Author: Zach_Wilson
Meta’s future is AI, AI, and more AI
The good news for Meta is that, unlike pretty much every AI startup, it already makes a lot of money. Last quarter, the company made just over $39 billion in revenue, up 22 percent from a year ago, and about $13.5 billion in profit, up 73 percent. 3.27 billion people…
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Google is trying to delete and bury explicit deepfakes from search results
Google is dramatically upping its efforts to combat the appearance of explicit images and videos created with AI in search results. The company wants to make it clear that AI-produced non-consensual deepfakes are not welcome in its search engine. The actual images may be prurient or offensive in some other…
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TikTok is one of Microsoft’s biggest AI cloud computing customers
Microsoft’s cloud AI business was on track to earn $1 billion in annual revenue, according to The Information, but the report notes that TikTok may not need these capabilities this heavily if it develops its own large language model (LLM). Last year, my colleague Alex Heath reported that TikTok’s parent…
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Qualcomm promises Snapdragon X PCs will cost as little as $700 next year
Currently, the $999 Microsoft Surface Laptop is the cheapest way to get a Windows machine that runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus chip, with all the battery life benefits (and caveats) that might entail. But in 2025, they’ll be cheaper — Qualcomm now says they’ll hit the $700 mark next…
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Honda’s 1984 HP-X concept was the carbon fiber future we expected
Take a look at this HP-X concept from 1984 that has been restored, seemingly so Honda can show the world how cool futuristic cars used to look. As a car born in the Knight Rider era, the HP-X placed advanced tech within the driver’s reach, including a CD player, GPS,…
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Microsoft employees are set for a tasty bonus following record profits
Non-executive ‘rank and file’ employees at Microsoft are set to receive one-off payments based on their roles, up to 25% of their annual bonus, after the company announced record profits this Q4. The payments (via CNBC), though welcome for workers, may be one of the ways that Microsoft is trying…
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