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Canva announced on the 4th its first job cuts since its founding. About 1,270 employees, or 22% of staff, will be affected by dismissals or changes to their roles. CEO Melanie Perkins wrote to employees that this is the toughest year yet and that growth slowed for the first time in 10 years.
Read the original →NICE, the Israel-founded customer-service software firm, is laying off about 500 employees globally. That is 5 per cent of its workforce of 10,000.
Read the original →Freshworks ended "$5 million ideas" and moved early-career work to AI, Woodside told Fortune. He compared the process to "saying to somebody that your baby's ugly."
Read the original →Rival firm OpenAI last week disclosed similar incidents involving its models.
Read the original →This year AI solved one of math's most difficult problems, and OpenAI has since published hundreds of new math results. NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfel discusses the risks and rewards of AI's growing role in mathematics.
Read the original →Alphabet's Chromebooks are the most widely used laptops in U.S. classrooms. The company faces growing resistance to AI from parents and school districts.
Read the original →Elected officials voiced outrage over Google turning off search at schools that ban AI. The company said search can be turned back on with AI Overviews.
Read the original →Meta released Llama 3 on April 18, 2024. The description says a 70B open model priced at roughly 10x below GPT-4 reset the economics of the model market.
Read the original →The article compares ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity and Grok, with plans from $0 to $500 a month. It covers November 2026 models and dated changes.
Read the original →Autonomous systems can turn a modest pilot into a far larger inference bill. The article says firms need to plan for workload, not chat use.
Read the original →During its preview, the Microsoft Copilot harness leaves approval policy for built-in tools with Microsoft. It has no published export to Foundry Agent.
Read the original →The article covers NVIDIA's quantized DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash NVFP4 model. The model is described as having 552B parameters, multimodal inputs, and a 1M-token context window.
Read the original →Power delivery, connectivity, advanced packaging, and supply chain resilience are emerging as the primary constraints on AI scaling.
Read the original →Bill Gates is hitting the panic button on artificial intelligence.
Read the original →According to 35 business groups representing telecom, technology, and financial services, the increase in AI-enabled cyber attacks has made it more urgent for Congress to reauthorize a 2015 law. The groups describe the law as central to U.S. cyber defenses.
Read the original →For decades, many law firms have relied on a pressure-based performance structure built around billable hours and heavy workload intensity. In those systems, human time has functioned as a primary economic asset, and more hours required for work meant greater potential revenue.
Read the original →Empromptu AI is an AI research and platform company that builds production-grade AI applications for enterprises.
Read the original →OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that India has more ChatGPT users than the US.
Read the original →Tesla CEO Elon Musk called on Sunday for a major overhaul of the automotive and apparel industries. He criticized corporate fashion and vehicle design as uninspired and repetitive.
Read the original →Nums AI develops foundation models for tabular data. It said it has raised a total of ₩2 billion, with ₩1 billion each coming from Mirae Asset Venture Investment and another investor.
Read the original →Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei has published an essay entitled "We Must Pace the Frontier." In it, he expressed ongoing concerns.
Read the original →Meta, controlled by Mark Zuckerberg, is seeking up to $25 billion in a bond sale. The sale includes its first euro notes and is meant to pay for AI.
Read the original →The Nobel laureate warns of a cyberattack that could paralyse power and banks. He calls for mandatory testing of AI systems.
Read the original →In a keynote speech, Esther Lynch, head of the European Trade Union Confederation, called for greater employee involvement in companies' use of AI. She stated that employees should have a say in decision-making before AI is implemented and should also benefit financially.
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