The Advocate

Letters: Cutting Medicaid not morally or fiscally defensible

“The moral test of government is how it treats those in the dawn of life, the children; those in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the ...
Ars Technica

Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem

Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling tendency to tell people what they want to hear, even if that means being less accurate. But many reports of this ...
The Verge

Amazon claims the headline isn’t robots taking jobs as it reveals new cost-cutting robots

The Blue Jay robot’s ‘extra set of hands’ probably means Amazon’s warehouses will require fewer human hands. The Blue Jay robot’s ‘extra set of hands’ probably means Amazon’s warehouses will require ...
MacRumors

Apple Said to Cut iPhone Air Production Amid Underwhelming Sales

Apple plans to cut production of the iPhone Air amid underwhelming sales performance, Japan's Mizuho Securities believes (via The Elec). The ‌iPhone Air‌ is apparently the outlier; Apple plans to ...
Entrepreneur

Instead of Cuts, This $28 Billion Dollar Design Company’s Response to AI Is To Hire More People

Dylan Field is the CEO of Figma, a $28 billion collaborative design startup that went public earlier this year. Field said that rather than cutting jobs because of AI, Figma is growing its team and ...
9to5google

[Fixed] It’s not just you: YouTube was down in widespread outage

As of Wednesday afternoon (PT), most users cannot watch YouTube videos, with various playback errors popping up. Update: As of 5:30 p.m. PT, this issue has been ...
Forbes

Why Vendors Are Not The Only Problem With Third-Party Risk Management

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. One weak vendor can compromise thousands of organizations. We have seen it repeatedly in ...
KY3

KY3 programming returns to YouTube TV, Hulu, Fubo, & Peacock

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - KY3 programming has returned to YouTube TV, Hulu, Fubo, and Peacock. KY3 worked with NBC throughout the week to fix a technical issue related to the outage. KY3 apologizes for ...
Wall Street Journal

Bosses Are Cutting Costs, Just Not the Private Jet

For an economy with so much talk of efficiency, there sure is a lot of money to spare for executives to fly on private jets. A slight majority of the 500 largest U.S. companies by revenue now pay for ...
MarketWatch

No September jobs report, no problem. Here’s what we know about the labor market — and it’s not great.

Welcome to jobs Friday — except there’s no U.S. employment report today. Blame the latest government shutdown in Washington. That’s not to say Wall Street and the Federal Reserve are flying blind.
Forbes

Why Cybersecurity Should Not Be Considered A Tech Problem

Also In The Forbes CIO Newsletter: Legacy Tech Stops Innovation, California AI Regulation Law Signed, CoreWeave Enters Deal With Meta, Smart Glasses Spur Move For Wearable Tech Rules As new AI systems ...