Worries over China’s “3D” problem — that deflation, debt and demographics are structurally hampering growth — are melting away. Instead, investors are talking about how the world’s second-largest economy can take on the US and challenge its technological dominance. There is the prevailing sense that China’s “engineer dividend” is finally Read more…
Microsoft is expanding its Security Copilot platform with six new AI agents designed to autonomously assist cybersecurity teams by handling tasks like phishing alerts, data loss incidents, and vulnerability monitoring. There are also five third-party AI agents created by its partners, including OneTrust and Tanium. Microsoft’s six security agents will Read more…
Hungary’s Parliament not only voted to ban Pride events. They also voted to allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them [The nationwide legislation] amends the country’s law on assembly to make it an offence to hold or attend events that violate Hungary’s contentious Read more…
European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane warned that Europe must develop a digital euro to counter growing American influence over the continent’s financial system amid escalating geopolitical tensions. Lane specifically cited Europe’s “current dependence on US payment-card providers Visa and Mastercard, as well as technology companies including PayPal, Apple Read more…
Web infrastructure provider Cloudflare unveiled “AI Labyrinth” this week, a feature designed to thwart unauthorized AI data scraping by feeding bots realistic but irrelevant content instead of blocking them outright. The system lures crawlers into a “maze” of AI-generated pages containing neutral scientific information, deliberately wasting computing resources of those Read more…
Computer programming jobs in the US have declined by more than a quarter over the past two years, placing the profession among the 10 hardest-hit occupations of 420-plus jobs tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and potentially signaling the first concrete evidence of artificial intelligence replacing workers. The timing Read more…