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Apple’s Revenue Increases 4 Percent Despite Slowing iPhone Sales

By: Tripp Mickle
30 January 2025 at 17:04
The tech giant’s sales of apps and services helped profit grow 7 percent from a year ago, even as the company contended with slumping sales in China.

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Apple released a new iPhone in September without its signature selling point: an A.I. system called Apple Intelligence.
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Musk’s Twitter Takeover Offers Trump a Blueprint

By: Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
30 January 2025 at 13:16
Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers β€” just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.

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Elon Musk speaking at the Capital One Arena in Washington last week. Many of the actions taken by the Trump administration since the inauguration mirror ones taken by Mr. Musk after he bought buying Twitter.
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U.S. Sues to Block Tech Deal in First Antitrust Action of Trump Term

By: Lauren Hirsch and David McCabe
30 January 2025 at 13:24
The challenge to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Juniper Networks came as many in corporate America had expected a lighter touch under a new administration.

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The Department of Justice said the deal β€œrisks substantially lessening competition in a critically important technology market.”
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Luddite Teens Still Don’t Want Your Likes

By: Alex Vadukul
30 January 2025 at 12:45
Three years after starting a club meant to fight social media’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.

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From left to right, Jameson Butler, Biruk Watling, Logan Lane and Sasha Jackson, in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump

By: Mike Isaac， Kate Conger and Sheera Frenkel
29 January 2025 at 11:27
As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies, their mostly left-leaning employees have objected with subtle acts of defiance.

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Meta’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg; Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; Sundar Pichai, Google chief executive; and Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX leader, were among the tech leaders who attended President Trump’s inauguration last week.
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OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Improperly Harvested Its Data

By: Cade Metz
29 January 2025 at 14:15
The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.

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DeepSeek spooked Silicon Valley companies and sent financial markets into a tailspin earlier this week after releasing its A.I. technologies.
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After DeepSeek, Venture Capital Investors Face Questions About Their A.I. Bets

By: Erin Griffith
29 January 2025 at 13:59
Venture capitalists plowed money into A.I. start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But the rise of the Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek has called that funding frenzy into question.

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DeepSeek created a powerful artificial intelligence model with far less money than most tech experts thought possible, upending many assumptions about the development of the technology.
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DeepSeek Shows Meta’s A.I. Strategy Is Working

By: Cade Metz and Mike Isaac
29 January 2025 at 14:10
The Silicon Valley giant was criticized for giving away its core A.I. technology two years ago for anyone to use. Now that bet is having an impact.

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Meta executives think a decision they made two years ago is leveling the A.I. playing field.
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Microsoft Continues A.I. Spending Growth as Profit Grows 10%

By: Karen Weise
29 January 2025 at 19:03
The tech giant’s revenue was up 12 percent to $69.6 billion, but investors are showing their nerves after a long boom for tech stocks.

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In the latest quarter, Microsoft kept up its rapid drive to build data centers to power cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
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Why Trump Picked a Science Advisor, Michael Kratsios, Who Isn’t a Scientist

By: William J. Broad
29 January 2025 at 10:04
Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy specialist on artificial intelligence.

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Michael Kratsios was one of the previous Trump administration’s earliest science and technology aides, leading tech policy initiatives on issues such as A.I., drones, quantum computing and cybersecurity.
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How DeepSeek Changed the A.I. Game

By: Cade Metz， Claire Hogan and David Jouppi
28 January 2025 at 17:48
What is DeepSeek, and why did it cause the markets and U.S. tech giants to quake? Cade Metz, a technology reporter for The New York Times who writes about artificial intelligence, explains.
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Elon Musk’s X Partners With Visa to Provide Financial Services

By: Kate Conger
28 January 2025 at 13:37
The social media company said it would start a peer-to-peer payments service, moving to expand the app’s abilities.

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Elon Musk at the inauguration of President Trump at the U.S. Capitol building last week.
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Citing β€˜Shadow of Evil,’ Vatican Warns About the Risks of A.I.

By: Elisabetta Povoledo
29 January 2025 at 12:34
A new document examines the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence and calls for β€œmoral and ethical considerations” to be enshrined in all of its applications.

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Pope Francis has repeatedly warned that the application of artificial intelligence should be grounded in ethical and moral considerations.
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Chevron Wants to Tap Into A.I. Boom by Selling Electricity to Data Centers

By: Rebecca F. Elliott
28 January 2025 at 08:00
The oil company plans to build natural gas power plants that will be directly connected to data centers used by technology companies for artificial intelligence and other services.

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β€œIt’s a chance for us to help meet the moment and address this growing need for reliable and affordable power,” Mike Wirth, Chevron’s chief executive, said in an interview.
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Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I.

By: Kevin Roose
28 January 2025 at 05:02
A new A.I. model, released by a scrappy Chinese upstart, has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress.

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Markets panicked after DeepSeek’s breakthrough on cost challenged the β€œbigger is better” narrative that has driven the A.I. arms race in recent years.
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How Google Maps Plans to Handle the β€˜Gulf of America’

By: Nico Grant
29 January 2025 at 11:28
Google said it would follow the Trump administration in renaming the Gulf of Mexico once the new name is updated in government sources.

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President Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 to rename the Gulf of Mexico and switch the name of the tallest mountain in North America from Denali back to Mount McKinley.
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How Does DeepSeek’s A.I. Chatbot Compare to ChatGPT and Other Competitors?

By: Eli Tan
27 January 2025 at 18:33
The chatbot from China appears to perform a number of tasks as well as its American competitors do, but it censors topics such as Tiananmen Square.

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When asked to summarize the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, DeepSeek responded that the information was β€œbeyond my current scope.”
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