Techstrong News Recap – March 16, 2023
On March 16, William Willis covered OpenAI’s release of GPT-4, a California court’s ruling that Uber and Lyft can classify workers as independent contractors and the mental health startup Cerebral admitting to sharing patient data with Meta, Google and TikTok. He also talked about Meta cutting 10,000 jobs. Finally, he previewed articles from Digital CxO, Security Boulevard and Container Journal, which covered AI quality trends for 2023, Palo Alto Networks using machine learning to reduce SASE costs and lightweight environments in Kubernetes.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines from March 16th. First up open AI has introduced gpt4 their latest AI language model, which will affect each GPT co-pilot and Dolly. The company claims that gpt4 is more accurate creative and collaborative than its previous versions and can handle up to 50 pages of text input as well as image input and output.
5. Additionally, the company claims that gpt4 is performance is has improved on various tests and benchmarks including the bar exam LSAT and SAT exams. Openai has partnered with several companies to integrate gpt4 into their products as well as it being available to the public through which chat gbt+ subscription.
Next a state appeals court in California has issued a ruling that permits ride healing and delivery firms such as Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as independent contractors. Thus enabling them to evade laws mandating worker protections and benefits. The verdict backs proposition 22 a law passed by voters that allows app-based transportation and delivery services to classify workers as independent contractors.
Proposition 22 is considered a Triumph for Tech firms, but has been criticized by labor unions and their allies who argue that drivers should be considered employees. While drivers will be allowed to form labor unions and negotiate for better working conditions proposition 22 will still stand. This marks a reversal of the 2021 ruling where a state judge ruled that companies like uber and Lyft were not exempt with all this being said the service employees International Union still has the option to appeal the decision into the state's Supreme Court.
3 million patients with third-party advertisers such as Google meta and tiktok. Some of the patient data exposed includes personal details insurance information appointment dates and treatment information. Cerebral used tracking pixels provided by meta tiktok and Google to measure user interaction with its ads on various platforms, but these pixels granted these companies access to patients personal information.
The information exposed varied from Patient to Patient in the affected users will be notified to prevent future breaches cerebral has disabled tracking pixels and improved information security practices Additionally. The incident is currently under investigation by the US office for civil rights and the company's obligated to disclose any potential HIPAA violations. Next up meta has announced that it's cutting 10,000 jobs the same number of cuts it announced late last year with the technology industry being affected by an e in certain global economy meta has stated that it needed to downsize its Workforce besides layoffs.
The company will also not be filling 5,000 currently open positions. Meta acknowledge that it would be a challenging time for the company as it is invested tens of billions of dollars in developing. Its metaverse a virtual reality concept.
Additionally meta said it would reduce the size of its recruitment team and make additional cuts to its Tech and business groups in late April and late May respectively. The current economic conditions continue to impact the technology sector with big Tech making a repeated rounds of layoffs and having to pause and construction as was the case with Amazon's second headquarters earlier this month. On digital cxo we have an article that looks at AI quality trends for the Sierra 2022 was a huge year for AI with quality related issues coming into the Forefront and this year looks to be no different as it seems there will continue to be a spotlight on model AI quality.
com On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at how Palo Alto networks is using machine learning to reduce its secure access service edge platform costs. In addition Palo Alto networks is adding a Prisma command center with machine learning to monitor software-defined wide area networks with the ultimate goal of making sassy more accessible to more organizations. com.
Finally on container Journal we have an article that looks at lightweight environments in kubernetes more and more organizations or realizing that testing needs to shift left as organizations grow Development Center environments. com. And that's today's texturing news recap.
