Klarna, a Swedish payment service provider, has not hired any new employees for a year. Instead, it uses AI technology to perform the work that hundreds of employees used to do. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski explained this to the financial news agency Bloomberg. Over the same period, the company reduced its workforce by around 22%, now … Read more
The US Department of Defense has invested $2.4 million over two years in the deepfake detection technology of the startup Hive AI. The Defense Innovation Unit aims to accelerate the introduction of new technologies for the US defense sector through this contract. Hive AI’s models are designed to detect AI-generated video, image, and audio content. … Read more
Apple plans to make Siri smarter to compete with AI services from OpenAI and Google. Historically, Apple has been cautious with AI technology, but now they are planning a major update to Siri. The goal is to make Siri more intuitive, similar to ChatGPT by OpenAI or Google’s Gemini Live, using Apple’s own AI models. … Read more