IBM's CEO, who froze hiring for thousands of back office jobs and predicted AI would take up to 50% of new jobs, just piled into a $4.5 billion tech unicorn's massive new $235 million funding round

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has invested $235 million in the $4.5 billion AI startup Hugging Face, with IBM and Hugging Face already collaborating on AI tools and models, including a partnership with NASA.

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