Originally published in The Verge, March 13, 2023. As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone. Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs that affected 10,000 employees across the company, Platformer has learned. The move leaves Microsoft without a
Originally published in Tech At Instacart, March 17, 2023. At Instacart, we take pride in offering a diverse range of machine learning (ML) products that empower every aspect of our marketplace, including customers, shoppers, retailers, and brands....
Originally published in TechCrunch, March 7, 2023. Late last month, Artifact, a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. The launch was a surprise to many consumers, who wondered why the team behind one of the world’s most...
Originally published in Spotify Research, Feb 22, 2023. A new approach to calibrating recommendations to user interests Users’ interests are multi-faceted and representing different aspects of users’ interest in their recommendations is an important factor for recommender...
Originally published in Shopify Engineering, Feb 8, 2023. A business’s taxes can be difficult to manage, especially in the United States. Tax laws are complicated and vary state-to-state, city-to-city, and product-to-product, further adding to the complexity. When...
Originally published in Brookings, Feb 21, 2023. With OpenAI’s ChatGPT now a constant presence both on social media and in the news, generative artificial intelligence (AI) models have taken hold of the public’s imagination. Policymakers have taken...
