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Marcus Schuler

Marcus Schuler

Tech Titans Tank: Americans Turn Cold Shoulder to Musk and Zuckerberg

Tech Titans Tank: Americans Turn Cold Shoulder to Musk and Zuckerberg

The numbers are in, and they're not pretty for Silicon Valley's most prominent figures. A fresh Pew Research survey shows Americans have grown weary of tech's poster boys, with both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg facing significant disapproval ratings. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 22 -

Alibaba: Chinese Tech Giant Doubles Down on AI with Historic Investment Plan

Alibaba: Chinese Tech Giant Doubles Down on AI with Historic Investment Plan

The tech world witnessed a seismic shift as Alibaba announced an unprecedented investment in artificial intelligence. The Chinese e-commerce behemoth plans to pour more resources into AI over the next three years than it spent in the entire past decade. Their stock responded accordingly, surging 14.6% in Hong Kong

Trump's New Trade War: This Time It's Digital

Trump's New Trade War: This Time It's Digital

The gloves are coming off in the digital tax arena. President Trump has ordered his trade team to dust off their old playbooks and potentially slap tariffs on countries that dare tax American tech giants. It's like déjà vu, but with more zeros in the dollar amounts. SAN

OpenAI Reveals Chinese AI Surveillance Program

OpenAI Reveals Chinese AI Surveillance Program

OpenAI has uncovered something remarkable in the world of digital surveillance. And it happened because someone got sloppy with their debugging. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 - Here's the scoop: Chinese security operators have built an AI-powered tool that scans Western social media for anti-Chinese sentiment. In real-time. Think

DeepSeek Challenges Silicon Valley with Code Release

DeepSeek Challenges Silicon Valley with Code Release

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 - DeepSeek, a small but ambitious Chinese AI lab, will release five production-tested code repositories next week in a move that has caught the tech world's attention. The garage-style startup's impact has already been noted by OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman,

Meet Your New Co-Workers

Meet Your New Co-Workers

Good Morning from San Francisco, While you were sleeping, the future snuck a little closer. Figure's new Helix AI system just showed us a glimpse of what's coming: robots that can actually handle your groceries without turning your kitchen into a scene from a slapstick comedy.

Meet Helix: The Robot That Learns Like A Human

Meet Helix: The Robot That Learns Like A Human

The gap between industrial robots and helpful household assistants may finally be closing. Figure, a leading humanoid robotics company, has unveiled Helix - a groundbreaking AI system that enables robots to understand natural language commands and handle objects they've never seen before. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 - Unlike