The world has never been evenly arranged. Borders, ideas, capital, opportunities have never ever been equally distributed. The language of global development has always attempted to soften this reality with polite abstractions such as “developing countries” or “emerging economies”, yet the deeper historical geography of inequality is best captured in one term: ‘Global South’. The […]
Office workers are filled with anxiety. Many white-collar workers are becoming more pessimistic about their ability to find a new job if they get laid off. Tuesday’s jobs report was the latest ominous sign in an era of big corporate layoff announcements and CEOs warning that AI will replace workers. The overall unemployment rate ticked […]
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration plans to let Nvidia export its H200 chip to China, the latest twist in the artificial-intelligence chip designer’s efforts to maintain access to the world’s second-largest economy, according to people familiar with the matter. Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang The details The Commerce Department plans to approve licenses to China letting Nvidia […]
A hype makes a bubble: AI has been a magnet for heavy investments, which are now being feared as a function of unrealistic promises, creating the so-called ‘AI bubble.’ If AI fails to deliver, that bubble will be considered as having popped. Whether it really is a bubble is largely disputed among tech executives and […]
Big Tech continues to cut jobs and make advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Amazon has planned to cut up to 30,000 jobs, procedures for which began on Tuesday. According to a Reuters report, the company is doing so to pare expenses and compensate for over-hiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three […]
Artificial intelligence may be rewriting the rules of creativity, but Adobe’s legal compass still points toward one constant — trust. At a time when “AI-generated” and “authentic” are increasingly difficult to tell apart, Adobe has doubled down on its Content Credentials initiative, embedding digital provenance as a signature of transparency. For Louise Pentland, Chief Legal […]
Even as tech giants Adobe insists that creativity is entering an era of artificial intelligence (AI), the company makes clear that for any AI initiative to succeed, the four pillars of creation, ideation, production and delivery shouldn’t be overwhelmed. At this year’s MAX keynote, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen detailed an approach that sees them play […]
Reddit Inc. has sued Perplexity AI Inc. for “industrial-scale data laundering”, as AI firms increasingly scrape websites—often without permission—for original content to train their large language models. Data laundering is “cleaning up dirty data to make it look legal and trustworthy” (Representative Image/Unsplash) Three data-scraping companies—OxyLabs UAB, AWMProxy and SerpApi—have been illegally collecting Reddit data […]
“We already have AGI”, the definitive verdict of Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP, Fellow, and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, where he leads the Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi) team on research in artificial intelligence (AI). In an exclusive conversation with HT, Blaise marks a significant departure from the industry’s fixation on artificial general […]
