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Humanity is diving headlong into a global experiment. More than 1 billion people have a new and unprecedented source of information and cognitive guidance: artificial intelligence (AI) trained on trillions of words. So, how exactly are AI chatbots affecting our minds, thoughts, beliefs and opinions? Scientists are scrambling to find out — and reports that have come out this week offer insights into what’s going on. AI writing tools can influence your beliefs and opinions Cornell University researchers published a new paper this week detailing two experiments that aimed to find out the cognitive impact of AI writing tools. One [...]
So soon after Apple’s big product launches last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared a letter to mark the upcoming 50th anniversary since the founding of Apple on April 1, 1976. It is strange to see Apple grapple with the concept of an anniversary. It isn’t usually a company that does this, as it tends to focus on what it is building rather than the history its work leaves behind. “We’re not a culture that looks back,” Cook said. “So, the group of people working on this have had to kind of build a different muscle for this, as our muscle is always about [...]
Among a range of factors leading to a wave of tech sector layoffs in 2026 is the rapid rise of artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation. Companies are reconfiguring their workforces to leverage AI for increased efficiency and reduced operating costs. This realignment and reduction is often implemented even by companies reporting strong financial performance. But it’s not just AI leading to workforce cuts. Complementing this technological shift are ongoing economic uncertainty, inflation, and higher interest rates. This combo is driving companies to cut costs and streamline operations for increased efficiency. According to data compiled by Layoffs.fyi, an online tracker that keep [...]
Atlassian will reduce its global workforce by approximately 10%, eliminating around 1,600 roles, as the collaboration software maker redirects capital toward artificial intelligence development and enterprise sales. Co-CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes disclosed the cuts in a blog post. The decision, he said, was made to “self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales” while accelerating the company’s path to sustained profitability. The announcement came despite a strong recent performance. Atlassian reported cloud revenue of roughly $1.067 billion, up 26% year on year, and remaining performance obligations of approximately $3.814 billion, up 44%. Its Rovo AI assistant surpassed five million [...]
Quick: When was the last time you thought about the keyboard app on your phone? If you’re like most people, the answer is probably somewhere between “a ridiculously long time ago” and “never.” And it’s no wonder: Keyboard apps are easy to forget! You install one — or stick with whatever came loaded on your phone by default — and then use it to input text when you need to. It’s just there, and unless you’re a weirdo who spends hours trying out different keyboards to see how they compare (and then trying ’em all out again months later to [...]
Fresh from battling the US Department of Defense (DoD) over AI guardrails, Anthropic has returned this week with a new initiative: the company is founding a think tank, the Anthropic Institute, “to confront the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies.” Headed by Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, who will take up a new role as head of public benefit, the Institute’s faculty will be completed by “an interdisciplinary staff of machine learning engineers, economists, and social scientists,” the company said. It will unite and expand three internal teams: the Frontier Red Team, which stress tests and [...]
If I happened to be one of Apple’s newly-introduced M5 MacBook Pro systems, I would feel a bit as if the equally new MacBook Neo had just strutted into the party like the star of the song. Yes, the incredibly disruptive Neo is a strong option for almost anyone who needs an affordable general purpose computer. But let’s not forget what Apple’s higher-end range brings to the (party) table with the power and performance high-end users need for the most demanding tasks. What’s the data? In essence, the power they contain means you can use a MacBook Pro to build 3D models almost as [...]
Google on Wednesday introduced several new ways for Gemini AI assistant to create and edit content in Workspace apps such as Docs, Slides and Sheets. The changes, said Julie Geller, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group, represent “incremental improvements more than revolutionary features, but they address real workflow gaps. The actual value is that Google is embedding AI assistance directly into the tools people use every day, like Docs, Sheets, and Slides.” With the “help me create” feature in Docs, Gemini creates a draft based on user instructions, pulling together information from other Workspace files such as documents, chat [...]
For as long as most junior coders have been alive, tech vendors have talked up performance guarantees even though they neglect to detail just what happens if they don’t deliver as promised. I have been begging vendors to knock off these deceptions for a long time — a very long time. Last week, I briefly celebrated when storage vendor Scality announced a guarantee and backed it up with a promised payment of $100,000 if it failed. So far, so good. In its announcement, the company boasted that the guarantee did not come with a lengthy list of limitations. “Unlike complex [...]
Zoom Communications said it is expanding its enterprise agentic AI platform with workflow orchestration capabilities across Zoom Workplace, Zoom Phone, and Zoom CX. The aim is to help organizations automate tasks and trigger workflows based on interactions across its services. The update includes new capabilities such as custom and prebuilt AI agents that can be orchestrated using no-code tools, enterprise search connectors for the company’s AI Companion assistant, and productivity tools, including Zoom AI Docs, AI Sheets, and AI Slides. Zoom also introduced new capabilities across its communications and customer experience tools, including Zoom Phone Mobile, SMS support for the [...]