Vendor bosses pour cash into AI with IBM and Dropbox slashing staff headcounts

Both vendors are among those to have recently announced major shifts towards AI investments amid employee job cuts

Kelsey Rees
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Vendor bosses pour cash into AI with IBM and Dropbox slashing staff headcounts

Artificial intelligence, and more specifically the monumental global influence of ChatGPT, has taken the tech world by storm, causing a paradigm shift in the way companies are viewing jobs.  Tod...

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