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Archives for November 2023

Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAISam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
Jay Peters and Alex Heath
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Allison Johnson
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Amazon is laying off hundreds of workers in its Alexa division.

In a memo sent to employees, Daniel Rausch, the vice president of the Alexa and Fire TV team, says Amazon is eliminating “several hundred roles” as the company looks to build up efforts in AI:

As we continue to invent, we’re shifting some of our efforts to better align with our business priorities, and what we know matters most to customers — which includes maximizing our resources and efforts focused on generative AI. These shifts are leading us to discontinue some initiatives, which is resulting in several hundred roles being eliminated.

Mia Sato
Mia Sato
Amazon uses AI to scan for fake reviews.

Ahead of Black Friday and a wave of holiday shopping, Amazon says it uses “advanced AI” tools to spot inauthentic product reviews on the platform.

Amazon has long had a problem with fake reviews, sometimes involving networks of thousands of people buying them via Facebook or WeChat. In 2022, Amazon sued the admins of over 10,000 Facebook groups in an effort to crack down on fraudulent reviews.

The secret environmental cost hiding inside your smart home device

AI could become a major source of planet-warming emissions. How can the smart home industry build products more sustainably?

Yessenia Funes
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Google’s next-generation ‘Gemini’ AI model is reportedly delayed.

Earlier this year, Google combined two AI teams into one group which is working on a new model to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4. Its leader, Demis Hassabis, discussed the combo on Decoder:

And we’re already feeling, even a couple of months in, the benefits and the strengths of that with projects like Gemini that you may have heard of, which is our next-generation multimodal large models — very, very exciting work going on there, combining all the best ideas from across both world-class research groups. It’s pretty impressive to see.

Now, The Information cites two sources saying its launch is expected in Q1 of 2024, not this month as they were previously told. It also reports Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been spending “four to five days a week” with the developers.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google is letting anyone build their own Netflix-like AI-powered recommendations using Google Cloud.

Google’s Vertex AI Search tool is now generally available, the company announced on Wednesday, and Starz is using it for personalizing content recommendations. Google’s Albert Lai confirmed to The Verge that Newsweek is using the tool, too.