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Ban It, Divest It or Regulate It? Washington Looks for an Answer to TikTok
By Jon Steinberg · Jan. 28, 2023 7:00 AM PST
Ban It, Divest It or Regulate It? Washington Looks for an Answer to TikTok
Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Interesting dinner table discussion this week: My 13-year-old daughter, hearing about Nancy Scola’s cover story on TikTok’s war in Washington, offered her prediction for what would happen if the U.S. took the drastic step of banning the app.“Every teenager in America would refuse to come out of their rooms,” she said. “They’d be so mad. They just wouldn’t go out...
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How Microsoft’s Stumbles Led to Its OpenAI Alliance
By Kevin McLaughlin and Aaron Holmes
For more than a decade, Microsoft Research, the company’s in-house research group, has touted artificial intelligence breakthroughs such as translating speech to text and software that could understand human language or recognize objects in images.
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By Jon Victor
Alphabet’s self-driving vehicle unit Waymo quietly laid off staff Monday, continuing a wave of job cuts at the parent company of Google, according to LinkedIn posts from affected employees and one person briefed about the move.
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Bolt CEO Cuts Staff a Third Time as Revenue Lags
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Microsoft Plans Security Features, Wider Release for Its OpenAI-Powered Coding Tool
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