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Jon Swartz

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Contributor at SiriusXM

Senior Writer at Tech Strong Group

Senior Writer, Techstrong Group. SiriusXM and LiveNow contributor. Formerly: Dow Jones, USA Today, Forbes, Independent, S.F. Chronicle. Devotee of Saul Bellow.

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  • 4 days ago | techstrong.ai | Jon Swartz

    Salesforce Inc. continued to add to its collection of artificial intelligence (AI) personnel and technology Monday. It said it picked up some employees from Moonhub, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in AI-driven talent acquisition solutions that shut down operations. A spokesperson for Salesforce said some of Moonhub’s team would be joining Salesforce, but had not formally acquired the company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

  • 1 week ago | techstrong.it | Jon Swartz

    Meta Platforms Inc. is working with longtime collaborator Palmer Luckey’s defense firm, Anduril Industries, on a project to build high-tech VR/AR helmets for the U.S. Army. The EagleEye project is a $100 million contract, a tiny slice of a $22 billion Army wearables project that Anduril is leading, the companies announced Thursday.

  • 1 week ago | techstrong.ai | Jon Swartz

    A new supercomputer promising to merge artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific research is coming to the hills above the University of California, Berkeley, federal officials said Thursday. The Department of Energy said supercomputer Doudna, named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (biochemist Jennifer Doudna, in 2020), will deliver significantly ramped-up calculations using technology from NVIDIA Corp. and Dell Technologies Inc. The massive new machine is due in 2026.

  • 1 week ago | buff.ly | Jon Swartz

    A new supercomputer promising to merge artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific research is coming to the hills above the University of California, Berkeley, federal officials said Thursday. The Department of Energy said supercomputer Doudna, named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (biochemist Jennifer Doudna, in 2020), will deliver significantly ramped-up calculations using technology from NVIDIA Corp. and Dell Technologies Inc. The massive new machine is due in 2026.

  • 1 week ago | techstrong.ai | Jon Swartz

    Business Insider is slashing 21% of its staff as it focuses on “fully embracing AI” and reducing its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.”In what could be a sinister precursor to similar actions by cash-strapped publishers, the news site strongly indicated it intends to rely more on generative artificial intelligence (AI) for search traffic and beef up its live events business. Earlier this month, the organization hired a newsroom AI lead.

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