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Major global corporations write down billions as deals give way to gloom

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Some of the world’s biggest companies are facing billions of dollars in writedowns on recent acquisitions as a wave of deal-making gives way to a new era of economic uncertainty and rising interest rates. With a third of the global economy expected to enter recession this year, world leaders will gather this week in Davos, … Read more

Microsoft Office’s next big trick could be using artificial intelligence to write your documents for you

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AI projects have made some impressive achievements recently, and in recent weeks, some of those efforts have already been implemented and captured public attention: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which delivers text-based output, and Midjourney, which produces visually. Art pieces. Previous efforts have been backed by Microsoft for a few years now, and a new report suggests that … Read more

A science fiction author and scientist team up to write a novel about consciousness and quantum weirdness – GeekWire

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The Observer plays with the idea that actions of observation lead to the reality we observe. (Adobe Stock / Thapana Studio) Do we each make our own reality? Can different observers create concretely different realities? It’s a fantastical line of thought that has also raised scientific questions — and now science and fantasy have come … Read more