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💥 Microsoft to axe ‘thousands’ of its sales staff
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- Microsoft will axe thousands more positions, mainly impacting the sales division; an official announcement is expected next month after its fiscal year end.
- Bloomberg reports these job reductions are linked to Microsoft's heavy investments in artificial intelligence, including building AI-enabled data centres and deploying AI applications.
- This planned staff reduction follows multiple recent workforce cuts, including 6,000 people last month, as Microsoft also aims to reduce its management layers.
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🧠 MIT study shows AI chatbots greatly reduce brain activity
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- An MIT study found students using an LLM chatbot for essay writing showed significantly reduced brain activity, as measured by electroencephalogram (EEG) headsets.
- Brain connectivity, gauged by dDTF, systematically scaled down with more external help, showing the weakest coupling and up to a 55 percent reduction in signal for the LLM cohort.
- This research indicates that relying on LLMs substantially lessens task-related brain connectivity, signaling lower cognitive engagement from students during the essay writing.
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🔍 The ‘OpenAI Files’ push for oversight in the race to AGI
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- "The OpenAI Files" is an archival project by tech watchdogs that documents concerns about OpenAI's governance and leadership, pushing for oversight in AGI development.
- These files highlight OpenAI's structural changes like removing investor profit caps, alongside rushed safety evaluations and potential leadership conflicts of interest demanding scrutiny.
- This initiative seeks to shift the AGI conversation from inevitability to accountability, demanding increased transparency and robust oversight for powerful AI companies.
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🏭 Amazon to deliver 10,000 robotaxis annually with new factory
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- Amazon revealed its 220,000-square-foot robotaxi factory in Hayward, California, where it plans to manufacture up to 10,000 Zoox self-driving vehicles annually by 2027.
- Zoox's Hayward facility now assembles one robotaxi per day, with plans to increase production to three vehicles each hour by next year on its 21-station assembly line.
- Zoox transformed a former bus manufacturing plant into a high-tech Hayward facility to assemble its boxy, gondola-like robotaxis, distinctively designed without any steering wheel.
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🎬 Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model
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- Midjourney launched its first AI video generation model V1, letting users animate their generated or uploaded images into 5-second clips, extendable to 20 seconds.
- Animation of stills uses automated motion synthesis or a custom motion prompt to direct movement, offering choices between low motion and high motion modes.
- The model launches as Midjourney faces a major copyright lawsuit, which specifically names the new video service as a future infringement concern.
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