Microsoft on Monday added itself to a growing list of AI vendors pledging to try to control the behavior of its AI models.“AI should not exceed human control. Models should remain subordinate to humanity, subject to meaningful human oversight and control,” the company wrote in the draft version of its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, released Monday with an invitation to the public to provide feedback.  “Humanist AI develops systems with clear purposes, evaluated against real-world impact, and rejects the race to produce an all-purpose superintelligence that could evade these safeguards...

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Credit: Dreamstime Work management platform Asana has announced a suite of new features and product integrations, designed to help enterprises maximise resources, and improve strategic planning and security.The new capabilities include the launch of a new, enterprise-grade version of the vendor's Goals application, and new security features to give organisations the tools to audit information and flag vulnerabilities, allowing enterprises to remain compliant within highly regulated industries such as healthcare.

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The US job market added twice as many jobs in January as analyst had expected, though unemployment remained unchanged and tech layoffs continued to plague the industry.In January, overall unemployment remained at 3.7% and added 353,000 jobs, according to data published today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). New tech employment data suggests that 2024 is off to a promising start, according to an analysis by IT trade association CompTIA.Tech companies added nearly 18,000 workers last month, the second consecutive month of job growth. The unemployment rate for tech occupations remained...

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Credit: Dreamstime Salesforce is offering new Slack and Sales Cloud integration capabilities, designed to help sales teams drive productivity and efficiency while providing cost savings.The new offerings, announced at the Salesforce World Tour NYC event, comprise a productivity bundle that is on offer to customers at a discounted rate until mid-January, and a new native Slack integration with the company's Sales Cloud.Speaking ahead of the event, Blake Markham, vice president of product management at Slack, said that in these times of economic uncertainty, companies are dealing with hiring freezes, and for sales teams, the customers they're selling to are experiencing similar challenges.

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