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Microsoft will spin its popular Chinese teen chatbot
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced on Monday that it would spin off its Xiaobing Chinese chatbot business into an independent company. In a press release published in Chinese, the company said it would divest Xiaobing’s artificial intelligence (AI) business, also called Xiaoice, in an independent concern. Microsoft will continue to have …
Read More »Tesla’s shares soared. Then $ 55 billion was stripped of its value.
Text size Monday’s reversal was the biggest change from positive to negative for Tesla since June 30, 2010, one day after it went public. Photography by Andreas Dress After a wild Monday, Tesla shares lost about $ 55 billion from their intraday peak and closed 3.1%, after rising more than …
Read More »Iran’s nuclear facilities are mysteriously under attack
Black smoke rose as flames engulfed the Shahid Tondgooyan petrochemical plant in Khuzestan province in Iran late Sunday afternoon. Hours earlier, more than 500 miles away, detonations rocked the basement of an indescribable old house in a northern pocket of Tehran. The two-story home was said to contain at least …
Read More »The fired federal prosecutor from Manhattan argued that Trump had no legal authority to expel him.
The House Judiciary Committee released a transcript of Berman’s two-hour closed-door interview, in which the former Manhattan federal prosecutor spoke about his conversations with Attorney General William Barr regarding his dismissal, but did not discuss any specific case or why Barr thought pushed to replace it. “Once I was certain …
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