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Semafor Tech: Samsara’s CEO on using AI to lighten the load on manual jobs
In this edition, we talk with Samsara’s CEO about how they’re using AI to boost productivity for workers in the real world.
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Hinge CEO: Searching for a partner in real life won’t ‘hold a candle to’ meeting online with AI
Justin McLeod spoke with Semafor about how the matchmaking capabilities offered by AI will transform the industry.
Courtesy of Hinge
Swiss auction firm becomes first to sell art solely authenticated by AI
The piece, a watercolor by Russian artist Marianne von Werefkin, sold for $17,000 last week.
Courtesy of Germann Auction House
‘This is amazing:’ How Samsara’s AI for the unglamorous could drive productivity gains
The company helping businesses track and monitor vehicle fleets and other assets shows how AI is helping industries beyond office jobs.
Courtesy of Samsara
US unveils new China chip curbs in last Biden effort to curb Beijing’s access to tech
Washington restricted exports to 140 China-based companies, just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump’s returns to the White House.
Florence Lo/Reuters
Employee lawsuit accuses Apple of spying on its workers
The suit alleges Apple forces employees to give up their personal privacy rights and surveils them through iCloud accounts and non-work devices.
Andrej Sokolow/dpa via Reuters Connect
Amazon AI data centers could double as carbon capture machines
The new technology will help offset the effects of the additional energy required to power the centers.
Orbital Materials
Two years ago, ChatGPT triggered an AI boom. It may be just getting started.
OpenAI’s chatbot launched on Nov. 30 2022, pushing technology companies toward developing new and increasingly powerful artificial intelligence.
AI company Mistral is latest European startup to eye expansion in Silicon Valley
Europe alone may not have the talent and capital to keep budding AI giants from expanding elsewhere.
New AI tech can spot fake Lacoste products from a photo
The luxury clothing brand will use the AI model to detect fraudulent returns in its warehouses.
Huawei’s new smartphone marks a ‘turning point’ for US-China tech war
Huawei has fully developed its own operating system to compete with Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, a first for a Chinese company.
Beijing renews crackdown on Chinese tech companies’ use of algorithms
Beijing said the measures are designed to protect vulnerable social groups from targeted manipulation and advertising.
New Microsoft Teams AI promises to translate speech in real time
The AI translator digs further into the growing $18 billion interpretation market, but it may impact some 640,000 professional translators globally.
A plan to democratize access to powerful AI tools gets a last-ditch push in Congress
The National AI Research Resource would give academia the kind of compute power that’s only available to the likes of Microsoft today.
Stanford’s AI Center names US the top AI ecosystem, China follows
The university’s AI center has developed a tool that measures the strength of AI ecosystems based on a country’s economy, infrastructure, governance, and other factors.
US AI chip giant Nvidia outstrips revenue expectations
The earnings from the biggest chipmaker in the world will have an outsized impact on the US stock market, analysts said, albeit in the short term.
Silicon Valley veteran Nikesh Arora on tech’s role in government, and the future of AI
The Palo Alto Networks CEO also discusses what hacking will look like in an AI-powered world.
Elon Musk’s idea to simplify tax filings hits Intuit and H&R Block stocks
Intuit’s shares fell 5% while H&R Block’s stock dropped 8% after Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency floated the idea of a free tax-filing app.
Pokémon Go maker to create AI trained on user data that can navigate the real world
Niantic said its “Large Geospatial Model” will be able to predict what physical structures like statues look like based on what it knows about existing ones.