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is Peter, and I’m a Claudeholic.”It was August 2025 and Peter Steinberger was addressing a meetup in London called Claude Code Anonymous.
Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in developed countries remains broadly stable, and recent assessments have found limited evidence that AI has shifted the headline numbers.
Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers.
of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists.More than 1,000 pages of unpub
AI’s biggest champions have argued for some time that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, richly rewarding workers who harness it while displacing those who don’t. Zeb Evans, CEO of the collaboration software startup ClickUp, claims that this shift is imminent.
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Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on Monday. Titled “Magnifica Humanitas,”it addresses “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.” And while AI is the hook, the problems Leo focuses on are older and more pervasive: inequality, war, the erosion of democracy, and
programs to reward researchers for submitting software vulnerability findings were just starting to go mainstream.
MLCommons has announced the fourth cohort of its Rising Stars program, featuring 39 outstanding early-career researchers from 26 global institutions. Their diverse research covers large language models, ML system efficiency, hardware-software co-design, trustworthy AI, and more, reflecting the increasing system-centric direction of machine learning innovation.
Backstage at a recent event in Los Angeles, amid the din around us, Francis deSouza, the COO of Google Cloud, took a few minutes to talk about where enterprises stand on AI security, and what they need to do.
I recently had the opportunity to test out a wearable from Bee, the AI wrist gadget that Amazon acquired last year and has since updated with a number of new features. Like other AI wearables, Bee is designed as a kind personal assistant: it records, transcribes, and summarizes the user’s conversati
chefs aren't taking anyone's jobs. Not yet, anyway. They’re just here as volunteers.Project Open Hand, a nonprofit founded in 1985 by local grandmother and HIV-awareness advocate Ruth Brinker, prepares and packages meals to meet the diverse nutritional requirements of people who need them.
Two years ago, IBM realized there was one glaring omission in its roster of sports partnerships: Formula One. Formula One has become one of the world’s most popular sports, especially in the U.S., where Netflix’s “Drive to Survive” documented the working lives of F1 drivers and turned them into mai
Has Elon Musk given up on Tesla’s Master Plans, on the electrified economy, on solar power as we know it? From the SpaceX IPO filing released this week, it sure seems like it. A recap for those not enmeshed in the Musk-verse: Tesla has released four Master Plans over the years, and while details hav
In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed in a UPS plane crash last year had been re-created using AI and were circulating on the internet. The NTSB is p
Last month, Scott Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of the legal AI startup Spellbook, took to X in an effort to expose what he called a “huge scam” among AI startups: inflation of the revenue figures that they announce publicly. “The reason many AI startups are crushing revenue records is because they
So bad, it’s good? Google on Friday joined in the disco ball icon fun taking place on home screens everywhere.
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