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Kenrick Cai

Kenrick Cai

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Google AI systems make headway with math in progress toward reasoning

By Kenrick Cai Alphabet's Google unveiled a pair of artificial intelligence systems on Thursday that demonstrated advances in solving complex mathematical problems, a key frontier of generative AI

Google AI systems make headway with math in progress toward reasoning
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OpenAI is a bigger threat to Google than US regulators

Google is facing a bigger threat from Sam Altman's OpenAI even as it awaits a decision on how antitrust regulators in Washington plan to level the playing

OpenAI is a bigger threat to Google than US regulators
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Google launches enhanced Pixel phones in bid to leverage AI tech

By Kenrick Cai and Max A.

Google launches enhanced Pixel phones in bid to leverage AI tech
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Google brings AI answers in Search to new countries

By Kenrick Cai SAN FRANCISCO -Google parent Alphabet said on Thursday it was expanding its AI-generated summaries for search queries to six new countries, just two months after it rolled back some

Google brings AI answers in Search to new countries
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OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion

By Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu, Anna Tong SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK -Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash to help

OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion
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Apple debuts iPhone 16 with test AI software rolling out this year and next

By Max A.

Apple debuts iPhone 16 with test AI software rolling out this year and next
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OpenAI's stunning $150 billion valuation hinges on upending corporate structure, sources say

OpenAI's new financing round is expected to come in the form of convertible notes, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter, who said its $150

OpenAI's stunning $150 billion valuation hinges on upending corporate structure, sources say
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Google, Volkswagen partner on smartphone AI assistant

By Kenrick Cai SAN FRANCISCO - Alphabet’s Google is providing key capabilities for an artificial intelligence assistant for Volkswagen drivers in a smartphone app, part of Google's strategy to win

Google, Volkswagen partner on smartphone AI assistant
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OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity, sources say

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer be

OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity, sources say
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OpenAI sees $11.6 billion revenue next year, offers Thrive chance to invest again in 2025

Thrive Capital is investing more than $1 billion of OpenAI's current $6.5 billion fundraising round, and it has a sweetener no other investors are getting:

OpenAI sees $11.6 billion revenue next year, offers Thrive chance to invest again in 2025
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Google ad tech trial outcome no death blow, win or lose

By Kenrick Cai SAN FRANCISCO - As Google's trial on allegations of building an illegal monopoly in advertising technology nears its close, experts said the financial risk of losing the case is minimal

Google ad tech trial outcome no death blow, win or lose
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OpenAI asks investors to avoid five AI startups including Sutskever's SSI, sources say

As global investors such as Thrive Capital and Tiger Global invest $6.6 billion in OpenAI, the ChatGPT-maker sought a commitment beyond just capital —

OpenAI asks investors to avoid five AI startups including Sutskever's SSI, sources say
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Alphabet's AI investments boost cloud sales, lifts maturing ad business

Google parent Alphabet said on Tuesday its AI investments were "paying off" as it reported a 35% surge in its cloud business and U.S. election-

Alphabet's AI investments boost cloud sales, lifts maturing ad business
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Google brings AI answers to map applications

Alphabet's Google on Thursday announced a set of features that incorporated Gemini, its artificial intelligence chatbot, into its suite of mapping applications.

Google brings AI answers to map applications
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Google brings AI voice assistant Gemini Live to iPhone

By Kenrick Cai SAN FRANCISCO - Alphabet's Google on Thursday released a smartphone app for its artificial intelligence chatbot on Apple's App Store that introduced the latest generation of its voice

Google brings AI voice assistant Gemini Live to iPhone
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KPMG to spend $100 million on AI partnership with Google Cloud

- KPMG said on Wednesday it would spend $100 million over the next four years to bolster its enterprise artificial intelligence services through a partnership

KPMG to spend $100 million on AI partnership with Google Cloud
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Legal hurdles ahead for Google's forced sale of Chrome

Efforts by U.S. antitrust regulators to break up Alphabet by forcing a sale of its Google Chrome browser and other proposals to limit its

Legal hurdles ahead for Google's forced sale of Chrome
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Google puts AI agents at the center of Gemini update

By Kenrick Cai SAN FRANCISCO - Alphabet's Google on Wednesday released the second generation of its artificial intelligence model Gemini and teased a slate of new ways to use AI beyond chatbots,

Google puts AI agents at the center of Gemini update
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Databricks nears record $9.5 billion VC raise, eyes extra $4.5 billion debt

Software firm Databricks is nearing a deal that could become one of the largest venture capital funding rounds in history, as investors have shown

Databricks nears record $9.5 billion VC raise, eyes extra $4.5 billion debt
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When AI vies with Taylor Swift as the hot ticket in town

Deep in the cavernous convention center here, on math-filled posters or in spirited conversations, could be a breakthrough for

When AI vies with Taylor Swift as the hot ticket in town

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