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In Silicon Valley, Democrats Are Invigorated by Biden’s Withdrawal

Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and others have endorsed Donald J. Trump. But President Biden’s withdrawal has re-energized Democrats across the tech industry and may blunt that momentum.

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CrowdStrike-Microsoft Outage: What Caused the IT Meltdown

Airlines, hospitals and people’s computers were affected after CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, sent out a flawed software update.

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Global CrowdStrike Outage Proves How Fragile IT Systems Have Become

While in some corners of Silicon Valley people worry about the risks of A.I., a simple failed software update caused a worldwide outage.

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Data for A.I. Training Is Disappearing Fast, Study Shows

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.

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How Getty and Shutterstock Are Building AI Image Generators

Companies like Getty have begun developing A.I. models with their own data, part of a broader push to build artificial intelligence with licensed content.

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Meta Exploring Stake in Ray-Ban’s Parent Company

Meta is discussing taking a stake of as much as 5 percent of EssilorLuxottica, which makes eyewear brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley, people with knowledge of the talks said.

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How Elon Musk Came to Support Trump and the GOP

The world’s richest man, once deeply skeptical of Donald J. Trump, has now endorsed him and has emerged as a central character in the presidential race.

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Carlos Espina is a One-Man Telemundo on TikTok

Carlos Espina is among a new kind of social media personalities whom politicians, especially those in the Biden White House, view as modern-day broadcasters.

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How Trump’s Running Mate J.D. Vance is Connected to Silicon Valley

Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he made with Peter Thiel and others became crucial to his political ascent.

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J.D. Vance’s A.I. Agenda: Reduce Regulation

Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick has indicated he favors a hands-off approach to A.I. but also wants to increase scrutiny of the biggest tech firms in the field.

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