Amazon’s AGI department finds humans are optional

Amazon may be spending billions on AI, but that hasn't stopped it from cutting jobs inside the very organization building it. The megacorp confirmed to The Register on Thursday that it has eliminated an undisclosed number of roles across parts of its Artificial...

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The simple way to get other people to prioritize your work

Someone in another department Slacks you: “Hey, quick favor . . . any chance you could get this to me by Friday?” No context on why it matters, no acknowledgment of what’s already on your plate, just an ask. You’ve probably sent a version of that message yourself, and...

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UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet

Britain has found £708 million ($946m) to fund the development of advanced technologies for the Royal Air Force’s next-gen fighter, codenamed Tempest. Announced to coincide with the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, southwest of London, the news was...

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The robot byline is quietly disappearing

The most obvious use of generative AI is writing. It’s right there in the name—large language models (LLMs) are all about reading, organizing, analyzing, and conjuring words—which is exactly why many in the journalism profession have been going through a kind of...

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Voice Control Toolkit Comes to a Pico Near You

Voice-controlled appliances are nothing new. What might be new, however, is [Moonshine AI] running it all locally on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W! The voice interface is roughly divided into three parts: voice activity detection, SpellingCNN speech-to-text and a neural...

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When your job conflicts with your values

People are more likely to stay at their job when their values and the organization’s mission are clearly aligned. But not every task you are asked to do may fit with your personal system of values. What should you do when asked to do something that causes you...

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Industrial GPU Adapted for the Desktop

As technologies change and adapt, we’re often left with seemingly useless junk that has nowhere to go. Certainly anyone still sitting on a pile of floppy disks feels this way sometimes, but odds are anyone who owns a mining ASIC or an NFT can attest to that as well....

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