OpenAI is enlisting over 100 former investment bankers to train its AI on financial modeling through a secretive project codenamed Mercury. These contractors, paid $150 per hour, are building models for various transactions to automate entry-level tasks, aiming to make…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff believes AI cannot replace sales staff, emphasizing human connection. This comes as Salesforce aggressively deploys AI and hires thousands for sales roles. Previously, the company reduced customer support staff, citing AI’s efficiency. While AI handles many…
When the Palestinian stem-cell scientist Jacob Hanna was stopped while entering the US last May, airport customs agents took him aside and held him for hours in “secondary,” a back office where you don’t have your passport and can’t use…
Chatbots today are everything machines. If it can be put into words—relationship advice, work documents, code—AI will produce it, however imperfectly. But the one thing that almost no chatbot will ever do is stop talking to you. That might seem…
Speaking on The Dwarkesh Podcast, hosted by Dwarkesh Patel, a tech-focused podcaster, Karpathy said most of these systems don’t yet work as promised. The researcher, who made major contributions to deep learning applications at OpenAI and Tesla, argued that many…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) plans an initial public offer in Shanghai as soon as the first quarter of next year, eyeing a valuation of up to 300 billion yuan ($42.12 billion). The IPO plans come as China’s semiconductor stocks have…
Download the pattern for Dancing Ribbons here. Yoder recommends printing the pattern on paper in between normal printer paper and cardstock in weight, making sure it folds in straight lines (not too thick), folds back and forth easily on the…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle The news: Science Corporation—a competitor to…
Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk’s brain-interface venture—has leapfrogged its rival after acquiring, at a fire-sale price, a vision implant that’s in advanced testing,. The implant produces a form of “artificial vision” that…
A cybersecurity company, F5, suffered a year-long hack blamed on Chinese spies, raising concern among users of its products. F5 said its source code and details of software weaknesses were stolen. The company supports over 80% of Fortune 500 firms,…