Employers are increasingly investing in training to prepare their employees for artificial intelligence (AI). Training budgets are growing, and “upskilling” has become a common response to rapid technological change. AI adoption has moved quickly. In March, 36 per cent of Canadian workers said they had used generative AI tools as part of their main job […]

Meta AI | Future Guardian writers and Neets | Food for thought | Plants surviving the heat | Living and dying well Your article (Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta releases open-weight model, 10 August) quotes Mark Zuckerberg as saying: “Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals,

With the rise of agentic models, why stop at using chatbots to look up answers? Some students are directing AI agents to “take” entire online courses for them, letting the software run in the background while they focus on better uses of their time, like doomscrolling on their phone or gaming. The New York Times

We bring you this dispatch from the AI slop dungeon known as Facebook: fake, AI-generated podcast bros are currently racking up views on Mark Zuckerberg’s first social network by doling out “relationship advice,” mostly in the form of banal screeds about how men are failing women. The videos are designed to resemble the short video

Solar storms, like the one in August 1972 that hit during the gap between the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions, throw bursts of protons intense enough to raise an astronaut’s cancer risk or even cause radiation sickness. Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field absorb this radiation, but crews heading to the Moon or Mars won’t

Anthropic investors expect the AI startup to float at a valuation of $2 trillion or more in October, a dizzying figure that would eclipse SpaceX and make the AI lab’s debut the largest-ever initial public offering. Half a dozen of the company’s backers told the FT that Anthropic’s rapidly rising revenue would enable it to

It’s time for Rivian’s changeover from model year 2026 to 2027, and the electric vehicle startup has decided to take a page from its recently released R2 SUV and apply it to the company’s larger, more expensive R1 line. The changes aren’t massive—the R1 got a refresh back in 2024 that saw the R1S SUV

Courts in England and Wales will hold Meta smart glasses at entry amid recording concerns, adding to scrutiny of camera-equipped wearables. The post England and Wales Courts Ban Meta Smart Glasses Over Recording Risks appeared first on TechRepublic.

Ask any AI engineer what ships fastest to a demo and slowest to production, and the honest answer is almost always the interface, ahead of the model, the retrieval pipeline, or the eval harness. A chat window that looked clever in the pitch deck turns into a bottleneck the moment a real user needs to

A telehealth startup is selling $345 emergency kits packed with medicine that it claims could help people survive nuclear disasters. Amble Health’s “Oh Sh*T Kit” comes with iodine tablets, Prussian blue pills for removing radioactive cesium and thallium, and anti-nausea medication ondansetron, or Zofran. “If the unthinkable happens, whether from an accident, disaster, or other