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01 Aug

Intel Is Cutting More Than 15,000 Jobs Despite Getting Billions From the US Government

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In a move likely to raise a few taxpayer eyebrows, Intel said today that it will cut 15 percent of its workforce, or more than 15,000 jobs, as it struggles to rebound from disappointing results. In March, the US government said it would give Intel no less than $8.5 billion to help it rebuild its US chipmaking operations.Intel said that its revenues were down 1 percent year-on-year for the second quarter. “We do not take this lightly, and we have carefully considered the impact this will have on the Intel family,” CEO Pat Gelsinger said on an earnings call today.…

01 Aug

To Lead in AI, the US Needs a Silicon Revolution

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One thing that US politicians seem to agree on, despite a great many other differences, is that the country needs to lead technologically to maintain a position of economic and geopolitical preeminence. How to ensure such leadership will be a critical question for the next US president and his or her staff.The past two administrations have taken some extraordinary steps to maintain an edge in both chipmaking and AI, two fields that are inextricably and intricately entwined. The US and its allies have restricted exports of cutting-edge chips and silicon-manufacturing equipment to key geopolitical rivals (aka China). In 2022, the…

31 Jul

Google Cracks Down on Explicit Deepfakes

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A few weeks ago, a Google search for “deepfake nudes jennifer aniston” brought up at least seven high-up results that purported to have explicit, AI-generated images of the actress. Now they have vanished.Google product manager Emma Higham says that new adjustments to how the company ranks results, which have been rolled out this year, have already cut exposure to fake explicit images by over 70 percent on searches seeking that content about a specific person. Where problematic results once may have appeared, Google’s algorithms are aiming to promote news articles and other non-explicit content. The Aniston search now returns articles…

31 Jul

Can ChatGPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?

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Open AI says this data is used to train the AI model and improve its responses, but the terms allow the firm to share your personal information with affiliates, vendors, service providers, and law enforcement. “So it’s hard to know where your data will end up,” says Love.OpenAI’s privacy policy states that ChatGPT does collect information to create an account or communicate with a business, says Bharath Thota, a data scientist and chief solutions officer of analytics practice at management consulting firm Kearney, which advises firms on managing and using AI data to power new revenue streams.Part of this data…

30 Jul

Wear This AI Friend Around Your Neck

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The Friend gets around 15 hours of battery life and comes in an array of colors that look almost exactly like the color palette of the first Apple iMac computers. (Schiffmann says that wasn’t intentional.) The design comes from a partnership with Bould, the company that designed Nest thermostats. The Friend is available for preorder now from Friend.com (a domain Schiffmann says he paid $1.8 million for), and the devices are slated to start shipping in January 2025. They cost $99 apiece, and there is no paid subscription attached. (Yet, anyway.)If the notion of a wearable AI device makes you…

30 Jul

Google’s Anthropic AI Deal Gets Closer UK Regulator Scrutiny

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Google’s partnership with US startup Anthropic will get deeper scrutiny from the UK’s antitrust watchdog, adding to the growing number of probes into the wave of big tech investment in artificial intelligence. The Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday it was gathering information from market players to determine whether the Alphabet Inc. unit’s tie up qualifies as a merger and harms UK competition. Source link lol

30 Jul

Microsoft Needs to Show Azure Strength to Stem Great Rotation

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After a $2.3-trillion Nasdaq 100 wipeout, investors are nervously awaiting Microsoft Corp.’s earnings report to see whether the software maker can turn the tide.Traders are increasingly concerned that tech firms aren’t yet seeing returns from heavy investments in artificial intelligence. Shares in Alphabet Inc. slid last week after the Google parent reported higher-than-expected spending, adding to a broader selloff for Big Tech. That’s raised the bar for Microsoft, which is trading at a fairly hefty valuation of about 32 times projected profits and needs to show AI-related spending is translating into sales growth for its Azure cloud business. Source link…

29 Jul

Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself

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Over the past year, Meta has become an AI success story thanks to its decision to offer robust AI models for free. Last week, the company released a powerful version of its large language model Llama, providing developers, researchers, and startups with free access to a model comparable to the powerful paid model one behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company says its new chatbots are all based on the latest version of Llama.And yet Meta has struggled to find the right tone and niche for its own AI offerings. Last September, the company launched a range of AI chatbots loosely based…

27 Jul

Apple agrees to stick by Biden administration’s voluntary AI safeguards

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has joined several other tech companies in laid out by the Biden administration. Those who make the pledge have committed to abide by eight guidelines related to safety, security and social responsibility, including flagging societal risks such as biases; testing for vulnerabilities, watermarking AI-generated images and audio; and sharing trust and safety details with the government and other companies.Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI were among the initial adoptees of the pact, which the White House . The voluntary agreement, which is not enforceable, will expire after Congress passes laws to regulate AI.Since the guidelines were announced, Apple unveiled a suite…

27 Jul

Here’s how to stop Grok’s AI models using your tweets for training

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There's word going around that X just enabled a setting that lets it train Grok on public tweets, as well as any interactions they have with the chatbot. That's not entirely true: a help page instructing users how to opt-out of X using their data to train Grok has been live since at least May. X just never exactly made it crystal clear that it was opting everyone into this, which is a sketchy move. If you don't want a bad chatbot to use your bad tweets for training, it's thankfully easy to switch that off.You just need to uncheck…