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Alphabet’s subsidiary Waymo announced on Tuesday that its autonomous ride-hailing service, Waymo One, is now available to everyone in San Francisco, nearly four years after launching a similar service in Phoenix, Arizona. Driverless vehicles are anticipated to drive commercial success for automakers, despite ongoing regulatory scrutiny and investor concerns about increasing investments in this emerging …

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The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom over concerns that these companies could misuse access to American data through their U.S. cloud and internet operations by providing it to Beijing, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The Commerce Department is leading the investigation, which has not been previously …

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Nvidia has entered into an agreement to deploy its artificial intelligence technology in data centers owned by the Qatari telecoms group Ooredoo across five Middle Eastern countries, according to Ooredoo’s CEO. This deal marks Nvidia’s first significant launch in a region where the U.S. has imposed export restrictions on advanced chips to prevent Chinese firms …

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China’s ByteDance is collaborating with U.S. chip designer Broadcom (AVGO.O) to develop an advanced AI processor, according to two sources familiar with the situation. This initiative aims to help the owner of TikTok secure a sufficient supply of high-end chips amid U.S.-Sino tensions. The 5-nanometer chip, a customized product known as an application-specific integrated chip …

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On Friday, China’s Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) announced significant advancements in areas ranging from operating systems to artificial intelligence, claiming it had accomplished in 10 years what took the United States and Europe 30 years. Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group, made these remarks during the opening of a three-day developer conference in Dongguan. …

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California denies AT&T’s request to discontinue landline telephone service and its status as the “carrier of last resort,” the state agency announced on Thursday. Marin County reported that AT&T’s (T.N) March 2023 request aimed to terminate services for over 580,000 eligible households statewide. The California Public Utilities Commission rejected AT&T’s proposal, affirming that it does …

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Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, announced on Wednesday the launch of a new artificial intelligence company. The venture, named Safe Superintelligence, aims to establish a secure AI ecosystem amidst the competitive landscape of generative AI advancement. According to its website, Safe Superintelligence is headquartered in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. Sutskever …

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Wolfspeed (WOLF.N) has postponed its $3 billion plant project in Germany, underscoring the European Union’s challenges in boosting semiconductor production and reducing dependence on Asian chips. The plant, intended for Saarland and set to manufacture chips for electric vehicles, remains under consideration as the company seeks funding, according to a spokesperson. Following a reduction in …

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Apple (AAPL.O) faced a proposed class action lawsuit on Thursday, accusing the company of paying over 12,000 female employees in California less than their male counterparts in comparable roles. Filed in San Francisco state court by two longtime female employees, the lawsuit claims Apple systematically underpays women in its engineering, marketing, and AppleCare divisions. The …

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