• Industry Experts Join Homeland Security's New AI Safety Board

    The board will advise the public and private sectors on matters of responsible AI deployment.

  • San Benito driving voter turnout as school board race turning up heat

    SAN BENITO — The city’s two rival factions are heating up the polls at the city’s Community Building, turning the bustling voting site into one of the hottest across Cameron County as steady flows of residents cast ballots during an eight-day early voting period.

  • AI tools from Microsoft and Google are just streamlining middle management, leading AI expert says: WSJ

    Microsoft and Google rolled out their own AI-powered productivity tools last year, touting them as products that could revolutionize how people work.But one leading AI expert thinks otherwise.Ethan Mollick, a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, has been tapped by the White House, JP Morgan, Google, and many others for his insights on artificial intelligence.In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mollick said Microsoft's Copilot and...

  • Get expert AI guidance with this $30 software

    Lifetime access to Consultio Pro is on sale for just $29.99 (reg. $199) for a limited time.

  • Meta AI adds Google Search results

    Meta AI will point users to web search results of Google or Microsoft Bing for queries that require the most up-to-date answers.

  • AI A 'Fundamental Change In The News Ecosystem': Expert

    Artificial intelligence is shaking up journalism and in the short term will cause "a fundamental change in the news ecosystem", media expert David Caswell told AFP.

  • Amazon Results to Bring More Scrutiny for AI-Tethered Stocks

    (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc.’s “show-me” moment will arrive on Tuesday when its earnings become the latest litmus test on appetite for heavy artificial intelligence spending.Most Read from BloombergHSBC CEO Quinn Unexpectedly Steps Down After Almost 5 YearsTesla Soars on Tentative China Approval for Driving SystemStocks Trade for 390 Minutes a Day. Increasingly, Only 10 MatterBinance and CZ’s Fortunes Are Set to Grow, Even in JailS&P 500 Falls 1% at End of Worst Month in 2024: Markets WrapThe

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    Meet Amazon Q, the AI assistant that generates apps for you

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has long offered generative AI solutions to optimize everyday business operations. Today, AWS added to those offerings with the general availability of its AI assistant Amazon Q.AWS first announced Amazon Q in November 2023; on Tuesday, the company made the AI-powered assistant generally available for developers and businesses, as well as released free courses on using the AI assistant and a new Amazon Q capability in preview. Amazon Q is designed to act as a secure, AI...

  • Why would anyone trust the new AI Safety and Security Board?

    Today, most techies accept full-blown wokeness as long as they get to keep their hands on the controls. And most wokies accept technologization so long as they run the controls. This is the circular logic behind the Department of Homeland Security’s new AI Safety and Security Board. Remember when Elon Musk renamed X’s discredited trust and safety team to just “safety”? The new Woke Borg expansion pack installed by DHS is the Terminator of trust gaps. To begin with, this is the bloated...

  • Microsoft Could Topple Amazon's Cloud Dominance, Thanks to AI

    Microsoft's AI lead could be the driving factor in helping it topple Amazon's dominance in cloud services.

  • UK watchdog targets Microsoft, Amazon AI deals

    The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Microsoft and Amazon’s dealings with AI start-ups, inviting comment from market players to determine if recent partnerships have the potential to hurt competition in the country.

  • Amazon Q1 earnings driven by AWS, AI innovations: Analyst

    Amazon (AMZN) stock rose in extended-hours trading after its first-quarter earnings topped Wall Street estimates. CFRA Research Senior Equity Research Analyst Arun Sundaram credits the success to innovations in Amazon's e-commerce division driving improved retail margins, as well as AWS's position as a powerhouse among other cloud computing competitors. He also highlights the company's artificial intelligence initiatives, telling Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton that Amazon has a "very compelling...