Hints and tips:
...The tension between the development of AI technologies within companies and their impact and safety has previously emerged at Google....
...On Wednesday, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI launched the Frontier Model Forum, with the aim of “ensuring the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models”....
...Soaring development costs have pushed up the prices of premium games, such as Final Fantasy XVI and Nintendo’s latest Legend of Zelda, to as much as $70 upfront....
...Reducing cost is key for the compute-intensive development of large language models: estimates put the cost of running ChatGPT, assuming 10mn monthly users, at $1mn per day....
...Morrisons has appointed its operations development director Joanna Goff as chief financial officer as the supermarket chain prepares for a major refinancing after being taken over by US private equity group...
...Shares of the largest US technology companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft shot higher on Wednesday....
...“One of the benefits of working inside of Microsoft is it lets us take a longer term perspective on how technologies evolve,” said Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s gaming business....
...US officials have expressed national security fears over a range of Chinese companies, from software tech giants Tencent and Alibaba to the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corp, which is pursuing...
...The US senator has spent years crusading against big banks and their misdeeds....
...This financing model, closely bound up with British imperialism and the development of the interior of the US, was extended to resource companies, and in due course to manufacturing businesses....
...The problem lies in a conception of competition that has held sway, particularly in US law, for the past 30 years or so....
...These include eBay v MercExchange (which made it harder for patent owners to win an injunction, one of their most powerful weapons) and Alice Corp v CLS Bank International (which limited the patentability...
...Mr Zhao was most recently chief scientist at Citadel, overseeing the group’s development of quantitative trading and analytics....
...Google is Microsoft light....
...In February, Aerojet announced what it called a “public-private partnership” with the US Air Force under which $804m — two-thirds of it provided by the air force — would be invested in further development...
...Luxembourg wants to mine asteroids in outer space, the US and EU have agreed a transatlantic data deal, Microsoft is buying the UK’s Swiftkey....
...Juno paid Editas an upfront fee of $25m as well as $22m over five years towards research and development costs....
...of US rockets....
...The hearing had debated the timetable for developing a new, US-built alternative to the Russian RD180 rocket engine, which powers the Atlas V rocket that handles many launches of US spy and other military...
...China’s National Development and Reform Commission had accused Qualcomm in November 2013 of abusing its dominant market position in the country and unfair licensing practices....
...Titanfall is a sci-fi shooting game for Microsoft’s Xbox consoles in a much more traditional mould....
...GTA V’s debut comes at the tail-end of the hardware cycle begun by Microsoft Xbox 360 in 2005 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 in 2006, creating a potential customer base of 250m gamers who own the consoles needed...
...Related link: US files criminal charges against SAC – FT SAC hits back at SEC allegations – FT...
...It will come within six months of News Corp’s separation of a business that includes its newspapers, HarperCollins books, and Australian TV and digital assets....
...After all, Windows accounts for more than a quarter of sales and a much bigger slice of profits, even in spite of recent margin declines due to higher product development costs....
International Edition