For centuries, farmers used almanacs to try to understand and predict weather patterns.Now, a new crop of Latin American startups is helping do that with artificial intelligence, promising a farming revolution in agricultural giants like Brazil, the world's biggest exporter of soybeans, corn and beef.Aline Oliveira Pezente, a 39-year-old entrepreneur from the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, was working at agriculture company Louis Dreyfus Commodities when she noticed a problem in how the...
Meta said that it would be spending billions of dollars more on its AI efforts, raising expenditure forecasts in this area from $30 - 37 billion to $34 - 40 billion for the year. It cited heavy investment in AI infrastructure such as data centers, chip designs, and research andRead Entire Article
Technology giant Google is executing fresh layoffs in a bid to cut costs. The layoffs have impacted staff across Google’s real estate and finance departments, as per a Business Insider report. In the finance department, employees were let go in treasury, business services, and revenue cash operations.Google's finance chief Ruth Porat, in an email to staff, said that Google would build out its “growth hubs” in locations such as Bangalore, Mexico City, and Dublin as part of the restructuring, the...
A CUTTING-EDGE Israeli spy plane used AI tech to block Iran’s huge blitz. Computers on the £800million jet tracked all of the 320 incoming missiles and drones. The crew of the Oron then passed on t
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Instead of demanding an exhaustive “AI Bill of Materials.” the Army will only ask contractors for a “baseball card” of key stats on their AI — while building up its in-house capacity to check for bad code or “poisoned” data.
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The job cuts continue at Google and Rivian as both companies further trimmed their workforces Wednesday, part of a larger trend of layoffs in the tech industry this year. Google laid off an unspecified number of workers, though the cuts were not company-wide. The company classified them as a reorganization that was part of the normal course of business. Affected employees will be able to apply for internal roles. Google did not confirm or deny a report from Business Insider that teams in...
The more I read and write about AI, the firmer I get in my conviction that Big Tech incumbents absolutely must strangle the decentralized AI in its cradle before it wrecks everything.Take a look at this interview Ben Thompson did with OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott. I call your attention to this part in particular:From Microsoft’s perspective, is this going to be a funnel into new products or do you see it as an end goal in and of itself, winning search?KS: So I think you hit...
The "AI mouse" is just the start.