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LinkedIn will end its China local jobs app and cut 716 jobs. LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky wrote today that “fierce competition and a challenging macroeconomic climate” forced the closure of InCareer, a standalone China app. LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft and with 20,000 employees, plans to add 250 jobs in some …

IBM, like most tech giants, is betting big on AI. IBM Watsonx, a new platform for building AI models and accessing pretrained models for generating code, text, and more, was announced at its annual Think conference. It’s a slap in the face to IBM’s back-office managers, who were recently told …

According to recent tweets by owner Elon Musk, Twitter is purging inactive accounts, which may free up some long-coveted usernames. Twitter has promised to put more usernames back into rotation for years, but despite having an inactive account policy that requires users to log in at least every 30 days …

Western Digital informed customers that their data was stolen on Friday, a month after it disclosed a data breach. On March 26, the company detected “a network security incident” where hackers “gained access to a number of the Company’s systems,” according to a press release. “The Company proactively disconnected our …

Artists and AI companies continue to fight in court. In recent months, several lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI and Stability AI over their generative AI tech, alleging that copyrighted data, mostly art, was used to train the models without permission. Generative AI models “train” on random web images and …

Faraday Future, a publicly traded company, should jump into the AI hype machine now because it is nearly out of cash and its long-delayed EV has yet to reach customers. Faraday Future announced Tuesday that its first production car, the FF 91 Futurist, will have generative AI. Never mind that …

Twitter announced Tuesday that its API is free for public announcements like weather alerts, transportation updates, and emergency warnings. The company said verified government or public-owned services posting public utility alerts will receive free API usage. One of the most important use cases for the Twitter API has always been …

Apple and Google announced today that they will lead an industry-wide initiative to draft a specification that alerts users to unwanted Bluetooth tracking after numerous cases of Bluetooth trackers like Apple’s AirTag being used for stalking or other criminal apps. Other tracker makers like Samsung, Tile, Chipolo, eufy Security, and …

In the past six weeks, Salesforce, Adobe, Ada, and Forethought have announced generative AI initiatives. Box AI, the latest to announce its own version of the technology, will partner with OpenAI to launch the platform’s first tools. Like many of the other companies making these announcements, they are working with …

With the launch of Fire TV Channels this week, Amazon is doubling down on free, ad-supported content. Fire TV Channels will now be updated throughout the day and integrated into Home Screen rows, the “Free” tab, and genre-specific pages on Fire TV. Fire TV also has a new Travel category …