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Boston Consulting Group: To unlock enterprise AI value, start with the data you’ve been ignoring

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-08-27 17:23:54

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more When building enterprise AI, some companies are finding the hardest part is sometimes deciding what to build and how to address the various processes involved. At VentureBeat Transform 2025, data quality and governance were front and center as companies look beyond the experimental phase of AI and explore ways to productize and scale agen

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Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-28 05:18:28

As AI companies rave about how their products are revolutionizing productivity, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants the tech industry to put its money where its automated mouth is. In a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Sanders argued that the time saved with AI tools should be given back to workers to spend with their families. “Technology is gonna work to improve us, not just the people who own the technology and the CEOs of large corporations,” Sanders said. “You are a worker, your

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Applying to Jobs Has Become an AI-Powered Wasteland

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-28 17:12:52

If you’re one of millions of job seekers struggling to find stable employment, just know it’s probably not you. With the onslaught of so-called "generative AI" — Silicon Valley’s term for complex prediction algorithms that can be used to create new content based on vast amounts of material that they gathered without the permission of its creators — the job search has become a veritable gauntlet of fake job listings, automated application bots, and computer-generated interviews. Though it’s onl

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Under Trump 2.0, Tech Companies Pull Back on Pride

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-30 01:35:32

Tech companies were happy to have their name appear alongside President Donald Trump’s strange, authoritarian-esque military parade. But they are suddenly seeming a bit shy about supporting Pride events. Wonder what that is about? CNBC reports that San Francisco Pride will not feature Facebook parent company Meta as one of its sponsors this year—a major absence from a company that once had a major presence at the parade. For what it’s worth, the disappearance of Meta’s branding appears to be a

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A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books

news.ycombinator.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-30 03:22:14

Federal judge William Alsup ruled that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI models on published books without the authors’ permission. This marks the first time that the courts have given credence to AI companies’ claim that fair use doctrine can absolve AI companies from fault when they use copyrighted materials to train large language models (LLMs). This decision comes as a blow to authors, artists, and publishers who have brought dozens of lawsuits against companies like OpenAI, Meta,

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Judge sides with Anthropic over training AI on books without authors' permission

news.ycombinator.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-30 13:22:14

Federal judge William Alsup ruled that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI models on published books without the authors’ permission. This marks the first time that the courts have given credence to AI companies’ claim that fair use doctrine can absolve AI companies from fault when they use copyrighted materials to train LLMs. This decision comes as a blow to authors, artists, and publishers who have brought dozens of lawsuits against companies like OpenAI, Meta, Midjourney, Google, and

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A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-30 17:17:18

Federal judge William Alsup ruled that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI models on published books without the authors’ permission. This marks the first time that the courts have given credence to AI companies’ claim that fair use doctrine can absolve AI companies from fault when they use copyrighted materials to train LLMs. This decision comes as a blow to authors, artists, and publishers who have brought dozens of lawsuits against companies like OpenAI, Meta, Midjourney, Google, and

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Circular Microcomputers embedded and powered by repurposed smartphone components

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 03:10:42

Citronics provides synchronized streaming displays that can be placed on objects. Artists and companies use them today to create immersive digital experience inspiring sustainability, using repurposed screens.

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Uber and Waymo’s commercial robotaxi service is open for business in Atlanta

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-08-31 14:00:00

Waymo robotaxis can now be hailed in Atlanta via Uber. The two companies, which already offer the “Waymo on Uber” service in Austin, said on Tuesday the commercial service will initially cover about 65 square miles in Atlanta. The launch, if successful, is poised to propel the businesses of both companies. Uber, which has locked in partnerships with 18 autonomous vehicles companies, said it has an annual run-rate of 1.5 million mobility and delivery AV trips on its network. Meanwhile, Waymo sai

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Japanese shipping firm NYK acquires Kadmos, a salary payment platform for seafarers

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-09-02 09:08:47

Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, or NYK Line, is acquiring Germany’s salary payment platform for seafaring workers, Kadmos, as it seeks to further expand the reach of its fintech services in the maritime sector. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the acquisition deal, which is expected to be completed in the next few weeks. MIT alumni Justus Schmueser and Sasha Makarovych founded Kadmos in 2021, aiming to provide businesses, including shipowners and s

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Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 09:02:24

Just a note of warning from personal experience. Companies don’t really need non-competes anymore. Some companies take an extremely broad interpretation of IP confidentiality, where they consider doing any work in the industry during your lifetime an inevitable confidentiality violation. They argue it would be impossible for you to work elsewhere in this industry during your entire career without violating confidentiality with the technical and business instincts you bring to that domain. It do

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The new math: why seed investors are selling their winners earlier

