On Sunday night, House Republicans added language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would block all state and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years, 404 Media reports. The provision, introduced by Representative Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, states that “no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence…
Imagine a world where AI-powered bots can buy or sell cryptocurrency, make investments, and execute software-defined contracts at the blink of an eye, depending on minute-to-minute currency prices, breaking news, or other market-moving events. Then imagine an adversary causing the bot to redirect payments to an account they control by doing nothing more than entering…
Concurrent with the rise of artificial intelligence in recent years has been an uptick in fear of it. With every new use of artificial intelligence comes the fear that it will cost jobs. Now that fear has expanded to not only costing humans their jobs, but killing off software as a service (SaaS) applications as…
Google is expected to unveil a new AI agent aimed at helping software developers manage tasks across the coding lifecycle, including task execution and documentation. The tool has reportedly been demonstrated to employees and select external developers ahead of the company’s annual I/O conference, scheduled for May 20 in Mountain View, California, according to a…
The best weather API must have a radar integrated into its data platform. Visual Crossing didn’t pioneer this – other providers such as Tomorrow.io and Open Weather have done so as early as 2021. However, their approach brings broader accessibility and developer-friendly integration options, instead of primarily targeting enterprise and industrial use. The update’s main…
The new owners of VPN provider VPNSecure have drawn ire after canceling lifetime subscriptions. The owners told customers that they didn’t know about the lifetime subscriptions when they bought VPNSecure, and they cannot honor the purchases. In March, complaints started appearing online about lifetime subscriptions to VPNSecure no longer working. The first public response Ars…
Workday (Nasdaq:WDAY) won a contract to replace the HR systems at the US Office for Personnel Management (OPM) — and then a few days later it lost it, despite having no competition. Two words on the US government’s System for Award Management (SAM) website put an end to the short-lived single source contract: “canceled justification.”…
Last Thursday, white smoke emerged from a chimney at the Sistine Chapel, signaling that cardinals had elected a new pope. That’s a rare event in itself, but one of the many unprecedented aspects of the election of Chicago-born Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV is one of the main reasons he chose his papal name:…
Jamf wants to make enterprise support for Android as easy as it has become for Apple and plans to expand into Android device management beginning in July, the company said. The new support will be featured within the Jamf for Mobile solution, with the idea behind this integration to make it much easier for Apple-based…
Microsoft and OpenAI are renegotiating their multibillion-dollar partnership deal to better align with each company’s evolving goals in the artificial intelligence race, the Financial Times reported. The talks center on a critical balancing act. OpenAI wants to set the stage for a potential IPO by restructuring into a more traditional for-profit entity. Microsoft aims to…