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Q&A with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora about the role of the tech industry in Trump’s administration, AI, the future of cybersecurity, and more — The Scene — While Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and his firm are more under the radar than Silicon Valley’s consumer companies …
Four former Google executives say innovation by rivals is key to breaking Google Search’s dominance, and ChatGPT-like tools will one day supplant Google Search (Paresh Dave/Wired)
Paresh Dave / Wired:
Four former Google executives say innovation by rivals is key to breaking Google Search’s dominance, and ChatGPT-like tools will one day supplant Google Search — Despite shared concerns about Google’s power, critics of the company and former executives express little agreement on what …
London-based Lighthouse, which offers tools to help hotels analyze market demand and rates, raised a ~$370M Series C led by KKR, sources say at a $1B+ valuation (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg:
London-based Lighthouse, which offers tools to help hotels analyze market demand and rates, raised a ~$370M Series C led by KKR, sources say at a $1B+ valuation — Lighthouse, a startup that helps hotels analyze market demand and rates, has raised about $370 million in a funding round led by private equity firm KKR & Co.
Google says the US DOJ’s “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court’s decision”, would hurt US consumers and jeopardize US’ global tech leadership (Kent Walker/The Keyword)
Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the US DOJ’s “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court’s decision”, would hurt US consumers and jeopardize US’ global tech leadership — President, Global Affairs & Chief Legal Officer, Google & Alphabet — As part of its lawsuit over how we distribute Search …
A look at biometric ID company Clear, as it works to expand its face-based line-cutting service at retailers, banks, doctor’s offices, and other places (Eileen Guo/MIT Technology Review)
Eileen Guo / MIT Technology Review:
A look at biometric ID company Clear, as it works to expand its face-based line-cutting service at retailers, banks, doctor’s offices, and other places — If you’ve ever been through a large US airport, you’re probably at least vaguely aware of Clear. Maybe your interest (or irritation) …
Jensen Huang says “foundation model pretraining scaling is intact” and models like OpenAI’s o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia’s business moving forward (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Jensen Huang says “foundation model pretraining scaling is intact” and models like OpenAI’s o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia’s business moving forward — Nvidia raked in more than $19 billion in net income during the last quarter, the company reported on Wednesday …
A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy — Scientists are drowning in data. With millions of research papers published every year, even the most dedicated experts struggle …
Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google’s search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices (Michael Liedtke/Associated Press)
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google’s search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices — U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through …
Filing: the US DOJ’s proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US DOJ’s proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers — – Antitrust officials propose options in historic lawsuit — Google says government pushing ‘radical agenda’ beyond case
As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says Google should be required to syndicate its US search results to other rival search engines for the next decade (Brian Fung/CNN)
Brian Fung / CNN:
As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says Google should be required to syndicate its US search results to other rival search engines for the next decade — The US government formally proposed a partial breakup of Google on Wednesday, urging a federal judge to force a sale …
