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Apple bets its future on trustworthy AI. Elon Musk isn’t so sure.

Apple Intelligence could transform AI from a toy to a tool. It’s up to Apple to ensure it’s a tool we can trust.

Elon Musk drops lawsuit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI without explanation

Musk in February sued the San Francisco artificial intelligence company and its CEO Sam Altman over what he said was a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity.

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Woburn EV maker wants to crack the market with a van that costs less than $30,000

Indigo Technologies is putting motors inside the wheels of its vehicles to save space and lower battery costs.

Arlington loses nearly $500,000 in high school construction funds to hacking scheme

The theft is the latest in a series of costly cyberattacks on area municipalities.

BU survey says people want social networks, not government, to remove fake news

The survey found that 63 percent of respondents want social media companies like Facebook and X to take down false information, while 57 percent say the companies should provide only limited access to such postings.

US clears way for antitrust inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI

The agreement signals intensifying scrutiny by the Justice Department and the FTC into AI, a rapidly advancing technology that has the potential to upend jobs, information, and people’s lives.

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Ahead of NBA Finals, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban looks to AI and analytics to ‘give us an advantage’

Cuban, a tech and health care investor, sold his majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks in December but still oversees basketball operations.

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Amid surging tech stocks and salaries, HubSpot CEO doubled her pay to $26 million last year

Among the 25 largest local tech companies, median total compensation for chief executives in 2023 was $7.0 million, a median increase of almost 5 percent from 2022.