Musk said it was ‘not true’ that he was planning large monthly donations but said he had created ‘America Pac’ and is making ‘lower level’ donations Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied reports that emerged last week that he was planning to donate $45m a month to a Super Pac focused on getting Trump elected. …
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Alphabet reports $84.7bn in revenue, on back of Search and Cloud, up from the same period last year Google’s parent company, Alphabet, outperformed analysts’ expectations on Tuesday, reporting second-quarter earnings of $1.89 per share, the same as its first quarter results. Alphabet’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, touted the results as proof that the company’s investments across …
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Tech firm says its freely available and usable Llama 3.1 405B model is comparable with likes of OpenAI and Anthropic Meta has claimed that its new artificial intelligence model is the first open-source system that will rival products from competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic. In a blogpost, the company said its new model, with …
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Transportation department says move aims to ensure care of passengers after global cyber outage snarled operations The US transportation department said on Tuesday it was opening an investigation into Delta Air Lines after the carrier canceled more than 5,000 flights since Friday as it struggles to recover from a global cyber outage that snarled airlines …
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Non-interactive cinematic sequences remove control from our hands at games’ most emotional moments. Can’t players be trusted to take part in stories? At the close of Metal Gear Solid 4, just after Snake pulverises Liquid Ocelot, there is series of cutscenes that never ends. Well, that’s not strictly true. It does end – after 71 …
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Countless theories for the cybersecurity firm’s outage are flying around, but whatever the reason, this sort of thing is likely to happen again • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here “Where did CrowdStrike go wrong” is, if anything, a slightly overdetermined question. We can work backwards. Pushing …
Israeli company aims for stock market flotation after spurning biggest deal in tech group’s history The cybersecurity firm Wiz has turned down a $23bn (£18bn) takeover bid from Google’s parent, Alphabet, spurning what would have been the tech company’s biggest ever acquisition and seeking a stock market flotation instead. Alphabet had been in talks with …
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Billionaire says Optimus will start performing tasks for carmaker in 2025 and could be ready for sale in 2026 Business live – latest updates The Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, has claimed the company will produce “genuinely useful” humanoid robots to start working in its factories next year. The world’s richest person, who has a …
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Sixth-generation folder adds bigger battery, better camera, brighter screen and more fancy AI features Samsung’s popular folding-screen Z Flip phone is back for 2024 with a faster chip, much longer battery life and more AI. The Galaxy Z Flip 6 is the smaller of Samsung’s two new folders for this year, launched alongside the book-style …
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There are stabs of the same fear that made The Beast fascinating, but this tale of a bored teenager in a scary, affectless future is too unfocused Prominent French film-makers are supported by their national industry and even their lockdown projects have been received with respectful attention. Earlier this year Olivier Assayas’s autofiction Hors du …
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