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

Microsoft May Give its AI Chatbots a Personal Touch

Its patent to speed up interactions between you and your chatbot signals a growing interest in personalized AI.

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Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Will Pay Semafor to Use AI for News Reports

The deal could widen the technology’s use in news-gathering, while also heading off future copyright lawsuits.

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Patent Drop

Boeing’s AI Inspector Could Offer a Sharper Look at its Planes

Amid backlash over its safety practices, AI could help Boeing catch what the human eye may miss.

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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

Baidu’s Deep Learning Patent Could Add to AI Smartphones

Baidu wants to help chatbots work outside their wheelhouse with a patent that lets AI models lean on other apps for information.

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Patent Drop

Adobe’s Multimodal Model Could Make AI Summaries Clearer

The company may be looking to boost its AI capabilities after the fallout of it’s proposed acquisition of competitor Figma.

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Artificial Intelligence

Startup ElevenLabs Is AI’s Newest Unicorn After Latest Fundraising Round

The AI software company is sporting a new valuation of more than $1 billion after its latest $18 financing round.

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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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Patent Drop

Amazon’s Factory Robot Patent Could Fight Understaffing

This kind of patent is particularly significant amid the company’s ongoing battles with workers aiming to unionize.

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Patent Drop

Nvidia Catches Feelings With its Emotion Reading AI Patent

Nvidia wants to pick out specific emotions in your voice with deep learning, but reading your feelings may require more context.

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Artificial Intelligence

IMF Warns AI Is Coming for Jobs in High-Income Countries

The International Monetary Fund warned almost half of all jobs worldwide could be affected by artificial intelligence.

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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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