Negotiations are under way between the UAE and OpenAI that may make the company’s ChatGPT Plus artificial intelligence chatbot available to all residents free of charge, though a final deal has not been reached. An agreement involving ChatGPT Plus would be part of the recently announced Stargate UAE infrastructure plan Read more…
AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years — and overall unemployment potentially spiking between 10 and 20% during that period. The prediction comes as new data from venture capital firm SignalFire shows Big Tech companies have already reduced their hiring of new graduates Read more…
The recent surge in cyberattacks is pushing cyber insurers toward a fundamental reassessment of premium pricing, with industry analysts warning of an impending “inflection point” that could reshape the market. Marks & Spencer’s impending $404 million hit to its operating profit from a recent hack underscores claims that will “attract Read more…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned that LaLiga’s ISP blocking campaign — intended to stop football piracy — has caused widespread collateral damage by blocking millions of unrelated websites, including emergency services, in Spain. He called the strategy “bonkers” and expressed fear that lives could be lost due to the overblocking. Read more…
AI’s downside for software engineers for now seems to be a change in the quality of their work. Some say it is becoming more routine, less thoughtful and, crucially, much faster paced… The new approach to coding at many companies has, in effect, eliminated much of the time the developer Read more…
Following on Anthropic’s bridge-obsessed Golden Gate Claude, colleagues at Harvard’s Insight+Interaction Lab have produced a dashboard that shows what judgments Llama appears to be forming about a user’s age, wealth, education level, and gender during a conversation. I wrote up how weird it is to see the dials turn while Read more…
Wednesday Google security researchers published a preprint demonstrating that 2048-bit RSA encryption could theoretically be broken by a quantum computer with 1 million noisy qubits running for one week. This is a 20-fold decrease in the number of qubits from our previous estimate, published in 2019… The reduction in physical Read more…