Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a dramatic restructuring of the company’s engineering organization, which is pivoting the company’s focus […]
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Meta to cut 5% of employees deemed unfit for Zuckerberg’s AI-fueled future
Anticipating that 2025 will be an “intense year” requiring rapid innovation, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly announced that Meta would be cutting […]
Amazon must solve hallucination problem before launching AI-enabled Alexa
Rollout of upgraded voice assistant hit by delays. Amazon is gearing up to relaunch its Alexa voice-powered digital assistant as […]
US splits world into three tiers for AI chip access
On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into […]
How to quickly remove AI results from Google Search
You can’t have failed to notice that certain searches on Google now display AI-generated summaries, known as “AI Overviews,” at […]
Getting an all-optical AI to handle non-linear math
The problem is that this cascading requires massive parallel computations that, when done on standard computers, take tons of energy […]
VLC will soon be able to use AI to generate subtitles for any video
VLC Media Player remains one of the most popular video players, having just hit a staggering 6 billion downloads. But […]
Three bizarre home devices and a couple good things at CES 2025
And yet, this week, in a CES-adjacent announcement, Google reminded me that Matter can really, uh, matter. All of Google […]
161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom
The text anticipated several modern AI safety concerns, including the possibility of machine consciousness, self-replication, and humans losing control of […]
Companies have to address the risks posed by GenAI
Even though it’s only been two years since the public demo of ChatGPT launched, popularizing the technology for the masses, […]