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Twilio sheds jobs in third round of layoffs
Cloud communications company Twilio is planning to reduce its workforce by 5%, marking its third significant reduction in staff numbers.Twilio is making cuts mainly in the sales teams for its consumer data and contact center software. The company has let go of more...
Apple sees 6G as strategically important to its future
Apple has thousands of engineers within its silicon development teams working on a range of projects, including processors, graphics chips and, of course, modems.And while the modem development work is clearly slower than expected, at Apple the end of some projects is...
The arrival of genAI could cover critical skills gaps, reshape IT job market
Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is likely to play a critical role in addressing skills shortages in today’s marketplace, according to a new study by London-based Kaspersky Research. It showed that 40% of 2,000 C-level executives surveyed plan to use genAI...
Questions raised as Amazon Q starts to hallucinate and leak confidential data
In less than a week of its launch, Amazon Q — Amazon’s Copilot competitor — is already facing a threat to its survival as a new report suggests the generative AI assistant could be hallucinating.Q is grappling with inaccuracies and privacy issues, including...
Questions raised as Amazon Q reportedly starts to hallucinate and leak confidential data
In less than a week of its launch, Amazon Q — Amazon’s Copilot competitor — is already facing a threat to its survival as a new report suggests the generative AI assistant could be hallucinating.Q is grappling with inaccuracies and privacy issues, including...
OpenAI signed $51M deal to buy ‘brain’ chips from Sam Altman portfolio firm
A story that got left out of the corporate infighting that led to Sam Altman’s firing, then re-hiring as CEO of OpenAI, was about the firm’s relationship with a startup called Rain Neuromorphics, which is developing a neuromorphic processing unit (NPU) designed to...
Smartphone shipments are on the rise, buoyed by 5G, iOS devices: IDC
Mobile phone sales are rising, showing improvement in fourth quarter shipments despite an overall decline in 2023, according to the newly released International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Notably, iPhones have performed better...
Here’s what AWS revealed about its generative AI strategy at re:Invent 2023
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky and other top executives at the company’s annual re:Invent conference revealed updates and new products aimed at offerings from Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and IBM.
Apple secures WebKit as global ransomware attacks surge
If nothing else, Apple’s most recent emergency security update should be considered proof of an increasingly tense security environment.Enterprises must understand that while Apple maintains a pretty solid ecosystem — certainly at present the most secure, even...
The fear and hype around AI is overblown
Two reputable news organizations — Reuters and The Information — recently reported sources claiming that recent drama around OpenAI’s leadership was based in part on a massive technological breakthrough at the company.That breakthrough is something called Q*...
Unused Gmail accounts head to the chopping block
It’s the last call to keep any Gmail accounts you haven’t used recently.Beginning December 1, Google will start deleting accounts that have been inactive for two years, including all associated photos, Drive documents, contacts, emails, and calendar entries. The tech...
Ouch: UK regulators to investigate Apple after it loses appeal
A UK investigation into Apple's and Google’s dominance of the markets for mobile browsers and cloud gaming will go ahead as a local antitrust regulator has won an appeal against a previous ruling that had blocked its work.The story so far… The UK Competition and...