Enlarge / Amazon has announced 27,000 layoffs since November 2022. (credit: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images) Amazon will lay off another 9,000 workers in the coming weeks. The news was delivered in an email from company CEO Andy Jassy to employees this morning and follows large cuts in November and again in January. In his email to...
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(BPRW) Black Tech Week Returns to Cincinnati
(Black PR Wire) CINCINNATI – Black Tech Week, the iconic inclusion-focused tech conference acquired in early 2022 by economic impact organization Lightship Foundation, will return to Cincinnati from July 18–20. Lightship’s inaugural…
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Silicon Valley Bank’s Deep Ties to the Tech Industry
More than many other banks, SVB catered to how risky tech start-ups and their backers do not adhere to normal business practices.
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YouTube Restores Donald Trump’s Account Privileges
The Google-owned video platform became the latest of the big social networks to reverse the former president’s account restrictions.
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Twitter’s Talks Over Licensing Music Are Said to Stall Under Elon Musk
Twitter didn’t move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists
The inquiry appears to be tied to an admission by the app’s owner, ByteDance, that employees had inappropriately obtained Americans’ data. The company said it had fired the workers involved.
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WeWork Reaches a Debt Restructuring Deal With SoftBank
The agreement will reduce the unprofitable office space company’s debt, giving it more financial breathing room.
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Anthropic introduces Claude, a “more steerable” AI competitor to ChatGPT
Enlarge (credit: Anthropic) On Tuesday, Anthropic introduced Claude, a large language model (LLM) that can generate text, write code, and function as an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. The model originates from core concerns about future AI safety and Anthropic has trained it using a technique it calls “Constitutional AI.” Two versions of the AI...
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Google tells users of some Android phones: Nuke voice calling to avoid infection
Enlarge / Images of the Samsung Galaxy S21, which runs with an Exynos chipset. (credit: Samsung) Google is urging owners of certain Android phones to take urgent action to protect themselves from critical vulnerabilities that give skilled hackers the ability to surreptitiously compromise their devices by making a specially crafted call to their number. It’s...
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China’s Answer to ChatGPT Gets an Artificial Debut and Disappoints
The promised “live” demonstration of the bot had, in fact, been recorded. Shares of Baidu, the company behind the technology, tumbled in Hong Kong.