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Google will spend $700 million on severance this quarter

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 17:49

Tech Insider

CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022 — In January 2023, Google laid off roughly 12,000 employees, or about 6% of its workforce.
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Who Is Dean Phillips and Why Do All the Tech Bros Want Him to Be President?

Fri, 01/26/2024 - 15:20

Gizmodo

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.

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The Fallout From the Taylor Swift AI Porn Could Be Huge

Fri, 01/26/2024 - 12:20

Gizmodo

Earlier this week, AI-generated porn featuring Taylor Swift started circulating on X (formerly Twitter). Swifties were scandalized. Polite society was incensed. Swift herself hasn’t publicly commented on the scandal but it’s easy to imagine she’s probably not thrilled about it.

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Feds Launch Inquiry Into OpenAI and Microsoft’s Messy Relationship

Fri, 01/26/2024 - 08:21

Gizmodo

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an inquiry into the billion-dollar AI deals of OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Anthropic on Thursday.