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

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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Patent Drop

Meta’s Eye Authentication System Keeps Metaverse Data Safe

Meta wants to make sure it’s actually you who’s wearing your mixed reality headset.

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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

Nvidia’s Latest Patent Gives Self-Driving Robots Better Eyes

The filing adds to the company’s AI software research as its hardware demand skyrockets.

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Patent Drop

Google Wants to Track Burnout Through Your Keyboard

The company’s “personal wellness keyboard” patent may signal an interest from tech firms to embed AI in consumer devices.

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Patent Drop

Tesla Patent Gives its Cars Better Situational Awareness

Tesla and other self-driving car firms face both regulatory battles and public perception hurdles.

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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

Adobe Patent Tackles Bias in Image AI Tools

The tech relies on oversampling of images with “minority attributes” to make sure the outputs actually reflect the inputs.

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Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Expects AI to Get Cheaper as Computing Power Expands

Jensen Huang seems to think that Sam Altman’s quest for $7 trillion to invest in AI chips is maybe a little overkill.

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Patent Drop

Nvidia’s Neural Network Patent Adds to AI Software Expansion

Nvidia may use AI to troubleshoot its games with its patent to analyze and respond to feedback using neural networks.

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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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