Tech Bytes — Week in Review: Layoffs at Tesla, OpenAI’s deepfake detector and lots of new iPads
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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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On this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review, OpenAI has unveiled its own deepfake detection software and is allowing a small group of disinformation researchers to use it. Speaking of artificial intelligence, Apple this week unveiled a new suite of iPads (just in case you forgot they still make those). The company announced its new iPad Pro will, among other features, run on an AI-powered processing chip. But first, a sales slowdown has hit electric car maker Tesla pretty hard of late. Now, the tech news site Electrek reports there’s been another wave of layoffs this week, directly affecting the company’s software, service and engineering departments. It also follows last week’s mass layoff of Tesla’s entire supercharger unit. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist with the Wall Street Journal, to unpack these stories.
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| 0:38.0 | I'm Lily Jramale. It's Friday, which means it's time for Marketplace Tech Bites Week in Review. |
| 0:53.0 | Open AI has unveiled its own deep fake detection software |
| 0:57.0 | and is allowing a small group of disinformation researchers to use it. |
| 1:01.0 | We'll look at why and why now. Speaking of artificial intelligence, |
| 1:06.1 | Apple this week unveiled a new suite of iPads, just in case you forgot, they still make |
| 1:10.9 | those. The company announced its new iPad |
| 1:13.9 | pro will among other features run on an AI-powered processing chip. But first a |
| 1:20.3 | sale slowed down his hit electric car Maker Tesla pretty hard of late. |
| 1:25.0 | Now the tech news site Electric reports there's been another wave of layoffs this week, |
| 1:30.4 | directly affecting the company's software, service, and engineering departments. |
| 1:35.0 | This after last week's mass layoff of Tesla's entire supercharger unit. |
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