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EY and IBM team up on AI to automate HR processes

October 19, 2023
Today, consulting major EY announced it is expanding its partnership with IBM to provide enterprises with an AI solution aimed at automating HR tasks and processes. Officially dubbed EY.ai Workforce, the offering will tap IBM’s watsonx technology and enable HR teams to streamline their workflows with AI — right from drafting a job description to handling payrolls — and drive…
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Ray-ban Meta smart glasses make AI convos even more convenient | review

October 18, 2023
When Meta demoed its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, it touted the ability to livestream, record video, and play music. Then, at its recent Meta Connect event, it unveiled one more thing. You can speak to it a conversational tone and the AI will fetch you answers to your questions. Now that’s pretty nifty. In some ways, this will make us even lazier. Now we won’t even have to reach for our phones…
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AI leaders back out of Web Summit after CEO’s comments about Israel

October 17, 2023
The ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict has rippled into the technology and artificial intelligence sector, as a number of industry leaders have withdrawn from the Web Summit in Lisbon, Europe’s premier technology conference. This decision comes in response to the event’s founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, publicly decrying Israel’s retaliatory actions against Hamas as “war crimes.” I’m…
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Layer announces $3M seed to produce AI copilots that are ‘ten times’ faster than humans

October 17, 2023
AI copilots are increasingly the rage as the generative AI boom reaches its first-year anniversary (since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022). But even with companies from Microsoft to recruiting software iCIMS launching copilots — the question remains: how useful, reliable, and helpful will they be to end-users? Layer, a new startup based in Columbus, Ohio, seeks to help other…
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