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Kickstart a New Well-Paid Tech Career With This $60 Training Bundle

Train for a major career change with 13 courses designed specifically for beginners to develop the most in-demand skills for the highest paying jobs.

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The writers strike is over; here’s how AI negotiations shook out

After almost five months, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached an agreement with Hollywood studios to end the writers strike. Starting Wednesday, writers will be able to resume work under the conditions established by their new contract. During the historic strike, AI emerged as a key point of contention between the writers and […]

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The writers’ strike is over; here’s how AI negotiations shook out

After almost five months, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached an agreement with Hollywood studios to end the writers’ strike. Starting Wednesday, writers will be able to resume work under the conditions established by their new contract. During the historic strike, AI emerged as a key point of contention between the writers and […]

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Price Drop: This AI-powered Productivity Tool is Only $25

Taskio can help you get your life in order, no matter what you do. Right now, a lifetime subscription is on sale for just $24.97 until 9/30.

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This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You In the Dark

Startup Skydio says its powerful new drone for public safety can reduce the need for high-speed chases. Civil liberties groups warn that few rules govern police use of drones.

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What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?

First it was chess and Go. Now AI can beat us at Diplomacy, the most human of board games. The way it wins offers hope that maybe AI will be a delight.

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Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool

Stock photo giant Getty Images has partnered with Nvidia to build an image generator. Just like with other tools of its ilk, questions remain about who should get credit for the pictures it dreams up.

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FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training

The FBI makes heavy use of face recognition services like that of controversial startup Clearview AI, but 95 percent of the agents using them haven’t completed training on the technology.

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Why Tech Bros and Politicians Can’t Really Connect

There are two ways to compute, and two ways to see the world. It’s batch vs. loop—and we need them to reconcile.

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The ChatGPT App Can Now Talk to You—and Look Into Your Life

ChatGPT inches closer to feature parity with the seductive AI assistant from Her, thanks to an upgrade that adds voice and image recognition to the chatbot.

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Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You

Corporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale. Some experts fear the data these tools collect could be used to automate people out of their jobs.

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How ChatGPT Can Help You Do More With PDFs

The AI chatbot can search, summarize, and create PDF documents with a few handy plug-ins.

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Cisco to Acquire Splunk for $28 Billion, Accelerating AI-Enabled Security and Observability

On Thursday Cisco agreed to buy Splunk in a $28 billion deal intended to address AI-enabled security and observability issues.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Release Date Set for November

The AI assistant will launch across Microsoft products, from 365 to Windows, and includes a prompt writing tool.

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Forrester’s 2024 Tech Leadership Predictions About AI, HR, Budget and Manufacturing

Organizations are already reaping up to 40% improvement from AI software development initiatives, and productivity and problem-solving gains will increase by 50%, the firm said.

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Smarter AI Assistants Could Make It Harder to Stay Human

AI helpers that make phone calls, book flights, and chat with other bots will give humans new freedom—but also lead machines to undermine people's independence.

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AI risks destabilising world, deputy PM to tell UN

Oliver Dowden will warn the pace of change could outstrip governments' abilities to make AI safe.

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Intel Innovation 2023: Attestation and Fully Homomorphic Encryption Coming to Intel Cloud Services

The attestation service is designed to allow data in confidential computing environments to interact with AI safely, as well as provide policy enforcements and audits.

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Enough Talk, ChatGPT—My New Chatbot Friend Can Get Things Done

An experimental AI assistant called Auto-GPT can use the web to solve problems. When the automated helper works, it can feel like the future.

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