A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...

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Data is the oil that fuels the AI gold rush; machines need it to understand the world and help us solve its most pressing problems. But the way we use, collect and store data is evolving as quickly as ...

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An Amazon Web Services data center under construction in Stone Ridge, Virginia, in 2024. Correspondent While AI could change the world in many unforeseen ways, it’s already having one massive impact: ...

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