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Deloitte is using AI to evaluate its staff's skills and map out plans to shift employees into more in-demand roles, as a part of plans to moderate hiring growth — - Technology would help shift employees to more in-demand roles — Deloitte and rivals have begun testing artificial intelligence| Wall Street Journal: |
Western intelligence officials say that former Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek, who fled to Moscow after nearly $2B went missing, was likely a Russian agent for years — Jan Marsalek, the jet-setting former COO of now-defunct Wirecard, enabled Moscow to fund covert operations around the world, officials say; ‘whiff of Silicon Valley’
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Disney, WBD, and other studios are licensing more content to Netflix in return for much-needed cash, but are holding back their most popular movies and shows — When building their own streaming companies, many entertainment studios ended lucrative licensing deals with Netflix.
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| Rupert Wingfield-Hayes / BBC: |
A profile of Dr. Shih Chin-tay, who led Taiwan's foray into chip production in the 1970s after joining the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Hsinchu — When 23-year-old Shih Chin-tay boarded a plane for the United States in the summer of 1969, he was flying to a different world.
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Tokyo-based chip equipment maker Kokusai expects nearly 50% of its revenue to come from China in the coming months; its stock is up ~66% since its October IPO — - China business accounts for more than 40% of revenue, CEO said — Investment for mature chip fabs likely remain solid next year| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Deepu Talla, Nvidia's VP and GM for Embedded and Edge Computing, on generative AI's roles in robotics, designing humanoid robots, platforms, and more — A version of this q&a first appeared in TechCrunch's free robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
How conservationists are using an AI tool called CeruleanAI, developed by the Coral Restoration Foundation, to analyze 3D maps of reefs and monitor restoration — Time is running out to save the world's coral reefs, so conservationists are turning to every tool they can to protect vanishing reefs — including AI.| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
An interview with Tim Sweeney about Epic's win over Google and his concern that Google will “get away with continuing their scheme” by offering “fake” remedies — ‘Fortnite’ maker's boss Tim Sweeney hopes court will avoid ‘fake’ remedies following landmark legal win over tech giant
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| Adam Edelman / NBC News: |
Just Minnesota, Michigan, and Washington enacted laws in 2023 about AI and deepfakes in political campaigns, an issue the US federal government hasn't addressed — Amid tepid federal involvement on the issue, just three states enacted laws this year attempting to address AI's effects on political campaigns.| Washington Post: |
Experts and lawmakers say Tesla's largest recall yet is unlikely to solve Autopilot's fundamental flaw: Tesla failing to limit where drivers can use the feature — Tesla's software update adds warnings to improve driver attention while using Autopilot — but doesn't limit where drivers can engage the technology
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces contingent pricing for App Store subscriptions, letting developers give users a discounted price if they're subscribed to another subscription — Apple has announced a new “contingent pricing” feature for subscriptions in the App Store. According to the company …
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
A look at the wearable AI race as Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban smart glasses and a source says OpenAI discussed GPT-4 with Vision for Snap's devices — contextual compute - where the world around you becomes your operating system - is the future. this is not a question, it is a fact.
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