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2023 devastated Silicon Valley tech workers—representing the worst 12 months since the dot.com crash two decades ago. Reasons cited for layoffs in 2023 included over-hiring during the pandemic, rising inflation, and lower consumer demand.…

Move over Lithium; there's a new material in town. Researchers have discovered a material that might reduce Lithium use in batteries thanks to AI and supercomputing. Microsoft and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Department of…

Meta and IBM announced an AI Alliance, a coalition of groups pushing for open-sourced artificial intelligence. The international association of corporations, universities, and organizations is committed to open science and technologies. So…

Google unveiled Gemini, an AI model trained to think and behave more like a human. Less sophisticated versions, "Nano" and "Pro," will be incorporated into Google’s AI-powered chatbot Bard and Pixel 8 Pro smartphone. Gemini will enable…

This story falls under the “What were they thinking” category. An online developers conference, DevTernity, was canceled after several executives pulled out after accusations that the organizer fabricated female speakers’ profiles.…

Who are the tech industry's most valued engineers? Well, that's a supply-and-demand-based question. When hundreds of workers threatened to quit OpenAI when Sam Altman was fired, it became clear that this group of engineers is as…

The European Union (EU) has chosen 22 "gatekeeper" services, run by six of the world's largest tech companies, to face new rules as part of its latest crackdown. The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) will apply to services from such companies as…

Generative AI rollouts have been the epitome of hype.  From concerns that AI unleashed would mean the rapid end of the Earth to, “Oh boy, this can do my work for me.” Make no mistake, the hype still exists. There's been a bit of a…

Once ChatGPT hit the market, hackers started to hack it and override its safeguards. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and others are working with the Biden administration to let hackers take a shot at testing the technology’s limits. The…

Microsoft's Bing search engine played second fiddle to Google's. However, now it is AI-enhanced and has great search results—and bizarre comments. According to an ABC News story, AI chatbots are saying they want to release nuclear secrets,…