Parent company GM puts the breaks on Cruise self-driving cars

More bad news for San Francisco-based robotaxi company Cruise. Its parent company General Motors announced Wednesday plans to cut spending on Cruise by hundreds of millions of dollars in 2024.

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Meta updates political advertising rules to cover AI-generated images and videos

Meta details more updates to its political advertising policy, taking in account AI.

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Amazon wants businesses to use its palm-scanning tech to let employees into the office

Amazon is pitching the palm-based service as a way for employees to swipe their hand to enter an office or to access sensitive company data

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Google will start deleting ‘inactive' accounts in December. Here's what you need to know

Have a Google account you haven’t used in a while? If you want to keep it from disappearing, you should check on it before the end of the week.

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What does Sam Altman's firing — and quick reinstatement — mean for the future of AI?

It’s been quite a week for ChatGPT-maker OpenAI — and co-founder Sam Altman. Altman, who helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab back in 2015, was fired as CEO Friday in a sudden and mostly unexplained exit that stunned the industry.

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Broadcom planning to complete deal for $69 billion acquisition of VMWare after regulators give OK

Computer chip and software maker Broadcom says it has cleared all regulatory hurdles and plans to complete its $69 billion acquisition of cloud technology company VMware on Wednesday.

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Sam Altman returns as OpenAI CEO just days after being removed, along with a new board

The ousted leader of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is returning to the company that fired him late last week, the latest in a saga that has shocked the artificial intelligence industry.

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