Donald Trump has said he will impose a new 25-percent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico and “an additional 10-percent tariff, above any additional tariffs" on imports from China on his first day in office.
Category: 26 November 2024
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IF AI TAKES ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS, WHERE WILL SENIOR LEADERS COME FROM?
In law, accounting, and corporate work in general, new hires are given rote tasks: research, analyzing data, preparing presentations, checking and adjusting routine financial models, and so on.
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CHINESE TECH GIANTS ARE RECRUITING IN SILICON VALLEY
Stymied by U.S. bans on selling or sending cutting-edge AI tech to China, three of China’s biggest tech companies are trying to edge around the embargos by opening offices in Silicon Valley to recruit the same AI talent creating the technologies the companies are forbidden to buy.
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U.S. SANCTIONS FREEZE CHINA’S AI CHIP PROGRESS
Huawei Technologies, China’s flagship chip producer, will use years-old “7-nanometer” technology in creating the next two iterations of its leading-edge “Ascend” AI chips, people familiar told Bloomberg.
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AI IS RESTAURANTS’ NEW CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
At a time when restaurants are struggling to lure diners, Yum Brands—owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell—is using AI to bring in more business.
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LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AIs DON’T UNDERSTAND THE WORLD, STUDY SAYS
The large language model AIs such as ChatGPT and Claude can deliver impressive results in response to a request, but dig a little deeper and you find they’re not connected to the real world.
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“EVO” THE AI CAN DESIGN NEW GENOMES ALL BY ITSELF
Want to design a new bacterium? Pretty soon, Evo will do it for you. Trained on billions of sections of genetic code, Stanford University’s new AI learned how genetic sequences work, and work together, to create bacteria and viruses.
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OLD CARPETS MAKE BETTER CONCRETE
Chucking old carpet fibers into concrete strengthens the concrete by up to 40 percent, reduces cracking by as much as 30 percent, and helps it last longer, according to a study by Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
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RELAX, MOM AND DAD. ALL THAT GAMING IS BUILDING CAREER SKILLS
People who regularly take part in massive multiplayer online (MMO) games are building skills that pay off in the workplace, according to a new study from the University of Houston’s College of Technology.
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ENGINEERED CELLS CURE “INCURABLE” AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
In a small experiment at Germany’s Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 15 people suffering from three different incurable autoimmune diseases—lupus, systemic hardening of the body’s tissues, and inflammation of the muscles—saw their symptoms disappear after they were given an infusion of altered cells designed to refresh their immune systems.
