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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later, and replacing specialized engineers with AI tools to fill gaps in a late project similarly delays it. Tech companies are laying off domain experts, citing AI as …
Infobip Shift 2026 will return to Zadar this September, featuring speakers from Apple and NVIDIA alongside a program focused on developer careers and responsible AI. The conference, which drew 5,500 attendees from 40 cou…
Apple hosted a two-day Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning & AI in early 2026, bringing together its researchers and the broader academic community to discuss advances in private learning, foundation model pr…
Chrome 148 shipped this week with native lazy loading for video and audio elements, a feature driven by Squarespace engineer Scott Jehl that received support from all major browser engines. In the same release, Google sh…
Artificial intelligence systems are now helping to build improved versions of themselves, with OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex assisting in its own creation and Anthropic reporting that Claude Code writes the majority of its code…
The collapse in the cost of executing human intent, not the emergence of artificial consciousness, is driving the perception that artificial general intelligence has arrived. As knowledge work shifts from execution bottl…
Former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers was sentenced to prison for his role in a massive fraud that inflated billions of dollars in fiber optic orders, but the company's buried cables remain in use today, providing high-speed…
In five days, Anthropic grew its Q1 revenue 80-fold to a reported $44 billion annual run rate, committed $200 billion to Google Cloud, signed a SpaceX compute deal, shipped Claude Code Auto Mode, and launched ten financi…
Researchers and clinicians are pushing for mandatory guardrails on AI chatbots after studies linked the technology to reinforced delusions and multiple suicides, including the death of a Florida teenager. Yale neuroscien…
The White House Correspondents' Weekend featured independent YouTube creators alongside traditional journalists, marking a shift in the modern news landscape. YouTube hosted events on Capitol Hill and a reception with C-…
Engineers who have not yet adopted AI agents for production work face growing pressure as major tech companies restructure around the technology. Shopify, Fiverr, and Block have each cut thousands of jobs while mandating…
Venture capital firm a16z is leading a Series A investment in Ethos, a startup building AI-powered infrastructure to match workers with professional opportunities. The company uses AI voice agents to capture users' exper…
The "AI job apocalypse" narrative is based on the "lump-of-labor" fallacy, which incorrectly assumes a fixed amount of work and ignores how human wants and markets expand, according to a new analysis. History shows that …
Large language models like GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 do not think, understand, or learn like humans — they are statistical tools that process language by converting text into numerical tokens and embeddings. These syst…
Mozilla.ai CEO John Dickerson argues that the sovereign AI conversation must extend beyond nation-state independence to include control at the enterprise, community, and individual levels. Dickerson warns that building e…
Google has been silently installing a 4GB AI model, called Nano, onto eligible devices through Chrome without user consent or notification, according to privacy researcher Alexander Hanff. Separately, Anthropic's Claude …
More than a trillion dollars has been invested in artificial intelligence, yet tech giants like Meta and OpenAI continue to pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI) and superintelligence (ASI) that could match or exc…
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins engaged in a two-day conversation with an AI chatbot he named Claudia, leading him to question whether the AI's apparent consciousness is genuine or merely a sophisticated performan…
A web developer added a human.json file to their personal website after discovering the initiative, which allows individuals to declare themselves as human and signal opposition to AI-generated content. The file serves a…
The AI industry has spent $725 billion in a high-stakes gamble on returns, while the U.S. government moves to nationalize AI models as strategic resources. A Chinese court ruled companies cannot offload automation costs …