There has been a growing concern that artificial intelligence (AI) will replace human workers in various industries, leading to widespread job loss and economic disruption. This has sparked a heated debate about the future of work, with some arguing that AI will create new jobs and opportunities, while others worry that it will lead to…
TikTok Banned in Florida State Universities
TikTok has appeared in the news more often than it would like, and unfortunately, it’s for the wrong reasons. The social media platform with its headquarters in China, has faced series of backlash due to the unending cyber security risks associated with using the application. In a recent development, the State University System of Florida…
Australia: TikTok Banned on Government Devices
TikTok is a short-form video hosting service owned by an internet technology company, ByteDance, with its headquarters located in Beijing, China. TikTok was launched in 2017 and surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide in October 2020. According to NPR, Australia has become the latest country to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from its federal…
ChatGPT Suspended in Italy
ChatGPT is OpenAI’s proprietary chatbot that was released in November 2022. This conversational style AI machine has been trained using generative pre-trained transformer models and subsequently fine-tuned using human-supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. With the core function of a chatbot being to mimic a human conversationalist, ChatGPT supersedes those functionalities with abilities like music composition, answering…
Six Months Break For AI
Artificial Intelligence is an all-time favorite around here, so I was definitely going to write about the open letter that is currently calling for a pause on advanced AI development. The Future of Life Institute is a non-profit research institute that works to minimize catastrophic and existential (human-extinction level) risks facing humanity, particularly from advanced…
Apple Joins the “Buy Now, Pay Later” Team
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a form of financing that traces back to the 19th century, when installment plans emerged as a way for consumers to buy expensive goods they couldn’t afford to buy outrightly. This is a type of short-term financing that allows consumers make purchases and pay for them as a future…
Disney Will Lay Off 7,000 Employees
Companies are restructuring their workforce to meet their business needs and sadly the employees are mostly on the receiving end with the constant layoffs across the industry. The Walt Disney Company, also known as Disney, is an American multinational and entertainment conglomerate with its headquarters at California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, by…
Google Launches Bard AI Chatbot
A chatbot is a software application used to conduct an online chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent. These are computer programs that are capable of maintaining a conversation with a user in natural language, understanding their intent, and replying based on preset rules and…
Amazon Cuts 9,000 More Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet (Google), Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft. Amazon has announced that it will be cutting 9,000 more jobs in a fresh round of…
Honda recalls 500,000 defective vehicles
Honda Motor Co. is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Honda has been the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959 reaching a production of 400 million by the end of 2019, as well as the world’s largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines (measured by…