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Instability at Stability AI: Stability AI CEO steps down as company faces financial and market challenges
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Instability at Stability AI: Stability AI CEO steps down as company faces financial and market challenges

The CEO of Stability AI resigned as the company faces an increasingly competitive market.
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Microsoft Absorbs Inflection: Microsoft pays Inflection AI $650 Million, hires most of its staff

Microsoft took over most of the once high-flying chatbot startup Inflection AI in an unusual deal.
AI Jobs Grow Beyond Established Hubs: AI careers spread across the U.S., outgrowing traditional tech hubs.
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AI Jobs Grow Beyond Established Hubs: AI careers spread across the U.S., outgrowing traditional tech hubs.

An analysis of United States job listings shows AI jobs are growing rapidly outside traditional tech hubs. Researchers at University of Maryland analyzed the distribution of AI jobs among U.S. job postings. California hosts the largest concentration...
AI Creates Jobs, Study Suggests: European Central Bank study finds surprising growth in jobs affected by AI.
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AI Creates Jobs, Study Suggests: European Central Bank study finds surprising growth in jobs affected by AI.

Europeans are keeping their jobs even as AI does an increasing amount of work. Researchers at the European Central Bank found that employment in occupations affected by AI rose over nearly a decade. 
Hollywood Squares Off: This year, AI helped reshape the film industry landscape.
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Hollywood Squares Off: This year, AI helped reshape the film industry landscape.

The movie capital became a front line in the battle over workplace automation. U.S. film and television writers went on strike in May, and actors followed in July. They took up a variety of issues with their employers, but concern that AI would damage...
The CEO Is O̶u̶t̶ In: All about the leadership shakeup at OpenAI
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The CEO Is O̶u̶t̶ In: All about the leadership shakeup at OpenAI

OpenAI abruptly fired and rehired its CEO Sam Altman, capping five days of chaos within the company. On Friday, the OpenAI board of directors — whose membership since has changed — ousted CEO and co-founder Sam Altman from his leadership position and his seat on the board.
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No Jobs for Humans: Will the dominance of AI in the workplace leave enough jobs for people?

AI is taking over the workplace. Will there be enough jobs left for people? Workers of all kinds are on the firing line as large language models, text-to-image generators, and hardware robots match their performance at a lower cost.
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Newsroom AI Poses Opportunities, Challenges: New survey identifies journalists' hopes and worries for Generative AI

Journalists are approaching text generators with cautious optimism, a new study shows. Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science surveyed workers at over 100 news organizations worldwide. 85 percent of respondents said they had experimented with generative AI.
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U.S. Film Industry Limits AI: Hollywood screenwriters and studios make a deal to end the writers' strike.

Screenwriters and movie studios reached a landmark agreement that restricts uses of AI to produce scripts for television and movies.
High Wages for AI Talent: AI enthusiasm rockets engineer salaries to unprecedented heights.
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High Wages for AI Talent: AI enthusiasm rockets engineer salaries to unprecedented heights.

Enthusiasm for AI is driving top salaries for engineers and executives into the stratosphere. Companies that advertise open AI positions are listing annual pay scales well into six figures. In at least one case, the proposed salary approaches seven figures.
Language Models’ Impact on Jobs: The occupations likely to be most affected by language models
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Language Models’ Impact on Jobs: The occupations likely to be most affected by language models

Telemarketers and college professors are most likely to find their jobs changing due to advances in language modeling, according to a new study. Researchers projected the jobs and industries in the U.S. likely to be most affected by language models.
The Secret Life of Data Labelers: The concerning working conditions of data labelers
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The Secret Life of Data Labelers: The concerning working conditions of data labelers

The business of supplying labeled data for building AI systems is a global industry. But the people who do the labeling face challenges that impinge on the quality of both their work and their lives.
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Repatriating Talent: Lelapa brings AI talent back to Africa.

A South African startup aims to lure talented engineers who left the continent to work abroad. Johannesburg research lab Lelapa.ai bills itself as a haven for African AI engineers who want to work on challenges that aren’t on Silicon Valley’s agenda.
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Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.

Contract workers who help train the algorithms behind Google Search won a pay raise. Employees of U.S. contractors who evaluate the quality of Google Search’s results, knowledge panels, and ads will earn $15 per hour, a raise of roughly $1.
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Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer

Looking for work in AI? Brush up on your language skills. Employers are hiring prompt engineers to write natural-language prompts for AI models, The Washington Post reported. They include Anthropic, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the London law firm Mischon de Reya.
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