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

Nvidia AI Watermarking Patent Could Help Separate Real from Fake

The benefits of watermarking AI are clear: “It’s preventing fraud, preventing misinformation and disinformation.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Whistleblowers File SEC Complaint over NDAs

OpenAI allegedly issued overly-restrictive non-disclosure agreements that could penalize anyone who blows the whistle to government agencies.

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Patent Drop

Oracle Employee-Tracking Patent Points to Increased AI-Powered Workplace Surveillance

While this could improve safety on increasingly automated factory floors, these precautions may come at the expense of employee privacy.

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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

Microsoft Data Patent Walks the Line of Privacy Versus Nuance in AI Training

Though keeping privacy front-of-mind could help avoid AI-related data breaches, balancing privacy and nuance in data may be tricky.

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Patent Drop

Amazon Patent May Help Models Unlearn Biases, Inaccuracies

And Amazon wants to help machine learning models unlearn bad data.

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Patent Drop

Intel’s Clean Computing Patent Signals AI’s Power Problem

Intel’s latest patent to clean up data centers could help minimize the climate impacts of tech’s hunger for AI.

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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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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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