with all the buzz around Gen Z fitness and gym routines, it’s easy to forget the huge positives that come from spending time socialising and taking a break I moved to Bristol early last year, eager to be around more of my friends and to make a new start of things. Thirteen months later and I can’t say things have gone exactly as I had planned, but such is life. However,...
Alphabet has announced plans to spend $75 billion USD on capital expenditures in 2025 with a focus on AI. In its latest earnings report, the company’s revenue grew but slightly missed market expectations. In 2025, Google’s parent company Alphabet says it plans to spend $75 billion USD on capital expenditures, which is a sharp increase over Wall Street’s original estimates. It is a major jump in spending over 2024, with...
The Chinese company DeepSeek sent out shockwaves last week, rocketing to the top of the App Store with the launch of its generative AI and chatbot. It offers consumers tools at a fraction of the cost of US competitors, leading to plummeting stocks and major market disruption. The AI industry saw unprecedented upheaval last week with the release of DeepSeek, a Chinese-based chatbot and generative AI tool. It works in a...
Facebook has fallen out of favour with young consumers. Once seen as the defining social media platform, it is now associated with misinformation, privacy breaches, and older people. Is there any way back? If you’re an older Gen Zers or younger Millennial, you may remember a time when Facebook was the place to be. In the late noughties and early tens, Zuckerberg’s social media unicorn was the spearhead for a cultural...
In an attempt to keep up with the competition, Google has announced PaLM 2, a ‘next-generation language model’ that will be available for many of its upcoming products. It will be in direct competition with services like Midjourney and DALL-E. Google is attempting to throw itself back to the forefront of AI tools and services. Despite years of AI research and in-house work, the company has been unable to create popular...
A new Meta blog post has outlined how Zuckerberg intends to deliver on his ‘year of efficiency’. 10’000 jobs are to be cut and a further 5’000 open roles are closing. ‘Lower priority projects’ will also be shut down. Is Zuckerberg giving up on the Metaverse? Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced 10’000 layoffs and a freezing of 5’000 open roles in the company’s ‘year of efficiency’. It follows a...
Offering pragmatic solutions to mental health struggles, WYSA is using AI chat algorithms and questionnaires to tailor emotional support for Gen Z users. It seems AI is everywhere these days. Whether it’s used to help artists create paintings from scratch, or to quicken disaster response times via satellites, we’re finding more innovative ways to use algorithms and automated systems every day. You can now add mental health support to...
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