The Download: unlocking Chinese social accounts, and AI voice analysis
—Zeyi Yang When I recently visited China, for the first time since the pandemic, I traveled to Shenzhen in a...
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Inside Tencent’s weirdly secretive customer service center
One of my stops in China was Shenzhen, the southern city that’s home to many Chinese tech companies, like Tencent,...
ChatGPT Founder Sam Altman Is Testifying Before Congress Today – Here’s What You Need To Know
Key takeaways CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, is testifying before Congress to decide the first steps in AI regulation Several...
Leading the energy transition
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The Download: corporate climate action, and killer asteroids
As thousands of companies trumpet their plans to cut carbon pollution, a small group of sustainability consultants has emerged as...
Inside the little-known group setting the corporate climate agenda
Others give the group credit for helping persuade a rising share of the private sector to take meaningful steps to...
How do you solve a problem like out-of-control AI?
Google’s approach is to introduce these new functions into its products gradually. But it will most likely be just a matter of...
Building cyber resilience and leveraging cyber governance
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Business resilience in the evolving cloud economy
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The rise of digitization in schools and the dangers of cybercrime
Thank you for joining us on "The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity." Vishal Salvi, senior vice president, CISO,...
Cybersecurity for the education sector
Thank you for joining us on "The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity." Seventy percent of educational institutions have...
Bringing security out of the basement and into the boardroom with Darren Kane of nbn Australia
Thank you for joining us on "The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity." Darren Kane, chief security officer with...
Inflation Creeps Further Downwards And Green Technology Remains Popular Despite The Challenging Economy – Forbes AI Newsletter May 13th
TL;DR CPI slowly continues to fall with the latest annual figures hitting 4.9%, down from 5% last month We could...
Goldman Sachs Is A Surprising New Entrant In The AI Race With New AI Social Media Platform
Key takeaways Goldman Sachs spins out a LinkedIn competitor, the AI-powered Louisa platform The banking giant’s share price was briefly...
Google Fights Back Against Microsoft With New AI Search Capabilities
Key takeaways Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that the AI chatbot Bard is open to all, AI is coming...
The Download: open vs closed AI, and Google’s uneasy demo
Last week a leaked memo reported to have been written by Luke Sernau, a senior engineer at Google, said out...
Why tiny viruses could be our best bet against antimicrobial resistance
Within a few decades of their discovery, they were largely abandoned in favor of antibiotics. But as antibiotics increasingly fail...
The open-source AI boom is built on Big Tech’s handouts. How long will it last?
Stability AI’s first release, the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, worked as well as—if not better than—closed equivalents such as Google’s...
That wasn’t Google I/O — it was Google AI
Three years ago, the company forced out Timnit Gebru, the co-lead of its ethical AI team, essentially over a paper...
April Inflation Report Recap: Prices Cool Slightly, Relief For Fed As Inflation Battle Is Working
Key takeaways CPI data for April showed a 4.9% price increase year-on-year, down from March’s figure and the 10th inflation...