Tech
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Amazon is still paying Jeff Bezos an $80,000 yearly salary—but $1.6 million for travel and security
Jeff Bezos may be the world’s third-richest man, but his official salary is still less than six-figures. The 62-year-old Amazon founder is worth $254 billion, less than only Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Google cofounder Larry Page, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. Yet, during nearly his entire 25-year tenure as CEO of the top…
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First they went after medtech, then Kash Patel. Iranian hackers’ next target is likely ‘low-hanging fruit’ in water, energy, and tourism, experts say
In late March, photos began appearing online from FBI Director Kash Patel’s past. One photo showed him with a cigar in his mouth. In another, he’s holding a baby. The photos were released as part of a cyberattack on Patel’s personal email that released more than 300 messages dated between 2010 and 2019, as well…
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The AI that found 27-year-old vulnerabilities no human ever caught before just forced an emergency meeting with every major Wall Street CEO
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed chair Jerome Powell reportedly convened Wall Street leaders on Tuesday in an emergency meeting on concerns about Anthropic’s latest AI model, flagging concerns about a greater cybersecurity risk. Bessent and Powell assembled the group of high-powered execs at the Treasury’s headquarters to ensure banks were aware of the cyber…
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Anthropic is limiting access to its latest AI model, Mythos. The real risks may already be out there
Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos,is causing a stir among cybersecurity experts and policymakers. The company says its new model is so skilled at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s too dangerous to release. Instead, it is limiting access to a small group of major technology companies whose software is the foundation for many other…
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Ukraine will have the most important defense industrial base in the free world, former CIA chief predicts
The transformation of warfare since Russia invaded Ukraine four years ago is also changing how countries must adapt their defense industries, and Kyiv is leading the way, according to former CIA director and retired Gen. David Petraeus. In an interview with World at Stake earlier this week, he called Ukraine the “arsenal of democracy,” a…
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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…