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Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number from the previous year — in its latest crackdown on ad fraud. By leveraging large language models (LLMs) and using signals such as business impersonation and illegitimate payment details, the search giant said it could suspend a “vast majority” of ad accounts before they ever served an ad. Last year, Google launched over 50 LLM enhancements to improve its safety enforcement mechanisms across all its platforms. “While these AI models are very, very important to us and have delivered…

Good morning! In a pre-AI world, consulting firms would grapple with creatively building teams for projects. During what Kimberly Jones, PwC’s managing director of talent strategy and people experience, jokingly calls “the olden days,” employees would typically pick people they knew to join them for certain work. But now, with the firm relying on AI to help upskill and track the skills of its hundreds of thousands of employees, workers at PwC are taking a different approach and selecting teammates based on the expertise needed for the project–whether they’ve worked with them before or not. This kind of collaboration is…

A pseudonymous developer has created what they’re calling a “free speech eval,” SpeechMap, for the AI models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and X’s Grok. The goal is to compare how different models treat sensitive and controversial subjects, the developer told TechCrunch, including political criticism and questions about civil rights and protest. AI companies have been focusing on fine-tuning how their models handle certain topics as some White House allies accuse popular chatbots of being overly “woke.” Many of President Donald Trump’s close confidants, such as Elon Musk and crypto and AI “czar” David Sacks, have alleged that chatbots censor…

In an effort to tiptoe the reputational path in a highly uncertain business environment, such as the current geopolitical landscape, companies must watch out not to be associated with or criticised by Elon Musk, as these are among the top reputational risks. This is according to a new Reputation Risk Index, commissioned by public relations firm Global Situation Room, using data from crisis experts and analysis from the Global Risk Advisory Council. The council counts more than 100 members, including the likes of former CIA Director Leon Panetta and MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove as well as former heads of…

No company has cashed in on the generative AI boom quite like Nvidia, whose chips and software help power AI used by Microsoft, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Tesla. So it’s no surprise that as President Trump moves to impose tariffs on semiconductors—after initially carving out an exemption—Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is looking to strike a deal to reduce the impact of potential tariffs on his company. But his efforts so far have highlighted the mixed AI policy messages coming from the Trump administration. For example, after Huang attended a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week, the White House supposedly…

Nvidia’s Blackwell chip displayed at an event in Tokyo in November. Nvidia plans to produce AI supercomputer chips entirely in the United States for the first time. The semiconductor maker said in a blog post Monday that it had commissioned more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test its Blackwell chips in Phoenix and is building supercomputer plants in Houston and Dallas. Nvidia said it would take at least a year to reach mass production scale at both plants. At the same time, Nvidia said its Blackwell chips have already started production at Phoenix chip…

Google Classroom introduced a new AI-powered feature designed to help teachers generate questions. Launched on Monday, this tool lets educators create a list of questions based on specific text input. Using this text-dependent question-generation tool, which utilizes Gemini, teachers can either upload files from Google Drive or manually enter text for the AI to generate questions. They can then export the questions into a Google Doc or Google Form. Educators can choose from a variety of filters, including the grade level, the number of questions, and the type of questions (such as multiple choice or open-ended). Additionally, there is an…

Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images Palantir CEO Alex Karp speaks during the AIPCon conference in Palo Alto, California on March 13, 2025 The S&P 500 gained 0.8% on Monday, April 14, 2025, after smartphones and other electronics were exempted from President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs. Palantir Technologies shares pushed higher after NATO acquired the data analytic firm’s AI-enabled military system. Kidney dialysis treatment provider DaVita said it was the victim of a ransomware attack, and its shares fell. Major U.S. equities indexes ticked higher to start the new trading week after the Trump administration announced smartphones, computers, and other…

Unpacking Q4 Earnings: IBM (NYSE:IBM) In The Context Of Other IT Services & Consulting Stocks The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current business environment. Let’s take a look at how IBM (NYSE:IBM) and the rest of the it services & consulting stocks fared in Q4. IT Services & Consulting companies stand to benefit from increasing enterprise demand for digital transformation, AI-driven automation, and cybersecurity resilience. Many enterprises can’t attack these topics alone and need IT services and consulting on everything from technical advice to…

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Nvidia on Monday announced plans to build supercomputers entirely in the U.S., with the chipmaker and its partners set to invest up to $500 billion in American AI infrastructure. The company’s supercomputer manufacturing plants in Texas, being built in partnership with Foxconn and Wistron, are set to ramp production in the next 12 to 15 months. Nvidia said its Blackwell chips have already started production at TSMC’s Arizona factories. Nvidia (NVDA) on Monday announced plans to build supercomputers entirely in the U.S., with the chipmaker and its partners set to invest up to $500 billion…