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Meta, Google and others are driving a renaissance for voice assistants, but people have found the technology uncool for more than a decade.

Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.

Google’s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.

Project Maven was meant to revolutionize modern warfare. But the conflict in Ukraine has underscored how difficult it is to get 21st-century data into 19th-century trenches.

As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to “synthetic data” — data made by the A.I. itself.

To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

A partnership would extend the long relationship between the companies that has helped deliver everything from maps to search on Apple’s devices.

Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in California and accused of uploading hundreds of files to the cloud.

The company has suspended Gemini’s ability to generate human images while it vowed to fix the historical inaccuracy.

Like Meta, the company opened access to its technology to outside programmers, but kept its most powerful system under wraps.

A year ago, a rogue A.I. tried to break up my marriage. Did the backlash help make chatbots too boring?

The tech company’s plan is similar to one announced two days earlier by Meta, another Silicon Valley giant.

As it races to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google has retired its Bard chatbot and released a more powerful app.

Job cuts, which could continue throughout the year, have created a glum mood at what was arguably Silicon Valley’s most exuberant workplace.

Profits are up and the economy is strong. But the tech industry faces two challenges — dealing with a frenetic work force expansion in the pandemic and building A.I.

A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence.

The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.