Meta is accused of using AI to choose fired employees

The Meta is being sued by former employees who accuse the company of having used an artificial intelligence system to define which workers would be fired. According to the authors of the action, the tool would have disproportionately harmed people with disabilities, those on sick leave or on leave due to pregnancy. According to Reuters, […]

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Google disputes Cade’s thesis on AI-based newspaper remuneration and calls for an end to the investigation

Google asked Cade (Administrative Council for Economic Defense) to archive the administrative process that determines whether the display of journalistic content in search results and summaries generated by artificial intelligence constitutes a competition infringement. For the company, “any obligation for mandatory monetary compensation must be established through legislation”, not through the actions of the competition […]

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The Scale-Out Backup Boomerang: Why Node-Based Architectures Get Expensive

  For most of the past decade, the case for scale-out backup was an easy one to make: add a node, add capacity, keep performance flat. Growth would be linear and predictable, and architecture would never again be something you had to think about. But at enterprise scale, I’m seeing what I think of as […]

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Bitcoin pushes toward $65,000 on US inflation relief that may already be fading

Bitcoin approached $65,000 on July 14 as a sharper-than-expected slowdown in US inflation weakened the case for another near-term Federal Reserve interest rate increase. Data from CryptoSlate showed that BTC rose as high as $64,832 once the report landed, gaining about 4% from its intraday low and coming within $200 of a threshold it has […]

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Goal doubles to more than $50 billion investment in AI megadata center in Louisiana

The Meta Platforms announced this Monday (13) that it will increase investment in its mega data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, in the United States, to more than US$50 billion. The value practically doubles the initial estimate of US$27 billion, in yet another movement by large technology companies to expand the infrastructure dedicated to artificial […]

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Resident Evil series will focus on bigger and more experimental expansions

Although Capcom has been able to release Resident Evil games at a frequent pace in recent years, it has been forced to set aside some of the franchise’s more experimental side chapters. And, according to popular insider Dusk Golem, the company hopes to make up for this with expansions tied to its main releases. In […]

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OpenAI denies Apple accusations of stealing trade secrets

Company says it is not aware of evidence to support the complaint Apple accuses startup of using trade secrets in hardware – Image: Ascannio/Shutterstock | Modified by Rodrigo Mozelli OpenAI spoke out this Tuesday (14) against the accusations made by Apple in a trade secrets lawsuit, stating that it was not aware of evidence to […]

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Medicinal Artificial Leaf Powers Biomedical Implant Using Light

Artificial medicinal leaf Plants efficiently convert light into  energy through photosynthesis, a capability that scientists and engineers are striving to mimic using various approaches in attempts to develop so-called artificial photosynthesis. The main tool in this field is tiny metallic structures designed to absorb and concentrate light energy and generate the appropriate charge carriers, known as surface plasmons. […]

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