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Researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study on how using generated AI in the workplace affects critical thinking skills. “Improperly used techniques can lead to degradation of cognitive faculties that should be preserved,” the paper states. When people rely on AI generated in the workplace, their efforts change to ensure that AI responses are sufficient for use, and higher-order critical thinking skills such as information creation, evaluation, and analysis. Use it, not use it. If the AI responds only inadequately, workers will be deprived of the daily opportunities to practice judgment and strengthen cognitive muscles, atrophy…
Elon Musk-led investor team submitted a $97.6 billion bid to buy Openai on Monday. The news has been confirmed in the Wall Street Journal via Musk’s attorney Marc Toberoff. The unsolicited bid is the latest escalation by Musk in the war with co-founder Sam Altman, who he co-founded Open Alliance with many other individuals in 2015. MUSK has already been caught up in a legal dispute with Openai and has filed an injunction for 2024. Efforts to stay away from nonprofit status. The mask-led team is positioning the movement as a bid to refocus Openai on open source AI, similar…
According to the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk and the investor group are proposing a $97.4 billion offer to buy Openai, the artificial intelligence startup behind ChatGPT. The bid was submitted to the Open Board of Directors on Monday by Musk’s lawyer Mark Toberov. The move slams the ongoing feud between Musk and Openai CEO Sam Altman, highlighting their contradictory vision for the company’s future. “Now is the time for Openai to return to its once-safety-focused open source, safety-focused power,” Musk said in a statement provided by Toberoff. “We’ll make sure it happens.” The bid is backed by Mask’s AI…
Google has expanded NoteBookLM Plus, a paid version of AI-based note-taking and research assistant, to individual users who subscribe to the Google One Premium plan. First announced in December after previous pilots, the Notebooklm Plus offers higher usage restrictions and premium features. This includes the free version of Notebooklm, or 500 notebooks and 300 sources per notebook, up to 500 chat queries, and five times the usage of the 20 audio generation per day. Individual subscribers now have access to all of these features in Google One AI Premium Tier. This costs $20 a month. Additionally, Google has introduced a…
Federal Judge Rules The US government is contrary to previous ruling that it suspended the president’s cleaning order to freeze federal spending.A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration had not fully complied with an order that would halt the freeze on federal spending that had plunged the government into chaos. The court sought US District Judge Judge John McConnell be restored on Monday to consider whether the spending freeze is constitutional. Even after McConnell suspended the Trump administration’s freeze on January 31, the state continued to report access to federal funds. “These suspensions in funding are [temporary restraining…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s transgender college students will be banned from living in dorms that match their gender identity under the bill that cleared the final legislative hurdles Monday.The Capitol, which had already passed the measure, has re-adjusted and approved it with a bit of a tweak after a Senate debate that one Republican told Trans People. It passed in both rooms with a veto margin and now headed to the Republican government desk. Spencer Coxwho supports this measure. The Associated Press left an email to the governor’s office for comment.Under the bill, students from state public universities…
San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 10, 2025, ChainWire Drosera, a layer of security automation alongside the innovative Ethereum positioned as Ethereum’s immune system, has shut down its latest funding round, increasing its total to $4.75 million. The pay raise, led by Greenfield Capital, was joined by several notable funds, including Anagram, Paper Ventures, Arlington Capital, UDHC and Pulsar. Several angel investors have also committed capital. Among them are Jan Baeriswyl, Luke Hackett, Felix Lutsch, Depine Logic Labs, Diogo Costa, Yaroslav Pshenitsyn, Peter Kim, Mara Schmidt, Mara Schmidt, Daniel and Abhishek Max, Swell Labs, Anuj Shankar, Anuj Shankar, Collin Myers .…
According to the law, Palestinian families who have been imprisoned or killed in Israel may apply for social welfare assistance, like others.The Palestinian Authority (PA) has announced it will end a long-standing request by the United States and Israel that will provide payments to Palestinian families killed or imprisoned by Israel. President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday issued a statute that “rescisses” legal provisions related to the allowance initiative. The order presented this move as a reconstruction, moving the fund from the Ministry of Social Development to the Palestine National Foundation for Economic Empowerment. The family said they are eligible for…
On Monday, Apple released an update to its mobile operating system for iOS and iPads. This fixed a flaw that the company said could have been “exploited in a very sophisticated attack on a particular targeted individual.” In release notes for iOS 18.3.1 and iPads 18.3.1, the company said the vulnerability would allow USB restriction mode to be disabled “on locked devices.” Introduced in 2018, the USB Restriction Mode is a security feature that blocks the ability for your iPhone or iPad to send data over a USB connection if the device is not unlocked for 7 days. Last year,…
According to The Telegraph, Oxford-based startup First LightFusion is approaching securing a $61.9 million (£60 million) funding agreement. This is because China reportedly took an unexpected lead with its nuclear fusion technology. With this potential funding, First Light Fusion joins General Fusion, Commonwealth Fusion (CFS), and other clean energy startups that are supported by Jeff Bezos, with endless carbon through nuclear fusion. generates energy that does not contain. First Light Fusion claims to have made great strides with its own projectile method, achieving the fusion reaction for the first time in Kidlington Lab. The company says the approach is simpler,…