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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Big Tech

Microsoft and Occidental Agree to Massive Carbon Credit Deal

Microsoft is is buying 500,000 carbon credits from Occidental Petroleum over the next six years to help reach its carbon-negative goal.

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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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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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Artificial Intelligence

AI Could Upend Electricity Demand

AI’s energy needs are enormous, and could have a once-in-a-generation impact on the electricity market.

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Big Tech

AI Started a New Storm in Geopolitics

As the AI market matures, there is a stark realization in public sectors elsewhere that this is America’s AI world.

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Patent Drop

Google Patent Signals Interest in Small Chatbots Amid Language Model Craze

Google wants to make chatbot development easier with its latest patent.

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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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Artificial Intelligence

India Goes After AI Investment

India’s warm welcome to AI firms sets it apart from other large economies with slightly more restrictive regulatory approaches.

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Patent Drop

Adobe Adds to AI Image Editing, Generation Patents

Adobe said last week that it would overhaul its terms of service and clarified that it will not train AI using customer data.

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Patent Drop

Oracle Seeks AI Automation Patent As Cloud Demand Grows

Oracle is readying for AI success as demand for cloud services continues to skyrocket.

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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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