AI is changing tech careers, but it won’t eliminate the importance of a STEM degree, says Demis Hassabis. In an interview at a business conference in London, video of which was posted Wednesday, DeepMind’s CEO said that knowing the fundamentals of the software can give you an advantage in using AI. “It was absolutely necessary
Wall Street is concerned that Netflix has an engagement problem, a problem that can be seen in the viewing figures that the streaming giant regularly releases. No problem, says Netflix: it will fix that problem… by releasing viewership numbers less frequently. Netflix says it will stop publishing its “What We Watched” report, a voluminous data
Dozens of Google employees from across the country gathered in the shadow of the company’s Mountain View headquarters on Thursday, holding signs that read “Googlers for job security” and demanding greater protections against layoffs. By noon, nearly 100 workers filled a grassy stretch of campus, flanked by the Googleplex on one side and the broad
SpaceX canceled its first Starship launch since its massive initial public offering in June. On Thursday, SpaceX withdrew from a launch attempt of its upgraded Starship rocket after an engine problem caused an automatic shutdown before liftoff at the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas. CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X that
They found it: guilty lettuce. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday linked shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell restaurants in five states to an ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak, according to a person familiar with the matter. Specifically, shredded lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms and served at Taco Bell locations in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan,
A White House teleprompter operator has been placed on unpaid leave following reports that he used a prediction betting platform to profit from the content of President Donald Trump’s speeches. Gabriel Perez, who has worked for Trump since his first presidential campaign, is being investigated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over allegations