Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet
Demis Hassabis has spent much of the past decade trying to unlock the secrets of the universe through artificial intelligence. X: @jldastin , @jldastin , @reuters , @ceo_aisoma , @jldastin , and @jlda...
Dozens of sources share how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with Taiwan comments and losing a deep TSMC discount
Forget having the wrong fab and SKUs and now having to try to claw back so much market share: where's their vaunted organizational IQ? — Intel's market cap is down 66% but even that is on past glory...
AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian says thousands of customers, including Sony and Ryanair, have tried its AI services suite Bedrock ahead of a wider roll out “soon”
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Replika and Character.AI, which offer AI companions, are no longer allowing adult content, angering some users who became deeply involved with their chatbots
After temporarily closing his leathermaking business during the pandemic, Travis Butterworth found himself lonely and bored at home. Tweets: @alondra , @reuters , @reuters , @reuters , @jldastin , @ou...
Amazon tells staff it will pay up to $4K in travel expenses annually for non-life threatening medical treatments including abortions, following Yelp and others
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Internal documents describe how Amazon's lobbying helped it kill or undermine privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 US states
has been the primary opponent to our efforts to pass good privacy laws. The fact that they privately gloat about killing the IL geolocation bill says everything about who Amazon really is. https://www...
April Christina Curley, a Google recruiter focused on Black colleges, says she was fired in September and alleges a hostile work environment for Black people
after Google did not respond to demands from Black employees from within the company for better treatment and representation. My latest w/@CiCiAdams_ https://www.nbcnews.com/... Jeffrey Dastin / @jlda...
Documents: Google's AI unit tightened control over its scientists' papers on “sensitive topics” and asked at least three to portray its tech in a positive light
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a … Tweets: @jldastin , @jldastin , @jldastin , @oliviasolon , @jldastin ,...
Sources detail how Amazon shut down a machine learning tool for rating job applications in 2017 because it was biased against female candidates
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Leaked docs: by early 2017, Amazon had a US audience of ~26M for all Prime video programming, including films, TV shows, and content licensed from others
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