The experimental tool can browse spreadsheets, shopping sites and other services, before taking action on behalf of the computer user.
Category: Computers and the Internet
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Exxon Plans to Sell Electricity to Data Centers
The country’s largest oil company is designing a natural gas power plant outfitted with carbon capture technology to meet the voracious power demand of technology companies.
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How Crypto Insiders Turned ‘Debanking’ Into a Political Storm
Concerns that crypto companies are being purposely cut off from the global banking system have become a political cudgel at an opportune moment for the industry.
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Google Makes New Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)
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Omnicom and Interpublic to Merge, Creating Ad Agency Giant
If they combine, Omnicom and Interpublic would become the largest advertising company in the world.
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The Brave New World of A.I.-Powered Self-Harm Alerts
New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms?
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Apple Faces Lawsuit Over Child Sexual Abuse Material on iCloud
Victims of abuse are seeking more than $1.2 billion in damages, arguing that the company abandoned a 2021 system it developed to find abusive material.
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Payments Are Going Digital, but Many Seniors Still Rely on Cash
“We’re putting another burden on the elderly that we don’t have to,” one researcher said.
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The Biggest Takeaways From the DealBook Summit With Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman and More
Trumponomics, inflation, artificial intelligence, the changing media landscape, and the Elon Musk effect — these were the big themes covered at the annual event.
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Sundar Pichai Hits Back at Criticism of Google’s A.I. Leadership
Google’s chief executive rejected the idea that rivals were set to eat into the company’s dominance in search, despite antitrust fights that could force it to break up.