations with Republicans as civil, at one point suggesting… Read More »How past debt containment crises shaped Biden’s no-negotiation stance

Six months ago, Google didn’t seem remotely concerned about its search activity. Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT was launched and Microsoft’s Bing spawned a chatbot. At Google’s… Read More »Google I/O 2023: Google adds generative AI to search

Inflation slowed for a 10th straight month in April, a closely monitored report on Wednesday found, good news for US households burdened by higher costs… Read More »Inflation in April cooled to 4.9 percent: CPI Live Updates

Mariann Hardey’s father passed away unexpectedly just over ten years ago. But he lives on through his Twitter account. It only has 42 followers and… Read More »Twitter’s deletion of old accounts will be pure chaos

Nearly two hours after the end of what appeared to be a fruitless meeting between President Biden and Republican leaders this week over raising the… Read More »How can the government prevent non-payment? Biden offers clues.

Eva Berneke describes her first year at the helm of the world’s third largest satellite company as a ‘whirlwind’. That’s an understatement. Since taking over… Read More »This European satellite giant comes before Starlink

President Biden and Chairman Kevin McCarthy emerged from a critical meeting at the White House on Tuesday with no consensus on how to end their… Read More »Biden and McCarthy fail to reach a consensus on the debt ceiling as a possible default

on April 28 Felipe Neto, a Brazilian YouTuber with more than 45 million followers, was angry. He had just received a message from YouTube warning… Read More »Brazil Proposed Internet Regulation. Big Tech took off the gloves