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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has hurt IBM’s profit margin. According to media reports, IBM had 15 of its federal contracts canceled due to DOGE-related cuts during the first quarter of 2025. These cuts amount to $100 million in future payments, per Bloomberg. “We’ve had a handful of contracts, either statement of work, or cancel and on our annualized backlog of over $30 billion in total consulting,” James Kavanaugh, IBM’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) said. He added that this was less than $100 million of backlog over a duration of multiple years. He continued by saying that though…

TESS, launched in 2018, is the first telescope to scan the entire sky for planets by shifting its field-of-view every month.The disintegrating planet, named BD+05 4868 Ab, is one of just four planets of its kind that scientists have discovered.Astronomers said the cause of BD+05 4868 Ab’s rapid disintegration is its proximity to its star — 50 times closer than Earth is to the sun — and its relatively small size.“The planet got so close to its star that the heat started evaporating its surface,“ said Avi Shporer, a collaborator on the discovery and a research scientist at the MIT…

Between 2013 and 2024, global private sector investment in artificial intelligence (AI) has surged, with a few countries leading the charge. Recent data reveals that 12 nations accounted for the bulk of global AI funding during this period, underscoring a growing international race for technological leadership. The United States leads by a wide margin, raising $471 billion—more than the rest of the world combined. China follows with $119 billion, while the United Kingdom, Canada, and Israel round out the top five with $28 billion and $15 billion each, respectively. Read also: Top countries leading in artificial intelligence patents This concentrated…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In Swissport’s world, strengthening security and networking provides an opportunity to serve more customers and grow. Swissport’s global IT operations started to expose the strains of relying on legacy systems for security and networking, which were quickly becoming a liability for the company. Senior management could see that centralized visibility was a major challenge, which led them to take quick action. Swissport’s growth outpaced its legacy systems The security and networking challenges that Swissport faced began to multiply as its business…

Perplexity doesn’t just want to compete with Google, it apparently wants to be Google.  CEO Aravind Srinivas said this week on the TBPN podcast that one reason Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app. This so it can sell premium ads. “That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you,” Srinivas said. “Because some of the prompts that people do in these AIs is purely work-related. It’s not like…

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Volodymyr Mnih, Research Scientist, discusses deep RL agents as part of the Advanced Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning Lectures. source

You can now edit DALL·E images in ChatGPT across web, iOS, and Android. source