Patreon is laying off 20% of its workforce, or 93 people, CEO Jack Conte told employees Thursday. In a memo to staff that the company shared online, Conte said Patreon’s core business is strong, but the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable, which is why it
Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to meet the computing needs of the world’s largest artificial intelligence labs. At the company’s sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su promoted the new AI rack system known
US regulators will begin developing new requirements for automakers to ensure drivers and passengers can exit their vehicles safely. The new rulemaking process, outlined in a regulatory filing and first reported by Bloomberg, follows a series of incidents, including some fatal, in which people were trapped inside cars with flush, electronically actuated door handles, like
Weeks after OpenAI launched a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode, rival Anthropic is taking steps to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update. The company said Thursday that users can choose between Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models. Claude’s voice mode, which launched last year and runs on the Haiku
OpenAI said today that it will make ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all US-based users 18 and older on all plans. The announcement comes a day after a Florida pastor sued the company for making a near-fatal suggestion not to see a doctor. The company began testing the
Google is adding a selfie video option as a new way for users to log into their accounts, the company announced Thursday, joining a growing wave of technology companies betting that biometrics, not passwords, are the future of online identity verification. The tech giant says selfie videos give users more options for logging in if
