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Most organizations don't need convincing that AI has potential. What I'm seeing instead is businesses trying to work out how to turn that potential into something that delivers real value. Across the organizations we're working with, the conversation has shifted. Business leaders are increasingly
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We all know they’re watching us. But we don’t know who they are, nor why nor how they are doing it. Nobody does anything without reason. So, organizations watch and track us for a purpose. That purpose is always for their benefit, not ours. But who are they?
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The White House has published a new National Security Science and Technology strategy. It names 15 critical technology areas the United States intends to lead. Artificial intelligence and autonomy is one of them, with 12 subfields listed underneath. Open-weight AI is not among them. Neither open weights nor open-source software
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TL;DR AI can recommend deals in seconds, but the governance gap between recommendation and decision is widening. DealHub AI argues that pricing logic, approval thresholds, and margin rules must be encoded once and enforced on every quote, whether built by a rep or an AI agent. Enterprise customer Digitate
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Two US senators have written to TikTok about an experiment that switched off a safety feature for roughly 15 million American users. Their letter runs to four pages and sets out 13 questions. It gives the company until 1 September to reply. The senators call the decision to run the
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Alibaba’s net profit fell 75% in the June quarter, to $1.54bn. The cause was not a weak business. It was the bill for building one. Capital spending reached $9.98bn in three months, up 75% on the same quarter last year, according to the results announcement. In the
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Chinese quadcopter maker HoverAir (part of Zero Zero Robotics) might have managed to bypass the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) new restrictions on foreign-made drones, launching the HoverAir Versa as a DJI Pocket-like camera with optional wings and propellers. On the surface, the $450 device is packaged as a standalone, handheld
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AI is helping revolutionise industries everywhere, but it can also have benefits for customers and consumers. In the banking sector, AI is set to bring significant changes, with smart tools able to help customers overcome the biggest limitation of AI prompting: knowing what to ask. The last 18 months have
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What’s in the trunk of your car? Shopping bags? A spare tire? Jumper cables? What about a high-powered computer capable of performing up to one quadrillion operations a second? Only if you’re Waymo. For the first time, Waymo revealed key details about the heavy compute “brain” housed in
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Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential crisis many lead mathematicians are having about it. OpenAI just published a set of solutions to longstanding problems in math that went
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* ExpressVPN and the IWF warn against the danger of 'sharenting' * 56% of kids feel parents overlook their privacy concerns, research reveals * Ahead of back-to-school, parents are urged to rethink their online habits As millions of students head back to the classroom, social media feeds are inevitably flooding with
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OS PLATFORMS Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work NetBSD's 19th major release adds 64-bit RISC-V support, improved Linux compatibility, and a MICROVM kernel that can boot in milliseconds. NetBSD 11.0 arrived at the end of July, a little
