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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit. Microsoft is also offering Codex as a service in the form of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based pair programming tool that can generate code fragments from natural language prompts.

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Cohen was most recently CFO for ANGI Homeservices, a digital marketplace created when home improvement directories Angie’s List and HomeAdvisor merged in 2017. Based in Denver, Colo.,

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Amazon’s strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving

Vox

The report , which comes from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), asserts that Amazon takes a larger and larger cut of sellers’ earnings through the various fees it levies on them. According to ILSR, those referral fees made up the majority of seller fees as recently as 2017. By 2019, it was 85 percent.

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

Vox

To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Releasing a program that writes convincing fake reviews or fake news might make those widespread, making it harder for the truth to get out. Once, we made progress in AI by painstakingly teaching computer systems specific concepts. they drew on the field of linguistics.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

Tennisha: Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. So, the second barrier is time so like if we can, you know, for example, give them a boot camp or not a boot camp the cost 10s of 1000s of dollars, all of our programming for Black House hack is free.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. So, the second barrier is time so like if we can, you know, for example, give them a boot camp or not a boot camp the cost 10s of 1000s of dollars, all of our programming for Black House hack is free.

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Sundar Pichai on managing Google through the pandemic

The Verge

introduces the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones at a product launch event on October 4th, 2017, at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco, California. So I think relying on deep experts, other nonprofit institutions, governmental expertise, is a natural way we want to approach our work. Photo by Elija Nouvelage / AFP via Getty Images.

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