Monthly Archives: September 2023

8 More Companies Pledge to Make A.I. Safe, White House Says

The voluntary safety commitments made by Nvidia, IBM, Palantir and others are part of a packed week of A.I. announcements in Washington.

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TikTok Shop Aims to Turn Trendsetting Power Into Sales

The company is beginning to introduce TikTok Shop to all of the app’s users in the U.S., hoping to add a major new revenue stream.

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Google’s adtech targeted by Dutch class-action style privacy damages suit

Google is facing class-action style litigation in the Netherlands which accuses the adtech giant of breaching European privacy laws. It’s demanding Google stops tracking and profiling consumers and is also seeking compensation for what it dubs “large-scale privacy violations” of … Continue reading

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Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to help customers customize their AI

Today at the Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco, Salesforce announced Einstein Copilot Studio, a tool that lets customers customize the Salesforce base Einstein GPT and Einstein Copilot offerings. Einstein Copilot Studio consists of three elements: prompt builder, skills builder … Continue reading

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Taiwan chip giant TSMC to invest up to $100 million in Arm IPO

TSMC manufactures semiconductors for companies from Apple to Nvidia, that are often based on Arm architecture.

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Russia’s Putin praises Elon Musk as an ‘outstanding person’ and ‘talented businessman’

Putin’s comments come after Musk said last week that he refused an emergency request by Ukraine to extend coverage of Starlink satellites to the Crimea.

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Lyft’s newest feature could convince more women to drive for the ride-hailing app

Lyft rolled out a new feature Tuesday in five U.S. cities including Chicago and San Francisco that lets women and nonbinary drivers set a preference for picking up only women riders. The preference feature, called Women+ Connect, could help Lyft … Continue reading

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Salesforce embeds conversational AI across the platform with Einstein Copilot

Salesforce first introduced its AI layer called Einstein back in 2016 to provide predictive AI services across the Salesforce family of products. In March, just months after the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it introduced Einstein GPT to bring the ability … Continue reading

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Amazon follows Microsoft, investing big in carbon capture

Amazon announced Tuesday that it will help fund the world’s largest deployment of direct air capture (DAC) technology.

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MGM Resorts: Slot machines go down in cyber-attack on firm

Customers also report problems with payments and check-in as IT systems go down at MGM Resorts’ hotels.

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