Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, AI’s godfather, is leaving Google. The man tells The New York Times that he is concerned about the possible risks of artificial intelligence. Geoffrey Hinton is one of the pioneers of AI and has contributed to the technology behind many of today’s generative AI systems. In an […]
IBM subsidiary and open source specialist Red Hat is going to lay off just under four percent of its twenty thousand employees. Red Hat says fewer than 800 people are involved, mainly in general and administrative roles. The company emphasizes that there are no layoffs in sales or people who […]
To regain advertisers’ trust, Twitter must decouple its corporate image from owner Elon Musk’s “personal brand.” That says principal analyst Jasmine Engberg of market researcher Insider Intelligence, who forecasts ad revenue for this year. Insider Intelligence expects that revenue to fall by more than a third. Although, in October, the […]
From now on, French civil servants are no longer allowed to have TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and Netflix on their work phones. As an explanation, reference is made to insufficient data security and protection. The ban will take effect immediately, the French authorities report. France joins a growing list of countries […]
Google has announced a new suite of features that work with advanced artificial intelligence (AI). For example, Google now has tools that help users write emails or texts based on a few keywords. With the new functions, Google hopes to compete with generative AI programs such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, […]
SpaceX’s flight, which should have departed Monday morning from Florida to the International Space Station (ISS), is still grounded. A technical error in the ground system threw a spanner in the works two minutes before take-off. There would have been problems with the fuel supply needed to launch. The four […]
Negotiations within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about a digital tax – a tax on internet giants such as Google, Meta and Amazon – have stalled due to opposition from the United States, among others. That is what the French Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, […]
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, says late 2023 will be “good timing” to find a new CEO for the company. Musk indicates that Twitter’s organization needs to be more stable and financially sound, with a clear product roadmap. According to Reuters, he said that in response to a question […]
Messaging service Slack has temporarily lost control of its GitHub accounts. As a result, an unauthorized user who gained access could download some code repositories. The leak has now been fixed. Slack writes that in a blog post. The company does not say what the affected repositories are used for. […]
The Chinese government has, at least temporarily, stopped its major investments in its own chip industry. The country is suffering from many corona infections, which puts pressure on the world’s second-largest economy and public finances. According to sources from the Bloomberg news agency, talks are underway about definitively phasing out […]
