Month: January 2019

Most Americans have never heard of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a pedestrian-sounding institution that you might think would operate a food bank in San Mateo or a small tutoring program in Palo Alto. But for the past decade, the foundation has amassed tremendous power in the land of the mega-wealthy, collecting $13 billion in
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Saudi Arabia is seeking to attract 1.6 trillion riyals (nearly $429 billion) in private sector investment over the next 10 years for a landmark infrastructure and industrial program as part of its economic diversification campaign, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih announced Saturday. The plan aims to channel investments through the National Industrial Development and Logistics Program,
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In London last month, a team from Alphabet’s UK-based artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind quietly laid a new marker in the contest between humans and computers. Thursday, it revealed the achievement, in a three-hour YouTube stream in which aliens and robots fought to the death. DeepMind’s broadcast showed its artificial intelligence bot, AlphaStar, defeating a
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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, defending his company once again, and hitting out at “misreported” claims that the social network sells user data. The article, which is just over 1,000 words long, seeks to explain the reasoning behind Facebook’s targeted advertising model and clear up confusion around
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With increasing talk of the U.S. and China’s trade war becoming a war over technology, the boss of one software firm thinks it’s now time to start thinking about putting the safety of consumers over global internet standards. The so-called “splinternet” is probably not a phrase you’ve heard of, but it increasingly has experts worried
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