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…
What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today’s best processors? In a groundbreaking international effort, researchers from the Department of Physics in the College of Science and the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences demonstrated a way to manipulate electrons Read more…
Google’s new AI video tool, Veo 3, is being used to create hyperrealistic videos that are now flooding the internet, terrifying viewers with a sense that real and fake have become hopelessly blurred.Unlike OpenAI’s video generator Sora, released more widely last December, Google DeepMind’s Veo 3 can include dialogue, soundtracks Read more…
Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision, the company said in a safety report (PDF) released Thursday. During pre-release testing, Anthropic asked Read more…
Europe has created just 14 companies worth more than $10 billion over the past 50 years compared to 241 in the United States, underscoring the continent’s struggle to compete in the global technology race despite having a larger population and similar education levels. The productivity gap has widened dramatically since Read more…