Tech
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‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
The recent tech layoffs would initially appear to indicate the great labor shift from human workers to AI may already be happening. Meta announced last week in a memo that it plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, about 8,000 employees, as well as scrap plans to hire for 6,000 open positions. It’s part…
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Reed Hastings says AI will drive a return back to humanities: ‘I’d be doubling down on emotional skills’
Reed Hastings, the cofounder, former CEO, and now chairman of the board at Netflix, studied AI and computer science back in the 1980s. Decades later, he thinks today’s AI revolution could bring back an emphasis on the humanities as a field of study. After graduating with a degree in Math from Maine’s Bowdoin College, Hastings…
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI won’t kill entry-level jobs. He’s hiring 1,000 new grads to prove it
The big question in corporate America today is to what extent AI will upend the entry-level white collar workforce. Some have warned a full obliteration of the entry-level workforce; others say those fears are overblown. And if the likes of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are right, we can see half of all those positions eliminated…
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Why the key to American drone dominance lies with blockchain
The drone threat is no longer confined to distant battlefields. It is coming to American soil, and the targets are no longer necessarily military targets. Critical infrastructure – airports, power plants, and major public events, as well as military bases – are all prime targets for anyone looking to unleash chaos and undermine national security.…
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More than 90,000 tech workers have been laid off this year. But here’s why companies like Microsoft are offering voluntary buyouts instead
It’s been a tough year for tech workers. Some 92,000 employees have been laid off from tech companies as they look to cut overheadcosts and invest heavily in AI. Meta announced on Thursday that it plans to cut 10% of workers, or roughly 8,000 employees, to improve efficiency and offset its AI spending. The social…
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A Mark Cuban-backed AI startup is helping families turn conversations with their elderly relatives into lasting memories
Charlie Greene, the cofounder and CEO of Remento, first learned about the importance of recording memories when his father, Don Greene, died during the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11. A 10-year-old boy at the time of the terrorist attack, which resulted in his father’s plane crashing in Shanksville, Penn., the now 34-year-old…
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North Korean IT workers are stealing remote jobs and raking in billions—and Americans are helping them do it
This month, a federal judge in Massachusetts sentenced Kejia “Tony” Wang, a 42-year-old husband and father from New Jersey, to nine years in prison for spearheading what prosecutors described as an international fraud operation that placed North Korean IT workers in tech jobs at more than 100 American companies—including Fortune 500 firms. Over the course…
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AI smart glasses are helping visually impaired runners take on the London Marathon
Running past Buckingham Palace during training, Tilly Dowler is closing in on a goal she once thought out of reach. Dowler, who has Stargardt disease and says she has about 10% useful vision, only began running last year, starting with a couch to 5K program before building up to marathon distance. She is now preparing…
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Cohere’s European push highlights the rise of AI’s middle powers beyond the US and China
As the U.S. and China vie for dominance in AI, a new geopolitical dynamic is emerging among a group of so-called “middle powers.” From Canada, France, and Germany to Japan, South Korea, Israel, and the UAE, countries are attempting to build so-called “sovereign AI” systems designed to offer alternatives to technology from the U.S. and…
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Anthropic says engineering missteps were behind Claude Code’s month-long decline after weeks of user backlash
Anthropic, the AI lab valued at $380 billion, has acknowledged that a series of engineering misstepswere behind a widely-experienced decline in the performance of its Claude Code tool that sparked a user revolt over the past month. The latest admission, which came after weeks in which Anthropic had initially implied in its communications that nothing…