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Tech company’s stock enters positive territory for first time this year after gaining about 13% since new iPhone launchesApple topped $4tn (£3tn) in market value for the first time on Tuesday, joining Microsoft and Nvidia as the third company in history to hit the milestone, thanks to strong demand for its latest iPhones.Apple’s share price has increased by more than 50% since a low point in April, thanks to the debut of its latest products. Continue reading...

Book marketing | Labour’s moral exhaustion | Nitrite-free meat | Praise for the readers’ editor’s team | Rewind to racist languageNigel Newton asserts that “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names” (AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief, 27 October). Hmm. Writers tend to see that certain authors being turned by publishers into big brands is a function of our economic sys

The surface ocean is a busy place, with ships crossing, storms churning, and satellites monitoring everything from above. But below the top 1,000 meters, a hidden fleet of robotic devices is listening for signs of stress inside the planet’s largest life-support system. According to new research published in Nature Communications, marine heatwaves are interfering with the ocean’s ability to transport carbon from surface waters into the deep, where it can be stored long-term. That scie

Restructuring paves way for ChatGPT maker to more easily raise capital and profit off its AI technologyOpenAI said on Tuesday it had converted its main business into a for-profit corporation, the conclusion of a lengthy and fraught legal saga.A crucial regulator, Kathy Jennings, the Delaware attorney general, said she approved the plan for the startup, which began as a non-profit in 2015, to change to a public benefit corporation, a type of for-profit entity that expresses commitment to betterin

In this week’s newsletter: Silicon Valley billionaires have a hotline to the US president. Plus, the head of Firefox talks AI-integrated browsers, and moreHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, confounded by the ending of Bugonia and looking forward to seeing Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.In this week’s newsletter: the head of Firefox talks AI-integrated browsers; the tech billionaires’ support of Trump and their successful request to

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated diffraction and data preparation modules enable unprecedented speed and efficiency for AI tasks. Demonstrations in imaging and trading showed improved accuracy, lower latency, and reduced power demand. This innovation pushes optical computing toward real-world, high-performance AI.

Grokipedia’s entries hew closely to conservative talking points, with some journalists already saying it contains inaccurate informationElon Musk has launched an online encyclopedia named Grokipedia that he said relied on artificial intelligence and would align more with his rightwing views than Wikipedia, though many of its articles say they are based on Wikipedia itself.Calling an AI encyclopedia “super important for civilization”, Musk had been planning the Wikipedia rival f

Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon ValleyIn March, three months after being forced out of his position as the CEO of Intel and sued by shareholders, Patrick Gelsinger took the reins at Gloo, a technology company made for what he calls the “faith ecosystem” – think Salesforce for churches, plus chatbots and AI assistants for automating pastoral work and ministry support.The former CEO’s career p

After the release of a slew of other AI-integrated browsers, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo discusses ChatGPT Atlas, the Google monopoly trial – and the futureDo you need an assistant for your online activities?Multiple major players in artificial intelligence are moving on from chatbots like ChatGPT and are now focusing their efforts on new browsers with deep AI integrations. Those could take the form of an agent that shops for you or an omnipresent chatbot that follows you around and summarizes wha

Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medicThis essay was originally published on Rest of worldEvery few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills her backpack with a change of clothes, a stack of medical reports and a few boil