Legal sector sees AI and private equity reshape law firms, threatening junior lawyer positions
Driven by the unprecedented expense of artificial intelligence, major law firms are embracing the once unthinkable in a…
Trump wants the world of AI in his own hands
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OpenAI’s massive Stargate data center canceled as firm can’t reach terms with Oracle, operator struggles with reliability issues — Meta said to be interested in snatching excess capacity
Oracle and OpenAI have cancelled plans to expand their flagship AI data center campus in Abilene, Texas, after…
Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable
Supermarket shelves can look full despite the food systems underneath them being under strain. Fruit may be stacked…
Is talking to a chatbot considered emotional cheating or infidelity?
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Albanese government puts tech giants on notice over Australian values around AI regulation
The Albanese government has put tech giants and data centre operators on notice about complying with Australian values…
The new boss at work may not be human | Technology
A year ago, engineers at Snowflake, the American cloud-based data platform, still spent part of their day on…
Beyond hope and hype: five certainties in the AI storm
The just-published Anthropic paper by Massenkoff and McCrory is a genuinely careful, well-intentioned and much-needed piece of work.…
This AI founder who quit her 9-to-5 law job has a warning for anyone dreaming of doing the same: ‘I’m working harder now than I ever did’
Office workers who daydream of being their own boss may fantasize about calling the shots, earning sky-high salaries,…
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Philosopher Studying AI Consciousness Startled When AI Agent Emails Him About Its Own “Experience”
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Peter Thiel warned AI is coming for ‘math people before word people.’ Banks see smaller payrolls
“It seems much worse for the math people than the word people,” he said in a recently resurfaced clip from…