Thousands of Norwegians briefly believed they had won massive Eurojackpot prizes after a manual coding error by Norsk Tipping mistakenly multiplied winnings by 100 instead of dividing. The Eurojackpot, a pan-European lottery launched in 2012, holds two draws per week, and its jackpots start at about $12 million with a Read more…
Google has signed a deal to purchase 200 megawatts of future fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, despite the energy source not yet existing. “It’s a sign of how hungry big tech companies are for a virtually unlimited source of clean power that is still years away,” reports CNN. Google Read more…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea’s money-making operations, which rely on undercover remote IT workers inside American tech companies to raise funds for the regime’s nuclear weapons program, as well as to steal data and cryptocurrency. As part Read more…
Canada and the United States have resumed trade negotiations, after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to rescind the country’s digital services tax on U.S. technology companies. The development follows President Donald Trump’s announcement on Friday that he was suspending all trade talks with Canada “effective immediately” over the tax Read more…
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system achieved 80% accuracy in diagnosing patients compared to 20% for human doctors, while reducing costs by 20%, according to company research published Monday. The MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator queries multiple leading AI models including OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama, and xAI’s Grok in Read more…
The potential threat of bosses attempting to replace human workers with AI agents is just one of many compounding reasons people are critical of generative AI… “The pushback from the creative community ramped up during the 2023 Hollywood writer’s strike, and continued to accelerate through the current wave of copyright Read more…
By the time Jessica Lindsey’s customers accuse her of being an AI, they are often already shouting. For the past two years, her work as a call center agent for outsourcing company Concentrix has been punctuated by people at the other end of the phone demanding to speak to a Read more…