French President Emmanuel Macron has called for his country’s AI leaders to challenge the “insane” dominance of US and Chinese tech giants. Macron’s plea comes amid a boom period for French AI. Led by OpenAI rival Mistral, the country has become a European hotb
NASA leadership touted the benefits of using AI in a town hall meeting on Wednesday, but emphasized that the new tech will be used in a responsible way that won’t replace the space agency’s skilled workforce.
Administrator Bill Nelson emphasized that he takes seriously the president’s charge to integrate AI with a focus on “safety, transparency, and reliability.”
Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy was a little more succinct, quoting Spider-Man: “With great power comes great
As a Black tech founder, I’ve experienced trials and tribulations to scale my business. I launched RenderATL during the pandemic when most people thought I was out of my mind to hold an in-person event when everything was shutting down. I didn’t let that stop me, and over the past three years, we’ve been able to scale. I did this because I didn’t rely solely on funding and VCs to help make my dream a reality.
As Black entrepreneurs, it’s unfortunate that we don’t have access to ca
Take your content strategy to the next level with content calendar templates. Stay organized, manage multiple platforms, and achieve maximum productivity.
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Recyklace betonu je svízelnější, než by člověk myslel. Tým odborníků z Cambridge vyvinul nový postup, díky němuž lze důmyslně recyklovat starý beton v elektrické obloukové peci pro recyklaci oceli. Pokud se k tomu použije energie z obnovitelných zdrojů, je výsledkem zázrak, čili uhlíkově neutrální cement. http://www.osel.cz/13489-prulomova-metoda-recyklace-betonu-zajisti-uhlikove-neutralni-cement.html
Ben and Ryan are joined by Robin Gupta for a conversation about benchmarking and testing AI systems. They talk through the lack of trust and confidence in AI, the inherent challenges of nondeterministic systems, the role of human verification, and whether we can (or should) expect an AI to be reliable. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/24/would-you-board-a-plane-safety-tested-by-genai/
Sixty-three percent of marketing leaders intend to invest in generative AI (Gen AI) in the next two years. But, while the technology has the promise to be transformative, incorporating it has challenges. Here are five ques
Resiliency. As the climate around us changes, this concept is dominating conversations from the water cooler to the C-suite. But what does it really mean? Weather can be one of the biggest impact on business efficiency and operations, yet it remains an underappreciated risk in the boardroom. The growing frequency and severity of natural disasters and extreme weather events, as reported by the World Economic Forum, can upend e
Google confirms algorithmic actions for site reputation abuse are not live, and will only impact specific content.
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Tesla has left out its goal of delivering 20 million vehicles a year by 2030 in its latest impact report published on Thursday, another sign the company is tempering its auto ambitions as it shifts focus to robotaxis.
CEO Elon Musk had said in 2020 that Tesla aspired to sell 20 million vehicles by the end of the current decade—twice as many as those sold by
Google parent Alphabet’s potential acquisition of HubSpot, a U.S. marketing software maker with a market value of $31 billion, would boost its ability to compete against Microsoft in offering cloud-based applications to companies.
Reuters reported last month that Google was exploring an offer
Tesla investor Scottish Mortgage Investment trust said on Thursday it plans to continue backing CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package at its annual shareholder meeting next month.
The first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role in hiring, housing and medical decisions for millions of Americans are facing pressure from all sides and floundering in statehouses nationwide.
Only one of seven bills aimed at preventing
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Long before generative AI’s boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl trafficking made a compelling case for its embrace by U.S. intelligence agencies.
The operation’s results far exceeded human-only analysis, finding twice as many companies and 400% more people engaged in illegal or suspicious commer
The VR music platform Soundscape is collaborating with the electronic music producer deadmau5 to offer unlimited streams of his VR performance in the company’s musical metaverse.
The collaboration with deadmau5 will feature an exclusive virtual concert. The concert will be roughly an hour long and will be available in “Twilight Thicket,” one of the platform’s six universes.
The first major VR experience built nativel
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Anthropic researchers announce progress in understanding how large models “think”
Today’s AI mo
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Hopes of making the Netherlands a global chip powerhouse have been boosted by a new deal between tech giant ASML and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The pair today pledged to spend €180mn on semiconductor research over the next 10 years. Alongside the investm
When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments—that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves.
But two English professors at Carnegie Mellon University had a different first reaction: They saw in this new technology a way to show s
Nvidia gave yet another triumphant quarterly report on Wednesday evening, and also gave the clearest sign yet that it intends to take on Intel directly for control of the personal computer. Basically, Nvidia has tremendous access to the resources an “AI PC” needs—namely, lots and lots of memory circuitry.
Intel, of course, sells upward of ninety percent of the central processing units contr
Discover the power of Reddit for marketers. Learn how to engage with Reddit's active user base and gain deeper insights into consumer behavior.
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Social media platforms and content apps change all the time. But in the past few years, TikTok has changed more than many.
