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This story was originally published on HR Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily HR Dive newsletter. IBM must face a former worker’s charge that it discriminated against him for being a White male, a Michigan district court judge determined Wednesday (Dill v. International Business Machines Corp.). The former employee in IBM’s consulting division alleged that despite consistently positive reviews, the company suddenly placed him on a performance improvement plan in July 2023 and then terminated him in October. He contended the reasons used — that he was not bringing in work or meeting client…

Energy giant GE Vernova and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched a partnership Monday to “scale sustainable energy systems across the globe” and advance breakthrough low-carbon technologies. The company, which helps generate about a quarter of global electricity through its wind and gas turbines, said it would provide $50 million over five years to support 12 projects annually in three areas: renewables, decarbonization and electrification to build the “grid of the future.” The funds also will support research, student fellowships and professional development programs, the company and MIT said. “Through this alliance, we are proud to be able to help…

Zilliz Inc., the company behind the open-source Milvus vector database, today announced the release of an updated version of the Zilliz Cloud Bring Your Own Cloud offering that includes a series of advancements to its vector data offering. The update release allows enterprises to run artificial intelligence workloads where their data resides while maintaining full control, accelerating AI adoption without compromising security or compliance. Zilliz Cloud BYOC is built on Milvus and features enterprise-grade security capabilities, including fine-grained permission settings, private link support between the control plane and data plane, and communication via outbound port 443. Key features of Zilliz…

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Image: Intel Business/YouTube Intel will spin off assets that aren’t part of its core mission, according to Bloomberg. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who became CEO in mid-March after Pat Gelsinger took a heavily encouraged suggestion to retire, made the announcement on March 31 at the Intel Vision conference. Tan did not define the core business or which parts of the business would be affected. Intel will try to expand its core business using AI and Software 2.0, Tan said. Software 2.0 is a term about the way generative AI allows for coding without writing individual lines…

Image: seventyfourimages/Envato Elements The EU is pouring €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) over the next two years to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. The funding will support the development and testing of “immersive environments” to apply in healthcare for purposes like training and virtual patient assessments. The investment will also support the implementation of the AI Act, which ensures all AI systems developed and used in the EU are done so safely and responsibly. Additionally, it will help build energy-efficient digital public digital infrastructure, including electric vehicle charging ports. Many of the generative AI models powering these initiatives will…

We highlight notable generative AI deals, partnerships, and notable releases in January 2025.  January was a busy month for the generative AI space, headlined by DeepSeek‘s R1 model launch — matching OpenAI’s o1 model capabilities at just 5-10% of the cost, while open-sourcing the technology. The news rattled investor confidence in big tech’s massive infrastructure investments and flipped the open- vs. closed-source model debate on its head.  While some major players have held firm — with Microsoft and Meta defending their AI spending plans and Zuckerberg framing Meta’s substantial capex as a “strategic advantage” — leading model developer OpenAI’s CEO…

Qualcomm has acquired the generative AI division of VinAI, an AI research company headquartered in Hanoi, for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced on Monday. The move marks Qualcomm’s continued expansion into the AI tooling sector. VinAI, which was founded by former DeepMind research scientist Hung Bui, develops a range of generative AI technologies, including computer vision algorithms and language models. “This acquisition underscores our commitment to dedicating the necessary resources to R&D that makes us the driving force behind the next wave of AI innovation,” Qualcomm SVP of Engineering Jilei Hou said in a press release. “By bringing in…

‍CAIS and Scale AI are excited to announce the launch of Humanity’s Last Exam, a project aimed at measuring how close we are to achieving expert-level AI systems. The exam is aimed at building the world’s most difficult public AI benchmark gathering experts across all fields. People who submit successful questions will be invited as coauthors on the paper for the dataset and have a chance to win money from a $500,000 prize pool.Why Participate?AI is developing at a rapid pace. Just a few years ago, AI systems performed no better than random chance on MMLU, the AI community’s most-downloaded…

A new paper co-authored by the former CEO of Google has outlined a future where AI training data centers could be blown up by foreign nations.Eric Schmidt, along with Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and the Center for AI Safety’s Dan Hendrycks, warned that “destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict.”The paper lays out the concept of Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), modeled on nuclear mutual assured destruction (MAD), where any “aggressive bid for unilateral AI dominance is met with preventive sabotage by rivals.”This could involve espionage, cyberattacks, or kinetic strikes…

OUTLINE: 0:00 – Intro 0:19 – Our next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator 01:39 – ALOHA Unleashed 03:10 – Apple Inks $50M Deal with Shutterstock for AI Training Data 04:28 – OpenAI Researchers, Including Ally of Sutskever, Fired for Alleged Leaking 05:01 – Adobe’s Ethical Firefly AI was Trained on Midjourney Images 05:52 – Trudeau announces $2.4billion for AI-related investments 06:48 – RecurrentGemma: Moving Past Transformers for Efficient Open Language Models 07:15 – CodeGemma – an official Google release for code LLMs 07:24 – Mistral AI: Cheaper, Better, Faster, Stronger 08:08 – Vezora/Mistral-22B-v0.1 09:00 – WizardLM-2, next generation state-of-the-art-LLM 09:31…