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Analyst Warns Against Using Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday Afternoons
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (255+ words) As Microsoft has aggressively pushed its Copilot AI, it's logged more than a few high-profile errors. Copilot has been found hallucinating police reports, exposing secure passwords, and digesting confidential emails " prompting security fears as its use in corporate and government…...
We’re unlocking a new vibe
7+ hour, 28+ min ago (242+ words) At Business Insider, we like to keep you on the cutting edge of innovation and work. Vibe coding marries the two. This new tech " which enables even non-techies to code " is upending assumptions in almost every direction. And there's an…...
Is Taste the One Thing A.I. Can’t Replace?
10+ hour, 48+ min ago (1041+ words) I don't think I could teach someone to have taste," said Jamey Gannon, a brand designer in Brooklyn. Ms. Gannon, 24, runs an online course, called Learn to Control A.I. Like a Creative Director," for designers and marketers from big tech firms…...
Meet the CFO who turned Adobe’s finance department into an AI lab
11+ hour, 10+ min ago (712+ words) Finance chief Dan Durn is turning Adobe's finance organization into an early proving ground for agentic AI'using autonomous software agents to forecast results, scan contracts, and even answer hundreds of thousands of emails. The push mirrors Adobe's broader strategy around…...
I used Anthropic’s Claude to pick Oscar winners at a party. It made odd mistakes, but still beat everyone else.
20+ hour, 40+ min ago (182+ words) I tried something different at my friends" annual Oscars party this year: I outsourced my ballot to Anthropic's Claude. It beat around the bush at first, so I asked it to just give me the winners. Claude obliged, delivering confident…...
Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (988+ words) Paul Brainerd, a former newspaper executive who founded Aldus Corporation, whose PageMaker software brought publishing into the digital era, allowing anyone with a computer and a printer to become a modern-day Johannes Gutenberg, died on Feb. 15 at his home on…...
You’re laughing. The metaverse is dying, and you’re laughing.
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (474+ words) In 2021, Facebook renamed itself "Meta" because it was the first part of the word "metaverse." This is fitting because "leg" is the first part of the word legacy, and the absence of legs will end up being the longest-lasting legacy…...
More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.
2+ day, 3+ min ago (822+ words) An engineer at OpenAI processed 210 billion "tokens" " enough text to fill Wikipedia 33 times " through the company's artificial intelligence models over the last week, the most of any employee. At Anthropic, a single user of the company's A.I. coding system, Claude Code,…...
CEO Says He’ll Hire Anyone Who Can Vibe Code With AI, Regardless of Actual Skill
2+ day, 14+ min ago (413+ words) Steven Bartlett, the host of the podcast "The Diary of a CEO," apparently takes a vibes-based approach to recruitment, and loves it when potential new hires say they use AI to actually do their jobs. According to Isaac Martin, the…...
At Palantir’s Developer Conference, AI Is Built to Win Wars
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (1345+ words) It's a chilly March morning in the undisclosed mid-Atlantic hotel hosting Palantir's developer conference. The defense contractors, military officers, and corporate executives in attendance are unprepared for the weather; they'd assumed the previous day's mid-70s temperatures would hold. A cold rain…...