Google's Bard AI chatbot is now open to users in the US and UK. Here's how it works

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Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, speaks during the annual Google I/O developers conference in San Jose, California, May 17, 2017.

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The West was founded by whiny pioneers. Silicon Valley Bank is just the latest.

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Silicon Valley Bank mirrors the myth of the Old West: It started off as a bold pioneer, only to end up running back to the government for help.

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Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse ambitions are shrinking

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Developers are turning to GitHub Copilot, a ChatGPT-like tool that helps them write code. One startup VP says it helped him save 10% of the time he'd spend coding.

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke.

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Breaking through

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How do we engineer and innovate for a better world? That's the question that scientists are trying to answer, with the help of R&D investment.

Leaked messages show Googlers are taking out their frustrations over layoffs on its new Bard AI chatbot

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Googlers are not afraid to criticize their leadership internally.

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The new Bing may not be the game-changer Microsoft wanted it to be, but it's still lit a fire under Google

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (left) has said that he wants to make Google "dance" with the new ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine.

Inside the self-proclaimed 'first generative-AI conference,' executives explain why the hot new technology behind ChatGPT is 'not just hype, but something real'

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From left: Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic; Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit; Emad Mostaque, the CEO of Stability AI; Greg Larson, the vice president of engineering at Jasper, and Sameer Dholakia, a partner at Bessemer, speak on a panel on February 14 at the Gen AI conference in San Francisco.
From left: Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic; Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit; Emad Mostaque, the CEO of Stability AI; Greg Larson, the vice president of engi

UK scientists found a way to slash nearly 90% of carbon emissions from the country's steel industry

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If the steel industry were a country, it'd be the third-largest emitter behind China and the US.

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Bill Gates says he isn't a hypocrite for using a private jet

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Bill Gates says he's "not part of the problem" and doesn't feel it's a contradiction to use a private jet while promoting climate change awareness.

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