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In today's Techpresso:
⚔️ The war for AI talent has begun
💥 Alphabet could make an acquisition offer for HubSpot
🏢 OpenAI says 2024 is the "year of the enterprise" when it comes to AI
🤷♀️ YouTube CEO warns OpenAI that training models on its videos is against the rules
💔 Apple lays off over 600 employees in California after abandoning electric car project
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
⚔️ The war for AI talent has begunLINK
Elon Musk aims to retain Tesla's AI talent by increasing their compensation to counteract aggressive recruitment tactics from OpenAI. Tesla Staff Machine Learning Scientist Ethan Knight's move to Musk's AI startup, xAI, exemplifies efforts to prevent employees from joining competitors like OpenAI. Musk describes the ongoing competition for AI professionals as the 'craziest talent war' he has ever seen and sees increased compensation as a means to achieve Tesla's ambitious AI goals, including autonomous driving and humanoid robots development.
💥 Alphabet could make an acquisition offer for HubSpotLINK
Alphabet is in discussions with financial advisers about making a potential offer for HubSpot, an online marketing software company valued at approximately $34 billion. The acquisition faces scrutiny given Alphabet's, the parent company of Google, current antitrust challenges, including accusations of abusing its dominance in online search and digital advertising. Acquiring HubSpot could enhance Alphabet's cloud customer business and digital advertising capabilities, positioning it to better compete with major players like Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce in the cloud computing and customer relationship management markets.
🏢 OpenAI says 2024 is the "year of the enterprise" when it comes to AILINK
OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise has attracted over 600,000 sign-ups, leading COO Brad Lightcap to declare 2024 as the "year of adoption for AI in the enterprise," amid growing competition in the workplace AI market.
The enterprise version signifies OpenAI's initial stride towards monetization, with significant companies like Microsoft developing competing AI products, while OpenAI secures contracts with major media organizations.
OpenAI aims to expand its workforce and secure chip manufacturing capabilities to meet hardware needs for AI training, amidst a competitive talent market and efforts to lessen dependency on semiconductor supplies from China.
🤷♀️ YouTube CEO warns OpenAI that training models on its videos is against the rulesLINK
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan warned that using YouTube videos to train OpenAI's text-to-video generator, Sora, would violate YouTube's terms of service.
Mohan's warning to OpenAI highlights potential legal challenges for Google, as it faces lawsuits alleging unauthorized data use for AI training.
Mohan's statements, if leveraged in court, could pose significant issues for Google, especially in the context of its defense of data scraping as "fair use."
💔 Apple lays off over 600 employees in California after abandoning electric car projectLINK
Apple has laid off more than 600 employees after reportedly abandoning its self-driving car project, known unofficially as Project Titan.
The job cuts come amidst a wider trend in the tech industry of layoffs, though Apple has previously been less affected due to cautious hiring practices during the pandemic.
Despite the termination of the self-driving car program, it's suggested Apple may repurpose the technology for other developments, like a home-following robot.
Other news you might like
Anthropic's Claude 3 beats OpenAI's GPT-4 at text summarization.LINK
Apple and Nvidia may see supply chain disruptions from Taiwan earthquake.LINK
Samsung is pouring $44 billion into US chip production.LINK
Billionaire investor and NY Mets owner says AI could yield four-day work week for most workers.LINK
AI a 'game changer' but company execs not ready: survey.LINK
Coinbase secures Canadian registration even as US regulatory troubles persist.LINK
Disney+ to launch password sharing crackdown in attempt to force people to get their own accounts.LINK
Windows and Microsoft Office are being replaced with Linux and LibreOffice in this German state.LINK
Latest research and tools
Language models as compilers: simulating pseudocode execution demonstrates that language models can mimic the process of compiling by interpreting and executing pseudocode.LINK
Rule-based NLP system beats LLM for analysis of psychiatric clinical notes: a rule-based natural language processing system outperforms large language models in analyzing psychiatric clinical notes.LINK
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