Amazon is re-hiring former workers back into AI and cloud roles The company is investigating the impacts of its office-working mandates Despite 30,000 layoffs in the past year, Amazon continues to hire for certain roles Amazon is reportedly trying to re-hire old workers, including many who were affected by previous rounds of layoffs. Recruiter emails … Read more
A regular leaker says the chips for the PS6 and Xbox Helix have been ‘taped out’, meaning the design is final for manufacturing The leaker claims 56 TFLOPS of power for the Xbox Helix and 40 TFLOPS for the PS6 That compared to 16.7 TFLOPS on the PS5 Pro and 12 TFLOPS on the Xbox … Read more
For decades, banking technology has been built around a simple sequence: a person makes a financial decision and the bank’s technology processes it. A customer decides to open an account, move money into savings or apply for a loan, and the bank’s systems execute that instruction. Artificial intelligence can potentially reverse that sequence. Instead of … Read more
Saving $1,000 sounded pretty good to me. I wasn’t entirely sure where Meta’s Muse AI was supposed to find it, but Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and the #MuseMoneyChallenge sounded pretty encouraging about putting the company’s new AI agent to work finding $1,000 in savings. Some of the results shared so far make that … Read more
Watch Survivor season 51 online Survivor season 51 premiere: Wednesday, September 23 at 8:00 pm ET/PT US broadcast: CBS via Fubo US stream: Paramount Plus FREE stream: Survivor 50 – Global TV (Canada) Use NordVPN to watch from anywhere It’s time to enter the ‘open era’ as host Jeff Probst welcomes a new group of … Read more
The abolition of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has created uncertainty about what happens next to Britain’s AI ambitions. Kanishka Narayan’s promotion to Minister for AI gives the technology a dedicated voice at Cabinet, yet folding DSIT’s responsibilities into other departments raises questions about how the Government will coordinate the infrastructure, investment and … Read more