The company expects this side of the business to help boost annual sales growth by 5% to 7% through 2030, compared to an average of 4% in recent years. Caterpillar is also planning its largest factory spending in about 15 years to take advantage …
The surveillance fostered an atmosphere of distrust: 32% of 14 to 18-year-old students surveyed said they felt like they were always being watched. In focus groups run by the ACLU, students said they felt less comfortable alerting educators to mental h…
People are starting to hand more decisions to AI agents, from booking trips to sorting digital files. The idea sounds simple. Tell the agent what you want, then let it work through the steps. The hard part is what the agent does with personal data alon…
About three-in-ten teens say they use AI chatbots every day, including 16% who do so several times a day or almost constantly. submitted by /u/tekz [link] [comments]
An investment boom in artificial intelligence is creating a thirst for massive data centers, and a bonanza for the workers building them. It is unclear how long that boom will last, but for now, workers are cashing in on high demand for their ser…
To blunt Trump’s push to reclaim global manufacturing, China’s factories and ports are learning to make and export more goods faster, cheaper and with fewer workers. submitted by /u/tekz [link] [comments]
It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds. But that is essentially what happened at OpenAI this year. submitted by /u/tekz…
The AI Act was designed to use Europe’s economic heft to force companies to create “trustworthy AI” for its 450mn consumers through a risk-based approach: banning the most harmful uses, controlling high-risk systems and lightly regulating low-ris…
Perplexity, an AI search browser trying to take on Google, landed at the top of the list. There was little disagreement at the conference that we are in an AI bubble. submitted by /u/tekz [link] [comments]
When you ask an LLM to summarize a policy or write code, you probably assume it will behave safely. But what happens when someone tries to trick it into leaking data or generating harmful content? That question is driving a wave of research into AI gua…
