Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the AI boom isn’t a bubble—it’s under-hyped. He believes the real disruption will come from automating the boring, expensive backbone of corporate operations, and that Wall Street is underestimating the shift.
Fin, a startup from ex-Citadel engineers, just raised $17 million to build a global payments app using stablecoins. It’s targeting large transfers, like hundreds of thousands of dollars, that are clunky with traditional banks. The app plans to pilot with import/export businesses next month.
A major EU research project is taking a radical approach to securing future 6G networks: copying the human body. The NATWORK consortium is developing an AI-driven “autoimmunity” system for telecoms, funded with over €6.1 million. The goal is to create networks that can learn, adapt, and defend thems
Code in the ChatGPT app hints at a future integration with Apple Health data. This could personalize health answers but raises major privacy and accuracy alarms. Relying on AI for medical advice is notoriously risky.
The U.S. Department of Energy is reorganizing, launching new offices for AI/quantum and fusion. Scientists worry this comes at the expense of the agency’s foundational $8.2 billion Office of Science, which funds broad basic research.
Just when you thought polling couldn’t get any less reliable, AI enters the chat. Large language models can now convincingly impersonate human respondents, undetected, threatening the very foundation of public opinion research.
Researchers are trying to build AI consciousness from the bottom up, starting with micro-emotions and basic needs. It’s a radical departure from large language models, but skeptics say we’re just building clever feedback loops, not true feeling.
According to MakeUseOf, PeaZip is a free, open-source file archiver that supports over 200 compression formats. Recent updates made the software about 10% faster overall and sped up adding files to existing archives by roughly three times. It features batch processing, AES-256 encryption, and can sa
At its re:Invent conference, AWS unveiled a preview of its AWS Security Agent, a single AI tool for automated security reviews and on-demand penetration testing. The company claims it can cut security validation from weeks to hours. It enters a market where Microsoft and Google are already deploying
Apple is pushing back against a new Indian government directive requiring smartphone makers to preinstall the state-backed Sanchar Saathi app. The company says it won’t comply, arguing the mandate creates unacceptable security vulnerabilities. The app, which has 5 million installs, is meant to track
