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More employers are asking applicants to prove their skills with a test

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 4, 2024
Playing aptitude games or doing one-way video interviews might sound like a drag. But could they make the hiring process fairer?
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Will chipmaker Nvidia's earnings report be blockbuster? Or super-blockbuster?

by Mitchell Hartman
Feb 21, 2024
Nvidia reports its Q4 financial results after markets close on Wednesday. The chipmaker has forecast major revenue gains thanks to generative AI.
Nvidia forecast it would hit $59 billion in revenue for 2023 — double what it brought in in 2022.
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Why fake robocalls are sounding more and more real — and what's being done about it

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Alex Schroeder
Feb 16, 2024
How can consumers protect themselves from malicious AI? We'll dig in.
During New Hampshire's primary, some voters received phone calls that imitated President Joe Biden's voice and discouraged people from heading to the polls.
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Behind the catwalk: how models are recruited and signed to exploitative contracts

by David Brancaccio , Erika Soderstrom and Natalie White
Feb 13, 2024
What is being done to protect models and hold agencies accountable?
"'Suffocating.' 'Exploitative.' 'Opaque,'" are some of the words used to describe the contracts models work under, Variety's Tatiana Siegel explained.
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Workers are worried about AI on the job, study shows

by Mitchell Hartman
Feb 7, 2024
Seven in 10 U.S. workers say they’re “very” or “somewhat” concerned about employers using AI in HR decision-making, according to a Rutgers report.
Some workers are worried AI will make their jobs obsolete. Others have concerns about AI's role in hiring and firing decisions.
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The "poison pill" that protects artists' work from AI scraping

by Sarah Leeson and Kai Ryssdal
Feb 5, 2024
"Everything is at stake," says Ben Zhao of the University of Chicago, who leads the development of two tools that support human creativity.
The goal of Nightshade "is to raise the price for unauthorized training on scraped data," says Ben Zhao at the University of Chicago.
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The economy and ethics of AI training data

by Matt Levin
Jan 31, 2024
Many artificial intelligence tools were trained on freely-available digital content. That might be legal, but is it ethical?
By publishing something on the internet without explicitly telling other computers to avoid it, you're consenting to its use by AI, says Common Crawl's Rich Skrenta.
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Why do companies seem to prefer to cut middle management jobs?

by Stephanie Hughes
Jan 31, 2024
Whatever the reason, shareholders seem to love hearing that jobs cuts are coming.
UPS announced nearly 12,000 layoffs on Tuesday. There have also been recent layoffs in industries like tech, media and finance.
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AI has helped Microsoft beat Apple to become the most valuable company in the world

by Stephanie Hughes
Jan 30, 2024
And investors will be hoping for more good news on that front when the company announces quarterly earnings.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at an OpenAI event on Nov. 6, 2023.
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Generative AI is increasingly being used to commit identity fraud

by Vivienne Nunis
Jan 24, 2024
During the COVID pandemic, lots of identity verification moved online — making it easier for people to commit fraud with the help of generative AI.
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to commit identity fraud.
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