Picture a candidate seated alone in a quiet room, webcam on, timer counting down, fingers moving steadily across a keyboard. On the surface, the scene looks like any standard technical assessment. But behind the screen, a remote operator may be…
There is a particular kind of procrastination that afflicts otherwise decisive people when it comes to old electronics. The laptop that stopped running properly in 2019 migrates from the desk to the wardrobe shelf, then to a storage bin, then…
A New Generation of Academic Dishonesty Students across East Asia and beyond are deploying AI-powered smart glasses to cheat in high-stakes examinations, prompting urgent responses from education authorities in South Korea, Taiwan, China, and the United Kingdom. The incidents —…
Google DeepMind Haemorrhages Talent as AI Startups Outbid Big Tech for Top Researchers Alphabet’s Google DeepMind is facing a deepening talent crisis, losing several of its most prominent researchers to rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in rapid succession — exits that…
Intelligence Agencies Sound Alarm: AI Capabilities Could Outpace Defences Within Months International intelligence agencies are warning that artificial intelligence models are advancing at a pace that could overwhelm both government and private sector defences within months, raising urgent questions about…
China Reclaims World’s Fastest Supercomputer Title for First Time Since 2017 A Chinese supercomputer has dethroned its American rivals to claim the top spot on the world’s most authoritative high-performance computing ranking — the first time Beijing has held that…
Google Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Defects to OpenAI Ahead of IPO Noam Shazeer, vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini AI models, announced on Wednesday he is leaving the tech giant to join OpenAI — the…
When Access Can Be Revoked Overnight A single directive from a foreign government or technology company could, without warning, switch off an AI capability that an entire economy has come to depend on. That is the central risk driving a…
EU Rejects Apple’s Bid for DMA Exemption as Siri AI Rollout Stalls in Europe The European Commission has rejected Apple’s request for an 18-month exemption from its Digital Markets Act obligations, directly contradicting the iPhone maker’s claim that EU regulations…
Bots Now Outnumber Humans in Web Traffic, Cloudflare Data Reveals Automated systems have surpassed human users in global internet traffic — roughly two years ahead of schedule, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. The milestone, announced via a post on…
