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Although economic factors are the main reason for tech layoffs, many companies are citing the race for artificial intelligence as a factor, as they are shifting resources to focus on AI talent.
Bloomberg
New US export controls may compel artificial-intelligence giant Nvidia to cancel billions of dollars in next-year orders for its advanced chips to China, a move that could deprive Chinese tech companies of crucial AI resources.
Wall Street Journal
Tech companies are touting new AI technology that can spit out business memos or computer code. They are still figuring out how those products will generate a profit.
Wall Street Journal
Apple's chief executive Tim Cook said the firm wants to hire more staff in the UK, in contrast to redundancies seen across the tech sector.
BBC News
What is unclear is where Baikal plans to produce its AI chips.
TG Daily
Apple is quietly working on artificial intelligence tools that could challenge those of OpenAI, Alphabet's Google and others, but the company has yet to devise a clear strategy for releasing the technology to consumers.
Bloomberg
Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting more attention than ever thanks to the rapid emergence of ChatGPT, so it should be no surprise that well-established, incumbent technologies, such as the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), are poised to play a critical role.
EE Times
US regulators are probing artificial intelligence company OpenAI over the risks to consumers from ChatGPT generating false information.
BBC News
Oracleis spending "billions" of dollars on chips from Nvidia as it expands a cloud computing service targeting a new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) companies, Oracle founder and Chairman Larry Ellison said on Wednesday.
Reuters
On Tuesday, BBC Radio 4's Today program aired an interview with Paul McCartney in which he announced that thanks to AI technology, a "final Beatles record" has been finished and will be released later this year. He said that AI techniques have isolated John Lennon's vocals from an old cassette tape demo, enabling him to complete the song.
Ars Technica
With the influx of consumer generative AI programs like Google's Bard and OpenAI's ChatGPT, the generative AI market is poised to explode, growing to $1.3 trillion over the next 10 years from a market size of just $40 billion in 2022, according to a new report by Bloomberg Intelligence (BI).
Bloomberg
Nvidia has become synonymous with AI, AMD will need to "step up its game" to better compete in this space.
Forbes
The exhibitors and speakers at both Computex and its related InnoVEX Forum certainly demonstrated a mood of optimism for Taiwan's crucial role in the AI economy.
EE Times
As generative AI revolutionizes tech, governments around the world are trying to come up with regulations that encourage its benefits while minimizing risks such as bias and disinformation.
Computerworld
Shares in computer chip designer Nvidia have soared over the past week, taking the company's valuation above the one trillion dollar mark.
BBC News
A man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI) has quit his job, warning about the growing dangers from developments in the field.
BBC News
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring for roles it thinks could be replaced with artificial intelligence in the coming years.
Bloomberg
Chinese technology giant Alibaba has announced plans to roll out its own artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT-style product called Tongyi Qianwen.
BBC News
Some of the biggest names in tech are calling for artificial intelligence labs to stop the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing "profound risks to society and humanity."
CNN
AT&T and Nvidia have announced a collaboration in which AT&T will continue to transform its operations and enhance sustainability by using Nvidia-powered AI for processing data, optimizing service-fleet routing and building digital avatars for employee support and training.
Company release
Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Tuesday said it released open source ChatGPT-like models for the research and business community to use for free in an effort to foster more collaboration.
Reuters
Chinese artificial intelligence groups are skirting export controls to access high-end US chips through intermediaries, revealing potential loopholes in Washington's blockade of cutting-edge technology to the country.
The Financial Times
Artificial intelligence was supposed to be Google's thing.
Bloomberg
According to analysis by Swiss bank UBS, ChatGPT is the fastest growing app of all time. In January, only two months after its launch, UBS analysis estimates that ChatGPT had 100 million active users. For comparison, it took nine months for TikTok to reach 100 million.
ZDNet
By creating chatbot ChatGPT, artificial intelligence research and deployment company OpenAI has democratised AI, but, like all new technological developments, this carries the risk of challenges such as contextual errors, prejudice, information trustworthiness or credibility, analysts say.
Mail and Guardian
The United States and European Union on Friday announced an agreement to speed up and enhance the use of artificial intelligence to improve agriculture, healthcare, emergency response, climate forecasting and the electric grid.
Reuters
Tighter restrictions on US semiconductor and equipment sales are set to test China's artificial intelligence superpowers as Washington removes a key plank of next-generation technological development.
Bloomberg
The Biden administration plans next month to broaden curbs on US shipments to China of semiconductors used for artificial intelligence and chipmaking tools, several people familiar with the matter said.
Reuters
A Reuters review of more than a dozen publicly available government tenders over the past two years indicated that among some of China's most strategically important research institutes, there is high demand - and need - for Nvidia's signature A100 chips.
Reuters
The Biden administration has been weighing a potential ban for months, but has elected to order the Commerce Department to issue a new rule that will effectively block the export of chip design software that's required to make chips with an emerging technology called gate all around, according to a person familiar with the administration's plans.
Protocol
Today as part of CES 2022, Intel demonstrated advancements and momentum with Mobileye, progress toward discrete graphics leadership and the launch of the newest members of the 12th Gen Intel Core family. With these milestones, Intel furthers its commitment to enable the industry and its customers and partners to harness the technology superpowers - ubiquitous computing, cloud-to-edge infrastructure, pervasive connectivity and artificial intelligence - at the heart of the digital transformation.
Company release
Bringing simulation of real and virtual worlds to everything from self-driving vehicles to avatars to robotics to modeling the planet's climate, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has introduced technologies to transform multitrillion-dollar industries.
Company release
Chinese tech giant Baidu said on Wednesday it had begun mass-producing second-generation Kunlun artificial intelligence (AI) chips, as it races to become a key player in the chip industry which Beijing is trying to strengthen.
Reuters
There were more than 1.3 million unfilled job openings at restaurants and hotels as of the end of May, double the number a year earlier, according to the Labor Department. For many restaurants, surviving the current labor crunch and resulting wage inflation means using self-service ordering kiosks and other tech tools to automate away some customer-facing jobs and streamline things like online ordering. But entrepreneurs and industry executives also are trying to tackle a bigger, knottier problem: automating the production of food itself.
Wall Street Journal
Micron Technology on Wednesday forecast fiscal third-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates due to a rise in demand for memory chips thanks to 5G smartphones and artificial intelligence software that is pushing memory chip prices upward.
Reuters
The LEC-IMX8MP SMARC AI-on-module features NXP's i.MX 8M Plus with integrated NPU running up to 2.3 TOPS
Company release
"Despite our private-sector and university leadership in AI, the US remains unprepared for the coming era... China is a competitor possessing the might, talent and ambition to challenge America's technological leadership, military superiority and its broader position in the world."
The Financial Times
Apple is joining the automotive party because it has to and if Apple is going to develop an automotive-grade C1 processor, it requires foundry partners with automotive-qualified processes.
EE Times
Alphabet's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a "sensitive topics" review.
CNBC
Intel's Clover Falls AI chip will be part of the company's Evo platform, focusing on commercial PCs for now.
PC World
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