Big companies are cutting white collar jobs, because AI, and warn more is to come. What does this mean for the economy and social stability?
Read more...Data centers’ rapidly rising resource demands is fuelling rising internatiional opposition.
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Read more...The new $100,000 H-1B fee tacitly acknowledges what early policy architects signaled: expanding temporary tech visas can depress domestic wages. By bringing the fully loaded cost of a new H1B hire closer to what the local market would require to recruit and retain comparable talent, it narrows the wedge between visa-enabled staffing and hiring Americans at market rates.
Read more...Surrogacy’s health risks raise ethical issues over whether the practice is exploitative and should be banned.
Read more...Medical systems using Epic are planning to turn most patient care decisions over to AI.
Read more...Voters are waking up to the fact that their soaring electricity costs represent a big subsidy to data centers. What happens next?
Read more...Financial firm heads are making admissions against interest. Further discussion of apparent and potential risks.
Read more...Yet more reason to be leery of crypto: even when you have won on a leveraged bet, you can be haircut to help rescue the exchange.
Read more...Is technology expanding or contracting our horizons?
Read more...AI is huge. But so is the hype, hocus-pocus deals, and piles of real money fortified by leverage that caused stock prices to explode.
Read more...The Trump Administration is eager to integrate AI into military operations, even as experts warn: “The AI is always playing Curtis LeMay.”
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