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• Cognizant cuts 3,500 jobs in post-COVID, hybrid work restructuring plan

  04-05-2023 21:16
  
  Technology services and consulting company Cognizant is set to lay off around 3,500 employees, approximately 1% of its global workforce, and reduce office space in an effort to cut costs.Despite the company reporting a 3% increase in net profit year-on-year, Cognizant was “carefully monitoring what remains an uncertain macroeconomic environment and with its potential for shifts in client priorities,” said CEO Ravi Kumar on a call with analysts after Cognizant released its first quar
  
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• Slack GPT brings native generative AI to chat app

  04-05-2023 20:15
  
  Slack is working on new generative AI features that provide users with automated summaries of conversations and AI assisted writing natively within its collaboration app.Slack had already discussed plans to connect its popular software to large language models (LLMs) offered by third-parties, announcing an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (currently in beta) in March, and Anthropic’s Claude, available now. It expanded on those plans Thursday at parent company Salesforce’
  
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• White House unveils AI rules to address safety and privacy

  04-05-2023 19:21
  
  The Biden administration today announced a new effort to address the risks around generative artificial intelligence (AI), which has been advancing at breakneck speeds and setting off alarm bells among industry experts.Vice President Kamala Harris and other administration officials are scheduled to meet today with the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT chatbot, as well as with AI-startup Anthropic. Administration officials plan to discuss the “
  
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• Local nonprofit ‘Make It Happen for Yolo County’ hires first executive director - Woodland Daily Democrat

  04-05-2023 18:36 via news.google.com
  Local nonprofit ‘Make It Happen for Yolo County’ hires first executive director  Woodland Daily Democrat
  
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• Q&A: Google’s Geoffrey Hinton — humanity just a 'passing phase' in the evolution of intelligence

  04-05-2023 18:12
  
  Geoffrey Hinton, a professor and former Google engineering fellow, is known as “godfather of artificial intelligence" because of his  contributions to the development of the technology. A cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, he pioneered work on developing artificial neural networks and deep learning techniques, such as back propagation — the algorithm that allows computers to learn. Hinton, 75, is also a 2018 winner of the Turning Award, colloquially referr
  
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• StatCounter data confirms Apple's Mac renaissance

  04-05-2023 17:58
  
  StatCounter's latest US desktop OS market share data tells a story full of change, tangible evidence that proves the continued ascendancy of the Mac platform and a continued slow decline in Windows market share.Depending on how you see it, it shows either a 14 percentage point or 5 percentage point decline in Windows share of the US desktop OS market between April 2022 and April 2023.  Where we are in the US today, Macs account for 31.34% of US desktop operati
  
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• UK competition regulator launches review of AI market

  04-05-2023 16:45
  
  The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an initial review into the market for artificial intelligence systems, looking at the underlying foundational large language models that power chatbots such as ChatGPT alongside the opportunities and risks that AI could present.In a statement announcing the review, the regulatory body outlined three key areas it will examine: how the competitive markets for foundational models and their use could evolve; the opportunities and ris
  
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• How to use Google passkeys for stronger security on Android

  04-05-2023 12:00
  
  Still signing into your Google account by tapping out an actual password? That's, like, so 2022.Now, don't get me wrong: The tried-and-true password is perfectly fine, especially if you're using it in conjunction with two-factor authentication. But particularly for something as important as your Google account, you want to have the most effective security imaginable to keep all your personal and/or company info safe.And starting this week, you've got a much better way to go about that.To read t
  
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