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Intel’s quiet role in the AI boom
Intel isn’t often mentioned as one of the main players in the generative AI boom. While Intel made the chips that drove the personal computing revolution, i
AI is everywhere in 2023, so it’s no surprise that companies across the U.S. are shelling out big bucks for workers in AI roles. Now a new survey from Biz Report, titled AI Influence on U.S. Workforce Salaries, reveals just how much more companies are paying for AI-related roles and which states have the highest salaries for AI jobs.
Some key details from the survey:
- AI-related jobs offer over 77% higher salaries on average than other occupations.
- In 20
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are impacting every area of life, as well as every aspect of business, as I illustrate in my latest book. Among the most prominent and consequential examples is talent identification, with a growing number of organizations, and the majority of large employers, using some form of AI to improve their recruitment and personnel selection systems.
But, how good are AI-based technologies at identifying job-related potential, especially compared to
The bar, when it comes to supercomputers, is about to be raised in a big way.
Meet Aurora, a computer that, when it is fully operational, will be able to perform 2 billion billion (technically, 2 quintillion) operations in a single second. And speeds that fast could lead to Aurora assisting in unimagined scientific breakthroughs.
The system is being built outside of Chicago by Intel and Hewlett-Packard. It has a footprint that’s the size of two tennis courts and wei
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Cars are no longer just a means of transportation. They have become rolling hubs of data communication. Modern vehicles regularly transmit information wirelessly to their manufacturers.
However, as cars grow “smarter,” the right to repair them is under siege.
As legal scholars, we find that the question of whether you and your local mechanic can tap into your car’s data to diagnose and repair spans issues of property rights, trade s
Airbnb has acquired GamePlanner.AI, a stealth startup that the company said will help the home sharing company accelerate “select AI projects.”
“What makes GamePlanner.AI so special is that they combine expertise in AI, design, and community,” Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said in a statement Tuesday. “AI will rapidly alter our world more than any other technology in our lifetime, but we need to ensure that it augments humanity in a positive way. Airbnb
You can’t talk about the new PlayStation Portal without talking about the Nintendo Switch.
Sony has long wanted to be a bigger player in the portable gaming market. It had some success with the PSP and Vita, but the sun has long set on both of those systems—and Nintendo upped the game with the Switch, letting people play on their TV or take their game on the go. The Portal seeks to emulate that sort of flexibility, but it’s hamstrung by a few limitations that ul
By 2030, to avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change, global emissions need to be 43% lower than they were in 2019—a massive drop. That’s necessary to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal that a U.N. climate report said was critical in 2018. At the time, news headlines talked about having 12 years left to cut emissions in half. Now there are only seven years left (or fewer, if you assume that most changes need to be in place by the beg
Digital payments app Venmo is rolling out a new feature that allows users to create groups to track and settle up multiple expenses.
The feature is meant to cut out the need for spreadsheets and other third-party apps, such as Splitwise, before sending expenses to friends. It will automatically calculate each individual amount due based on the overall spend of each person in the group.
Venmo’s Groups launches Tuesday and will continue to roll out within the coming w