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The top 10 industries where artificial intelligence is creating new employment opportunities

The top 10 industries where artificial intelligence is creating new employment opportunities

Artificial intelligence is fueling the need for professionals who design computing infrastructure, engineer and protect AI systems, curate data, and integrate these capabilities into traditional enterprises. Nonetheless, accurate worldwide tallies measuring AI-driven job growth across specific sectors remain elusive. Recruitment metrics frequently highlight artificial intelligence proficiencies without clarifying if a vacancy represents a newly created post, and organizations frequently onboard AI experts while simultaneously downsizing other departments.Therefore, the ten sectors outlined below serve as an evidence-informed catalog of primary AI recruitment drivers rather than a quantified assessment of net employment growth, blending direct artificial intelligence positions with occupations that expand…
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Flock Safety’s license plate readers raise privacy alarms in Atlanta

Flock Safety’s license plate readers raise privacy alarms in Atlanta

Audits, a proposed city ordinance and a push in Washington are testing the license plate reader maker in the city where it was founded. Flock Safety, the license plate reader company built in Atlanta, is under growing pressure at home. Residents are pushing back at public meetings, city leaders are drafting permanent rules and one of Georgia's U.S. senators is pressing for federal limits. The fight in Flock's hometown comes as the startup, valued at $7.5 billion in its last reported funding round, shrinks its workforce and loses customers elsewhere. Officials in all four of metro Atlanta's largest counties have…
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Binance customers pull billions after withdrawal services restart

Binance customers pull billions after withdrawal services restart

The exchange says it has replaced most of the stolen crypto from its own funds, but customers pulled out $3.6 billion more than they put in after the restart.Binance began letting customers pull crypto out again on Sunday, less than three days after attackers drained roughly $6.3 billion from the exchange's hot wallets. Investigators say it is the largest crypto theft on record. Within hours of the restart, customers had withdrawn billions more than they deposited, though the company says volumes settled after an initial spike.The world's leading cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume asserts that it has substituted roughly 95%…
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Ten companies that have transformed their carbon emissions profiles in the last decade

Ten companies that have transformed their carbon emissions profiles in the last decade

There is no trustworthy, universally accepted global top-10 ranking. A company can report a large emissions reduction because it closed coal plants, switched to cleaner power, sold high-emitting assets, or changed how it measures its business. Those changes do not all have the same effect on emissions worldwide.The clearest candidates are electricity companies: their power plants produce substantial direct emissions, and replacing coal generation can cut millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. The ten companies below have reported major reductions or undergone significant shifts away from fossil-fuel generation over roughly the past decade. They are candidates for…
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