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OpenAI on Monday announced GPT-4o, a brand new AI model that that the company says is one step closer to “much more natural human-computer interaction.” The new model accepts any combination of text, audio and images as input and can generate an output in all three formats. It’s also capable of recognizing emotion, lets you interrupt it mid-speech, and responds nearly as fast as a human being



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More than 250 million people from around the world visit Indeed's website each month.
  • The careers site Indeed will lay off about 1,000 employees, or 8% of its workforce.
  • In a memo, CEO Chris Hyams said the company is profitable, but not set up for sustainable growth.
  • He said the cuts are more targeted than last year's across-the-board reduction of 2,200 workers.

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Cruise’s autonomous vehicles are officially back on the road and driving autonomously for the first time since one of its driverless vehicles dragged a pedestrian over 20 feet in San Francisco.

Cruise said last month that it would resume testing with manually driven vehicles focused on mapping and gathering road information — minor tasks for a company



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A group of Amazon workers in Quebec have formed the first union at one of the company's Canadian warehouses. On Friday, the province's labor tribunal granted union accreditation to workers at the DXT4 warehouse in Laval, a Montreal suburb. It determined that a majority had opted to unionize after signing union cards.

A group of some 200 workers are organizing as the Laval Amazon Workers Union



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  • Melinda French Gates has resigned as cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
  • The couple divorced in 2021 but French Gates said she was staying at the nonprofit.
  • French Gates said she's moving into the next stage of her philanthropy with $12.5 billion to give.

Melinda French Gates announced on Monday she's resigning as cochair of



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UPDATE: May. 13, 2024, 1:00 p.m. EDT This post has been updated with details on upcoming Drops between May 15 and May 17, including the Bissell Little Green Max Pet carpet cleaner, Roomba 694, and SCUF Envision Pro controller.

When it comes to shopping, a scarcity mindset is just as convincing as that one friend who always enables you to buy something you don't need. It's why there's often a



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Expand your auditory experience with this selection of the best DACs for Android. We have something for you, no matter your budget or level of sophistication!