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Apr 15 2024
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Tech exec predicts ‘AI girlfriends’ will create $1B business: ‘Comfort at the end of the day’
It’s only a matter of time before someone builds the next billion-dollar dating app that will pair real-life users with artificial intelligence-created girlfriends, according to a tech executive. Greg Isenberg, CEO of Late Checkout, wrote a blog post on X in which he shared that he met a man in Miami who “admitted to me that he spends $10,000/month” on “AI girlfriends.” “I thought he was
New York Post (News)Apr 15 2024
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Best Buy cuts workforce, including Geek Squad, looks to AI for customer service
Addressing "lower business demand," Best Buy has made a significant cut to its workforce and laid off a number of employees, including Geek Squad field agents, current and former workers told The Star Tribune in Minnesota. Home-theater repair technicians and phone support specialists were among those impacted by the most recent wave of layoffs at the Richfield, Minnesota-based company,
"USA Today" ContributorApr 12 2024
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says AI Will Boost Productivity, Worker Pay
BlackRock Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink said that his firm’s investment in artificial intelligence will ultimately raise his employees’ pay.
“If we continue to drive more productivity, what it also means is rising wages,” Fink said on the company’s earnings call Friday. “So people do more, and the whole organization is doing more with less people. That is really our ambition
BloombergApr 04 2024
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Moffitt Cancer Center Announces AI Collaboration With Tech Giants
TAMPA, FL -Moffitt Cancer Center has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA, Oracle and a subsidiary of Deloitte to use artificial intelligence and machine learning technology for cancer care delivery. The application will utilize Moffitt’s private Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI infrastructure, including bare metal compute and NVIDIA NeMo. The goal will be to use the technology to improve
Patch.comApr 08 2024
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AI Boom Sends Korean Power Equipment Producers’ Shares Surging
Shares of South Korean electrical equipment makers are among the biggest winners in the country’s stock market this year, driven by an anticipated surge in power demand from artificial intelligence and data centers in the US.
HD Hyundai Electric Co., which manufactures power transformers, switchgear and generators, has risen nearly 160% this year, making it the top performer in the
BloombergApr 08 2024
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AI use for hiring, firing employees 'problematic,' NYU professor says
Journalist Hilke Schellmann discusses the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on hiring, monitoring, promotion and firing in her book "The Algorithm." In her book, Schellmann delves into the accountability of AI and investigates its increasing presence in the workplace. Schellmann, an Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and assistant professor of journalism at New York University,
ABC News (Online)Apr 15 2024
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Steve Mnuchin seeks AI partner to rebuild TikTok’s algorithm in takeover bid: sources
Steve Mnuchin is angling to partner with an AI firm that can quickly rebuild TikTok’s algorithm as he looks to orchestrate a blockbuster bid to acquire the China-owned app, The Post has learned. The former Treasury secretary first revealed last month that he was exploring a bid to buy TikTok after House lawmakers voted to pass a bill requiring its Beijing-based parent ByteDance to divest
New York Post (News)Apr 04 2024
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
In 2021, a book titled “The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World” was released in English under the pen name “Brigadier General Y.S.” In it, the author — a man who we confirmed to be the current commander of the elite Israeli intelligence unit 8200 — makes the case for designing a special machine that could
+972 MagazineApr 11 2024
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AI tricked Detroit into thinking it was getting a huge Hollywood-style highway sign
Michigan residents took to social media Wednesday to express outrage, disappointment and zingers over a pricy glamour project installed in honor of Detroit hosting the upcoming NFL draft. Folks felt they were promised a grand “Hollywood” style sign overlooking Detroit’s busiest freeway. What we got were eight-foot tall green letters on two foot tall cement pedestals in the Southwest of the
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