Big Tech was forced to react and ignore security as ChatGPT gains a foothold, Intel reports historically bleak earnings and China’s top nuclear weapon uses American chips.
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According to a report in the Washington Post, the growing popularity of ChatGPT is forcing Big Tech to move quickly and potentially ignore security concerns with new AI technologies. At Meta, employees recently shared an internal memo urging the company to speed up the AI approval process to take advantage of the latest technology. Google, which helped pioneer some of the technology underpinning ChatGPT, recently issued a “code red” for launching AI products and is working to assess and mitigate potential harm, according to a New York Times report. Proposed “Green Lane” to shorten the process of registration. , A Google employee said that people think OpenAI is newer and fresher, more exciting and there are less sins to pay for and they can now get away with it. Meta’s Blenderbot and Galactica and Microsoft’s Tey either folded or received little public interest after their launches. Microsoft appears to have embraced ChatGPT with its recent $10 billion investment in OpenAI and announcements to integrate AI into its services.
source: Washington Post
Intel wiped $8 billion off its market value on Friday as the personal-computer market suffered an unprecedented slump after the US chipmaker reported historic disappointing earnings estimates. Its revenue forecast was also $3 billion lower than expected as it struggled with slowing growth in the data center business. Intel shares closed 6.4% lower, while rivals Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) and Nvidia (NVDA.O) ended the session up 0.3% and 2.8%, respectively. Reuters reported that Intel is losing market share to rivals, who have used contract chip makers such as Taiwan-based TSMC to make chips that outperform Intel’s technology. Analysts also claim that AMD data center chips have a strong price-performance advantage compared to Intel’s processors that will further reduce its share gains.
source: reuters
China’s top nuclear weapons research institute bought sophisticated American computer chips despite longstanding export restrictions aimed at limiting the use of any American products for nuclear-weapons research by foreign powers, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Huh. A journal review of research papers published by the China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), one of the first Chinese institutions to be put on the US blacklist, found that at least 34 over the past decade referenced using US semiconductors in research. gave. Most of the chips the academy bought ranged in size from 7 nanometers to 14 nanometers, many of which are difficult for China to mass-produce. They are widely available in the open market. The versions of Intel’s Xeon Gold and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX chips purchased by CAEP can be purchased from Taobao, one of China’s largest e-commerce marketplaces.
source: WSJ
A report by The Conversation suggests that the reduction in advertising spending and revenue is causing massive layoffs. Advertising revenue declined last year – partly because of fears of a global recession triggered by the pandemic, which reduced spending on staff. Large numbers of employees have been laid off from major tech companies since the end of the pandemic, including Alphabet (12,000 employees), Amazon (18,000), Meta (11,000), Twitter (4,000), Microsoft (10,000) and Salesforce. (8,000). The report shows that these figures do not include downstream layoffs, such as advertising agencies laying off employees as advertising spending falls, or manufacturers downsizing as tech product orders decline – or Even potential layoffs are yet to come. This may not matter much to consumers or the overall economy because work on tech products and services is still growing, and the layoffs, though striking, still represent a fraction of the total tech workforce.
source: conversation
Microsoft is looking to redesign and introduce a more touch-friendly navigation interface for the File Explorer app in Windows 11, according to a report in Windows Central. The new Explorer will feature better photo viewing with larger previews, keyword and color tagging for better organizing files, as well as tighter integration with Microsoft 365 and OneDrive. An internal mock-up of the new interface features existing areas for pinned and recent files, as well as a new “recommended” section of files, with larger previews of various documents and where files are located (OneDrive, SharePoint, and Microsoft Office). local) information. Downloads folders are all listed). The facelift would also come with “more modern code” under the hood, wrote Ars Technica.
source: Ars Technica
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