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A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that California's water system is misallocated and ill-suited for climate change, with water trading negligible and rigid rules protecting senior ri…
Consumer Reports found that Uber and Lyft use AI-driven pricing to charge vastly different fares for identical rides, with a median price difference of 50%, and offer fake discounts based on inflated prices. The investig…
Spotify's international markets now drive most of its growth, with non-English content accounting for over half of consumption and songs in 16 languages reaching its global top 50 last year. The platform has 761 million …
GiveDirectly tested an unrestricted AI chatbot alongside cash transfers in Rwanda, funded by Imara Fund, finding that recipients used it for personal advice beyond program questions. The pilot showed AI can fill informat…
A 93-year-old woman in assisted living is depressed and blaming her daughter for selling her house, while the daughter struggles with guilt over keeping her mother in the facility for safety reasons. Another reader seeks…
Companies like 8x8 are saving millions by replacing software subscriptions with Anthropic's Claude AI, while others like Cisco and Royal Bank of Canada report surging token usage costs. The phenomenon, dubbed 'tokenomics…
AI is transforming leadership into management, reducing the role of CIOs to organizing work, assigning tasks, and accepting results, as the employee-boss relationship becomes less important and workers are increasingly i…
A study commissioned by Chelsea Co. and conducted by Leadership Factor found that 75% of consumers over 55 dislike AI in drinks marketing, while 60% of 18-34-year-olds prefer human-feeling campaigns. Over 80% of responde…
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced an additional €655 million for artificial intelligence, including a single sovereign conversational assistant for roughly one million state employees, a public-health ass…
South Korea's presidential chief of staff for policy, Kim Yong-beom, proposed a "national dividend" plan to redistribute excess tax revenues from AI infrastructure profits to citizens, causing the Kospi index to drop 5.1…
More than 100 Stanford University students walked out of their commencement ceremony as Google CEO Sundar Pichai began his keynote address, chanting 'Free, free Palestine' in protest of the Gaza situation and tech compan…
A Hacker News user asks why no US company has released open-weight AI models, noting that Chinese labs and Europe's Mistral are more dedicated to open weights than US labs like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, which have r…
Data fabrics are emerging as a critical infrastructure layer for developing smarter AI agents, enabling centralized data access and governance across scattered enterprise data sources. Experts from SnapLogic, SAP, Evolut…
Emerald AI's Conductor software, tested in a simulation during a 2020 England-Germany soccer match, reduced data center power usage to prevent grid strain. The system will deploy in a Virginia facility this year, partner…
Mode Inc, operating as Mode Mobile, acquired Trimbox and QR Code Reader, expanding its user base to over 100 million monthly users who share personal data for cash or rewards. The company has distributed $1 billion in ea…
AMD has covertly stripped TSME (Transparent Secure Memory Encryption) support from its consumer CPUs, a move that reduces security protections for users. The change was discovered by the community and appears deliberate,…
A woman in a medical office waiting room asked another patient to lower the volume on her phone, which was playing profanity-laden content. The other patient threatened violence, leading the first woman to threaten calli…
Historyverse, the culturally focused content label within Collective Studios, is developing an AI-enabled film adaptation of the classic Vikram-Betal tales. The production will be produced through Galleri5, Collective St…
GS Group has launched an AI training program for young job seekers in Korea, joining a government-led initiative to provide hands-on practical AI skill development. The program aims to enhance workforce development and t…
A University at Buffalo student was falsely accused of AI cheating after Turnitin's detector flagged his original work as AI-generated. Universities including Vanderbilt, MIT, and the University of Iowa have disabled or …