Remember those simple days of yore, when generative AI meant sending a question to an AI model and getting an answer in return? You might add in a vector database to provide some context for the question and some guardrails for safety and security. That sounded hard at the time, but in retrospect it was…
OpenAI has scrapped plans to reduce its nonprofit parent’s oversight and will keep its existing governance structure intact, a move that limits CEO Sam Altman’s influence and responds to mounting external pressure. “We made the decision for the nonprofit to retain control of OpenAI after hearing from civic leaders and engaging in constructive dialogue with…
The deluge of applications for every open job position has pretty much forced harried executives to turn to technology to help winnow out candidates worth interviewing. However, a new study has again confirmed what many applicants have observed: open source AI tools vetting resumés, like their non-AI resumé screening predecessors, are biased toward male candidates….
In the latest act of the Apple-does-AI drama, the company is allegedly working with Google/Amazon-backed start-up Anthropic PBC to build AI-powered coding tools for developers, Bloomberg reports. The move leans into this year’s fastest-emerging AI buzz-word, “vibe-coding” and means developers will be able to get AI-equipped dev tools to write, edit, and test code on their behalf….
The Israeli company behind the obscure messaging app former US national security advisor Mike Walz was photographed using on his iPhone last week was recently hacked, it has been alleged. The app in question, TM SGNL, is a modified version of the more famous Signal app senior administration officials got themselves into hot water for…
Get Paid with AI We all go to work to get paid, and IT professionals this week were keen to find out how, devouring our article on the highest-paying IT skills of 2025. What they really wanted to understand: how much does AI pay? Being an AI-infused chatbot you would expect Smart Answers to…
Despite the hype that AI is going to fundamentally reinvent work, it has, as yet, had little to no effect on workflows, according to new research. A report by economists from the University of Chicago and the University of Copenhagen, Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects, found that AI chatbots only saved workers about…
Although the nation’s overall unemployment rate held steady in April, technology worker hiring slowed and unemployment rose markedly. Tech sector companies reduced staffing by a net 7,000 positions in April, an analysis of data released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed. “Employers are no longer aggressively expanding their workforce, fewer individuals are…
Apple’s second quarter is usually interesting. As has now become customary, the company delivered new records, generated billions in revenue, and grew its services segment once again — generally good news except for the embarrassment of having to open up its app store while delivering the Q2 results. Apple announced that iPhone shipments increased 13%…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Nova Premier, its most advanced AI model to date, via Amazon Bedrock. Designed for enterprise use, the model targets complex, multi-step workflows and supports model distillation, enabling smaller models to inherit its capabilities with improved efficiency and reduced cost. Nova Premier can handle text, image, and long-form video inputs…