LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Amazon announced a new slate of artificial intelligence platforms, known as foundation models, at its annual AWS conference, allowing for text, image and video generation among other things. The new offerings pit it against rivals like Adobe and Meta which are racing to serve customers who want to automate more of…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday that the E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers is over and the investigation has been closed. As of Dec. 3, the CDC said 104 people have fallen ill and 34 were hospitalized due to the outbreak caused by the…
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job openings increased solidly in October while layoffs dropped by the most in 1-1/2 years, suggesting the labor market continued to slow in an orderly fashion. But the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, from the Labor Department on Tuesday also showed employers hesitant to…
(Reuters) – AI chip leader Nvidia could put its growing cash pile to use through possible mergers and acquisitions, finance chief Colette Kress said during a technology conference in Arizona on Tuesday. “We can also think about that in terms of our work, of bringing on great teams in some M&A form,” she said at…
By Stephen Nellis and Greg Bensinger LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Amazon.com’s cloud unit on Tuesday showed new data center servers packed with its own AI chips that will challenge Nvidia, with Apple coming aboard as a customer to use them. The new servers, based on 64 of Amazon Web Services’ Trainium2 chips, will be strung…
By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc plans to pilot a new carbon-removal material for data centers, which are at risk of worsening emissions from artificial intelligence systems they power, a startup behind the deal said on Monday. In a twist, AI itself, from the startup Orbital Materials, is what designed the carbon-filtering substance, its…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Apple has been accused in a new lawsuit of illegally monitoring its workers’ personal devices and iCloud accounts while also barring them from discussing their pay and working conditions. The complaint filed in California state court on Sunday by Amar Bhakta, who works in digital advertising for Apple, claims the…
(Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday there would be “hell to pay” in the Middle East if hostages held in the Gaza Strip were not released prior to his Jan. 20 inauguration. During their deadly 2023 attack on Israel, Hamas-led militants captured more than 250 people, according to Israeli tallies, including dual Israeli-American…
By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the outgoing U.S. administration of President Joe Biden on Sunday to help convince NATO members to invite Ukraine to join the alliance, as Ukraine’s war with Russia enters an unpredictable new phase. Kyiv wants NATO members to issue an invitation at an alliance meeting…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Instagram and Facebook-owner Meta Platforms said on Monday it had introduced stricter rules for advertisers of financial products and services targeting Australians, in a bid to crack down on scams on the social media platforms. The move comes after Meta in October said it took down 8,000 so-called “celeb bait” ads, as…
