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IBM CHRO Nickle LaMoureax doesn’t consider herself an AI optimist. Instead, she calls herself an AI realist. “AI is not magic. It’s amazing, impressive technology that can totally transform your business,” she told a packed room of attendees during her opening keynote at Tuesday’s HR Tech conference in Las Vegas. “But it takes hard work, behavior change, culture change, business process change and sometimes leadership change.” LaMoreaux, HR Executive’s 2024 HR Executive of the Year, experienced all of those realities as she led IBM’s AI in HR journey over the last decade—one that has been rife with both progress and…

China orders tech giants to stop buying Nvidia AI chips China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has banned all the tech companies, including the leading players ByteDance and Alibaba, from purchasing Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips.This significant move is a part of the country’s broader efforts to boost the domestic semiconductor industry, aiming to compete with the US.Several reports suggested that the CAC ordered companies to discontinue testing and orders of the RTX Pro 6000D, Nvidia’s chip designed particularly for China. Several firms had planned to buy tens of thousands of units and had already started verification work with suppliers. After all the directives,…

YouTube has introduced a set of new artificial intelligence features for video production to better compete with rivals like TikTok in the short-form content platform market.The new tools will initially be available in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. YouTube hinted at plans to expand its rollout to more markets soon.The new features were revealed at the Made On YouTube event on Tuesday (September 16), where the platform also revealed that it has paid out $100 billion to creators, artists, and media companies over the past four years.Google-owned YouTube also rolled out a Speech to Song tool that…

Courtesy: Getty Images via CBS News OpenAI announced Tuesday that it is directing teens to an age-appropriate version of its ChatGPT technology as it seeks to bolster safeguards amid a period of heightened scrutiny over the chatbot’s safety. Users of the chatbot identified as under the age of 18 will automatically be directed to a version of ChatGPT governed by “age-appropriate” content rules, OpenAI said in a statement. This under-age edition includes protection policies such as blocking sexual content and — “in rare cases of acute distress” — law enforcement to ensure a user’s safety, according to the company. “The way ChatGPT responds…

Pope Leo XIV has voiced sharp criticism of corporate pay structures, singling out Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other business leaders as examples of the widening gap between executives and ordinary workers. The pontiff warned that excessive wealth concentration could erode societal values and fuel global polarization. Pope Leo XIV’s comments seem to be guided by a misunderstanding of what Elon Musk’s pay package entails, and the net positive it would result to TSLA shareholders and the world as a whole. Pope Leo XIV’s comments In his first interview since becoming pope in May, Leo XIV, the first US-born head…

A quarter-life crisis led Camille Chandra to pivot from her science background to business, which landed her the opportunity of a lifetime at IBM Canada — a role she didn’t even apply for.  Today, Chandra is a technology sales leader at IBM, supporting IBM’s clients in the financial services industry. But her original plan was to become a dentist. After graduating with a health sciences degree from Mount Allison University, British Columbia-born Camille Chandra (MBA’17) took a gap year with plans to reapply to dental school. She ended up also applying to Dal’s MBA program. In the end, the decision…

—Matthew Raine, whose 16-year old son Adam died by suicide after repeatedly sharing his intentions with ChatGPT, gives evidence to a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating chatbot dangers, the Washington Post reports. One more thing AI is coming for music, tooWhile large language models that generate text have exploded in the last three years, a different type of AI, based on what are called diffusion models, is having an unprecedented impact on creative domains.By transforming random noise into coherent patterns, diffusion models can generate new images, videos, or speech, guided by text prompts or other input data. The best ones can…

As robots increasingly enter human spaces, robotics companies will need to think about safety differently than they did when robots were largely siloed from their human counterparts.   Sonair thinks its sensors can help robotics companies reach their safety goals — with a solution that is both better and cheaper than popular LIDAR technology.   The Oslo, Norway-based company built an ADAR (acoustic detection and ranging) sensor for robots that uses high frequency sound. These sensors send out ultrasound waves and capture how the sound echoes back. These signals give robots a three-dimensional view of their surroundings.  This data complements a robot’s…

This is a published version of Forbes’ Careers Newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get it in your inbox every Tuesday. Open AI is jumping in on the job postings game as job boards bring in AI. gettyJob seekers: Where are you looking for opportunities right now?There’s been plenty of coverage on the plight of those currently looking for a new job. From the falling hiring rates and increasing unemployment time—the average American now spends more than five months in between jobs, up from four in 2024—to the flood of AI-generated résumés that recruiters receive, applicants are having a tough…

The Santos Ltd. Logo atop Santos Place building, which houses the company’s office, in Brisbane, Australia, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAbu Dhabi’s National Oil Company has walked away from its $19 billion offer for Australia’s Santos, ending months of speculation over what would have been one of the country’s largest energy deals.The consortium, which includes Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ and investment firm Carlyle, made the $19 billion indicative offer for Santos in June, but confirmed on Wednesday that it will not proceed with a binding takeover.”It’s over,” a source familiar with the matter…