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Pope Francis calls on global leaders to ensure AI remains human-centric

Pope Francis challenged leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies Friday to keep human dignity foremost in developing and using artificial intelligence, warning that such powerful technology risks turning human relations them

What You Need To Generate Leads With Content via @sejournal, @duchessjenm

Create a scalable lead generation strategy with content. Find out how to attract and engage your audience with exceptional lead magnets.

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4 innovations to spur Europe’s energy transition — and cut reliance on China


Clean energy production from sources like nuclear, wind, and solar reached record levels in 2023, meeting over two-thirds of the EU’s electricity demand.  Despite the progress, the Union must prioritise investments in innovative clean technologies th

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Elon Musk wins shareholder approval for record $56 billion pay package

Tesla shareholders approved CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, the electric vehicle-maker said on Thursday, a big thumbs-up to his leadership and an incentive to keep his focus on his biggest source of wealth.

The approval underscores the support that Musk e

Teslas’s largest shareholder voted in favor of Musk’s $56B pay package

Tesla’s largest outside investor Vanguard said it voted in favor of CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, citing the company’s performance, contributing to the passage of the record-setting arrangement on Thursday.

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This week in Dutch tech: TNW Conference edition


Friday is finally here and so is this week’s round-up of tech news from the Netherlands! With less than seven days to go for TNW Conference in Amsterdam on June 20 and 21, this roundup comes with a twist: our editorial team’s picks of the event’s unmissable sp

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Gen AI and Gen Alpha: The impacts of growing up in an innovation cycle

In her book Generations, author Jean Twenge wrote that many people believe major events like wars, economic hardship, or even pandemics are the cultural changes most responsible for generational differences. While those likely shape a generation, she notes that the most impactful influence may come from something else: technology.

Thirty years ago, millennials were growing up alongside the evolution of the internet. The power of connectivity, even for the simplest capabilitie

What Is Schema Markup & Why Is It Important For SEO? via @sejournal, @ChuckPrice518

Discover how schema markup can improve your website's performance in search results. Use variants schema to highlight product variations and provide context to search engines.

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Highview Power secures £300M to build UK’s first liquid air battery


UK scaleup Highview Power has secured £300mn to build a liquid air storage plant in Manchester.  The UK government’s Infrastructure Bank led the funding round. Investment bank Goldman Sachs, British energy firm Centrica, and mining giant Rio Tinto also took pa

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Why Guild CEO Bijal Shah is inspired by Taylor Swift to be a better leader

After Guild’s founding CEO suffered a stroke at the age of just 34, Bijal Shah was tapped to take the helm. Shah shares the story behind the emotional leadership change, and how she wrestled with the immense responsibility of shepherding a company out of crisis. Guild is an education platform used by organizations like Walmart, Target, and Taco Bell to upskill or reskill employees for the future. Shah also discusses how Taylor Swift inspires her leadership, and why Guild recently partnered w

TNW Conference 2024: Bringing fallen ebike superstar VanMoof back to life


As we count down to TNW conference in Amsterdam on June 20 and 21, we’re profiling some of the sessions we’re most amped about. As a cycling fanatic, I’m eagerly anticipating my conversation with Eliott Wertheimer, who joined VanMoof as co-CEO last year to

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6 free, beginner-level AI courses from LinkedIn Learning

Whether you’re curious about artificial intelligence but don’t know where to start or you’re already itching to harness the power of AI in your work, there’s plenty of great educational content out there to get you started.

Here’s a look at a handful of helpful, high-quality LinkedIn Learning courses for beginners—each available free with a LinkedIn account.

Introduction to Artificial Int

The world’s most popular web framework is going AI native

On today’s episode we chat with Jared Palmer, VP of AI at Vercel, who says the company has three key goals. First, support AI native web apps like ChatGPT and Claude. Second, use GenAI to make it easier to build. Third, provide an SDK so that developers have the tools they need to easily add GenAI to their websites. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/14/vercel-next-node-js-ai-sdk/

Who is Paul Nakasone, OpenAI’s newest board member?

