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NYT Prohibits Using Its Content To Train AI Models
The New York Times updated its Terms of Service on August 3rd to prohibit its content from being used in the development of “any software program, including, but not limited to, training a machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) system.” That includes text, photographs, images, audio/video clips, “look and feel,” Read more…
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How Bonds Ate the Entire Financial System
A very short, very wild history of the market that will shape the next financial crisis. Bonds have long been considered the most boring bit of finance. They occasionally crop up in literature, almost always as a signifier of dreariness. The Great Gatsby’s narrator Nick Carraway was a bond salesman Read more…
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Saudi Arabia and UAE Race To Buy Nvidia Chips To Power AI Ambitions
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are buying up thousands of the high-performance Nvidia chips crucial for building artificial intelligence software, joining a global AI arms race that is squeezing the supply of Silicon Valley’s hottest commodity. The Gulf powerhouses have publicly stated their goal of becoming leaders in Read more…
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Google Chrome Will Summarize Entire Articles For You With Built-in Generative AI
Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) is getting a major new feature: it will be able to summarize articles you’re reading on the web, according to a Google blog post. SGE can already summarize search results for you so that you don’t have to scroll forever to find what you’re Read more…
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Amazon Pharmacy Automates Discounts To Help Insulin Patients Get Pledged Prices
Amazon said on Tuesday its online pharmacy will automatically apply manufacturer-sponsored coupons to more than 15 insulin and diabetes medicines to help patients access discounts pledged by the drug industry. With the new program, patients using Amazon Pharmacy will no longer have to search for and manually enter coupons from Read more…