AI 'digital workers' are cutting tasks that used to take a month down to 10 minutes in New Mexico. Employees love it.

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New Mexico is automating a number of processes and integrating AI into its workflows. The state's use of the emerging technologies could point the way to how AI will change workforces across the globe.

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Apple opens its first bricks-and-mortar store in India

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Hello, readers. Hallam Bullock here, reporting from London. I don't suppose you've seen my Twitter profile's blue check? It seems to have gone missing. 

Anyone can now use Snapchat's 'My AI' chat bot and the memes about 'horrifying' messages have arrived

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Snap launched the ChatGPT-powered My AI chat bot in February.

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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says he would love a US TikTok ban in the short term

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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel.

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Kevin McCarthy says 'it's time for Americans to get back to work' and has a plan in place to overhaul welfare benefits in a debt ceiling deal

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California is pictured at the Capitol on January 7, 2023.

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A perfect storm of food-stamp cuts and low tax refunds is looming — and discount chains like Dollar General and Big Lots could feel the pain

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A shopper passes through the bread aisle of a Big Lots store.

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Google, Meta, and Snap would be the biggest winners if TikTok is banned, with shares set to rise on billions in new ad revenue, CFRA says

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US lawmakers may ban TikTok. Senator Mark Warner speaks during the news conference to introduce the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information Communications Technology Act, or RESTRICT Act, in the Capitol on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. . Warner is flanked from left by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., Sen. John Thune, R-S. Dak., Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah.

After losing billions of dollars on the metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg's launching a 'top-level' team at Meta to develop AI products for WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram

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After losing billions of dollars on the metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg's launching a 'top-level' team at Meta to develop AI products for WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.

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Snapchat Hops on AI Bandwagon

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The large language model AI bandwagon is getting awfully full lately. Now Snap, the company that owns Snapchat, announced Monday it’s shoving an AI into its app so that users who are really bored talking with friends and real humans can instead have a friendly conversation with a somewhat unhinged digital tool.

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The Best Apps and Tools For Enhancing Your Windows Taskbar

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The taskbar is at the center of everything you do on Microsoft’s operating system—launching and closing apps, switching between windows, personalizing the desktop—and has been around in some form since Windows 1.0. You’re definitely familiar with it. What you might not be familiar with is that you can actually…

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