OpenAI has added retired U.S. Army General and National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone to its board of directors. It’s latest move at the artificial intelligence firm that’s been dealing with continued reshuffling since CEO Sam Altman was temporarily ousted last fall, including a number of recent high-profile departures.

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#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the author of a new book titled "Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence". Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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When Is Duplicate Content Acceptable For Local SEO? Google Explains via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's John Mueller clarified that localized duplicate content across regional websites is acceptable. Unique content is still recommended for specific page types.

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Threads will now offer live MLB score updates

Threads will start showing live Major League Baseball scores starting today, the company’s CEO Adam Mosseri said on the social platform.

The company started testing the feature with live NBA scores in March, which Mosseri said has “been a hit.” They’ll continue to roll out more sports and league coverage, he added.

The news comes as Threads continues its efforts to take on Elon Musk&#8

The EU’s AI Act raises questions about data transparency and trade secrets

A new set of laws governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the European Union will force companies to be more transparent about the data used to train their systems, prying open one of the industry’s most closely guarded secrets.

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Here’s what’s at stake in Tesla shareholders’ vote over Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package

Elon Musk is on the verge of yet another massive payday.

Tesla shareholders were set to approve a $56 billion pay package for the billionaire, the electric vehicle-maker’s CEO said in a post on X late Wednesday.

Musk shared early results on the social media platform that he owns that show via a

Broadcom stock split date nears: What that means for investors as AI chipmakers ride Nvidia’s wave

Chipmaker Broadcom released its latest earnings report on Wednesday, which beat expectations and sent share prices soaring. It also announced a 10-for-1 stock split, which will begin trading on a split-adjusted basis on July 15.

“We are announcing a ten-for-one forward stock split of Broadcom’s common stock, to make ownership of Broa

This cockpit-alert system could be a safety ‘game-changer’ for airport runways

As a Delta Air Lines jet began roaring down a runway, an air traffic controller at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport suddenly blurted out an expletive, then ordered the pilots to stop their takeoff roll.

The controller saw an American Airlines plane mistakenly crossing the same runway, into the path of the accelerating Delta jet. JFK is one of only 35 U.S. airports

Hackers linked to Hamas tied to cyberespionage via Android spyware in Palestine


Hackers linked to Hamas have been implicated in five cyberespionage campaigns targeting Palestine and Egypt. The evidence emerged in new research from ESET, a cybersecurity company based in Slovakia. Analysts at the firm detected five campaigns spreading troj

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How Donald Trump became the crypto candidate in the 2024 election

Ahead of the 2024 election, Donald Trump is pitching himself as the chosen candidate for crypto adherents. He reportedly told a campaign stop in California earlier this month he wants to be the “crypto president” (a major about-face for a guy who in 2019 said he was “n

Everything you need to know about Finch, the latest programming language developed by MIT


In May, a research team from MIT announced a new programming language, Finch. It’s designed to support both flexible control flow and diverse data structures. “Finch facilitates a programming model which resolves the challenges of computing over structured arrays

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Why Germany, Hungary oppose the EU’s new tariffs on Chinese EVs


The European Union has hiked tariffs for EVs imported from China, drawing reproach from Beijing and some of its own member states, including Germany, Sweden, and Hungary. The tough new tariffs range between 17.4% and 38.1%, on top of the existing import duty of

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When can I download iOS 18? iPhone update timeline as beta and general release dates near

This week, Apple unveiled iOS 18, the next-generation operating system for the iPhone. The flagship feature of iOS 18 is Apple Intelligence, a layer of artificial intelligence embedded within iOS 18 itself. It will allow everything from generative image capabilities to having AI help you draft the perfect email.

But in addition to Apple Intelligence, iOS 18

Apple’s artificial intelligence is firmly rooted in reality

Welcome to AI DecodedFast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.

We finally get a look at Apple’s big AI play

The past couple of years of AI have been marked by grandiose claims th

LinkedIn Learning adds more AI-powered coaching features

A new pilot program from LinkedIn will offer users AI-delivered advice, crafted based on wisdom from particular LinkedIn Learning instructors.

