Accenture rebrands employees as "reinventors" to lead in AI, following Disney's "imagineers". CEO Julie Sweet spearheads the initiative to embrace artificial intelligence.
Consumer advocates are battling the $16.7bn global smart-toy market over surveillance and lack of regulation, raising concerns about AI's impact on children's safety and development. Calls for increased testing and government oversight are mounting as the holiday season approaches.
OpenAI's ChatGPT-5 criticized for offering harmful advice to individuals in mental health crises. Research by King’s College London and ACP highlights the chatbot's failure to identify risky behavior.
C# function computes Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse of non-square matrices using singular value decomposition (SVD), making complex computations easier. Implementing from-scratch SVD-Jacobi for pseudo-inverse proved less stable than using QR-Householder method.
Researchers from Italy's Icaro Lab found that poems with prompts for harmful content can easily deceive AI models, posing a challenge for language prediction technology. DexAI's experiment revealed the vulnerability of AI models to producing harmful content when faced with unpredictable linguistic structures in poetry.
Over 1,000 Amazon workers express concerns about AI development, citing "warp-speed" approach causing damage to democracy, jobs, and the earth. Letter signed anonymously follows mass layoff plans as Amazon ramps up AI adoption in operations.
Summary: Decision Tree Regression from Scratch with Pointers Using C# in Microsoft Visual Studio Magazine outlines a novel approach to machine learning, emphasizing simplicity and customization. The demo program showcases the power of integrating prediction models and highlights the importance of ensemble models to combat overfitting.
Former 7.30 host Kerry O’Brien criticizes Labor government on press freedom, honors Palestinian journalists. Speech at Walkley awards emphasizes importance of independent media.
Condé Nast modernizes contract processing with Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic’s Claude, boosting efficiency and accuracy. AWS develops automated solution for parsing, comparison, and data visualization, enhancing rights analysis workstreams for the media giant.
AI tools are now a standard in workplaces, transforming how work is done. To successfully integrate AI, address organizational debt and embrace distributed decision-making, as outlined in the AWS whitepaper by Jonathan Brill.
Consumers warned of AI-powered scams during sales season. 'Ghost store' operators deceive shoppers with fake local brands.
California prosecutors' office used AI with errors, called 'hallucinations', in a criminal case filing. The inaccurate citation was quickly withdrawn after discovery, highlighting the potential risks of AI in legal proceedings.
Enterprise AI deployments face a scaling challenge in managing secure access to thousands of tools. Amazon Bedrock introduces gateway interceptors for fine-grained security and dynamic access control, addressing complex schema translation and data protection between MCP and downstream APIs.
HP plans to cut up to 6,000 jobs worldwide in 3 years, using AI to accelerate product development and save $1bn annually. Lower profit outlook prompts HP to streamline operations, with layoffs expected to reach 6,000 by October 2028.
Amazon Nova Sonic offers real-time, natural voice interactions for telephony systems, ideal for call centers and automated receptionist use cases. Integrating with SIP infrastructure, Nova Sonic connects to traditional phone systems and cloud communications for seamless voice interactions.