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-09-03 09:04:28

Charles Hudson had just closed his fifth fund several months ago – $66 million for Precursor Ventures – when one of his limited partners asked him to run an exercise. What would have happened, the LP wondered, if Hudson had sold all his portfolio companies at Series A? What about Series B? Or Series C? The question wasn’t academic. After two decades in venture capital, Hudson has been watching the math of seed investing change, maybe permanently. LPs who’ve previously been patient with seven-to

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YouTube creators unaware Google uses their videos to train AI

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-04 09:44:00

A hot potato: When it comes to tech companies training their AI models, it seems everything is fair game. Google, for example, uses some of the billions of videos on YouTube to train Gemini and Veo 3, and many creators are unaware that it's happening. With more than 20 billion videos on the platform, YouTube is a treasure trove of data for AI companies to exploit – and many already have. YouTube owner Google is also using the content to train its AI models, reports CNBC. The company later conf

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Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-04 22:00:14

In recent years, numerous plaintiffs—including publishers of books, newspapers, computer code, and photographs—have sued AI companies for training models using copyrighted material. A key question in all of these lawsuits has been how easily AI models produce verbatim excerpts from the plaintiffs’ copyrighted content. For example, in its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times Company produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times sto

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The quest to defend against tech in intimate partner violence

technologyreview.com Jessica Klein 2025-09-09 03:00:00

As technology evolved, the ways abusers took advantage evolved too. Realizing that the advocacy community “was not up on tech,” Southworth founded the National Network to End Domestic Violence’s Safety Net Project in 2000 to provide a comprehensive training curriculum on how to “harness [technology] to help victims” and hold abusers accountable when they misuse it. Today, the project offers resources on its website, like tool kits that include guidance on strategies such as creating strong passw

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Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won’t Have to Attend Boot Camp)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-09 05:30:38

The U.S. military recently announced that four executives from some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley have joined the Army Reserve as direct-commissioned officers. The move is part of a push to speed up the adoption of technology in the military, but as the news outlet Task & Purpose points out, it’s pretty unusual. The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and

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Why SMS two-factor authentication codes aren't safe and what to use instead

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-10 13:25:16

kontekbrothers/Getty We've probably all received confirmation codes sent via text message when trying to sign into an account. Those codes are supposed to serve as two-factor authentication to confirm our identity and prevent scammers from accessing our accounts through a password alone. But who actually handles those SMS codes, and can those people be trusted? New reports from both Bloomberg and collaborative investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports shed light on how and why text-based codes

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How Private Equity Killed the American Dream

wired.com Louise Matsakis 2025-09-10 17:00:00

In her new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, journalist and WIRED alum Megan Greenwell chronicles the devastating impacts of one of the most powerful yet poorly understood forces in modern American capitalism. Flush with cash, largely unregulated, and relentlessly focused on profit, private equity firms have quietly reshaped the US economy, taking over large chunks of industries ranging from health care to retail—often leaving financial ruin in their wake. T

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California is trying to regulate its AI giants — again

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-09-10 21:07:48

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Last September, all eyes were on Senate Bill 1047 as it made its way to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk — and died there as he vetoed the buzzy piece of legislation. SB 1047 would have required makers of all large AI models, particularly those that cost $100 million or more to train, to test them for specific dangers. A

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Rocket Companies Like SpaceX May Soon Pay Per Pound to Use the Sky

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-11 01:55:51

The skies may no longer be free for the space industry. Rocket companies like SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA) may soon be required to pay a fee to support FAA oversight and airspace coordination, part of a broader effort to keep up with the growing launch industry. A budget reconciliation bill released by Senator Ted Cruz last week proposes that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) begin charging licensing fees to rocket companies starting next year. The collected fees would go int

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OpenAI and Microsoft Execs Reportedly Considering the ‘Nuclear Option’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-11 13:40:38

OpenAI and Microsoft like to present themselves as the power couple of Silicon Valley, but behind closed doors, it’s looking increasingly like a distraught and loveless marriage. The two companies, which are bound together by cash flows and an entwined product base, have been undergoing a turbulent negotiation surrounding OpenAI’s desire for a shorter leash and the opportunity to turn itself into a for-profit company. Microsoft appears to be resistant to some of those goals. Now, a new report cl

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Companies Warn SEC That Mass Deportations Pose Serious Business Risk

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-09-12 13:16:06

As the Trump administration executes an aggressive deportation campaign across the United States, a growing number of US companies warn that the crackdown could threaten their operations. Since January, more than 40 companies have mentioned the impact of deportations in filings to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, with many saying it could hurt the labor force, increase the risk of a recession, or create more economic uncertainty, according to 74 filings reviewed by WIRED. The impacted

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Here's why network infrastructure is vital to maximizing your company's AI adoption