LinkedIn worked closely with instructors including chartered psychologist Gemma Leigh Roberts and business professor and strategy expert Anil K. Gupta to train AI based on their LInkedIn Learning courses, LInkedIn posts, and som

European AI leaders Aleph Alpha and Silo ink deal to deliver ‘sovereign AI’


Two of Europe’s emerging leaders in artificial intelligence have signed a deal to spread “sovereign AI” across the continent. Germany’s Aleph Alpha and Finland’s Silo AI announced the partnership today. The duo plan to create a “one-stop-solution” for Europea

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This database of AI tools has helped social science research worldwide

AI—or artificial intelligence—is often used as a way to summarize data and improve writing. But AI tools also represent a powerful and efficient way to analyze large amounts of text to search for patterns. In addition, AI tools can assist with developing research products that can be shared wi

Ask A PPC: Why Have My Google Ads Not Got Any Impressions? via @sejournal, @navahf

In this month's Ask A PPC, learn possible reasons for your Google ads having no impressions, from bid and budget to low search volume issues.

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Země před 2 miliony let prošla chladnými mračny. Zesílilo to doby ledové?

Sluneční soustava se řítí Mléčnou dráhou. Podle nových simulací jsme před 2–3 miliony let prosvištěli velmi hustým a chladným mračnem vodíku, což mohlo rozbořit naši heliosféru. Pokud to tak bylo, mohly na Zemi padat radioaktivní izotopy včetně železa a plutonia z mezihvězdného prostoru. Mohlo to také ovlivnit klima na Zemi? http://www.osel.cz/13514-zeme-pred-2-miliony-let-prosla-chladnymi-mracny-zesililo-to-doby-ledove.html

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Why Now’s The Time To Adopt Schema Markup via @sejournal, @marthavanberkel

Harness Schema Markup to create a content knowledge graph. Explore the reasons behind adopting structured data and its benefits in the age of generative AI.

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V pravěkém norském vulkánu byla objevena ohromná zásoba vzácných zemin

Vzácné zeminy jsou slabinou západní civilizace. Máme ohromnou spotřebu, nutně je potřebujeme pro „zelené“ technologie, ale nemáme téměř žádnou kontrolu nad jejich těžbou a zpracováním. Podivuhodný objev masivního ložiska vzácných zemin v oblasti Fen Carbonatite Complex v Norsku by to teď mohl změnit. http://www.osel.cz/13513-v-pravekem-norskem-vulkanu-byla-objevena-ohromna-zasoba-vzacnych-zemin.html

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Elon Musk, SpaceX sued by former employees over alleged sexual harassment and discrimination

Rocket maker SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk were sued on Wednesday by eight engineers who say they were illegally fired for raising concerns about alleged sexual harassment and discrimination against women.

The engineers—four women and four men—claim Musk ordered their firing in 2022 after they circulated a letter calling the billionaire a “distraction and embarrassment” and urging executives to disavow sexually charged comments he had made on social media. The lawsuit wa

YouTube could face an antitrust probe over its ‘living room dominance’

Tech and competition watchdog groups have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to probe YouTube, saying the video-streaming platform could enable Google and its parent company, Alphabet, to dominate home entertainment.

In a letter to Justice Department antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter dated Tuesday, th

TNW Podcast: Behind the scenes of TNW Conference 2024; Dutch chips, Danish media, Chinese internet


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, Ioanna and Andrii ta

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TNW Conference 2024: Building the world’s first medically-cleared contraceptive app


With only a little over a week left till the TNW Conference in Amsterdam on June 20 and 21, we’re highlighting some of the sessions we’re most excited about. One of the talks I’m really looking forward to this year touches on a purpose very close to my heart:

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AI chatbots just can’t shake off gender stereotypes, here’s why

When disinformation researcher Wen-Ping Liu looked into China’s efforts to influence Taiwan’s recent election using fake social media accounts, something unusual stood out about the most successful profiles.

They were female, or at least that’s what they appeared to be. Fake profiles that claimed to be

Databricks and Shutterstock are trying to remove the copyright risk from AI image generation (exclusive)

Databricks and Shutterstock have developed a new text-to-image diffusion model similar to DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, but without the risk of copyright violations.

