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Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, in the second such program this year. The company's headcount has held flat at around 223,000 since 2022 even as it plans to spend about...
IT services company Cognizant is sending 25,000 workers to sell OpenAI services to big businesses, hoping to get more AI projects out of…...
I’ve developed an election prediction model based on a transformer architecture; I thought you might find it interesting. The model will update its information automatically in the run-up to the midterm elections; you can also click on a state/distri...
The Copyright Alliance, which counts the RIAA, NMPA and UMG as members, says Meta's new commercial terms would let its bots read your website…
Before he ever wrote a line of code for a startup, Sherif Amer was designing embedded systems and verifying mixed-signal chips at Infineon. Then an unexpected layoff changed his trajectory. Rather than jumping back into semiconductors, he spent two a...
A free model that sorts complaints in 13 Indian languages into 53 categories based on RBI, IRDAI and CPGRAMS lists. What a synthetic test hid, and what real posts showed....
Cohere advances C$4 billion commitment to strengthen Canada’s AI leadership and significantly expand its national workforce
India’s gig economy has exploded. According to NITI Aayog, India’s gig workforce is projected to reach 23.5 million workers by 2029–30, and the gig market is valued at $455 billion. Companies across logistics, food delivery, e-commerce, staffing, and...
Following the IT and tech hiring boom during the Covid-19 pandemic, companies made space for AI initiatives that resulted in increased layoffs. But new data reveals that some IT hiring trends are starting to turn around....
The FT says Spotify wants paying fans remixing licensed songs with AI by early 2027. Royalties go to the original artists. UMG, Merlin and…
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Universal Music Group grew revenue 11.7% in Q3 2026. Its CEO then spent the earnings call arguing that streaming services should pay AI slop…