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Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties
AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology’s…
Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues
Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is…
Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web’s vibe coders.
Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart
Can Apple’s new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it’s losing an all-important industry race?
Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon
Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated “stories” culled from the personal data in your Google account.
Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
Uber’s cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.
Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion to pay for AI buildout
The Google parent company plans to raise the funds by selling stock.
Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents
The lawsuit partially revolves around a shooting at Florida State University last year, and ChatGPT’s alleged role in…
‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs
The golden age of Microsoft’s Github Copilot appears to be at an end.
Xreal, Google’s smart glasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry
Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of Xreal, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning…