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JD.com says robots will replace its 700,000 couriers

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JD.com robots will eventually replace the company’s 700,000 couriers, its founder says. It is a rare admission that automation is coming for blue-collar jobs. Most tech bosses hedge when asked whether machines will take people’s jobs. Richard Liu just said it plainly. He chairs JD.com, one of China’s biggest e-commerce groups. At the APEC China […]

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Microsoft’s Nadella turns on the AI giants he helped build

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In a blunt interview, Satya Nadella warned that the AI giants cannot keep promising mass job losses while demanding the power to build whatever they want. Microsoft’s answer: cheaper models, more control for customers, and a pitch for the public’s trust. Satya Nadella helped start the AI boom. Now he has a warning for the […]

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Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust.

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Hackers are not really breaking in any more. They are walking through doors we hold open for them. This past week made the shift plain. Two campaigns showed that the things developers trust most, open-source code and AI tools, have become the easiest way to attack them. 1,000 poisoned packages The first is a group […]

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The UK’s top data and AI regulator has quit, a first in the office’s 40-year history

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The UK’s top data and AI regulator has resigned. It is the first time it has ever happened. John Edwards stepped down as information commissioner on Friday, with immediate effect. His exit followed a months-long workplace investigation. He said his position had become “untenable”. What he admitted Edwards was careful in his statement, posted on […]

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Google’s AI is confidently telling people that horror fan-fiction monsters are real

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Google’s AI is having trouble telling horror stories from real life. Ask it about certain online monsters, and it will describe them as documented fact. According to a report by Futurism, Google’s AI Overviews repeatedly present entries from the “SCP Foundation” as real. The SCP Foundation is a vast collaborative fan-fiction project. Its “anomalies” are […]

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Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI hires Trump’s AI-policy architect and Google’s transformer pioneer

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OpenAI is hiring for its stock-market debut on two very different fronts. One is the research lab. The other is Washington. This week, the company said Dean Ball will join on 6 July to lead a new team called Strategic Futures. Ball is not a researcher. He is a policy operator, and until recently he […]

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Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos for ‘first-class groveling’, new book claims

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A new book paints an unflattering picture of how Silicon Valley’s most powerful men handled Donald Trump’s return to power. According to its authors, they grovelled. And Trump, they write, mocked them for it behind their backs. The book is “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump”, by the New York Times reporters […]

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A startup says it cracked the maths bottleneck holding back AI. It finally has the receipts.

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A Miami startup says it has cracked a maths problem that has made AI models slow and power-hungry for almost a decade. The claim was bold enough to draw comparisons with Theranos. Now, though, the company has independent test results that back much of it up. The startup is called Subquadratic. It came out of […]

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As Jio files for India’s biggest-ever IPO, it’s planning a Starlink rival in orbit

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At its annual shareholder meeting on Friday, Reliance unveiled two things at once: paperwork for what could be India’s biggest-ever stock-market listing, and a plan to put a Starlink rival into orbit. Jio Platforms, the digital and telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, filed draft papers for an initial public offering widely expected to […]

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Google is using Nvidia’s own playbook to break its grip on AI chips

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To build a serious rival to Nvidia, Google has reached for Nvidia’s own playbook. A Wall Street Journal investigation lays out how Google is using financial guarantees and what the industry calls “circular financing”, the very tactics that helped make demand for Nvidia’s chips unstoppable, to win data-centre customers for its own silicon. The clearest […]

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