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Alphabet Reports 29% Jump in Profit as A.I. Efforts Begin to Pay Off

Google’s parent company narrowly topped revenue and profit expectations, driven by its search engine and cloud unit, and it said A.I. investments were “driving new growth.”

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Artificial Intelligence Has a Math Problem

A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past.

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Google’s Plan to Buy Wiz for $23 Billion Falls Apart

Wiz’s chief executive said the company walked away from a “humbling offer” and would pursue an initial public offering instead.

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Congress Calls for Tech Outage Hearing to Grill CrowdStrike C.E.O.

The House Homeland Security Committee called on the chief executive of the cybersecurity firm to testify on the disruption.

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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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