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A small group of tech workers is calling on their CEOs to speak out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the Trump administration deploys federal agents into metropolitan areas.The petition, titled “Tech demands ICE out of our cities,” calls on tech leaders to “pick up the phone” and call the White House to demand Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “leave our cities.”Other demands include canceling company contracts with ICE and speaking out publicly against “ICE’s violence.”The petition has received more than 250 signatories, which represents a small sliver of the overall tech workforce in the US.Employees from Google and Amazon…
By Jennifer RigbyLONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – The Gates Foundation and OpenAI are setting up a $50 million partnership to help African countries use artificial intelligence to improve their health systems.The partnership, called Horizon1000, plans to work with African leaders to work out how best to use the technology, starting with Rwanda.”In poorer countries with enormous health worker shortages and lack of health systems infrastructure, AI can be a gamechanger in expanding access to quality care,” said Gates in a blog post announcing the launch. He has repeatedly described AI as one of the most transformative technologies ever developed.The foundation…
Industry reports and the growth of voice model companies in the Indian market suggest that there is a growing demand for voice AI solutions in the country. Voice is a popular medium for communication among people and businesses in India. That’s why enterprises and startups are eager to use voice AI to be more efficient at customer support, sales, customer acquisition, hiring, and training. But recognizing market demand is one thing — proving businesses will pay is another. Y Combinator rejected the application from Bolna, a voice orchestration startup built by Maitreya Wagh and Prateek Sachan, five times before finally…
By Diana Novak JonesJan 20(Reuters) – In a victory for thousands of women suing Johnson & Johnson over claims that the company’s baby powder and other talc products caused their ovarian cancer, a federal judge on Tuesday ruled that they will be allowed to present testimony at trial from experts who support that link.The ruling from an outside judge serving as a special master in the long-running litigation, which includes more than 67,500 lawsuits that have been consolidated in federal court in New Jersey, will allow the cases to move towards the first trial in federal court potentially later this…
Last week, after reversing an earlier ban, the U.S. administration officially approved the sale of Nvidia’s H200 chips, along with a chip line by AMD, to approved Chinese customers. Maybe they aren’t these chipmakers’ shiniest, most advanced chips, but they’re high-performance processors used for AI, making the export controversial. And at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unloaded on both the administration and the chip companies over the decision. The criticism was particularly notable because one of those chipmakers, Nvidia, is a major partner and investor in Anthropic. “The CEOs of these companies say,…
South Carolina’s measles outbreak continues to grow, with officials on Tuesday announcing an additional 88 cases in the state. There have been 646 cases of measles reported there since October, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.The ongoing spread of measles cases in the United States has led to concern that the U.S. will lose its measles elimination status. A country is considered as having eliminated measles if there are “no locally transmitted measles infections or outbreaks lasting 12 months or longer,” according to the World Health Organization.The South Carolina outbreak is centered around Spartanburg County. Recent public…
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The trial of a former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer accused of failing in his duty to stop a gunman in the critical first minutes of the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack was expected to go to the jury on Wednesday. Jurors will hear closing arguments from Adrian Gonzales ‘ attorneys and state prosecutors before starting deliberations in a rare trial of a police officer charged with failing to stop a criminal act to save lives. Gonzales, one of the first officers to arrive during the attack, has pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of…
As concern for AI’s impact on young people continues to mount, OpenAI has introduced an “age prediction” feature into ChatGPT that is designed to help identify minors and put sensible content constraints on their conversations. OpenAI has been heavily criticized in recent years for the impacts that ChatGPT can have on children. A number of teen suicides have been linked to the chatbot, and, like other AI vendors, OpenAI has also been criticized for allowing ChatGPT to discuss sexual topics with young users. Last April, the company was forced to address a bug that allowed its chatbot to generate erotica…
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are at it again, with each of the tech titans taking aim at the other in a series of heated posts on X.Musk appeared to start the latest escalation early on Tuesday morning, when he posted “Don’t let your loved ones use ChatGPT” in response to a post that said that use of OpenAI’s chatbot had been linked to the deaths of nine children and adults since it was released in 2022.Altman fired back, first in defense of ChatGPT and OpenAI’s desire to protect its users, and then blasting Tesla’s Autopilot technology, calling it unsafe.”It…
Elon Musk said over the long weekend that Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, the electric vehicle company’s previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. Only this time, Dojo3 won’t be aimed at training self-driving models on Earth. Instead, Musk says it will be dedicated to “space-based AI compute.” The move comes five months after Tesla effectively shut down its Dojo effort. The company disbanded the team behind its Dojo supercomputer following the departure of Dojo lead Peter Bannon. Around 20 Dojo workers also left to join DensityAI, a new AI infrastructure startup founded by former Dojo head Ganesh Venkataramanan and…