Artificial Intelligence
Silicon Valley tech boom lifts California’s dreary budget view
A gauge of the so-called Magnificent Seven mega tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon.com Inc., Apple, Meta, Microsoft Corp., Nvidia and Tesla Inc. — is up 56% so far this year, more than twice the advance of the SP 500 Index.
California’s ‘Trump-proofing’ likely won’t include AI — at least not yet
President-elect Trump has vowed to rescind an executive order that imposed AI safeguards, and could use tech to enable mass deportations. How far will California go in the other direction?
Larry Magid: Generative AI is getting smarter
But it still makes mistakes, so do your homework before relying on its answers
AMD cutting almost 1,000 jobs to focus resources on AI push
The move follows other cutbacks among longtime Silicon Valley companies. Cisco Systems Inc. is eliminating more than 6,000 positions, and Intel is cutting about 15% of its workforce of more than 100,000.
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East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for Nov. 10, 2024
Pixel phones have updated hardware and integrated AI
As you may have noticed, the entire tech industry is jumping on the AI bandwagon. Practically every new product that’s coming out boasts AI features. This is certainly true with the latest phones from both Apple and Google.
Siri gets smarter as Apple adds AI to iPhone
Most of the AI features Apple introduced Monday are already available on Android-powered smartphones that Samsung and Google released earlier this year.