Tech
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Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies
When McPherson Middle School in central Kansas banned cell phones in school four years ago, they didn’t reconsider their school-issued Google Chromebooks that were actively being used in the classroom and at home. It wasn’t until December of last year that it asked its 480 students to give up the laptops as well. Administrators found
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You’re looking at the AI revolution all wrong, top economist says: 40% unemployment and a 3-day work week are the same thing
The artificial intelligence debate has a framing problem, and one of America’s most prominent economists has an idea about how to fix it. “The first thing that people think about when they think about reducing work is unemployment,” Alex Tabarrok told Fortune. “But reducing work could mean, you know, a shorter work week. It could
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Trump’s ‘cease-fire’ won’t stop Iranian hackers for long, cyber experts say
Hackers backing Tehran say an uncertain ceasefire between Iran and the United States and Israel won’t end their retaliatory cyberattacks, a warning that American cybersecurity experts say potential targets in the U.S. and Israel should take seriously. One leading hacking group known as Handala said after the ceasefire announcement that it was temporarily postponing attacks
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White-collar workers are quietly rebelling against AI as 80% outright refuse adoption mandates
There was a moment, not long ago, when “shadow AI” felt like a good-news story. Workers were sneaking ChatGPT and Claude past the IT department, using personal accounts to do what used to take hours in minutes. An MIT study published last year found that employees at more than 90% of companies were using personal
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Meta just killed a dashboard that let employees compete to be the company’s No. 1 AI token user
Ever wondered how productive your coworkers actually are? Meta employees don’t have to guess. A Meta employee independently created a leaderboard that tracked how many tokens—the basic units of data or words that AI models process—the company’s more than 85,000 employees used, The Information reported on Monday. Called “Claudeonomics,” after Anthropic’s AI model, the leaderboard
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Meta unveils Muse Spark, its first AI model since hiring Alexandr Wang and a bellwether for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s multi-billion dollar AI push
Meta has unveiled Muse Spark, the first AI model produced by its Meta Superintelligence Labs, the new AI research unit it created last year and has spent billions of dollars to staff and equip. The model is, according to benchmark tests that Meta published, competitive with leading AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google across
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Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout
AI’s capabilities are growing more sophisticated by the day, and business leaders are rushing to adopt the technology to remain competitive. But one obstacle to AI adoption is catching companies off guard: their own workers. A new report published Tuesday from enterprise AI agent firm Writer and research firm Workplace Intelligence finds a significant share
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What do you do when your AI agent hallucinates with your money?
Imagine you tell an AI agent to convert $10,000 in U.S. dollars to Canadian dollars by end of day. The agent executes — badly. It misreads parameters, makes an unauthorized leveraged bet, and your capital evaporates. Who’s responsible? Who pays you back? Right now, nobody has to. And that, a group of researchers argues, is
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Supermicro launches internal probe after cofounder’s arrest on charges of $2.5 billion in chip smuggling
Two Supermicro board members are spearheading an internal investigation following a federal indictment alleging one of the company’s cofounders orchestrated the routing of $2.5 billion in servers packed with Nvidia’s highly prized GPUs to China, in violation of export controls. The independent investigation comes two years after an independent director on the board previously investigated
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Anthropic is giving companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, access to its unreleased Claude Mythos model to prepare cybersecurity defense
Anthropic is giving a group of Big Tech and cybersecurity firms access to a preview version of Claude Mythos—its unreleased and most advanced AI model—in an attempt to bolster cybersecurity defences across some of the world’s most critical systems. The company has been concerned that the new model may pose unprecedented cybersecurity risks and increase