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Pinterest has fired several engineers who created an internal software tool to track layoffs at the company, according to reports. This move came into light after employees attempted to quantify job cuts following Pinterest’s January 27 announcement that it would layoff less than 15% of its workforce and reduce office space as part of a…
OpenAI is experiencing a significant exodus of senior researchers as CEO Sam Altman prioritizes ChatGPT development over long-term AI exploration. Key figures, including a VP of research, have departed due to resource allocation disputes, with experimental projects reportedly sidelined. This strategic shift, driven by intense competition, leaves some teams feeling marginalized and questioning their original…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (File photo) NEW DELHI: Days after the moves announced in the Budget, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said that data centres will help replicate success of the internet to create jobs in the country.“We have a giant investment in India and we have a lot of partnerships in India. I prefer…
Jensen Huang, CEO, Nvidia Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has dismissed the market panic that recently erased over $250 billion from global software stocks. Defending the software industry against fears that AI will make it obsolete, the chief executive of the world’s most valuable company has said that this concern is the “most illogical thing.” Speaking…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced that the company’s much-discussed ‘head of preparedness’ role advertised in December last year with a base salary of up to $555,000 a year has now been filled. The position went to Dylan Scandinaro, a former member of the AI safety team at rival company Anthropic. Altman took to social…
Walmart reached a market capitalization of over $1 trillion on Tuesday (February 3). This makes the American company the first retailer in the world to join an exclusive club of companies to reach a 13-figure valuation that mostly consists of technology companies like Google, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta. The company has been riding on…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp sent a letter to shareholders to defend the company’s work with US government agencies. This comes days after documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that Palantir is among the contractors providing AI tools to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).In the letter (seen by CNBC), Karp argued that Palantir’s…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has once again taken a swipe at Microsoft’s AI chatbot and tool, Copilot. Calling it Clippy 2.0 – an upgraded version of 1990s Office assistant, Clippy – Benioff dismissed it saying that Slackbot offered by Salesforce gets the work done. He also called it the top AI CRM sidekick and every…
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has criticised the French government after the Paris prosecutor’s cyber-crime unit conducted a raid on the local offices of Elon Musk-owned social media platform, X (formerly Twitter). The raids are a part of an investigation which the government launched into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and alleged child…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang seem to be going all out publicly to prove that all is well between the two companies. However, reports after reports say that all is not well between the two AI giants. According to a report in Reuters, OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia’s latest…
