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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says every firm using AI is paying for it twice, once in cash, and once in the secrets it hands over to make the thing useful. He calls it the Reverse Information Paradox. He also runs the company that helped build the trap. Satya Nadella has a warning for everyone buying AI. […]
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The debate about AI and jobs has focused on graduates. New research suggests it should also be looking at people in their late fifties, CNBC reports. Workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed occupations are now exiting work at higher rates than before ChatGPT launched. The finding comes from Geoffrey Sanzenbacher at Boston College’s Center for […]
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AI is ending older workers’ careers early, and it is coming for the well-paid ones first Read More »
For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company’s new tool, stops checking IDs at the door and starts watching how visitors behave once they are inside. The internet just passed a strange milestone. Bots now generate more web requests than people do. By Cloudflare’s count, automated […]
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The web is now mostly bots. Cloudflare is rebuilding its defences around that Read More »
Meta’s Hyperion data centre in rural Louisiana has ballooned from $10bn to more than $50bn in under two years. In a parish of 20,000 people, it has made some locals a fortune and priced others out of their homes. Meta just made its biggest AI bet bigger. On Monday the company said its Hyperion data […]
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Meta’s Hyperion data centre hit $50bn, and split a Louisiana town in two Read More »
Two hundred economists, sixteen of them Nobel laureates, have signed a statement on AI and the economy. The punchline: the smartest people in the room are telling you they cannot see the road. Economists do not usually panic in public. This week, more than 200 of them did it together. On Monday a group of […]
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200 economists just admitted they can’t see where AI is taking the economy Read More »
Cutting the West’s reliance on China would carry a staggering price. A new study puts the cost of decoupling from China at $23.6tn over 25 years, and warns the bill would land hardest on the industries building Europe’s tech future. The West has spent three years talking about reducing its dependence on China. A new […]
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Decoupling from China would cost the West $23.6tn Read More »
France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe’s overlooked advantage in AI. A debate has now opened over that power. Should it go to homegrown AI firms, or to the American giants building data centres on French soil? When the head of Europe’s biggest AI lab arrived at last month’s G7 working lunch on artificial […]
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France thinks cheap power is its AI edge. Now it must decide who plugs in Read More »
The race to automate the office just gained a third runner. Cursor is building Sand, a general-purpose agent to rival Claude Cowork. Whether it ever ships may come down to Elon Musk. Cursor made its name as a tool for people who write code. Now it is building one for people who do not. According […]
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Cursor is building a Claude Cowork rival, and Musk may decide its fate Read More »
The AI boom has broken the memory market’s oldest rule. Prices that should be falling are soaring instead, and the AI memory crunch will not ease until 2028. The hangover, when it comes, could be brutal. Memory is meant to be boring. For decades DRAM and NAND flash have behaved like any commodity, sliding through […]
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The AI boom broke the memory market, and the bust could be brutal Read More »
Companies are ordering staff to lean on AI, then handing the credit to the machine. Researchers call it the AI penalty, and workers say it is costing them promotions and raises. Aubrey spent more than a year on a project to speed up a costly medical manufacturing process. When she finished, her manager asked her […]
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Bosses want you to use AI. Then they credit the AI Read More »