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Sundar Pichai-led Google faces ‘Clear and Present Danger’ of falling short in AI
2Mar By adminNo Comments
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Sundar Pichai-led Google faces ‘Clear and Present Danger’ of falling short in AI

[ad_1] The only thing that matters to CEO Sundar Pichai-led Alphabet Inc. investors is whether it can get artificial intelligence right. That was the message delivered this week as the company's shares tumbled following news that Google's flagship AI product was misfiring. The selloff erased $80 billion in market value in a single day, underscoring the importance investors now place on all things AI.For a firm with the world's biggest digital advertising business — its operations generated more than $100 billion in cash last year, with a record chunk of that going back to shareholders — the threat is simple: some other company may develop an AI-powered search engine that, as unlikely as it may seem now, makes Google obsolete. “Alphabet falling behind in AI is a clear and present danger,...
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Microsoft warns of Russian-sponsored group that hacked its executives’ emails
26Jan By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft warns of Russian-sponsored group that hacked its executives’ emails

[ad_1] = Microsoft Corp. said it has begun warning organizations that they were targets of the same Russian-sponsored group that hacked into its executives' emails late last year.  The hackers — a group known as Midnight Blizzard or Cozy Bear — has been identified by Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team as the same actor that “has been targeting other organizations,” according to a blog post from the software maker on Thursday. “As part of our usual notification processes, we have begun notifying these targeted organizations.” The disclosure is the latest sign that the group's recent activities have spread beyond Microsoft. On Wednesday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. reported a breach of its cloud-based email system that it said was likely caused by Midnight Blizzard. Last week, Micr...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks to raise billions for network of AI chip factories
20Jan By adminNo Comments
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks to raise billions for network of AI chip factories

[ad_1] OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who has been working to raise billions of dollars from global investors for a chip venture, aims to use the funds to set up a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors, according to several people with knowledge of the plans.Altman has had conversations with several large potential investors in the hopes of raising the vast sums needed for chip fabrication plants, or fabs, as they're known colloquially, said the people, who requested anonymity because the conversations are private.  Firms that have held discussions with Altman include Abu Dhabi-based G42, people told Bloomberg last month, and SoftBank Group Corp., some of the people said. The project would involve working with top chip manufacturers, and the network of fabs woul...
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How to Get a Job in the Age of AI? LinkedIn CTO Daniel Shapero Reveals It All For Gen Z Workers
5Jan By adminNo Comments
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How to Get a Job in the Age of AI? LinkedIn CTO Daniel Shapero Reveals It All For Gen Z Workers

[ad_1] Jobs in the Age of AI:Daniel Shapero has been at LinkedIn since 2008, when the Great Recession rocked the labor market. He's since risen through the ranks to become the company's chief operating officer, guiding the platform through significant strategic shifts. Now owned by Microsoft Corp., the professional networking site is taking on its next big transformation: artificial intelligence.We'll start with AI, the topic du jour. What have you been hearing?The biggest unknown, and probably the biggest change, is that almost every role is going to be rewritten in the context of AI. From engineers to salespeople, marketers, finance professionals to lawyers — everyone's going to be leveraging AI in some way. And so how does the talent team think about hiring people based on knowledge ...
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Altman is back at OpenAI, but questions remain as to why he was fired in first place
23Nov By adminNo Comments
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Altman is back at OpenAI, but questions remain as to why he was fired in first place

[ad_1] Sam Altman is returning to lead OpenAI less than five days after his surprise dismissal, which kicked off a tug of war for his talent, left the company in disarray and laid bare deep board divisions over the mission of one of the world's most valuable startups.OpenAI's new interim board, which won't include Altman at the outset, will be led by Bret Taylor, a former co-CEO of Salesforce Inc. The other directors are Larry Summers, the former US treasury secretary, and existing member Adam D'Angelo, the co-founder and CEO of Quora Inc. Altman had been fired Friday after clashing with the board over his drive to transform OpenAI from a nonprofit organization focused on the scientific exploration of artificial intelligence into a business that builds products, attracts customers and l...
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The Doomed mission behind Sam Altman’s shock ouster from OpenAI
20Nov By adminNo Comments
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The Doomed mission behind Sam Altman’s shock ouster from OpenAI

