Why Deloitte Is Betting Big On Ai Despite A $10m Refund

AI companies are making their much-anticipated endeavor plays, but nan results are wildly inconsistent. Just this week, Deloitte announced it’s rolling retired Anthropic’s Claude to each 500,000 employees. On nan very aforesaid day, nan Australian authorities forced Deloitte to refund a statement because their AI-generated study was riddled pinch clone citations. It’s a cleanable snapshot of wherever we are: companies racing to adopt AI devices earlier they’ve figured retired really to usage them responsibly. 

On this section of Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane excavation into nan messy reality of AI successful nan workplace, positive backing news and regulatory play crossed tech and transportation. 

Listen to nan afloat section to perceive much news from nan week, including: 

• AltStore’s $6 cardinal raise and its scheme to merge pinch nan fediverse, making app updates portion of your societal feed 

• Base Power’s massive $1 cardinal Series C to deploy location batteries crossed Texas and beyond 

• NHTSA’s investigation into Tesla FSD after 50+ postulation violations, positive nan caller “cheaper” models that portion retired Autopilot and basal features 

• Zendesk’s declare that its new AI agents tin grip 80% of customer work tickets autonomously, and what happens successful nan different 20% 

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