You’ve probably heard it before in a meeting: ‘Let’s touch base offline to align our bandwidth on this workflow.’ Corporate jargon like this is easy to laugh at — but its negative impact in the office can be serious. According to a new study, using too much jargon in the Read more…
Entry-level workers in AI-exposed occupations have seen employment drop 13% since late 2022, according to Stanford University research analyzing millions of payroll records. The decline affects software developers, customer service representatives, and administrative assistants aged 22 to 25, while employment for older workers in the same roles continued growing. The Read more…
A group representing the world’s biggest stock exchanges has called on securities regulators to clamp down on so-called tokenised stocks, arguing that the blockchain-based tokens create new risks for investors and could harm market integrity. Crypto exchange Coinbase and broker Robinhood are among those making a push into the nascent Read more…
“The truly universal properties of languages are not independent of our physiology and cognition,” argues the co-author of a new study. Instead he says their research “strengthens the idea that intonation units are a universal feature of language.” Have you ever noticed that a natural conversation flows like a dance Read more…
DHL’s German operations, facing the departure of one-third of support staff within five years, has automated customer service calls and begun capturing institutional knowledge through AI-conducted exit interviews. The company’s voicebot now processes one million monthly calls, resolving half without human intervention, though initial deployments struggled with basic German language Read more…
After the Tea dating-advice app leaked information on its users, the BBC found two online maps “purporting to represent the locations of women who had signed up for Tea… showing 33,000 pins spread across the United States.” The maps were hosted on Google Maps. “Since the breach, more than 10 Read more…
Only a tiny fraction of the more than 7,000 languages on Earth are supported by artificial intelligence models, so Nvidia announced a massive new AI-ready dataset and models to support the development of high-quality AI translation for European languages. The new dataset, named Granary, is a massive open-source corpus of Read more…