China surpassed the U.S. as the top target of foreign direct investment last year, underscoring how the quick containment of its Covid-19 outbreak helped the economy rebound, and belying talk of China decoupling from the rest of the world. A report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said that investment flows to the U.S. fell by half while they rose some 4% to China,...
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Google is finally waking up. After weeks of excitement coursing through tech about OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, paired with news coverage of how Microsoft plans to incorporate it into products like Bing and Word, Google has made a move. The tech company once seen as a leader in artificial intelligence on Monday unveiled its version of a conversational AI service, which it calls Bard. Google said...
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