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Google is opening an AI hub in oil-rich Saudi Arabia The new AI hub will support research into Arab language AI models and “Saudi-specific AI applications.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Google is opening an AI hub in oil-rich Saudi Arabia

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway.

Featured story: “You create a surveillance society in order to root out millions of people, because there’s really no other way to do it. Creating an apparatus to hunt down and identify millions of undocumented immigrants would require turning the United States into a police state.”

Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff Dropbox is letting go 20% of its workforce as the cloud company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a “transitional period.” In a letter to staff, Houston said that the reduction in headcount would impact 528 people. “As CEO, I take full responsibility…

Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff

Aramco’s Venture Arm Allocates $100 Million for AI Investments Saudi Aramco’s venture arm has earmarked $100 million to invest in artificial intelligence startups as it looks to accelerate Saudi Arabia’s push to become a more competitive force in global AI.

Saudi Aramco’s venture arm has earmarked $100 million to invest in artificial intelligence startups as it looks to accelerate Saudi Arabia’s push to become a more competitive force in global AI.

Iceland embraced a shorter work week. Here’s how it turned out | CNN Business Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to research released Friday.

Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to new research

Hurricane Oscar Heads to Cuba After Making Landfall in Bahamas Hurricane Oscar made landfall on Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas and is forecast to strike in eastern Cuba on Sunday afternoon, the US National Hurricane Center said.

Oscar came ashore early Sunday with top winds of 80 miles per hour, making it a Category 1 hurricane.

Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity’s valuation from its $3…

Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation

Midjourney plans to let anyone on the web edit images with AI Midjourney is planning to release an upgraded web tool that’ll let users edit any uploaded images from the web using Midjourney’s generative AI. The upgraded tool, which Midjourney CEO David Holtz said will be released “early next week,” will also allow…

Midjourney plans to let anyone on the web edit images with AI

Tropical Storm Nadine Poised to Make Landfall in Belize Tropical Storm Nadine neared Belize with flooding rains, while a second system, Oscar, spun up near the Turks and Caicos Islands, sparking warnings across Cuba and the Bahamas.

Tropical Storm Nadine is nearing Belize with flooding rains, while a second system, Oscar, is spinning up near the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Claude: Everything you need to know about Anthropic’s AI Anthropic, the AI vendor second in size only to OpenAI, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges. With…

Claude: Everything you need to know about Anthropic’s AI

7-Eleven to close over 400 stores in North America The ubiquitous convenience store owed its recent revenue drops to inflation, declining cigarette sales and a shift in palates toward fresh food and specialty drinks.

The ubiquitous convenience store owed its recent revenue drops to inflation, declining cigarette sales and a shift in palates toward fresh food and specialty drinks.

Immigration: Where do Trump and Harris stand? • Ohio Capital Journal Immigration remains at the forefront of the 2024 presidential election, with both candidates taking a tougher stance. Harris supports bipartisan legislation scuttled earlier this year by Trump's oppos...

Immigration remains at the forefront of the presidential election. Harris supports bipartisan legislation scuttled earlier this year by Trump's opposition. Trump calls for mass deportation and overturning 14th Amendment birthright citizenship.

ByteDance lays off hundreds of TikTok employees in shift to AI content moderation ByteDance’s TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees, mainly in Malaysia, according to Reuters. The cuts come as the social network is increasingly turning to AI for content moderation. Although TikTok did not provide the exact number, it said that less…

ByteDance lays off hundreds of TikTok employees in shift to AI content moderation

A reporter used AI to apply to 2,843 jobs AI is spamming up job applications. 404 Media’s Jason Koebler writes about how he used a free tool, AI Hawk, to apply for 17 jobs in an hour while working a restaurant shift — only stopping when he’d reached 2,843. The tool automatically entered Koebler’s…

A reporter used AI to apply to 2,843 jobs

What should my ‘go bag’ contain? (Published 2022) Plan now for a future emergency.

Hurricane Milton is now a Category 5 — the most powerful storm classification — and is expected to batter parts of Florida, where urgent evacuation warnings were issued. Here's what to pack in your "go bag."

Hurricane Milton reaches Category 5 strength on approach to Florida The storm is expected to produce a devasting surge along Florida’s west coast, which could include the Tampa Bay area. Some decrease in strength is forecast ahead of landfall.

Breaking news: Milton, a Category 5 hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico, is expected to make landfall Wednesday or early Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm is expected to produce a devastating surge along Florida’s west coast.

Rwanda is acting quickly and aggressively, but the numbers in this #Marburg outbreak are rising daily. Now up to 49 confirmed cases and 12 deaths.
Hope we'll see them turning the tide soon.

Chinese hackers access US telecom firms, worrying national security officials | CNN Politics A highly skilled group of Chinese government-linked hackers has in the last several months infiltrated multiple US telecommunications firms in a likely search for sensitive information bearing on nati...

A highly skilled group of Chinese government-linked hackers has in the last several months infiltrated multiple US telecommunications firms in a likely search for sensitive information bearing on national security, multiple sources briefed on the matter told CNN.

Deadly virus scare closes tracks at Hamburg rail station Two people displayed symptoms of the Marburg virus, which has a mortality rate of 88 percent.

Two passengers suspected of carrying the lethal and highly contagious Marburg virus set off alarm at Hamburg’s main train station this afternoon.

Elon Musk and Mark Cuban Agree on One Thing: Dogecoin Is No Longer a Joke At Williamsburg Pizza in New York, there is only one cryptocurrency you can use to pay for your pie: Dogecoin.

Elon Musk and Mark Cuban agree Dogecoin is no longer a joke as some businesses embrace the king of memecoins

Join The Tyee as Our Next Labour Reporter | The Tyee We’re looking for a sharp new journalist to add to our team. Applications are open until Oct. 15.

📢 The Tyee is hiring! 📢 Join our team this November as a full-time labour reporter. And share this with anyone you think might be fit for the role! #CdnMedia #bclab #canlab

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How to apply for The Globe and Mail’s 2025 Summer Jobs Program Are you an early- to mid-career journalist looking to take your career to the next level? Applications are now open for The Globe and Mail’s 2025 Summer Jobs Program. We’re hiring for 10 contract editorial positions across the newsroom. Successful…

How to apply for The Globe and Mail’s 2025 Summer Jobs Program: Are you an early- to mid-career journalist looking to take your career to the next level? Applications are now open for The Globe and Mail’s 2025 Summer Jobs Program. We’re hiring for 10 contract editorial positions across the…

Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he’ll be joining Anthropic. In a series of posts on X, Kingma revealed that he’ll be working mostly remotely, from the Netherlands, where he’s based, but didn’t say which…

Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

Swedish government considers national ban on begging EU citizens have come to Sweden to beg, leading to a rise in crime, far-right leader says.

Sweden’s center-right government and the far-right Sweden Democrats party are looking into the feasibility of a nationwide ban on begging.

“Remigration": How a White Nationalist Threat Spread From Austria to the US A Bloomberg analysis of 3.1 million social media posts shows that use of “remigration,” a concept appropriated by White nationalists, has exploded in the past eight months ahead of major elections.

A White nationalist idea is putting xenophobia on the ballot, an analysis of 3.1 million social media posts shows