Category Archives: Tech News

Filing: Take-Two will fire 5% of its workforce and expects to incur up to $200M in charges as part of a downsizing effort, including $140M from canceled titles (Rob Golum/Bloomberg)

Rob Golum / Bloomberg: Filing: Take-Two will fire 5% of its workforce and expects to [...]

16
Apr
EU antitrust regulators are questioning Broadcom about changes to VMware's licensing conditions, following complaints from EU business users and a trade group (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU antitrust regulators are questioning Broadcom about changes to VMware’s [...]

15
Apr
LinkedIn: the number of companies with a designated head of AI position or a chief AI officer (CAIO) has almost tripled globally in the past five years (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)

Emma Jacobs / Financial Times: LinkedIn: the number of companies with a designated head of [...]

14
Apr
Meta says it is testing its Meta AI chatbot with WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger users in India and parts of Africa (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: Meta says it is testing its Meta AI chatbot with WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger [...]

13
Apr
A case study of the creation of an AI-powered local "news" website, directed to produce partisan stories on a US Senate race; a Fiverr developer made it for $80 (Jack Brewster/Wall Street Journal)

Jack Brewster / Wall Street Journal: A case study of the creation of an AI-powered [...]

12
Apr
X tells users "the hide your checkmark feature of X Premium is going away soon", after X began adding blue checks to "influential" users with 2,500+ followers (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Karissa Bell / Engadget: X tells users “the hide your checkmark feature of X Premium [...]

11
Apr
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his "foundational contributions to the theory of computation", including his work on randomness (Stephen Ornes/Quanta Magazine)

Stephen Ornes / Quanta Magazine: Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for [...]

10
Apr
Google partners with Bayer on an AI product that can flag anomalies within images for radiologists and summarize information from a patient's medical history (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Google partners with Bayer on an AI product that can flag [...]

09
Apr
Source: Meta plans to launch two small non-multimodal versions of Llama 3 next week; the biggest Llama 3 model will be multimodal and is expected this summer (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)

Sylvia Varnham O’Regan / The Information: Source: Meta plans to launch two small non-multimodal versions [...]

08
Apr
Lawmakers share a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a registry of data brokers, let consumers opt out of some data collection, more (Orion Donovan Smith/Spokesman.com)

Orion Donovan Smith / Spokesman.com: Lawmakers share a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, [...]

07
Apr