Backstage at a recent event in Los Angeles, amid the din around us, Francis de Souza, the COO of Google Cloud, took a few minutes to talk about where enterprises stand on AI security, and what they need to do. Speaking in the calm, measured manner of a university professor, he said, “There’ll be a transition period, and then I think we get to this better…
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Last 44 daysHiking is one of life’s great joys. Turning off the screens and stepping out into nature for an extended period of time, perhaps even several days, is rejuvenating.
If you’re looking for a laptop that’ll still perform well several years from now, Apple’s latest MacBook Air is hard to beat. Now, in particular, is a good time to pick one up, as you can currently buy the 13-inch MacBook Air at Amazon in the run-up to Memorial Day with an M5 chip, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD for $899.99 ($200 off), which is a new low…
I recently had the opportunity to test out a wearable from Bee , the AI wrist gadget that Amazon acquired last year and has since updated with a number of new features. Like other AI wearables, Bee is designed as a kind personal assistant: it records, transcribes, and summarizes the user’s conversations throughout the day, providing an ongoing note-taking…
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We continue our series about alternatives to transformers. In the AI of the week, we are going to deep dive into the new HRM small models, you need to know about those.
Waymo is the undisputed leader in the robotaxi space, operating a fleet of over 3,000 driverless cars in at least 10 cities across the US. A number of companies, including Tesla, Zoox, Avride, and Motional, are racing to catch up with the Alphabet-owned firm.
The termination emails from Meta management landed at 4am. It may have been early but most workers were probably already awake, waiting to learn their fate.