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Zoom Steps Up Its Game With AI and
Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
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With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘RedNote’
"Hello everyone, my name is Ryan. I'm a TikTok refugee. The American government is banning TikTok so we are looking for an alternative … We are very sorry to interrupt you here. Hope we don't have to stay here for too long," a Xiaohongshu user using the name Ryan Martin…
New US Rule Aims to Block China’s Access to AI Chips and Models by Restricting the World
The Biden administration announced a bold and controversial new export control scheme today, designed to prevent the advanced chips and artificial intelligence models themselves from ending up in the hands of adversaries such as China.The administration’s new “AI Diffusion rule” divides the world into nations that are allowed relatively unfettered…
Europe Wanted to Lead the World on EVs. Its Carmakers Can’t Keep Up
With European EV sales and production lagging behind in comparison, a blame game has arisen between car manufacturers and policymakers. “A regulatory framework that ignores customer needs and market realities—and at the same time, is incapable of creating the necessary conditions for alternative technologies—cannot succeed,” a BMW spokesperson said in…
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me
To learn any programming language is to learn how to debug it. But a malformed command in Python usually returns an error message that keeps the code from running, not something that fails brilliantly yet monstrously, outpacing its creators’ intentions. With HTML, we are all Doctor Frankenstein.One of my favorite…
The Memecoin Shenanigans Are Just Getting Started
For all the goofiness, memecoin fever has been embraced by some corners of the crypto industry. In search of outsize returns, a small number of hedge funds have invested in memecoins this year. Other investment firms, like Pantera Capital, consider memecoins to be a “Trojan horse” likely to introduce new…
Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’
Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects of political discourse and debate. “It’s not right that things…
Nvidia’s ‘Cosmos’ AI Helps Humanoid Robots Navigate the World
Nvidia announced today it’s releasing a family of foundational AI models called Cosmos that can be used to train humanoids, industrial robots, and self-driving cars. While language models learn how to generate text by training on copious amounts of books, articles, and social media posts, Cosmos is designed to generate…
It’s Official: Boring Cities Are Bad for Your Health
A significant proportion of people today live in towns and cities that grew up around trade, industry, and cars. Think of the docks of Liverpool, the factories of Osaka, the automobile obsession of New York’s Robert Moses, or the low-density sprawl of modern Riyadh. Few of these places were created…
To Fight AI Search Spam, Prioritize Real Human Voices
At some point in the future, AIs may create works of art, music, and writing that rival human-created ones. For now, what's most impressive about most generative AIs is their capacity to produce lots of mediocre work very quickly. This ability is transforming many industries: In the world of higher…
How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank
Last month, Google Maps launched an update to help users easily look up West Bank addresses. Bourdeau says that overall, Google Maps has added about 5,000 miles of roads in the West Bank and Gaza since 2021. Nour Nassar, a director general in the Telecommunication and Digital Economy ministry of…
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