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Particle6 founder and CEO spoke with ABC News Live on Tuesday to address concerns about AI replacing human talent.
A company that most people have never heard of is among the year’s best-performing technology firms—and a symbol of the complex, interconnected, and potentially catastrophic ways in which AI companies do business these days.
A bill being introduced in Congress would establish new government teams to improve technical talent in federal agencies, with a focus on AI.
American indie rockers Deerhoof removed their music from the platform in June, saying, “We don’t want our music killing people,” and experimental rock band Xiu Xiu called Spotify a “garbage hole armageddon portal” before removing their catalog from the streamer in July.
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AI slop ad backfires for McDonald’s
Viewers blasted McDonald's satirical commercial as offensive, with critics questioning why anyone would 'ditch your family and hide in McDonald's.'
AI's rapid growth is driving demand for computing power and silver-rich chips like GPUs and TPUs that rely on high-performance semiconductors.
It remains a useful tool. “Generative AI is of course being used as a tool in candidate sourcing processes”, says Bryan Ackermann, head of AI strategy at recruiter Korn Ferry. Saving time and accessing big pools of talent are “great uses” if used carefully, he says. “It is as much an opportunity as it is a risk.”
Figma is launching three new AI-powered creative tools to help users edit their images without jumping to another platform. The new tools are available in Figma Design and Figma Draw, and can be used to quickly remove objects from an image, isolate objects so they can be repositioned, and extend images beyond their previous dimensions.
Oracle shares slid more than 6% on Wednesday in after-hours trading, after the software giant posted revenue results that missed expectations.
If there is an AI bust, Asian stocks will not avoid the thumping. Yet their relative cheapness might provide some comfort to investors. In the case of a reversion to more normal valuations, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan would have a shorter distance to fall—something that is true of both the region’s AI stocks and its markets as a whole.
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, months into building one of the priciest teams in technology history, is getting personally involved in day-to-day work and pivoting the company’s focus to an artificial intelligence model it can make money off of.
Incubated for DoD & Intelligence use cases, startup announces commercial availability of enterprise AI platform, delivering the fastest path to secure production AI ARLINGTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / December 10,