Meta cuts 600 workers in AI unit as it races to compete in tech boom
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Artificial insemination raises hopes for world’s rarest big cat as numbers dwindle in the wild
Minutes later, Khala slept eyes wide open as seven vets set about their work around the leopard, resplendent…
Channel 4 deploys AI host for Dispatches current affairs series as stunt to raise questions
“But this stunt does serve as a useful reminder of just how disruptive AI has the potential to…
Here’s what will really affect jobs in the age of AI
Technology routinely creates more jobs than it eliminates. The diffusion of computers in the United States since 1970…
A 14-year-old’s romance with a Chacater.Ai bot ended in tragedy
“What if I could come home to you right now?” “Please do, my sweet king.” Those were the…
Adventure Ink to host spooky book night in Milan
Adventure Ink Books, Comics and Games is set to host a supernatural-themed author showcase during Milan’s “Practically Magic…
Economics Nobel laureate says AI’s ‘amazing possibilities’ need firm rules
Howitt told a news conference that it remains to be seen who will be the leader in AI,…
California enacts first US law requiring AI chatbot safety measures
Padilla referred to recent teen suicides including that of the 14-year-old son of Florida mother Megan Garcia. Megan…
Peter Thiel calls Greta Thunberg, AI critics ‘legionnaires of the Antichrist’
In Thiel’s view, the biblical Antichrist is not an evil tech genius but someone who warns of existential…
AI healthcare firm Heidi Health raises $110m on the heels of huge New Zealand deployment; A lifeline for small businesses wrongly banned by Meta – Tech Insider
Health NZ last month confirmed it had abandoned an in-house effort to develop its own AI scribe, called…
Amazon adds AI muscle to connected home line-up
But the sector has struggled to deliver on the promise of a fully connected home, with consumers forced…
Artificial intelligence: 24-year-old Kiwis raise nearly $10m for AI that automates common tasks
And a second Kiwi, Victoria University Stats and Economics grad Shine Wu, who earlier won a Robertson Scholarship…