The U.S. is running out of miners. More than half the nation’s mining workforce, about 221,000 workers, is expected to retire by 2029, according to the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, and the number of candidates willing to fill those slots is shrinking. “Our workforce is aging,” said Bold Baatar, chief executive of copper at … Read more
C.E.O. of Tesla, Chief Engineer of SpaceX and C.T.O. of X Elon Musk takes the stage during the New York Times annual DealBook summit on November 29, 2023 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Elon Musk on Sunday reinstated the account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on X, formerly Twitter, reneging … Read more
Google is facing scrutiny over its demonstration video for its newly launched artificial intelligence model, Gemini. On Wednesday, just weeks before the year’s end, Google launched what it considers its largest and most capable AI model Gemini and presented a demonstrative video to media outlets and the public. The six-minute video includes spoken conversations between … Read more
Ericsson recently announced it is planning to cut 8,500 jobs as part of its cost-cutting measures. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of Finland’s Nokia plunged to a three-year low, as the telecoms company lost out on a major deal to roll out a new network in the U.S. with industry juggernaut AT&T. Helsinki-listed … Read more
The Ray-Ban Meta Headliner smart glasses. Jake Piazza | CNBC Meta released the second generation of its Ray-Ban glasses in October. I’ve been testing them over the last couple of weeks and I really like them, even after factoring in the premium you pay in comparison to regular Ray-Bans. The $299 Headliner model I have … Read more
Airbnb Chief Financial Officer Dave Stephenson will transition into a newly created chief business officer role at the company. Airbnb Chief Financial Officer Dave Stephenson, who helped guide the company through Covid-19 tumult and an initial public offering, will transition into a newly created chief business officer role, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said in a … Read more
A team at Google has proposed using artificial intelligence technology to create a “bird’s-eye” view of users’ lives using mobile phone data such as photographs and searches. Dubbed “Project Ellmann,” after biographer and literary critic Richard David Ellmann, the idea would be to use LLMs like Gemini to ingest search results, spot patterns in a … Read more
A photo taken on November 23, 2023 shows the logo of the ChatGPT application developed by US artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI on a smartphone screen (left) and the letters AI on a laptop screen in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. Kirill Kudryavtsev | Afp | Getty Images The European Union on Friday agreed to … Read more
C.E.O. of Tesla, Chief Engineer of SpaceX and C.T.O. of X Elon Musk takes the stage during the New York Times annual DealBook summit on November 29, 2023 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Tesla‘s troubles with labor unions in Scandinavia deepened as it lost legal action against Sweden’s postal service … Read more
Billionaire Silicon Valley technology leader Romesh Wadhwani, 75, is investing $1 billion of his personal fortune in predictive and generative AI technology. SAIGroup Billionaire Silicon Valley technology leader Romesh Wadhwani recently celebrated his 75th birthday with 100 friends, reminiscing about many career milestones and only wishing he were 20 years younger in a new, fast-moving … Read more
