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Global revenue generated by public cloud services topped the $500 billion mark in 2022, according to new data released this week by research firm IDC.The actual figure was $545.8 billion, IDC’s research found, a sum that represents a 22.9% increase over the previous...
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Witnessing the madness of “King twit” and the data-munching journey of that monarch’s latest competitor in the race to commoditize communication, I’m glad Apple at least put some priority on privacy when no one else in Big Tech chose to.To read this...
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OpenAI is opening a new alignment research division, focused on developing training techniques to stop superintelligent AI — artificial intelligence that could outthink humans and become misaligned with humans ethics — from causing serious harm.“Currently, we...
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Lawyers and C-suite leaders have the same basic mission: protect the enterprise from bad actors who want to do harm. But they often often approach the job in such polar opposite ways that they wind up fighting each other instead of working together. A new academic...
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Stock content provider and creative suite Shutterstock is the latest company in its field to offer customers a legal indemnity against suits related to AI-generated images created and licensed on its platform.In its announcement, issued Thursday, Shutterstock said...
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The age of generative AI comes with the promise that it will significantly increase productivity. I can certainly see the potential given I’m using a form of it writing this column and it is doing a decent job of anticipating the next word I intend to write. But I’m...
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Can you run your business on a 15-in. MacBook Air? I’ve used one for about a week, and I think most people can. It provides everything that’s good in the existing M2 MacBook Air, but with a bigger screen and an approachable price.Out of the box Out of the box...
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After several delays, a New York City law requiring companies to vet their automated employee hiring or promotion tools went into effect Wednesday in an attempt to thwart biases baked into software used by HR offices.New York City Local Law 144, also known as the Bias...
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The Commerce Department is preparing to bar US firms from providing cloud services that use advanced AI processors to Chinese customers, according to a report published this week by the Wall Street Journal.The Biden administration has already banned the export of...
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A certain tech company that I rely on for my phone lines was recently in the area where my business is located updating their fiber lines. In the process, they happened to cut the lines that provide my office with our phone system and backup Internet. Three days...
