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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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is Growing a Stable of Allies

Adding as many corporate friends as possible is probably helpful in the face of mounting regulator unease.

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Artificial Intelligence

Altman-backed Startup is Forging a Nuclear Energy Deal with OpenAI

Nuclear-fusion startups are getting a lot of funding, but their commercial viability doesn’t seem too imminent.

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Patent Drop

Mastercard Patent Speedruns AI Development

The company’s access to a vast well of user payments data could go a long way in creating far more powerful models.

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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 Patent Turns Search Results into Conversations

Google wants to give search results more back-and-forth.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft May Want its AI Models to Speak to the Heart

Microsoft’s patent for a language model that talks back signals Big Tech’s interest in multimodal AI.

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Artificial Intelligence

Big Tech’s Fascination with Large Language Models May Be Overkill

A high-powered chatbot may not deliver the illusive dream of developing artificial intelligence that can teach itself.

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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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Patent Drop

Shopify Image Patent Highlights Convergence of AI, Advertising

It’s recent patent expands upon its current AI tools as it aims to keep up with the rest of the tech and e-commerce industry.

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Patent Drop

Alibaba’s Neural Network Efficiency Patent Signals AI, Cloud Goals

Alibaba wants to shave down its neural networks to make AI easier to deploy.

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Artificial Intelligence

The Next Big US-China Trade War is Over AI Talent

The US is trying to box China out of AI development. The problem is the Asian nation is also the source of invaluable AI talent.

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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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