More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates have signed an open letter calling for “moonshot” efforts to ramp up food production before an impending world hunger catastrophe. The coalition of some of the world’s greatest living thinkers called for urgent action to prioritise research and technology to solve Read more…
U.K. public sector and critical infrastructure organizations could be banned from making ransom payments under new proposals from the U.K. government. The U.K.’s Home Office launched a consultation on Tuesday that proposes a “targeted ban” on ransomware payments. Under the proposal, public sector bodies — including local councils, schools, and Read more…
Meta is cutting roughly 5% of its staff through performance-based eliminations and plans to hire new people to fill their roles this year, according to a company memo. As of September, Meta employed about 72,000 people, so a 5% reduction could affect roughly 3,600 jobs. “I’ve decided to raise the Read more…
While worrying about AI takeover might seem like a modern idea that sprung from War Games or The Terminator, it turns out that a similar concern about machine dominance dates back to the time of the American Civil War, albeit from an English sheep farmer living in New Zealand. Theoretically, Read more…
U.S. companies are increasingly using AI to curb hiring plans, citing “cost avoidance” as a key metric to justify AI investments amid pressure to show returns. At software firm TS Imagine, AI-powered email sorting saves 4,000 work hours annually at 3% of employee costs, while Palantir reported AI reduced future Read more…
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting. — T.H. White
Neuralink Corp.’s brain-computer device has been implanted in a third patient, and the company has plans for about 20 to 30 more implants in 2025, founder Elon Musk said. In an interview streamed on X.com, Musk says “We’ve got now three humans with Neuralinks implanted and they’re all working well,” Read more…