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Tech layoffs: Google and Rivian both cut jobs: Nearly 75,000 tech employees have lost their jobs so far this year.
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Tech layoffs: Google and Rivian both cut jobs
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Google is set to invest over $100 billion in AI, DeepMind founder says: According to Demis Hassabis, the child prodigy who founded DeepMind, Google is likely to ...
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Google is set to invest over $100 billion in AI, DeepMind founder says
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Brave search engine adds privacy-focused AI - no Google or Bing needed: Accessible in any browser, Brave's new 'Answer with AI' option provides an ...
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Brave search engine adds privacy-focused AI - no Google or Bing needed
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Google's Jigsaw subsidiary adds AI tools to build a nicer internet: Could low-quality and mean-spirited comments be a thing of the past?
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Google's Jigsaw subsidiary adds AI tools to build a nicer internet
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Refik Anadol, the artist who brought AI to MoMA: ‘We’re in a new Renaissance’: The creator, who has collaborated with Google and Microsoft, emphasizes the ...
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Refik Anadol, the artist who brought AI to MoMA: ‘We’re in a new ...
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Google Alums Go Big in Japan With Months-Old Startup Sakana AI: Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup founded by former Google researchers, is capitalizing on a surge ...
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Google Alums Go Big in Japan With Months-Old Startup Sakana AI
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Google is laying off more employees: Google is cutting more staff, this time teams working in finance and real estate.
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Google is laying off more employees
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Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes: X likely hopes to avoid liability with disclaimer that Grok "can make mistakes."
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Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes
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Google worker says the company is 'silencing our voices' after dozens are fired: The tech giant fired 28 employees who took part in a protest over the company's ...
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Google worker says the company is 'silencing our voices' after dozens are ...
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YouTube is making a bigger effort to go after third-party apps that block its ads
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YouTube is making a bigger effort to go after third-party apps that block ...
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VASA: Microsoft AI generates “talking face” from photo and voice recording: Microsoft has developed a video generator that creates a video from a photo and an ...
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VASA: Microsoft AI generates “talking face” from photo and voice recording
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5 Sectors Disrupted by AI as a Service: The ripple effects of artificial intelligence are changing the face of these areas of business.
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5 Sectors Disrupted by AI as a Service
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New AI tool can predict when an employee will quit their job: Bosses worried about turnover or wondering how long a new hire will stick around can now turn to AI ...
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New AI tool can predict when an employee will quit their job
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Google announces mass layoffs and overseas relocations: Google announces more layoffs in its quest to become ‘more efficient and work better’
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Google announces mass layoffs and overseas relocations
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Cloud office sit-in strike: Google fires 28 employees after Israel protests: Several Google employees occupy the Google Cloud manager's office in California to ...
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Quick Glance: Google terminates 28 employees after office occupation due to anti-Israel protests
  • Google terminated 28 employees on Thursday who had occupied its offices to protest against contracts with the Israeli government, as confirmed by a Google spokesperson.

  • The protesters were arrested and after refusing to leave the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in Sunnyvale or the workspace in New York City for nearly 10 hours, they were transferred to administrative positions to urge Google to terminate the Project Nimbus contract and cease business with the Israeli government.

  • No Tech For Apartheid, a project by Jewish Voice for Peace and Linda Sarsour’s MPower Change, described the terminations as an "indiscriminate act of mass retaliation."

  • The office occupations at Google were accompanied by demonstrations on-site and in Seattle, aiming to compel Google to withdraw from the project to establish cloud-based data centers and transition a significant portion of the Israeli government's IT infrastructure to cloud-based servers.
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Google, Facebook Should Use AI to Combat Conspiracy Theories: New research suggests chatbots could combat much of the damage caused by people going down rabbit ...
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Google, Facebook Should Use AI to Combat Conspiracy Theories
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TSMC's first quarter profit rises 9%, beats forecasts: TSMC , the world's largest chipmaker and a major Apple and Nvidia supplier, forecast second-quarter sales ...
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TSMC's first quarter profit rises 9%, beats forecasts
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SK Hynix and TSMC Team Up for HBM4 Development: SK hynix and TSMC announced early on Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on ...
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SK Hynix and TSMC Team Up for HBM4 Development
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Watch Microsoft’s VASA-1 AI Make The Mona Lisa Sing Like A Rap Star In Wild Demo: The new framework is used for generating lifelike talking faces of virtual ...
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Watch Microsoft’s VASA-1 AI Make The Mona Lisa Sing Like A Rap Star In ...
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Jennifer's crime on Netflix: The true crime hit, of all things, uses AI fakes: True crime thrives on authenticity. The Netflix series "Jennifer's Tat" is now ...
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Jennifer's crime on Netflix: The true crime hit, of all things ...
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UK regulator says Google's ad-privacy changes fall short, WSJ reports: The UK privacy regulator said Google's proposed replacements for cookies need to do more ...
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UK regulator says Google's ad-privacy changes fall short, WSJ reports
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Editorial: Google's hardball tactics against California news outlets show why it should be regulated
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Editorial: Google's hardball tactics against California news outlets show ...
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Psychology professor warns about AI: We are losing important skills: AI is already making work easier in many areas. At the same time, it also takes decisions ...
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Psychology professor warns about AI: We are losing important skills
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It’s time to retire the term “user”: The proliferation of AI means we need a new word.
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It’s time to retire the term “user”