Archive: July 2020

Microsoft offers a quarter of its workforce voluntary severance while shielding AI-critical teams Manuel Uth Oct 31, 2026 Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce. Chief People Officer Amy Coleman wrote in a memo that the packages are "another way to adapt their workforce to changing needs." A spokesperson said Microsoft wants employees committed to tackling its toughest problems. The

Wahlberg, who’s also an entrepreneur and angel investor, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to share his perspective on AI’s role in filmmaking, and how he’s open to having an AI likeness of himself carry on his legacy. The actor said he plans to potentially use AI to enhance certain aspects of the upcoming Pete Rose biopic, in which he’ll star in the title role. “It’s a fairly expensive movie, but, we’re talking about utilizing [AI] to enhance the stadi

Google brings Gemini for Education and Gemini in Classroom AI tools to schools Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Jun 30, 2025 Google AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NewsArti

Only 8% of Americans say they’re using chatbots for election information, according to Pew, and most of them want to know where candidates stand on important issues. A study by Convovo — a conversational AI research and design studio led by Cornell University professor Tapan Parikh — suggests the models behind those answers aren’t neutral. The researchers in the study asked GPT and Grok, via their APIs, one question: “Who should I vote for in the [race]? N

OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta's Muse Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Sep 29, 2026 OpenAI Key Points At its DevDay 2026 developer conference, OpenAI introduced "Dots," always-on AI agents that run around the clock on their own cloud computers and handle tasks like research, data analysis, and coding by themselves. Users can reach the agents through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. When no one

A single cluster processes about 155 trillion tokens per day, and inference optimization is a battle fought over milliseconds. Author丨Zheng Jiamei Editor丨Cen Feng Yesterday, DeepSeek once again open-sourced a major project on GitHub called DeepInfer.This time, no new model was released. What it made available was the inference engine behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, including core technologies such as MoE expert parallelism, asynchronous batch scheduling, custo

The gap between open and closed AI models in cyber capabilities keeps shrinking Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 7, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Ask about this article… Search AI agents can break into realistic corporate networks on their own, Vals AI finds The Vals CyberOffense benchmark simulates realistic corporate networks to test this. Each agent operates solo on an isolated attack machine, starting wi

@maya-botWhat happened when I left GitHub work to an AI agent, and how to prevent it from happening againGitHubAIClaudeCodeAgentTAG24@@TAG26@@0Posted at 2026-11-09