IBM’s Darío Gil: ‘This year we’ll have the first Spanish-language AI model with use cases’
The champion of artificial intelligence for Spanish speakers says it will use open-source data from government and other collaborators
Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery
The companies aren’t committing to ban or remove deepfakes. Instead, the accord outlines methods they will use to try to detect and label deceptive AI content when it is created or distributed on their platforms
Machine versus organoid
The war between living and silicon brains has raged since the days of Kasparov and ‘Deep Blue’, and it’s only intensified over the last few years
Tech giants pursue ethical and legal AI development
The new European standard will drive the industry to develop bias-free applications that ensure privacy and transparency
IBM’s Juan Bernabé-Moreno: ‘Understanding nature using traditional computers is impossible’
The Spanish computer scientist says quantum computing is essential for responding to the global climate emergency
X says Walmart pulled ads in October, weeks before Media Matters hate speech report and Musk rant
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The announcement comes two days after CEO Elon Musk said advertisers pulling out are engaging in ‘blackmail’ and, using a profanity, essentially told them to go away
Elon Musk visits Israel to meet top leaders as accusations of antisemitism on X grow
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The billionaire and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the Kfar Azza kibbutz, a rural village that Hamas militants stormed on Oct. 7 in a deadly assault that launched the war
IBM, EU and Lionsgate pull ads from Elon Musk’s X as concerns about antisemitism fuel backlash
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Billionaire owner Musk has faced accusations of tolerating antisemitic messages on the platform since purchasing it last year
‘Classic’ defeats quantum: with the use of conventional computing, two teams surpass IBM’s groundbreaking 127 qubit processor
Simulations utilizing ‘modest computational systems’ have achieved equivalent results as the technology multinational, just weeks after the milestone was published in the journal ‘Nature’
Research inches toward quantum supremacy with results unattainable by classical computing
The experiment attained precise measurements using a processor of only 127 qubits and an error mitigation strategy
US applications for jobless benefits reach highest level since October 2021
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Despite last week’s sharp increase in filings for unemployment aid, some analysts cautioned against concluding that layoffs are picking up across the economy
Antía Lamas, physicist: ‘In a few years, quantum computing will simply be another programming language’
The Spanish scientist, who is responsible for Amazon Web Services’ quantum networks, says that not all the possibilities are understood, nor is the effect of the intersection with artificial intelligence
More Americans file for jobless claims; layoffs remain low
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The four-week moving average of claims, which evens out some of the week-to-week fluctuations, rose by 2,000 to 198,250, remaining below the 200,000 threshold
Applications for US jobless aid rise by most in 5 months
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Applications for jobless claims in the U.S. for the week ending March 4 rose by 21,000 to 211,000 from 190,000 the previous week
Applications for jobless claims fall for 3rd straight week
It’s the seventh straight week claims were under 200,000
Computer chip funding to require security, worker benefits
The funding is part of the CHIPS and Science Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law last August