Uber has trimmed its customer-service ranks and pointed at AI. The company cut 10% of jobs in its community operations team on Wednesday. It is part of a wider push to “simplify operations, strengthen in-person collaboration, and continue to embrace AI,” a spokesperson told Bloomberg by email. It is a first for Uber. The company […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. He’s starting with a tiny Texan town of 500 people — 260 of whom work for SpaceX — and a recent memo suggests the company may be expropriating their land.Read more... [...]
Fireworks AI on August 31, 2026 announced the general availability of its Training API and Fireworks Lab, opening its managed training and rollout infrastructure to ML teams that want to run custom training loops on open models. The Training API connects a customer's own Python training loop to Fireworks-managed distributed compute, covering both the trainer that computes gradients and update [...]
Yodobashi Camera, Japan's largest camera store, has revealed its best-selling cameras and lenses for 2025, and the 20 product-strong shortlists show some surprising trends. [...]