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 Inks Licensing Deal with the Financial Times to Train Chatbots

On Monday, the Financial Times said it struck a deal with OpenAI to allow the generative AI darling to license the FT’s content.

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Patent Drop

Nvidia Patent Details Adaptable Conversational AI Models

However, these kinds of modifications come at the expense of high-level customization and accuracy.

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Artificial Intelligence

Finding the Real in Artificial Intelligence

Does the AI hype actually hold any substance? As long as you don’t get distracted by shiny things, these venture capitalists say.

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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 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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Patent Drop

PayPal’s Neural Network Patent Could Reveal the Firm’s AI Plans

: PayPal wants to create AI that tracks all kinds of user behavior.

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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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