A safety report card ranks AI company efforts to protect humanity

A safety report card ranks AI company efforts to protect humanity

Are artificial intelligence companies keeping humanity safe from AI’s potential harms? Don’t bet on it, a new report card says. As AI plays an increasingly larger role in the way humans interact with technology, the potential harms are becoming more clear — people using AI-powered chatbots for counseling and then dying by suicide, or using…

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California hammered as national job cuts jump to a five-year high

California hammered as national job cuts jump to a five-year high

Job cuts across the country are the highest they have been in five years, led by layoffs in California and cutbacks in Washington. California employers announced 173,022 job cuts from January to November, up nearly 14% from the same period last year, according to the latest monthly report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.…

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Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage

Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage

[BENGALURU] Memory chipmaker Micron Technology said on Wednesday (Dec 3) that it will exit its consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) data centres amid a global supply shortage of the essential semiconductors. Shares of the company were down 2.6 per cent in afternoon trading. Micron’s move…

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