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

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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Patent Drop

Microsoft Makes Chatbots Mindful with Emotion Detection Patent

The company’s patent for a wellness chatbot could require users to have a lot of trust in the company to protect their data.

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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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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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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

eBay Saves Face with Image Data Privacy Patent

Preserving privacy in image datasets could be beneficial in training visual AI without putting user data at risk.

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Patent Drop

Snap’s Patent Could Help Advertisers Know What Makes Users Swipe

Snap wants to know what makes you click. But sarcastic teens could thwart the tech in its latest patent.

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Patent Drop

Disney Could Bring Machine Learning to Parks’ CCTV

The tech could raise privacy concerns if it’s used on Disney theme park visitors that are children and minors.

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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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