As the technology advances, industry experts believe, Google must decide whether it will overhaul its search engine and make a full-fledged chat bot the face of its flagship service. Google has been reluctant to share its technology broadly because, like ChatGPT and similar systems, it can generate false, toxic and biased information. LaMDA is available to only a limited number of people through an experimental app, AI Test Kitchen. Google sees this as a struggle to deploy its advanced A.I…. Source link
Read More »EV industry faces a ‘red line’ for growth through 2027, analyst says
Wall Street analysts are busy publishing their 2023 lookahead pieces, and Cowen analyst Jeff Osborne is out with the big one — the firm’s Future of Mobility report. Osborne has partnered with 16 other analysts at the firm to map out what’s next in the nearly 500-page report, from electrification, to government regulation, to infrastructure, and even 5G and edge computing to give investors the lay of the land. Cowen has also listed 50 stocks to target for exposure. Key among the… Source link
Read More »Here’s another red flag for housing from the largest home builder
The largest U.S. homebuilder offered up the latest examples of how quickly buyers are fleeing the housing market. Buyers canceled nearly a third of deals in D.R. Horton Inc.’s (DHI) fiscal fourth quarter, up from 19% a year ago, the Texas-based company said Wednesday. New orders declined 15% to 13,582 homes from a year earlier, down by 10% in value. The company is responding by walking away from land deals that don’t meet certain metrics as the market has shifted, writing off $34 million of… Source link
Read More »Red Bull co-founder and CEO Dietrich Mateschitz, whose sports empire spanned continents, dies at 78
Red Bull’s Dietrich Mateschitz started an energy drink company and ended up with a sports empire. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson) Red Bull president and CEO Dietrich Mateschitz, a man who co-founded an energy drink company that would eventually become one of the world’s largest sports empires, has died, his company confirmed Saturday. He was 78. Born in Austria in 1944, Mateschitz founded Red Bull GmbH alongside Thai businessman Chaleo Yoovidhya in 1984. The brand would become the top energy drink… Source link
Read More »Oklahoma demolished 49-0 by Texas in most lopsided Red River game in history
With its starting quarterback sidelined, Oklahoma turned in another miserable performance on Saturday. And this time it came against its most-heated rival, Texas. The Sooners were trounced 49-0 by the Longhorns on Saturday in the Red River Rivalry. With the loss, Oklahoma dropped to 3-3 for the first time since 2009 and saw its four-game winning streak over Texas come to an end. Additionally, the 49-point margin is the biggest ever in a loss to Texas. The loss also marks the first time that… Source link
Read More »Google Warns Red Team Hackers Not To Chloroform The Security Guards
Google has released a documentary video series on YouTube called Hacking Google. No, it’s not a masterclass in breaching security defenses at Google, but rather an insight into how security teams within Google protect the business from cyber attacks: the Threat Analysis Group, Project Zero, and the Red Team. The latter actually does hack Google, or attempt to, using the same techniques that real attackers would. There are six episodes in all, none of which run for longer than 20… Source link
Read More »Detroit Red Wings play most of their regulars, fall to Penguins, 3-2, in preseason
Past the halfway point of exhibition season, the Detroit Red Wings used the lineup that in large part projects to be the one introduced when they open the season in 10 days. Monday’s game against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Little Caesars was marked the first time the Wings were playing after a complete day off since training camp began. It was a good test, too, as the Penguins brought a lineup that included Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang. The Wings topped 30 shots but played on… Source link
Read More »White Sox, Red Sox lead rankings of baseball’s most crushing failures in 2022
Baseball’s best are jockeying for position in the sport’s second season — the mayhem of October. The rest of MLB’s clubs are looking back at what went wrong. In a sport where transactions and roster decisions provide clear expectations, we have separated out the rebuilding teams from the ones who entered 2022 expecting to be setting playoff rotations, not vacation plans. We ranked the success of 2022’s rebuilders earlier this week, and now it’s time to flip things over and assess… Source link
Read More »Elanco Animal Health (NYSE:ELAN) shareholders are up 3.3% this past week, but still in the red over the last year
It’s easy to match the overall market return by buying an index fund. Active investors aim to buy stocks that vastly outperform the market – but in the process, they risk under-performance. That downside risk was realized by Elanco Animal Health Incorporated (NYSE:ELAN) shareholders over the last year, as the share price declined 35%. That falls noticeably short of the market decline of around 8.9%. To make matters worse, the returns over three years have also been really disappointing (the… Source link
Read More »Live updates as Astros upgrade lineup, Red Sox make moves, Juan Soto dominates rumors
MLB trade season is here. The clock is ticking as executives try to prepare their teams for the stretch run before the deadline at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2. All eyes are on Juan Soto, the 23-year-old Washington Nationals superstar who is suddenly on the trade block. We will be following every twist and turn of the trade winds around Soto and the rest of the league right here. Check back for updates as the madness unfolds. Astros get a catcher in Christian Vázquez The Houston Astros have… Source link
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