Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments
Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they’ve been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for its hefty AI investments. …
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WhatsApp ordered to host rival AI assistants for free
… This is why these interim measures will remain in place for the duration of the investigation, in order to prevent harm that would be almost impossible to repair,” European competition commissioner Teresa Ribera said in a statement. “These interim measures will safeguard competition in the growing … …
Snap says its relationship with Perplexity ended ‘amicably.’
… The latter was supposed to have powered Snap’s AI search, but alas. …
Microsoft could be the next Big Tech antitrust target
… Government contracts and cybersecurity were not among the CID topics disclosed to The Verge, and Haurek says Microsoft responded to the government’s security requests at the time and that agencies were “free to engage with other vendors.” Microsoft’s growth in cloud computing has helped push its va… …
SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas
… That’s according to the details of a public hearing notice filed in Grimes County, Texas, for a meeting to request tax breaks for the project. The company says that if additional phases are constructed, its investment could someday balloon to $119 billion total. …
AI has a water problem. Google thinks it has a fix
… But Google’s Townsend defended the company’s record thus far. “To the best of our ability, we are accounting for the offsite water footprint,” Townsend said, “and I think we’ve made significant progress in reducing or eliminating the water footprint of that supply chain through our waterless renewa… …
OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle
OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. …
Spotify will offer authors a way to AI generate audio versions of their books soon.
Amazon launched AI-generated audiobooks last year, and now Spotify is launching its own AI audiobook narration feature, Audiobook Creation Tools. Starting in June, self-published authors will be able to use the beta feature to create audio versions of their books using AI voices from ElevenLabs. …
Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked
… Vercel said that a compromised third-party AI tool was the avenue for attack, though it did not specify which third party was involved. …
OpenAI has called Sam Altman as a witness.
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