It’s been another bad week for tech industry jobs. In recent days, several major tech companies have announced layoffs—a trend that has been ongoing since the beginning of the year. According to tech layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi, 144 tech companies have already laid off employees in 2024, amounting to 34,560 jobs lost. These are the latest major tech companies to announce job cuts this week:
Mozilla
On Tuesday, the maker of the Firefox web browser announced i
Eric Siegel is a consultant, speaker, and former Columbia University professor. He is the founder of the long-running Machine Learning Week conference series and executive editor of The Machine Learning Times. At Columbia, he won the Distinguished Faculty award when teaching graduate computer science courses in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Below, Siegel shares five key insights from his new book, The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning
Orange and fluffy, with two bulbous eyes forever locked into a morose stare, the orange alien plush named Pou has become an object of grim fascination on thousands of TikToks. Videos show Pou (or #pou, on the social media site) in all manner of dire situations: falling off snowbanks, drinking hard liquor, taking depression showers, even commiting suicide.
The hashtag has amassed over 5 billion views, and made the alien Pou something of a funereal icon among viewers. Pou, who first m
Neuralink’s coin-size device, called N1, is designed to enable patients to carry out actions just by concentrating on them, without moving their bodies.
Subjects in the company’s PRIME study—short for precise robotically implanted brain-computer interface—undergo surgery to place the device in a part of the brain that controls movement. The chip records and processes the brain’s electrical activity, then transmits this data to an external devi
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Big talk—and a big departure—at OpenAI
News broke Tuesday night that one of OpenAI’s original founding members, the decorated AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, has left the company to pursue “personal projects.”
Both
Artificial intelligence is adding long-term memory to its bag of tricks. Both ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini AI are going to remember your conversations with their generative AI chatbots, though in different ways. In either event, it’s a reminder to users to be careful what you tell these systems.
ChatGPT has historically reset conversations when the interactions are concluded, which assisted with privacy concerns, but negatively impacted any attempts to make the chatbot
Joaquin “Guac” Oliver died in the 2018 Parkland, Florida, high school massacre, but federal lawmakers who oppose tighter gun regulations began getting phone calls in his voice on Wednesday, lambasting them for their position.
The families of Oliver and five others killed with guns are using artificial intelligence to create messages in their loved ones’ voices and robocalling them to senators and House members who support the National Rifle Association 
It can often seem as if people on the opposite side of the political divide live entirely different existences. A new preprint paper, published earlier this month, highlights how it’s not just your intuition: In some ways, they really do.
A research team led by Imperial College, London’s Sanaz Talaifar tracked 1,300 college students’ smartphone data over a collective 11,400 days. The data traces produced came from the phone’s sensors, including GPS, micro
Instacart forecast, on Tuesday, its first-quarter gross transaction value (GTV) and core profit above estimates due to an uptick in grocery orders, and said it plans to cut 250 jobs, or 7% of its workforce, to focus on “promising” initiatives.
Shares of Instacart reversed course to be down about 5% after the bell following Instacart’s lower-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue on slowing advertisement business.
As of June 30, I
Meta is ramping up pressure on European officials to crack down on the burgeoning commercial spyware industry, after the company announced it had disrupted a number of Italian and Spanish firms that were advertising their surveillance services in plain sight. These firms were, in some cases, targeting people inside of Europe, Meta says—surreptitiously accessing their devices and collecting data from them in violation of the government’s data privacy laws.
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