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-13 20:00:16

Weiquan Lin/Getty Images When companies begin taking the first steps toward AI adoption, one of the first pieces of advice they receive is to address the quality of their data. However, another foundational element that is often overlooked, but is just as critical to the success of AI deployment, is network infrastructure. At Cisco Live, ZDNET spoke with Anurag Dhingra, SVP and GM of the Enterprise Connectivity and Collaboration Group, to learn more about the role network infrastructure plays

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The Tech Job Meltdown

news.ycombinator.com Professor Axelrod 2025-09-13 23:22:54

He wrote me a prescription; he said “You are depressed I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest Come back and see me later, next patient please Send in another victim of industrial disease” Industrial Disease, Dire Straits The Google campus doesn’t look as friendly as it used to. (this ia actually from Bartertown in Mad Max 3 - you can see Thunderdome in the middle) Since the start of 2023, more than half-a-million tech workers have been laid off. This isn’t the impact of COV

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Tech Startup Raises $24 Million to Replace Hollywood With AI Slop

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-17 03:21:33

In case you haven't noticed, generative AI is creeping into our lives at an alarming rate. The perfidious tech and its algorithmically-generated slop is becoming a fact of life as unscrupulous tech companies set it loose into the world, consequences be damned. Unless you live in a hut, AI video slop is pretty much unavoidable. It's choking the internet with deranged brainrot, kids content, and even bizzaro Trump family engagement bait. The avalanche is so devastating that an international coali

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AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, and that’s problematic

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-17 20:33:02

The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies are stepping up efforts to deal with a growing problem of chatbots telling people what they want to hear. OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic are all working on reining in sycophantic behavior by their generative AI products that offer over-flattering responses to users. The issue, stemming from how the large language models are trained, has come into focus at a time when more and more people have adopted the chatbots not only at work as

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Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 03:57:20

Live Events The majority of justices on Brazil's Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users. Gilmar Mendes on Wednesday became the sixth of the court's 11 justices to vote to open a path for companies like Meta, X and Microsoft to be sued and pay fines for content published by their users. Voting is ongoing but a simple majority is all that is needed for the measure to pass.The ruling will come after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warn

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Inexpensive AI Agents Threaten Entry-Level Coding Jobs

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-09-18 04:00:00

In 2007, Luke Arrigoni, an AI entrepreneur, earned $63,000 at his first job as a junior software developer. Today, he says AI tools that write better code than he did back then cost just $120 annually. The numbers don’t sit right with him. Arrigoni, who runs Loti AI, a company that helps Hollywood stars find unauthorized deepfakes, worries that underpriced AI tools encourage companies to eliminate entry-level roles. He wants to flip the incentive structure so people’s careers don’t end before t

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AI Agents Are Too Cheap for Our Own Good

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-09-18 14:00:00

In 2007, Luke Arrigoni, an AI entrepreneur, earned $63,000 at his first job as a junior software developer. Today, he says AI tools that write better code than he did back then cost just $120 annually. The numbers don’t sit right with him. Arrigoni, who runs Loti AI, a company that helps Hollywood stars find unauthorized deepfakes, worries that underpriced AI tools encourage companies to eliminate entry-level roles. He wants to flip the incentive structure so people’s careers don’t end before t

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How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-06-03 10:51:24

The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has come into force, and it’s meant that some of the world’s biggest tech companies are having to make major changes to how they operate. The law, which is designed to increase competition in the EU’s digital markets, designates some large online companies and their services as “gatekeepers.” Those that have received the gatekeeper designation — the companies on the list are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft — have to meet str

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Latest Tech News

Boston Consulting Group: To unlock enterprise AI value, start with the data you’ve been ignoring

Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week

Applying to Jobs Has Become an AI-Powered Wasteland

Under Trump 2.0, Tech Companies Pull Back on Pride

A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books

Judge sides with Anthropic over training AI on books without authors' permission

A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission

Circular Microcomputers embedded and powered by repurposed smartphone components

Uber and Waymo’s commercial robotaxi service is open for business in Atlanta

Japanese shipping firm NYK acquires Kadmos, a salary payment platform for seafarers

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The new math: why seed investors are selling their winners earlier

YouTube creators unaware Google uses their videos to train AI

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book

The quest to defend against tech in intimate partner violence

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won’t Have to Attend Boot Camp)

Why SMS two-factor authentication codes aren't safe and what to use instead

How Private Equity Killed the American Dream

California is trying to regulate its AI giants — again

Rocket Companies Like SpaceX May Soon Pay Per Pound to Use the Sky

OpenAI and Microsoft Execs Reportedly Considering the ‘Nuclear Option’

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Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content

Inexpensive AI Agents Threaten Entry-Level Coding Jobs

AI Agents Are Too Cheap for Our Own Good

How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

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