Most image generators are trained on images scraped from the web, but ImageAI, as it’s called, is trained only on Shutterstock images. That means there’s no risk of copyright infringement lawsuits resulting from the AI producing images closely derived from those of unpaid creators. 

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Google Launches Custom Event Data Import For GA4 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google launches custom event data import for GA4, enabling businesses to combine external data sources with Google Analytics data for enhanced reporting.

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Google Search Console Complete Guide For SEO via @sejournal, @lorenbaker

Get started with Google Search Console and take control of your website's performance in the search results. Boost rankings and fix issues with ease.

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Black Semiconductor raises €254.4M for graphene-based chips in boost for European sector


Amid a global race for semiconductor leadership, an Aachen-based startup has raised €254.4mn for its chip technology in a big boost for the German as well as the European semiconductor sector. Brothers Daniel and Sebastian Schall launched Black Semiconductor i

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Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion 3, its ‘most sophisticated image generation model yet’


Stability AI today launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, which the British startup calls its “most advanced text-to-image open model yet.” Comprised of 2 billion parameters, SD3 Medium promises photorealistic results without complex workflows. Crucially, the mode

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OpenAI promised to give us ‘Her.’ Apple’s AI is giving us Gary from ‘Veep’

During the World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple’s long-awaited entry into artificial intelligence took shape. While a recent OpenAI conference showing off new tech evoked comparisons to the title character in the 2013 film Her, Apple Intelligence brought to mind someone else: Gary from Veep.

For the uninitiated, Gary (Tony Hale

Apple stock price closed at an all-time high: Why the surge despite a mixed reaction to its AI event?

It’s been a big week for Apple—and an even bigger week for Apple investors. Yesterday, the company’s stock (ticker AAPL) closed at an all-time high of $207.15 per share, according to data from Yahoo Finance. AAPL shares climbed 7.26% in one day—one of the biggest single-day jumps for the stock in recent memory.

The stock surge propelled Apple to a market valuation of over $3.17 trillion. But just why did AAPL shares have one of their best trading days in a long time yesterday? Here

What ’80s movies got right and wrong about living with AI

Many of us seemed to have already fallen in love with our iPhones well before Spike Jonze’s techno-love story Her took that concept ">all the way. On its tenth anniversary last fall, Her attracted plenty of ">fresh analysis about its prophe

Amsterdam suspends shared cargo ebike service Cargoroo over ‘failed questionnaire’


Amsterdam has refused to grant Cargoroo a new license to operate its shared cargo ebike rental service in the Dutch capital. Instead, it has handed over exclusive operating rights to BAQME, an upstart rival from Rotterdam.  The City first

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European telecoms leading the way in quantum tech adoption, report finds


Say quantum technologies and most people probably still imagine something decades into the future. But, as a new report released today demonstrates, quantum is already here — especially as it relates to the telecom industry.  After years of increme

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Raspberry Pi is going public on Friday. Its biggest fans are dreading it

When Raspberry Pi launched, in 2012, it was a tech tinkerer’s dream come true.

With a price of just $35, the credit card-sized computer was an inexpensive way for students to learn new programming languages, but it quickly became a platform for all kinds of creative tech projects. With

Google Quietly Ends Covid-Era Rich Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google discontinues support for rich results associated with Covid-era livestreamed events, classes and pre-recorded videos

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Unlocking The Secrets Of Google Ad Auctions via @sejournal, @siliconvallaeys

Discover the secrets behind Google ad auctions: explore how understanding these dynamics can improve your return on investment and business outcomes.

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Aachen-based Black Semiconductor secures €254.4 million to drive a new generation of chips in Europe

Black Semiconductor, a pioneer in next-generation chip technology, announced €228.7 million round, one of the largest funding for a deep tech company manufacturing chips in Europe to date. The company has secured the public funding from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia over the next 7 years under […]

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Copenhagen-based Light snaps €12.1 million to scale general ledgers for global company’s finances

Light, the creator of a fully automated general ledger for multinationals, has come out of stealth today with a €12.1 million seed round to scale the first AI-powered general ledger for automating global company finances. The round was led by European VC Atomico, with participation from Entrée Capital, Cherry Ventures and Seedcamp. In addition, a […]

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