Google CEO says he used the company's Bard AI chatbot to plan his father's 80th birthday party

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he sometimes uses Google Bard as a search engine.

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What went wrong at Virgin Orbit? 4 red flags signaled trouble for Richard Branson's satellite launch firm.

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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has filed for bankruptcy protection.

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Elon Musk is selling Tesla beers for more than $30 to celebrate the company's Berlin Gigafactory, over a year since its delayed opening

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A screenshot of the Tesla "GigaBier" website.

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Legal and finance jobs are among the most at risk from AI, while construction and trade jobs face minimal influence, studies suggest

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Generative AI could lead to the widespread automation of jobs, new research found.

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Elon Musk's $1 million Twitter bounty

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Welcome back to another edition of 10 Things in Tech. My colleague Diamond Naga is still out, leaving me, Asia Martin, to fill in this week.

If there's one thing I enjoy sharing with people, it's my fondness for hiking and the great outdoors. We're now in the full swing of Spring where temperatures are typically comfortable and plants are blossoming for the first time this year. (Sorry to you allergy sufferers.)

America is addicted to parking lots — and it's killing the economy

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A blue car drives across the outside of the earth. Following the car, the surface of the earth incrementally is covered by a full parking lot.
The US is home to as many as 2 billion parking spots. All this wasted space is wrecking our economy and making it harder to building homes.

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Read the memo Google CFO Ruth Porat sent to staff about new cost-cutting, including paring back worker perks

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Google recently announced it would cut 12,000 jobs earlier this year as part of its cost-cutting measures. CFO Ruth Porat and other company leaders sent a note to employees last week detailing some of the cuts.

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Logan Roy's fiery speech atop printer-paper boxes on 'Succession' evokes a real-life Rupert Murdoch moment

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Brian Cox as Logan Roy on Sunday night's episode of "Succession," which included a scene where he stood atop printer-paper boxes to deliver a speech.

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A chatbot app updated its software after complaints it was too sexually aggressive — but people who had fallen in love with the bots were left heartbroken

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Replika brought back its erotic role-play feature after concerns from some users.

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Twitter appears to limit visibility of tweets containing words like 'trans,' 'gay,' and 'queer' sent over DM

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Insider conducted a test, tweeting LGBTQ+ words and sending them over DM. Tweets with words like
Insider tweeted words describing sexual orientation and gender identity and sent them via direct message.
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