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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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Markets

Market Meltdown Prompts Investors to Ditch ‘Digital Gold’ for the Real Thing

So far this year, investors have greatly gold compared bitcoin. So if it’s not digital gold, what is bitcoin exactly?

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Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s New AI Voice Model Makes Convos Feel Mighty Real

Amazon’s head AGI scientist told TechCrunch that Nova Sonic is top-of-class when it comes to conversational flow.

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Electric Vehicles

Musk’s Empire Feels the Burn of DOGE

Elon Musk’s departure from the Department of Government Efficiency still remains something of an “if,” not a “when.”

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CIO Upside

Quantum Computing Race Isn’t Run ‘In a Vacuum’

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“It is a technology that is emerging worldwide.”

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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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Technology

CoreWeave’s First Day of Trading Highlights Fizzling AI Enthusiasm

Markets were left with no gains, no losses and a lot of questions about where the artificial intelligence boom is headed.

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Technology

Smaller CoreWeave Valuation Signals Slower Start for AI-Focused IPOs

Hype climbed for AI cloud services provider CoreWeave’s IPO after it signed a $11.9 billion deal with OpenAI earlier this month.

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CIO Upside

Why Factory Floors Are the Best Place to Start with AI Robots

“The problem is bounded,” one expert said.

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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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