Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Chegg Cuts Workforce as AI Takes Over the Chat

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Online learning company Chegg is laying off almost a quarter of its workforce amid worries that AI is doing people’s homework for them.

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Patent Drop

Intel Filing Could Diversify Deepfake Detection Models

he filing adds to several patents from tech companies that aim to tackle the deepfake problem amid the proliferation of generative AI.

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Patent Drop

IBM Protects AI From Being Swayed by Bad Data

Its latest patent puts a magnifying glass to large wells of public data, aiming to make foundational models more robust against attacks.

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Patent Drop

Adobe’s Latest Patent Aims to Keep AI From Making Mistakes

“Real solutions to hallucination are going to be the next step change in AI.”

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Artificial Intelligence

Google AI-ngst: Apple Deal May Disintegrate Even Without Court Intervention

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The future of traditional search engines got a rude awakening last week as an Apple executive predicted their eventual demise.

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Patent Drop

Google Patents Explore Convergence of AI and Healthcare

The filings signal the growing use cases for AI in healthcare settings, but also the risks that may accompany using AI in clinical care.

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Patent Drop

IBM Patent Highlights Double-Edged Sword of Synthetic Training Data

The tech underscores that offering AI services may be just as lucrative as building AI models themselves.

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Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Uses AI Race to Boost its Cloud Clout

In a bid to attract some new clients for its cloud service, Amazon announced it will foot the bill for startups using AI models.

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CIO Upside

DeepMind Patent Shrinks Model Size Without Compromise

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Small and energy-efficient models have garnered growing attention in recent months.

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Artificial Intelligence

The AI Talent War Is Supercharged

Some candidates with experience in large language models can reap salaries in excess of $1 million a year.

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Patent Drop

Nvidia, Google Patents Signal Big Tech’s AI Robot Craze

While robots aren’t taking over the world any time soon, tech companies seem intent on creating AI-enabled machines that walk among us.

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Patent Drop

Adobe AI Patent Could Take the Work Out of Data Visualization

The filing adds to several of the company’s AI-powered business tool patents, and signals its growing interest in enterprise-focused AI tech.

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Industries

Microsoft Holds Out on OpenAI Nonprofit Plan

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Microsoft hasn’t signed off on OpenAI’s dramatic reversal of its onetime plan to become a for-profit venture.

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Artificial Intelligence

Tech Giants Are Betting Billions on AI Smartphones. But Consumers Aren’t Sold

Big Tech is hoping AI-powered smartphones will be the first of many great returns on its eye-popping AI investments.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia Fights to Stay One Step Ahead of AI’s Many Evolutions

This year’s Nvidia GTC event comes after the bombshell DeepSeek moment, the acceleration of a global trade war, and a broader market rout.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft Seeks Patent to Limit Hallucinations in AI

Along with mitigating hallucinations, this tech creates an audit trail for more transparency between the model and its users.

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