While the Netherlands leads Europe in AI adoption, with 95% of organisations running AI programmes, labour market experts warn that these dramatic predictions should be cautiously viewed. “These kinds of predictions are quite difficult to make,” said Anna Salomons, professor of labour economics at Utrecht University and Tilburg University. “The WEF study is based … Read more
A page from Kubient’s July 2020 prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO), making a few bold claims about the firm’s technology that would later factor into federal prosecutors’ charges. Credit: SEC A page from Kubient’s July 2020 prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO), making a few bold claims about the firm’s technology that … Read more
Caution over citations and sources Claude users should be warned that large language models (LLMs) like those that power Claude are notorious for sneaking in plausible-sounding confabulated sources. A recent survey of citation accuracy by LLM-based web search assistants showed a 60 percent error rate. That particular study did not include Anthropic’s new search feature … Read more
SteelSeries is one of the biggest names in PC gaming, particularly with regard to eSports peripherals. Now it is set to become part of the GN Group, a provider of intelligent hearing, audio and video collaboration solutions. The CEO of SteelSeries has welcomed the acquisition, saying the deal will accelerate its growth, and assured fans … Read more
OpenAI seems to be announcing new AI models by the week to improve its ChatGPT chatbot for the betterment of its 400 million users. However, the ease the AI tool provides seems to prove that it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. The artificial intelligence company is now delving into the potential … Read more
Forward-looking: Recent big game releases appear to confirm that ray tracing and path tracing are the future of graphics rendering. However, these techniques remain prohibitively computationally expensive. The next major update to Microsoft’s DirectX API aims to address this and facilitate broader adoption of the technology. Microsoft’s GDC presentation this week offered a glimpse into … Read more
Every Uber driver in the UK will be eligible for 20 hours of free childcare under a new scheme intended to get more women driving taxis. They will be able to use the allowance through a nannying and babysitting app for the rest of 2025. “We really, really would like to attract more female drivers … Read more
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), working alongside the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), has enlisted the support of tech giant IBM for their joint goals of improving diversity in Britain’s rapidly expanding cyber security industry. The partnership will see IBM provide the online platform used to run the NCSC’s flagship … Read more
Spotted by TorrentFreak, AGCOM Commissioner Massimiliano Capitanio took to LinkedIn to celebrate the ruling, as well as the existence of the Italian Piracy Shield. “The Judge confirmed the value of AGCOM’s investigations, once again giving legitimacy to a system for the protection of copyright that is unique in the world,” said Capitanio. Capitanio went on … Read more
On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called “AI Labyrinth” that aims to combat unauthorized AI data scraping by serving fake AI-generated content to bots. The tool will attempt to thwart AI companies that crawl websites without permission to collect training data for large language models that power AI assistants like ChatGPT. … Read more
