As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,

Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.

There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain?

By performing a skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused.

Being blind to those gaps is the real miss.

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Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, October 22nd. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Tesla has reported a drop in profit for the third quarter. Net income fell 37% even as shoppers rushed to buy electric vehicles before a $7,500 federal tax credit expired last month.

Tesla's total revenue grew 12% after the burst in sales, but it reported a net income of $1.4 billion,

down from $2.2 billion a year earlier.

The results come ahead of Tesla's November 6th annual meeting when shareholders will vote on a new pay package for CEO Elon Musk that's potentially worth more than $1 trillion

over 10 years. Parents of a 16-year-old who committed suicide after using OpenAI's chat GPT have

amended their lawsuit against the company. They now allege that

OpenAI twice loosened ChatGPT's rules on discussing suicide. In August, Adam Rain's parents sued OpenAI

for the wrongful death of their son, who took his own life using a method the chatbot advised him on.

Wednesday's amended lawsuit claims

OpenAI's changes to its model specifications will weaken suicide protections for users in the

year before as part of a broader effort to increase user engagement. OpenAI said strong protections

for minors is a top priority, and a company spokeswoman said it has safeguards in place,

such as surfacing crisis hotlines, rerouting sensitive conversations to safer models, and

nudging for breaks during long sessions. News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal,

has a content licensing partnership with Open AI. And META is cutting about 600 jobs in its AI division. That's

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