Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff

Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI 0 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay Inflection AI $650 million, largely to license its artificial intelligence software, alongside its move earlier this week to hire much of the startup’s staff, according to a person familiar with the transaction. Microsoft stunned the AI world on Tuesday with an announcement that it had hired Inflection’s co-founders Mustafa …

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Cuba Cuts Internet, Surveils Calls of Journalists, Report Finds

Cuba Cuts Internet, Surveils Calls of Journalists, Report Finds

Madrid —  There was a time when activists and journalists who wanted to evade the ever-listening ear of the Cuban government spoke in code or had to meet in European embassies. The arrival of internet and encrypted messaging services offered some respite. But as quickly as technological advances made communicating and reporting on Cuba’s government …

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