Author: Hunter

Social Security workers are being asked to use an AI chatbot. An animated video on how to do so failed to mention that the chatbot can’t be trusted with personally identifiable information. Read more

This shot was probably made by AI — the clipboards and Mason jar are good tells. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has revealed that it’s created a minute-long advert for its Surface Pro and Surface Laptop hardware using generative AI. But there’s a twist: it released the ad almost three months ago, and no-one seemed to… Read more

Tech companies still hold a competitive edge when it comes to salaries, despite mass layoffs across the industry in recent years. Despite reductions in staff, there are tech skills that continue to demand a premium salary, driving industry competition to hire talent with the right skills. The average annual salary for tech professionals inside the… Read more

Bank of America will invest $4 billion in AI and related technology innovations this year, but the financial services giant’s 7-year-old homemade AI agent, Erica, remains a key ROI generator, linchpin for customer and employee experience, and source of great pride today. Few used the term agent, let alone agentic AI, in 2018, but the… Read more

Despite the geopolitical chaos and market collapses triggered by President Trump’s announcement of broad tariffs on international goods, some supporters still hope the strategy will produce a “golden age” of American industry. Trump himself insists, “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country.” While it’s possible that very targeted tariffs could help protect… Read more

La inteligencia artificial (IA) agéntica parece haberse consolidado a una velocidad vertiginosa como una de las prioridades clave de inversión para las organizaciones empresariales. Lo corrobora el Índice de Tendencias Laborales 2025 de Microsoft, un estudio que abre camino a un nuevo modelo de compañía bautizado como ‘empresa frontera’, donde la adopción y el uso… Read more

전 세계 기업은 방대한 양의 데이터를 보유하고 있다. 데이터는 항상 자연스럽게 쌓여왔지만, 소비자 및 비즈니스 활동이 늘어나면서 기하급수적으로 증가하고 있다. 이런 상황은 기업이 전례 없는 양의 정보를 수익화할 기회를 열어주고 있다. 기술 연구 및 자문 회사 ISG의 최고 데이터 분석 책임자 캐시 루디는 “데이터를 시장에서 가치를 인정받는 제품이나 서비스로 바꿔 효과적으로 수익화할 수 있다”라고 말했다.… Read more

Las empresas de todo el mundo albergan enormes cantidades de datos. Aunque los datos siempre se han acumulado de forma natural, como resultado de la creciente actividad comercial y de los consumidores, su crecimiento se está expandiendo de forma exponencial, lo que abre oportunidades para que las organizaciones moneticen cantidades de información sin precedentes. Los… Read more

Claude was used to create advanced malware and push paid political agendas on social media. Read more

Integrating long-context capabilities with visual understanding significantly enhances the potential of VLMs, particularly in domains such as robotics, autonomous driving, and healthcare. Expanding the context size enables VLMs to process extended video and text sequences, thereby enhancing temporal resolution and performance in complex tasks, such as video comprehension. However, one major limitation is the quadratic… Read more