The retail, restaurant, manufacturing, automotive, agricultural, and tech industries will continue to see job cuts this year as demand slows and prices increase.
Tag: Tech
SEVEN MAJOR TECH COMPANIES SIGN ONTO “GOVERNMENT AI”
This past week, seven major AI focused tech companies agreed to abide by and work with the Biden Administration’s AI guidance policies.
It made the announcement via a 21 July “FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI.”
AI SPARKS LAYOFFS—IN THE TECH INDUSTRY
AI will erase jobs in a range of industries, but perhaps it’s surprising that some tech jobs are among the first to go.
GOOGLE SAYS ITS AI WILL “SCRAPE THE INTERNET,” AS TJ FORECAST CONFIRMED: GENERATIVE AI HURTING WEBSITE TRAFFIC
Google just admitted it considers the entire Internet, including everything users may post online or create using Google software, to be fair game for training its generative AI systems.
MOVING TO ENERGY AND TECH THAT “ISN’T THERE”
There is no electric grid capacity in place to handle the radical energy transition that the Biden Administration, and state governors like Kathy Hochul are pushing via misnamed laws, mandates and regulations.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Phones have been weaponized to pervasively surveil, categorize and politically manipulate their users.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
“All your Coinbase info are now belong to US!” Yes, to paraphrase an old internet meme, U.S. Intelligence agencies, spearheaded by Homeland Security, have just purchased data analytics from the San Francisco based Coinbase crypto exchange.
MUSK LENDS TECH PROWESS TO ALT ECOSYSTEM MOVEMENT
Do Google and Apple, facing less than spectacular numbers from recent product rollouts, and cutting back workforces in the face of a protracted tech led economic downturn, really want new competition from Elon Musk?
AI PROBABLY WILL BECOME IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTROL, RESEARCHERS WARN
A “super-intelligent” artificial intelligence (AI) very likely would become so capable that humans would no longer be able to direct or contain its behavior, several researchers have warned in a study published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence. Odds are that such an AI eventually will be created, the group said. To control it, scientists......
MORE STUDIES LINK CELL PHONES TO CANCER
Incidences of breast and thyroid cancers have risen dramatically in recent years and two studies are adding to earlier evidence of the cause: cell phones. According to a study from Taipei Medical University in Taiwan, cell phones operate at radio frequencies that “significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, especially in women 50 and older...