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Meta accused of using AI for inappropriate HR purposes Meta earlier this year backed away from a scheme to use AI to monitor employee activity at work. But now, 26 employees have filed a lawsuit accusing Mark Zuckerberg’s empire of tapping into AI-powered software to target specific staff for
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The enterprise technology industry has a peculiar relationship with accountability. When it comes to cloud uptime, latency, and data security, we expect contractual guarantees, SLAs, and clearly defined remedies. But when it comes to AI-generated outputs, the actual content these systems produce, we've quietly accepted a different standard:
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* HP India has been fined 1.42 billion rupees ($14.7 million) for two separate cases * Self-reporting ultimately landed it with lighter fines * Both cases relate to government tender manipulation between 2017 and 2020 India's Competition Commission (CCI) has accused HP India and some related resellers of coordinating
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Databricks, a data and artificial intelligence (AI) platform provider, has signed a term sheet to raise a new strategic funding round at a $188 billion valuation, with the company planning to use the capital to expand its enterprise AI platform and support future acquisitions. The funding round is being led
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Balaji Srinivasan built Network School as a working prototype of the “network state,” his theory that an internet country of engineers and founders can eventually do the work of a real one. This week a real one reminded him who still holds the passports. The former Coinbase chief technology officer
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The most precise figure yet attached to DeepSeek’s worth did not come from the lab, its bankers or its founder. It surfaced in a stock-exchange filing by Anhui Korrun, a Chinese luggage maker, which discloses a stake small enough to imply the Hangzhou AI startup is valued at around
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PayPal’s board reckons that a $53bn (£39bn) joint takeover approach from Stripe and the private-equity firm Advent International sells the payments pioneer short, the latest twist in a fast-moving round of payments consolidation. People familiar with the talks told Reuters the directors view the offer as inadequate and have
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Xi Jinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence “should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” casting Beijing as the patron of open, shared technology. The line, aimed at the developing world and, by implication, at
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TL;DR Google has paid its record 4.6bn euro EU Android antitrust fine, and because EU fines are not earmarked, the money flows into the central budget and reduces member states’ contributions for the following year. Germany, which shoulders about a quarter of the budget, could save roughly 1bn
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$188bn is a large number for a company that keeps insisting it is in no rush to go public. That is the valuation Databricks has reached in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, a figure first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The mark sits well above the
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Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son’s firm has sold before and that lands squarely behind
