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Take a breath. Figma CEO Dylan Field, at least, doesn’t think AI is coming for anyone’s job.”I think it’s pretty encouraging that folks understand, viscerally, that this is not coming for you,” he said Thursday on Lenny’s podcast.He pointed to a survey Figma published in September that surveyed 1,199 participants, including designers, product managers, developers, researchers, data specialists, and marketers. Almost 60% of product builders said they spend more time on high-value work as a result of AI. Almost 70% said they’re “more productive or efficient overall.”Instead of worrying, Field said workers should focus on how they’ll adapt as AI…

Education is the civil rights issue of our time. That’s what Leslie Cornfeld decided after a decade advising New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama’s two education secretaries — and seeing how few low-income students went to the universities that lead to high-paying jobs.Cornfeld said she spent part of her time in the Obama administration visiting the nation’s Title I high schools, those with a high percentage of low-income students. She recalled: “We heard the same themes over and over again from principals, district leaders and students. That even the most talented, hard-working scholars — in rural communities,…

(Reuters) -The UK’s drugs cost-effectiveness watchdog has given a positive recommendation for ViiV Healthcare’s HIV drug, enabling access to the preventive medicine via the state health system in England and Wales, the GSK unit said on Friday.The country’s drug regulator had approved ViiV’s injection, Apretude, last year for prevention of HIV-1 in adults and young people who weigh at least 35 kilograms and are at high risk of acquiring the infection.A positive recommendation from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, solidifies the final guidance related to Apretude for National Health Service, ViiV said.It also allows the…

Due diligence is a two-way street, according to Reid Hoffman.In an episode of the “Possible” podcast released on Wednesday, the LinkedIn cofounder said he always asks founders to look into his background before letting him invest in their companies.”I say: ‘Look, I’m going to give you a bunch of references. I would like you to find anybody that I perfectly worked with,'” he said. “You’re allowed to talk to anyone and you can tell them, they know this, that they should tell you my strengths and weaknesses.”And don’t just call people who had good experiences, he added.”I will identify people…

Reddit announced Thursday that it is expanding its AI-powered search experience to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. With this expansion, the feature is now available in countries like Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and Italy. Users who have set one of these languages as their default, instead of English, can now chat with the AI in question-and-answer format. Reddit uses a Google AI model to power the feature. Reddit first debuted AI-powered search last year and has been working to expand it in different ways. The feature is part of Reddit Answers, which lives alongside the…

OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. using its AI video model, Sora. The company says it’s adding this safeguard at the request of Dr. King’s estate after some Sora users generated “disrespectful depictions” of his image. “While there are strong free speech interests in depicting historical figures, OpenAI believes public figures and their families should ultimately have control over how their likeness is used,” OpenAI said in a post on X from its official newsroom account. “Authorized representatives or estate owners can request that…

Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic frontrunner for the New York City mayoral race, said affordability is the key to attracting more tech CEOs to the city.During the first debate of the campaign on Thursday evening, candidates were asked how they would convince tech leaders who are concerned about increased corporate taxes to build their companies in NYC, instead of a city like Dallas.It’s an especially relevant question for Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate. Part of his platform includes raising taxes on the city’s most profitable corporations (increasing the corporate tax to 11.5%) and wealthiest residents (increasing the income tax for…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — On a scorching hot Saturday in San Antonio, dozens of teachers traded a day off for a glimpse of the future. The topic of the day’s workshop: enhancing instruction with artificial intelligence.After marveling as AI graded classwork instantly and turned lesson plans into podcasts or online storybooks, one high school English teacher raised a concern that was on the minds of many: “Are we going to be replaced with AI?”That remains to be seen. But for the nation’s 4 million teachers to stay relevant and help students use the technology wisely, teachers unions have forged an…

When a little-known startup called OpenAI released its artificial intelligence chatbot, it was a seminal moment that kicked off the current era of AI.But what was the “ChatGPT moment” like for Google, a long-established Big Tech company that had for years been working on its own AI products?Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, discussed his reaction the release of ChatGPT during a talk Thursday at Dreamforce, Saleforce’s annual technology event.Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff asked Pichai about what it was like for Google, which he described as the “absolute leader in AI” at the time, when…

(Reuters) -The UK’s drugs cost-effectiveness watchdog has given a positive recommendation for ViiV Healthcare’s HIV drug, enabling access to the preventive medicine via the state health system in England and Wales, the GSK unit said on Friday.The country’s drug regulator had approved ViiV’s injection, Apretude, last year for prevention of HIV-1 in adults and young people who weigh at least 35 kilograms and are at high risk of acquiring the infection.A positive recommendation from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, solidifies the final guidance related to Apretude for National Health Service, ViiV said.It also allows the…