Elon Musk speaking during the Tesla Annual Shareholder’s meeting in Austin, Texas on June 13th, 2024. Source: Tesla Inc. Tesla’s hefty downsizing in 2023 has reduced its global headcount to just over 121,000 people, including temps, internal records suggest, indicating that the automaker has slashed more than 14% of its workforce so far this year. […]
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 10, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple said Friday it won’t release several upcoming features unveiled this month, including its flagship “Apple Intelligence” AI product, in
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Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during the company’s annual general meeting in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, June 20, 2024. Son sketched out ambitions to help create AI thousands of times smarter than any human, making his most grandiose pronouncements since the Japanese conglomerate began taking steps to shore
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Amazon said Thursday it has removed 95% of the plastic air pillows from its packaging in North America and will replace them with paper fillers made from 100% recycled content. It marks Amazon’s largest plastic packaging reduction effort and will help it remove nearly 15 billion plastic pillows annually. “We are working towards full removal
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French founder of artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch, attends the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris, France, on May 22, 2024. Chesnot | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Most of the top-funded generative artificial intelligence companies in Europe were founded by entrepreneurs with experience at U.S.
The Apple Siri AI icon is being displayed on a smartphone, with Apple Intelligence in the background. Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Apple’s big artificial intelligence push faces some big challenges in China — one of the iPhone maker’s most critical markets — as Beijing maintains strict rules around the buzzy technology. The
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