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, 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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Patent Drop

Microsoft’s XR Control Patent May Get Too Close for Comfort

Microsoft is taking hands-free augmented reality to the next level: The company wants to patent a system for tracking tongue movements.

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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

IBM Wants to Weed Out Falsely Advertised AI Tools

IBM’s tech could help AI services address the knowledge gap between consumers and the AI tools they use.

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Patent Drop

Adobe’s Latest Patent Turns Language Models into Middlemen

Niche models could be more accurate, save energy and present less security risk than an all-knowing large language model.

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Artificial Intelligence

Google Won’t Let You Ask Gemini AI About Upcoming Elections

The chatbot’s new restrictions apply to countries that will be holding top elections this year.

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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

Google May Use Radio Waves to Feed its AI Models

Google’s patent to scrape radio stations for AI training could provide a pool of useful data, though it may face a copyright dilemma.

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Artificial Intelligence

Temasek May Be Circling an OpenAI Investment

Sam Altman may be looking to the Singaporean fund to help him build his own supply of semiconductors.

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Patent Drop

IBM’s Patent Cuts Bias in AI Lending

IBM wants to make sure AI lenders are playing fair with its patent to weed out bias in financial machine learning models.

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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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