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China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.

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A quality assurance supervisor identified only as Zhou joined a technology company in Hangzhou in November 2022. His job was to work with AI large language models, optimising their outputs and filtering sensitive content. He earned 25,000 yuan per month, roughly $3,640. In 2024, the company decided that its AI systems had improved to the […]

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The tech industry built the infrastructure that is replacing the press

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For the first time in the 25-year history of the World Press Freedom Index, more than half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. The share is 52.2 per cent, up from 13.7 per cent when Reporters Without Borders first published the index in 2002. The […]

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McKinsey’s new AI report argues the productivity payoff is real but conditional

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The firm’s new ‘AI productivity gains and the performance paradox’ report concludes that most current AI applications ‘accelerate existing work’ without redesigning workflows, a finding McKinsey is publishing while targeting 1:1 parity between its 40,000 human consultants and 40,000 AI agents by year-end. McKinsey’s strategy practice has published a new analysis arguing that the corporate […]

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The man who built Internet Explorer wants to teach AI to think on 20 watts

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Thomas Reardon has a pattern. In 1994, he created the project that became Internet Explorer, the browser that turned Microsoft from a software company into an internet company and triggered the most consequential antitrust case in technology history. In 2015, he co-founded CTRL-labs, a neural interface startup that built a wristband capable of translating electrical […]

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Meta posted its best quarter ever. The stock dropped 9 per cent.

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Meta posted the most profitable quarter in its history and the stock dropped 9 per cent. Revenue rose 33 per cent to $56.31 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimate of $55.49 billion. Net income reached $26.8 billion, up 61 per cent year over year. And for the first time since Meta began reporting its “family” of […]

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South Africa used AI to write its AI policy. The citations were fake.

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South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a National AI Safety Institute, and an AI Insurance Superfund. It outlined five pillars of AI governance: skills capacity, responsible governance, ethical […]

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OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.

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OpenAI called the report “prime clickbait.” It said its business is “firing on all cylinders.” It issued a joint statement from CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar declaring they are “totally aligned.” None of it worked. On Tuesday, after the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had missed internal revenue and user growth targets, […]

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The founder of Scholly sold his scholarship app to Sallie Mae. He says they fired him for asking why they were selling students’ data.

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Christopher Gray built Scholly to help students like himself find scholarships. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, became the first in his family to attend college after winning $1.3 million in scholarships to Drexel University, and turned that experience into a mobile app that matched students with financial aid based on their profiles. The app […]

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Musk told the jury the OpenAI case is simple. The consequences of his testimony are anything but.

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Elon Musk told a federal jury on Tuesday that his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders is not about him. “It is not okay to steal a charity, that’s my view,” Musk said from the witness stand in Oakland, California, in his first testimony under oath in the case he filed in 2024. “If we […]

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“They stole a charity.” “He didn’t get his way.” The Musk-Altman trial opened with two stories that cannot both be true.

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“Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today because the defendants in this case stole a charity.” That was how Steven Molo, Elon Musk’s lead trial lawyer, opened the most consequential technology trial in a generation on Tuesday morning in an Oakland federal courtroom. Molo told the nine-person advisory jury that without Musk, “there would be […]

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