As the company has faced criticism from regulators around the world because of its alleged links to China, it has sought to appease its critics by reshaping the app, its company, and how it works.
It’s all for nothing, it seems, as politicians i
Looking to get a job with a PPC agency? Learn about the skills, knowledge, and mindset that are in demand in the job market today.
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A space mission exploring the “dark universe” has released its first scientific data — and five new extraterrestrial snapshots. Captured by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid telescope, the observations paint a never-before-seen picture of the cosmos. The
With democracy on the line yet again in November, millions of progressive voters will do what they’ve been conditioned to do: They’ll open their digital wallets to try to save it.
A practice that initially took off among anti–Iraq War protesters in the U.S. in the early 2000s, offering small-dollar donations online has become the default mode by which Democratic-leaning voters engage with causes and candidates up and down the ballot. During the 2020 election, small donors contribut
Google's new visual search blurs the lines between AI search results and paid "recommendations"
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Finnish scale-up Enifer is set to build a world-first fungal protein factory after securing full funding for the €33mn site. The futuristic plant will convert food industry sidestreams into an ingredient called Pekilo. Invented in the 1970s, Pekilo was the worl
After years of ravaging computer servers to swindle millions of dollars, the operators of the notorious Ebury botnet had slipped into the shadows by 2021. Suddenly, they reemerged with a bang. The new evidence surfaced during a police investigation in the Nethe
Tým společnosti Anthropic vymyslel důmyslný algoritmus, s jehož pomocí lze do jisté míry zkoumat, které skupiny umělých neuronů inteligence Claude 3 Sonnet mají sklon být aktivní při určitých zadáních. Je to sonda do myšlení pokročilé generativní inteligence střední velikosti. http://www.osel.cz/13486-fantasticka-cesta-do-hlubin-duse-claude-3-odkryva-fungovani-generativni-ai.html
For the better part of the past year, Nvidia has led the stock market. And if that proves true on Thursday, it could be an exciting day.
The chipmaker and critical AI component company, on Wednesday, reported first quarter earnings that, as expected, surpassed analyst expectations. Nvidia reported earnings per share of $6.12, compared to an expectation of $5.59 (and str
Financial inequality remains an unsolved issue. The lack of affordable housing has led to a crisis where long-term wealth generation through homeownership is impossible for many. Closing the wealth inequality gap, which is closely linked to race, has become increasingly difficult due to systemic biases within financial institutions.
The bias exists because banks and mortgage companies reward simple and straightforward application processing. These rewards include discounted f
Alexa was one of the forerunners of digital assistants, but with the rise of generative AI, Amazon’s one-time cultural phenomenon has become less relevant.
Now, however, Amazon could be preparing to unveil an updated version of Alexa, featuring generative artificial intelligence, to better compete with the chatbots that are flourishing online
WP Rocket WordPress caching plugin will now automatically optimize LCP Core Web Vitals sitewide automatically.
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“A new AI era begins”
Signs displaying that confident declaration were plastered all over Microsoft’s campus when I visited on Monday. I wasn’t sure if it referred just to the Windows-centric AI media briefing the company was holding or also to its Build developer conference, which was starting the following day. But coming the week after OpenAI’s unveiling of its ChatGPT Voice Mode and Google’s
Mastercard said Wednesday that it expects to be able to discover that your credit or debit card number has been compromised well before it ends up in the hands of a cybercriminal.
In its latest software update rolling out this week, Mastercard is integrating artificial intelligence into its fraud-prediction technology that it expects will be able to see patterns in stolen cards faster and allow banks to replace them before t
Chip machine-maker ASML reportedly has the power to remotely disable its equipment in TSMC’s fabs, should China invade Taiwan. TSMC is the biggest client of ASML’s EUV lithography systems, which use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths to manufacture the hi
It’s been a busy week for AI policymakers. The EU has sealed the deal on its AI Act. Meanwhile, in Seoul, South Korea, 16 world-leading companies have signed the “Frontier AI Safety Commitments,” and a group of countries have promised to wor
The European Space Agency (ESA) has enlisted two companies to develop cargo shuttle vehicles for low Earth orbit. ESA awarded the new contracts to the Exploration Company in Germany and Thales Alenia Space in Italy. The services are due to deliver supplies to t
DeepL, the Cologne-based unicorn that has been rivalling machine translation giants such as Google Translate, today announced a new investment of $300mn (€277mn), reaching a $2bn valuation. Born from online dictionary Linguee, the startup was founded in 2017
The Internet is not exactly a green technology. Whether it’s the electricity gobbled up by servers, PCs and other tools that access and deliver the online world, or the e-Waste that’s piling up in landfills, being connected has its environmental downsides.
Comcast, though, says i
Nvidia Corporation, the world’s leading GPU chip design company, is poised to announce its latest quarterly earnings after the bell on Wednesday, and market watchers are keenly focused on the results—and what they will mean for the company’s stock value—especially regarding the H200 chips and the transition toward the new Blackwell architecture.