[ad_1] Healthy companies led by competent, commercially successful and globally beloved founders generally don't tend to fire them. And, as Sam Altman walked on stage in San Francisco on Nov. 6, all those things could have described his role at OpenAI.The co-founder and chief executive officer had kicked off a global race for artificial intelligence supremacy, helped OpenAI surpass much larger competitors, and was, by this point, regularly compared to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Eleven days later he would be fired — kicking off a chaotic weekend during which executives and investors loyal to Altman were agitating for his return.  The board ignored them, and hired Emmett Shear, the former Twitch CEO, instead.  On Nov. 6, at the company's first developer conference, the acclaim for Altman ...
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Elon Musk to join Sunak to discuss AI risks after UK Summit
31Oct By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk to join Sunak to discuss AI risks after UK Summit

[ad_1] Rishi Sunak plans to hold a live-streamed conversation with Elon Musk after his AI summit wraps up Thursday, lending some star power to an event that the British prime minister hopes could shape regulation of the emerging technology. Sunak on Monday announced the discussion with Musk on the billionaire's social media platform, X. The prime minister's aides touted the event as evidence that the summit planned for Wednesday and Thursday at the hub of Britain's World War II code breakers was gaining traction. Three UK government officials said they also expect Musk to attend the summit at Bletchley Park, although Musk hasn't publicly confirmed his attendance. Neither Musk nor representatives for X and Tesla Inc., where Musk is chief executive, responded to requests for comment. Musk...
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Biden AI Order Empowers Agencies to Hit Wide-Ranging Risks
29Oct By adminNo Comments
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Biden AI Order Empowers Agencies to Hit Wide-Ranging Risks

[ad_1] President Joe Biden will sign a wide-ranging, comprehensive executive order that governs federal agencies' use of artificial intelligence, according to a draft copy obtained by Bloomberg Government, marking his most significant step to date to address the emerging technology's risks.The 111-page draft copy, dated Oct. 23, leverages the government's position as a top customer for tech companies such as Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc. to drive changes in their AI products, by requiring developers of powerful AI systems to report their training and testing processes to the federal government. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. The order, expected to be released Monday, comes as a mix of fear and excitement over AI's rapid advancement has catapulted the technology into the spo...
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Biden to require AI tools pass test before US officials buy them
28Oct By adminNo Comments
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Biden to require AI tools pass test before US officials buy them

[ad_1] President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Monday requiring AI tools complete security testing before federal agencies use them, according to a draft copy of the order obtained by Bloomberg Government, his most significant step to date to rein in the emerging technology.The draft copy, dated Oct. 23, leverages the government's position as a top customer for tech companies such as Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc. to drive changes in their AI products. It directs the Department of Labor to write guidelines for federal contractors on preventing discrimination in hiring systems driven by AI, a concern for civil rights groups. US lawmakers have shown broad interest in placing limits on AI, but an overriding strategy has yet to emerge. Biden's directive sets initial guardrai...
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Microsoft-Google peace deal broke down over search on Surface Duo
29Sep By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft-Google peace deal broke down over search on Surface Duo

[ad_1] A five-year truce between rivals Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp. came crashing down in 2020 when the tech giants found themselves at odds over their competing web-search businesses, according to testimony at the US government's antitrust trial against Google.After a decade of fights, the companies forged a non-aggression pact in 2016, wanting a fresh start to their acrimonious relationship. But three years ago, the situation began to fray, Jonathan Tinter, a Microsoft vice president of business development, testified Thursday in Washington. Alphabet insisted that Microsoft place a Google search widget on the main screen of its Surface Duo touchscreen smartphone device in order to license the Android operating system, rejecting the software company's request to use its own searc...
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