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Ukraine’s War of Drones Runs Into an Obstacle: China

Surrounded by rooms filled with stacks of cluster munitions and half-made thermobaric bombs, a soldier from Ukraine’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade recently worked on the...

A Founder of the Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Is Arrested

Su Zhu, a founder of the cryptocurrency fund Three Arrows Capital, was arrested on Friday in Singapore while trying to leave the country, the...

Quebec Lures $5 Billion Battery Factory for Electric Cars

Northvolt, a Swedish maker of batteries for electric cars, said on Thursday that it would build a factory near Montreal after the Canadian government...

Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps

In a WhatsApp text conversation this week, we asked Jane Austen — yes, the 19th-century British author — how she felt about Mr. Darcy,...

For Amazon’s Andy Jassy, a Cleanup Job Just Got a Lot Bigger

In the two years since Andy Jassy replaced Jeff Bezos as Amazon’s chief executive, he has been cleaning up after his company’s aggressive pandemic...

Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in A.I. Start-Up Anthropic

Amazon said on Monday that it would invest up to $4 billion in the artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, as the world’s biggest technology companies...

TV Networks’ Last Best Hope: Boomers

This coming week, as the network fall television season gets underway, ABC will begin airing “The Golden Bachelor,” a spinoff of “The Bachelor” that...

Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope

In a nondescript office park minutes from Disneyland sits a nondescript warehouse. Inside this nameless, faceless building, an era is ending.The building is a...

Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Deal: U.K. Agency Signals Approval

Microsoft came one step closer on Friday to completing its $69 billion purchase of the video game maker Activision Blizzard, in a deal that...

Rupert Murdoch to Retire From Fox and News Corporation Boards

Rupert Murdoch is retiring from the Fox and News Corporation boards, the companies announced Thursday morning, making his son Lachlan the sole executive in...

Google’s Bard Just Got More Powerful. It’s Still Erratic.

This week, Bard — Google’s competitor to ChatGPT — got an upgrade.One interesting new feature, called Bard Extensions, allows the artificial intelligence chatbot to...

Google Connects A.I. Chatbot Bard to YouTube, Gmail and More Facts

In March, Google released an artificial intelligence chatbot called Bard. It was Google’s answer to OpenAI’s hugely popular ChatGPT.But Bard used less sophisticated A.I....

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