Walmart U.S. e-commerce chief Marc Lore is waving goodbye to a behemoth of a digital business he helped supercharge in under five years. The company said on Friday that Lore will retire on Jan. 31 and will remain as a strategic adviser through September. Lore’s new mission — though offering just a few details in an interview with Yahoo Finance —will be to take cities around the world to the next level. Presumably given Lore’s tech-heavy resume, that means a focus on accelerating the… Source link
Read More »Timnit Gebru, a Black tech ethicist, talks about leaving Google.
Timnit Gebru speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2018. Kimberly White/Getty Images Subscribe to What Next on Apple Podcasts for the full episode. Earlier this fall, A.I. ethicist Timnit Gebru submitted a paper for consideration at an academic conference about predictive language models: on their environmental cost, and how they could learn racist and… Source link
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