Nvidia’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked the actress Scarlett Johansson—who famously voiced an AI assistant in the 2013 film Her—to do the voice for ChatGPT. She said no. So OpenAI concocted a voice that sounds a lot like that of the actress, and used it without telling her. Now the actress has lawyered up and OpenAI has egg
As protests continue to engulf college campuses across the U.S., former Merck CEO Ken Frazier and former American Express CEO Ken Chenault see the unrest as a microcosm of broader society, and a crucial learning moment for business leaders everywhere. Frazier and Chenault share their unfiltered advice about corporate DEI and ESG efforts, what people misunderstand about affirmative action, and how to lead with courage in 2024.
This is an abridged transcript of an interview
This article explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI Overviews, including lower CPCs, misinformation, and potential traffic loss for content creators.
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A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/22/you-should-keep-a-developer-s-journal/
In today’s deeply divided world, where a spirit of isolationism and separation se
Struggling to recover from a Google update? This checklist can help. Get back on track and maintain your website's organic visibility.
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Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Linnea an
Google keynote speakers demonstrated how AI Overviews will prioritize advertising over organic search
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Discover the importance of header tags in web design and SEO. Optimize content structure and improve search rankings with these best practices.
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Google and Microsoft have spent the last few weeks unspooling enormous ambitions for artificial intelligence, but their smallest-scale showings of this technology—what they call on-device AI, but which you can also think of as offline or cloud-free AI—look the most interesting. And unsettling.
Both companies pose the
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Termosolární elektrárny obvykle ukládají získané teplo do tavených solí. Mají sice vhodné fyzikální vlastnosti, ale také řadu nevýhod. Pozoruhodnou alternativu tavených solí představuje sopečný popel. Mohl by se stát novým praktickým materiálem pro uložení termální energie. Stačí si ho nasbírat někde u sopky. http://www.osel.cz/13485-sopecny-popel-je-vynikajici-levna-baterie-na-termalni-solarni-energii.html
TikTok, the short-video company with Chinese roots, did the most American thing possible on May 7, 2024: It sued the U.S. government, in the person of Attorney General Merrick Garland, in federal court. The suit claims the federal law that took effect on April 24, 2024,
Wix's new AI image tools are a milestone, makes stock image libraries and 3rd party image editors virtually obsolete
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Will AI take your marketing job to the next level? Yes! Learn how to use generative AI to improve your campaigns & get higher ROI.
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WordPress 6.5 introduces native lastmod support, improving crawl efficiency for search engines.
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SEO job listings dropped 37% in Q1, though senior roles increased slightly amid economic pressures.
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The SERPs are a volatile place right now. Since March 2024, the SEO industry has seen significant disruptions, with Google rolling out its latest algorithm changes. From the deindexing of websites to the delivery of manual penalties, site owners and SEO professionals have found themselves in a tough spot as Google attempts to clean up search results. So what’s the path forward? How can you keep your site in good standing? If you’re looking for strategies to help you not just survive but thr
Over the past couple of years, the Gulf states have been putting their oil money to use buying up thousands of the latest AI chips. However, thus far they have been relatively quiet when it comes to investing in quantum technology. That is
The EU’s AI Act is set to enter force next month after receiving a final rubber-stamp from the European Council. Ministers today endorsed a political deal on the landmark law, billed as the world’s first comprehensive rules on AI. The law applies a risk-based
Amid a global race for semiconductor independence, the UK announced today a designated institute that will oversee its £1bn strategy on growing its chips sector. At the same time, Belgium-based research hub imec has land
Khan Academy’s AI assistant will now be free to K-12 teachers in the U.S., thanks to a new deal with Microsoft, the companies said Tuesday during Microsoft’s Build conference.
Microsoft is donating access to its Microsoft Azure infrastructure to give teachers free use of the tool, which previously required a $4 per month subscription to pay for the cost of the underlying AI service.
“They just ha
Google won’t commit to providing websites with Search Console data on traffic generated from AI search results.
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Switzerland-based Limula today announced a raise of $6.8mn (€6.2mn) to further develop its technology, which aims to automate cell therapy manufacturing. Gene and cell therapies have emerged as a promising treatment for life-threatening or difficult-to-man
Over the past couple of years, the Gulf states have been putting their oil money to use buying up thousands of the latest AI chips. However, thus far they have been relatively quiet when it comes to investing in quantum technology. That is
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said Monday they will keep operating in Minnesota now that state lawmakers have passed a measure that will increase driver pay, but at a lower r
California’s top state court on Tuesday will consider a labor union’s challenge to a ballot measure allowing app-based services such as Uber and Lyft to classify drivers in the state as independent contractors rather than as employees with more benefits.
The seven-member California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in San Francisco in a la
Europe’s landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed on Tuesday a political deal reached in December, setting a potential global benchmark for a technology used in business and everyday life.
The European Union’s AI A