A fire at a data centre in Almere on Thursday morning knocked a university offline, disabled the emergency communication system for public transport across an entire province, triggered an NL-Alert to residents across Flevoland, and required a crash te…
Uber missed its revenue estimate on Tuesday. The stock jumped 10 per cent. The divergence between the number Wall Street expected and the number the market rewarded tells the story of a company that has crossed a threshold: Uber is no longer being pric…
On Monday, Fervo Energy formally launched its IPO roadshow, offering 55,555,555 shares of Class A common stock at an indicated range of $21 to $24 each. At the high end of the range, the geothermal-energy developer would raise as much as $1.33bn and be…
A quality assurance supervisor identified only as Zhou joined a technology company in Hangzhou in November 2022. His job was to work with AI large language models, optimising their outputs and filtering sensitive content. He earned 25,000 yuan per mont…
For the first time in the 25-year history of the World Press Freedom Index, more than half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. The share is 52.2 per cent, up from 13.7 per cent when Rep…
The firm’s new ‘AI productivity gains and the performance paradox’ report concludes that most current AI applications ‘accelerate existing work’ without redesigning workflows, a finding McKinsey is publishing while targeting 1:1 parity between its 40,0…
Thomas Reardon has a pattern. In 1994, he created the project that became Internet Explorer, the browser that turned Microsoft from a software company into an internet company and triggered the most consequential antitrust case in technology history. I…
Meta posted the most profitable quarter in its history and the stock dropped 9 per cent. Revenue rose 33 per cent to $56.31 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimate of $55.49 billion. Net income reached $26.8 billion, up 61 per cent year over year. And …
South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a National A…
OpenAI called the report “prime clickbait.” It said its business is “firing on all cylinders.” It issued a joint statement from CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar declaring they are “totally aligned.” None of it worked. On Tuesday, after the Wall Stree…