Was your 2024 Spotify Wrapped disappointing? A former engineer explains why it felt like a flop this year

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For the first time this year, Spotify Wrapped used Google's AI to make a podcast about users' favorite songs.

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Scoop: Particle Health lands $10 million in funding after lobbing antitrust lawsuit against medical records giant Epic

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Particle Health's booth at the Vive conference in 2024.
Particle Health has been embroiled in a heated battle with EHR giant Epic Systems since March.

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Google worried its Gemini Workspace product lagged rivals like Microsoft and OpenAI in key metrics, leaked documents show

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Aparna Pappu on stage at Google IO 2023
Aparna Pappu, former head of Google Workspace, onstage at Google IO 2023

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I was born in the 'Silicon Valley' of India and watched it change from a quiet, green city to an international tech hub

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Chandrashekar supports carpooling and rainwater harvesting to deal with infrastructure issues in the city.

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Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman says Sam Altman's AGI timeline is plausible — but not probable

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman oversees all things AI at Microsoft.

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Marc Benioff says Big Tech's 'excessive' AI spending is a 'race to the bottom'

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Marc Benioff says some of Salesforce's competitors are overdoing it with their spending on AI.

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Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on what to expect from 'AI 2.0'

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Cohere cofounders Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst, and Aidan Gomez.
Cohere cofounders Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst, and Aidan Gomez.

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Ultrawealthy investors are vying to buy TikTok — here's what some would do if they took over the mega-app

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The US Appeals Court upheld a decision forcing the sale of TikTok from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, lest the short-form video platform be banned in the US.

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Can Trump save TikTok? Here's where his cabinet picks stand on a TikTok ban.

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President-elect Donald Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump's stance on a TikTok ban has changed over time, but his cabinet picks have been more resolute.

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The Salt Typhoon telecom hack targeted senior American political figures, the White House says

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The government started investigating the Salt Typhoon hack after Microsoft sounded the alarm about irregularities.

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