Companies lure talent with debt relief plans, Microsoft unplugs from Twitter, a bellwether win for self-driving cars, and Top 5 advanced materials startups hiring in 2023. [view entire message]( Quick Hits Hybrid work: Amazon orders employees back to the office [three days a week](. 6G coming: U.S. pushes plans for 6G wireless networks, [100X faster than 5G](. ARTificial: AI-generated pop song [tops charts,]( fueling debate over AI in the arts. 50/50 split: [Grimes]( says anyone can use her voice for half of the proceeds. Self-driving win: CA jury finds Tesla auto-pilot did not fail in a [bellwether case](. Code error: Google shares lose $100 billion after [AI chatbot error](ttps://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/tech/google-ai-bard-demo-error/index.html?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-2022704). Bank of Apple: Apple [gets into savings]( offering 4.15% interest. We (HuggingChat) open-source AI Databricks released Dolly 2.0, calling it the first open source, instruction-following large language model (LLM) for commercial use. Unlike other LLMs (ahem, ChatGPT), Dolly 2.0 was fine-tuned on a [transparent and freely available dataset](. AI researcher Simon Willison called Dolly 2.0 "[a really big deal]( In related news: Stability AI released its own suite of [open-source large language models]( (LLMs) collectively called StableLM thatâs trained on a dataset known as [the Pile]( which includes sources like Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, and PubMed. And Hugging Face, a leading voice for open-source AI development, launched an open-source alternative to ChatGPT called [HuggingChat](. Billionaires dream of fusion power Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Marc Benioff are among the tech founders and investors working to [harness the power of the universe]( to deliver almost limitless energy. Theyâre working to make fusion reactors a reality. âItâs the holy grail,â Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, told The Wall Street Journal. Fusion is seen as a clean energy alternative to fossil fuels. Workers needed to build high-speed Internet The U.S. government faces a [worker shortage]( to make good on its $42.5B plan to expand access to high-speed Internet in rural areas. Theyâre looking for so-called fiber slicers, the people who install and maintain wired broadband networks. â[Weâre running around like chickens with our heads cut off,]( a CEO told the Wall Street Journal. Legislating teen social media use Thereâs a growing effort across the U.S. to curb teen social media use [through legislation]( by requiring stricter age verification and, in some cases, [parental consent]( before teens can join some platforms. Arkansas and Utah have laws on the books already, and states including California, Connecticut, Maryland, and Ohio are debating their own restrictions. Talent recruitment tool: Debt assistance In a new twist on tuition assistance benefits, companies are luring talent with debt assistance packages, which can be tax-exempt up to $5,250, to help employees pay off loans. HR pros report that itâs proving to be [an effective strategy for attracting and retaining talent](. Tweet of the week Trending in Tech Top 5: Advanced materials Chinese battery giant CATL recently unveiled a [semi-solid state battery]( which is just one of many examples of innovation happening in advanced material tech. Startups disrupting this industry include [Material Depot]( [Apeel Sciences]( [Phoenix Tailings]( [Aeler Technologies]( and [Citrine Informatics](. What we're reading - Internal FAQ: What Amazon is telling employees before they return to the office next week ([GeekWire](
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- Spotify CEO Calls AI âCool and Scaryâ as It Hits Music Industry ([Wall Street Journal]( YouTube case at Supreme Court could shape protections for ChatGPT and AI ([Reuters](
- âSome people will quit over this decisionâ: Read Redfin CEOâs memo on back-to-office mandate ([GeekWire](
- The tech entrepreneur betting he can reverse his age ([BBC]( Recently funded Amsterdam-based [Weaviate]( a developer of an AI-native vector database, raised a $50M Series B led by Index Ventures. Theyâre hiring site developers and reliability engineers. Munich-based [Smart Reporting]( which uses AI in medical documentation, received a $15M venture debt loan from the European Investment Bank. Theyâre hiring stack developers, financial specialists, and medical developers. New York-based [Insur]( an on-demand insurance provider, raised $26M in funding led by JVP. Theyâre hiring data analysts, DevOps engineers, and claims technicians. â Startups hiring now Dare Drop Connecting People to Products they Need, Through Content they Love
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