Technology

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is changing his company’s approach to hiring in the age of AI. Employees will be expected to prove why they “cannot get what they want done using AI” before asking for more headcount and resources, Lutke wrote in a memo to staffers that he posted to Read more…

Microsoft has scrapped plans to build three data center campuses in Licking County, Ohio, in a $1 billion investment pullback, the company said. The canceled developments in New Albany, Heath, and Hebron join a growing list of Microsoft data center project cancellations across the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Read more…

The U.S. is still the global leader in state-of-the-art AI, but China has closed the gap considerably. Institutions based in the U.S. produced 40 AI models of note in 2024, compared with 15 from China and three from Europe, according to the eighth edition of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Index, released Read more…

Researchers at DeepMind have … released a new technical paper (PDF) that explains how to develop AGI safely, which you can download at your convenience. It contains a huge amount of detail, clocking in at 108 pages before references. While some in the AI field believe AGI is a pipe Read more…

Commentary, video, and a publication in this week’s Nature Neuroscience herald a significant advance in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, enabling speech by decoding electrical activity in the brain’s sensorimotor cortex in real-time. Researchers from UC Berkeley and UCSF employed deep learning recurrent neural network transducer models to decode neural signals Read more…

After sitting below 4% for more than two years, the overall unemployment rate has topped that threshold since May… “We’re seeing a meaningful transition in the way work is done in the white-collar world,  I tell people a wave is coming….” Thousands of video game workers lost jobs last year Read more…