A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges
Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit's wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps.
The EU publishes a voluntary code of practice to help companies follow its AI Act, including requiring developers to provide up-to-date AI feature documentation
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/ policies/... Yoshua Bengio / @yoshuabengio : All of us who drafted the Chapter are independent experts. With lots of useful input from industry, civil society, and a...
Sources: Microsoft cut hundreds of Xbox jobs across studios, including King, ZeniMax, and Halo Studios, and cancels games like the new Perfect Dark and Everwild
Hundreds of people were laid off as the company canceled upcoming games such as Perfect Dark and Everwild
After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns
here's 7 incredible examples of what it can do Kirk / Geek News Central Podcast : ChatGPT's New Image Model Sparks Additional Copyright Controversies #1810 Spencer Neale / The American Conservative : ...
TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation
to Replace Them With AI Katie Scott / Tech.co : AI Moderation Leads to Layoffs at TikTok Sarah Kearns / Hypebeast : TikTok Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Move Towards AI Content Moderation Sebastian Pier / ...
Neuralink says its second human implant surgery “went well” and that the patient, who has a spinal cord injury, can design 3D objects and play Counter-Strike 2
Second Participant Bhushan Jayeshkumar Patel / Forbes : Tech Trends In Mixed Reality And Robotic Surgery MDPI Publishing : JCM, Vol. 13, Pages 4974: Exoscope and Supermicrosurgery: Pros and Cons of 3D...
A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA, which used to employ humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge
Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. X: @blockheartben and @ameliargh LinkedIn: John Ellis ...
Despite nine years of music industry growth thanks to streaming, companies like Spotify and UMG are tightening payouts or laying off employees
Market Cap Tops $53 Billion Stuart Dredge / Music Ally : UMG confirms that it will be laying off some staff in 2024 X: Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw : Media & technology companies have cut more than 70,000...
A look at TikTok's dogged e-commerce push by subsidizing sales and promoting sellers in user feeds, as ad sales weaken and social media stagnates
It was supposed to be a test. Suddenly hundreds of people were watching. What's going on here? — Over the last four months …
Google lays off hundreds of staff working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as the company explores integrating newer AI tech
Google is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software and eliminating a similar number …