Cloud Computing
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.
OpenAI is led by Sam Altman, who became well known in Silicon Valley as the head the start-up builder Y Combinator. Mr. Altman, 37, and his co-founders created OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit. But he soon remade the venture as a for-profit company that could more aggressively pursue financing. A year later, Microsoft invested […]
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Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up
When Google told some small businesses in January that they would no longer be able to use a customized email service and other workplace apps for free, it felt like a broken promise for Richard J. Dalton Jr., a longtime user who operates a scholastic test-prep company in Vancouver, British Columbia. “They’re basically strong-arming us […]
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Why Isn’t New Technology Making Us More Productive?
The goal is not to replace workers but to lift their performance, said Zayd Enam, the company’s co-founder and chief executive. Cresta’s offering, he said, is made possible by recent advances in the power and speed of A.I. software, which he described as “game changing.” Cresta has 200 employees, has raised more than $150 million […]
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The Era of Borderless Data Is Ending
Every time we send an email, tap an Instagram ad or swipe our credit cards, we create a piece of digital data. The information pings around the world at the speed of a click, becoming a kind of borderless currency that underpins the digital economy. Largely unregulated, the flow of bits and bytes helped fuel […]
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Big Tech Is Getting Clobbered on Wall Street. It’s a Good Time for Them.
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has a longstanding philosophy that Apple should continue to invest for the future amid a downturn. It more than doubled its staff during the Great Recession and nearly tripled its sales. Lately, it has increased bonuses to some hardware engineers by as much as $200,000, according to Bloomberg. John Chambers, […]
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Google’s I/O Conference Offers Modest Vision of the Future
SAN FRANCISCO — There was a time when Google offered a wondrous vision of the future, with driverless cars, augmented-reality eyewear, unlimited storage of emails and photos, and predictive texts to complete sentences in progress. A more modest Google was on display on Wednesday as the company kicked off its annual developer’s conference. The Google […]
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Three Ways to Cut Your Tech Spending, as Prices Rise Everywhere
With the cost of food, gas and electricity going up, we have no choice but to spend more. But we do have more control over how many dollars we allocate to one of our largest-ticket items: personal technology. Compared with the cost of gasoline, which surged 48 percent from March 2021 to March of this […]
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Turing Award Won by Programmer Who Paved Way for Supercomputers
In the late 1970s, as a young researcher at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, Jack Dongarra helped write computer code called Linpack. Linpack offered a way to run complex mathematics on what we now call supercomputers. It became a vital tool for scientific labs as they stretched the boundaries of what a computer could do. […]
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Amazon Posts Record Revenue; Cost of Amazon Prime Is Rising
An improving economy and a persistent virus are beginning to weigh on Amazon’s retail business, even as its cloud computing business grew and an investment lifted profits. The company, whose profits, employee count and share price swelled two years ago as Covid forced people to stay home, said on Thursday that its operating income in […]
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