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Shares surge after tech giant issues first ever dividend and posts revenue of $80.5bn, up 15% since last year, despite staff turmoilShares in Alphabet, the owner of Google and YouTube, surged after it issued its first ever dividend and revealed that profits had surged in the last quarter.Sundar Pichai, CEO, hailed the transition to artificial intelligence as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” as his company races to integrate the technology across its business. Continue reading...

Company beat Wall Street expectations and posted a revenue of $80.5bn, up 15% since last year, after internal and external unrestGoogle’s push to integrate artificial intelligence into all of its offerings – both consumer-facing products like Google Docs and enterprise products – is boosting investors’ confidence. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reported earnings that exceeded expectations Thursday. The company also issued its first ever dividend, buying back $70

What’s a secret to getting more students to participate in an IEEE society? Give them a seat at the table so they have a say in how the organization is run. That’s what the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society has done. Budding engineers serve on the RAS board of directors, have voting privileges, and work within technical committees. “They have been given a voice in how the society runs because, in the end, students are among the main beneficiaries,” says Enrica Tricomi,

Large-language models such as ChatGPT are still liable to distort the meaning of what they are summarisingSeth Lazar is a professor of philosophy at the Australian National University and a distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AIWhat is the role of AI in democracy? Is it just a volcano of deepfakes and disinformation? Or can it – as many activists and even AI labs are betting – help fix an ailing and ageing political system? The UK government, which lov

Shares slumped 15% after Mark Zuckerberg said AI spending would have to grow before Meta could make much revenue from productsBusiness live – latest updatesShares in Meta slumped 15% when Wall Street opened on Thursday, wiping about $190bn off the value of the Facebook and Instagram parent company, as investors reacted to a pledge to ramp up spending on artificial intelligence.Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and chief executive, said on a conference call on Wednesday that spending on