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Climate change and desperate journeys

In any event, climate maps and projected patterns mainly "seed the imagination," as Lustgarten puts it, for what might transpire decades hence

Battling the giants: The trustbuster who has Apple and Google in his sights

Kanter has become a lead architect of the most significant effort in decades to fight the concentration of power in corporate America

Saudi Arabia plans $40 billion investment in artificial intelligence

In recent weeks, representatives of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund have discussed a potential partnership with Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms

In latest artificial intelligence war escalation, Musk gives chatbot code

'If an AI is programmed to push for diversity at all costs, as Google Gemini was, then it will do whatever it can to cause that outcome, potentially even killing people,' Musk said in a post on Friday

Coming of age in the City

Stevenson does a creditable job of explaining just what the desk does: Essentially, traders use "swaps" to bet on the direction of interest rates in multiple currencies

Facing possible ban from US govt, TikTok turns to its creators to fight it

Many of the creators have met with lawmakers and posted videos about their opposition to the bill with the hashtag #KeepTikTok, often with the irreverent humour the app is known for

Marquez's unsatisfying goodbye

Reading Until August is a bit like watching a great dancer, well past his prime, marking his ineradicable elegance in a few moves he can neither develop nor sustain

Dating apps have hit a wall. Can these online apps turn things around?

The firms generate bulk of revenue by selling subscriptions, with smaller income streams from advertising. But they're struggling to grow those sales

Explained: How the AI that drives ChatGPT will move into physical world

Like chatbots and image generators, this robotics technology learns its skills by analysing enormous amounts of digital data

Elon Musk has a giant charity, but its money stays close to home

Since 2020, he has seeded his charity with tax-deductible donations of stock worth more than $7 billion at the time, making it one of the largest in the Unites States

Year after Silicon Valley Bank crisis, a struggle over what needs to change

Regulators say they are now paying closer attention to midsize banks, recognizing that problems can quickly spread between banks with diverse geographic footprints and customer bases

$1,780 to spend night in a 'cocoon'? Hotels now betting on sleep tourism

AI-assisted beds, on-call hypnotherapists are taking sleep tourism to the next level

AI startup Anthropic challenges OpenAI and Google with new chatbot

Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive and co-founder, said the new technology, called Claude 3 Opus, was particularly useful when analysing scientific data or generating computer code

Forced to change: Tech giants bow to global onslaught of regulations

Apple, Google, Meta operated unfettered for years. But new laws have compelled them to make major shifts to their businesses

The paradox at the heart of Elon Musk's lawsuit against the OpenAI

Most leaders of AI companies claim that not only is AGI possible to build, but also that it is imminent

Surveillance: High tech and narcs

Two new books about state surveillance in the 21st century, one focused on China and the other on the United States, make it clear that Foucault was right

Fresh ceasefire calls after Israel attacks Palestinians awaiting food

International leaders said the disaster reinforced the need for an immediate halt in fighting to alleviate the human suffering that has no parallel in recent memory

Behind Apple's doomed car project: False starts and wrong turns

Throughout its existence, the car effort was scrapped and rebooted several times, shedding hundreds of workers along the way

Cost of nuclear war in space: Putting a weapon into orbit a military threat

It's also a risk to the billions of dollars pouring into the space economy

The men who made and unmade Twitter

As for Musk, he seemed determined to break things as soon as he entered Twitter's offices carrying a porcelain sink