Tag: tech
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Managers owe engineers time to understand AI code
A manager who demands faster AI output owes the people signing it time to understand it. That obligation should survive every improvement in the tools.
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Georgia Power sells AI savings before settling who pays
Georgia Power is selling households a $180 annual benefit from the AI power boom. The catch is in its August announcement: those projected savings begin in 2029. Meanwhile, its regulator has ordered…
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Banks financed the AI boom, then sold down the risk
Banks helped create the AI debt boom. By May, some were already asking other investors to take the riskiest pieces.
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Trump's Labor Department froze green card filings and tightened employers' grip on immigrant workers
Trump's Labor Department accused eight technology companies of abusing the employment-based green card system, then froze every new and pending labor certification application involving them.…
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OpenAI fired three safety researchers, then released 719 math manuscripts before formalizing most results
Sam Altman's OpenAI spent two consecutive weeks showing what it thinks checking is worth. TechCrunch reported that the company fired safety researchers Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni…
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Elon Musk is worth $1 trillion while Tesla still owes drivers the hardware it promised
Forbes estimates Elon Musk's fortune crossed $1 trillion again on Monday. At Tesla, some customers paid as much as $15,000 for a package called Full Self-Driving. Owners whose cars use Tesla's…
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Anthropic read a user's Claude diary and sent it to police
Carli Michelle Heller told deputies that she used Claude like a diary. According to Decrypt, citing local WINK News and the arrest report, her September 26 conversation said she would "shoot up" the…
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An anti-drug grant program is turning local plate cameras into DEA leads
A police department buys license plate cameras as a local crime tool. In Georgia, putting one of those cameras on a state right of way now requires an agreement that makes match information available…
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The D.C. Circuit made an AI company's lethal autonomous weapons ban a national security threat
On September 25, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic after the company refused to let Claude be used for lethal autonomous warfare or mass surveillance of…
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Discord is now guessing your age from how you behave
Discord started assigning age groups to users this week, and the company says more than 90 percent of them will never have to show an ID, scan a face, or enter a credit card. That convenience has a…