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Meet the French startup hoping to take on OpenAI

SOME RACES are over before they really get going. So it can seem in the contest to make the best large language models (LLMs). These algorithms power generative artificial intelligence that can...

The making of a PowerPoint slide

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Vanessa: Thank you for attending the call today. This is the first meeting...

TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.On the Japanese island of Kyushu, the fruits of the country’s industrial policy...

The age of the unicorn is over

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Business has never been better for America’s tech giants. After slumping in 2022,...

Why does landlocked Eswatini have a ship registry?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.The website for the shipping registry of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), established in October...

The world’s biggest maker of spectacles wants to be a tech firm

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Over the course of six decades Leonardo Del Vecchio, an Italian entrepreneur who...

Is running a top university America’s hardest job?

Wanted: presidents for America’s top universities. Applicants must possess an unimpeachable academic record. Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned as president of Stanford University in July 2023 after a report found serious problems with the...

Why the world’s mining companies are so stingy

Mining companies have spent much of the past decade in investors’ bad books. Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s the industry, betting that the surge in commodity prices brought on by China’s...

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