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Thinking Machines Lab cofounder Lilian Weng steps down, citing startup-related stress and illness

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Thinking Machines Lab cofounder Lilian Weng steps down, citing startup-related stress and illness

Lilian Weng said repeated illness and the pressure of building an AI startup had become physically unsustainable.

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AI is coming for call center jobs.

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AI is coming for call center jobs.

Last week, Uber said it would be cutting 10 percent of its customer service workforce to “embrace” AI. But things are much more dire than that according to Forrester analyst Kate Leggett, who estimates that “almost half of customer service roles will be impacted by 2030.”

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Jensen Huang says that AI job destruction doomers are 'exactly backward'

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Jensen Huang says that AI job destruction doomers are 'exactly backward'

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that AI could automate "tasks," but wouldn't eliminate jobs. He cited radiology and law as examples.

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Singapore warns of economic risks if global AI boom falters

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Singapore warns of economic risks if global AI boom falters

Central bank in city-state says AI models and quantum computing pose cyber security threats

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Samsung's chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix

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Samsung's chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix

As the battle over the future of AI chips plays out, the fight for top talent is also ramping up.

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Anthropic, OpenAI blow past Starbucks, McDonald's amid AI boom

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Anthropic, OpenAI blow past Starbucks, McDonald's amid AI boom

AI giants are suddenly generating a lot more revenue than fast-food giants.

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Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children

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Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children

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Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models

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Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models

Amazon reshapes its AI strategy by deprecating most Nova AI models and shifting resources to Pieter Abbeel's Frontier Model Research initiative.

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Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing

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Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing

Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.

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Nvidia behind $50bn lease on Texas data centre that will use its chips

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Nvidia behind $50bn lease on Texas data centre that will use its chips

CEO Jensen Huang deploys balance sheet to backstop growth of AI computing market

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China needs a new growth model

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China needs a new growth model

This matters for Beijing’s sake and for the rest of the world economy

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How French theory captured the American mind

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How French theory captured the American mind

The roots, rise and heady influence of the intellectual movement that swept US universities and sparked the early ‘culture wars’

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