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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple’s display and car research teams were reportedly based  —  The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program. Source link

Flipkart Big Billion Days 2023 sale dates are now official. The week-long online sale will begin in India on October 8. Like previous years, Flipkart Plus members will get 24-hour early access to the sale, and the e-commerce company is promising exciting deals and offers on hundreds of products such as mobile phones, laptops, tablets,

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Some Amazon merchants complain of scam returns, where buyers ship junk back to sellers and claim they are returns, and say Amazon’s policies favor customers  —  Merchants receive junk instead of returned purchases, a sore point as they say Amazon’s policies favor customers Source link

Google is planning to introduce its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search engine features, dubbed Search Generative Experience (SGE) behind a paywall, as per a report. Google added an AI chatbot to Search to create Snapshots — a brief explanation of the searched query, along with helpful links that might offer more information. While unveiling, the tech

Bloomberg: Elon Musk says “Tesla is increasing comp … of our AI engineering team”, after OpenAI has been “aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers” with “massive” offers  —  – CEO says carmaker is going extra mile to retain specialists  — Exodus may exacerbate concerns about conflicts, governance Source link

Counter-Strike 2 is finally available on Steam, after spending months in limited testing. Billed as the ‘largest technical leap’ in the perennial shooter’s history, CS2 replaces the original CS:GO and is ready for download on the platform. Running on the Source 2 Engine, which powered the acclaimed Half-Life: Alyx, the successor now gets a graphical

Financial Times: Zhu Xingming, founder of Chinese robot maker Inovance, dubbed little Huawei, says protectionism won’t stop its growth as automation is critical to supply chains  —  Shenzhen Inovance founder says automation tech is indispensable to global supply chains  —  The founder of China’s largest … Source link

Meta Smart Glasses in collaboration with Ray-Ban were introduced on Wednesday alongside the Meta Quest 3 and other products. Users can livestream videos to Facebook and Instagram using the smart glasses, hands-free. The frame comes with a 12-megapixel camera sensor and an LED unit. This smart wearable succeeds the Ray-Ban stories, which were the company’s

Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal: How some MBA programs in the US are reorienting their courses around AI by adding AI-related classwork, encouraging using AI to solve lab assignments, and more  —  American University, other top M.B.A. programs reorient courses around artificial intelligence; ‘It has eaten our world’ Source link

OpenAI has added a couple of new features to its artificial intelligence (AI) image generator DALL-E, particularly to its ChatGPT interface. The two new features, announced on Wednesday, will allow users to edit images created by DALL-E within ChatGPT and let users see style prompts to get inspiration for their creations. These two features appear