Experienced women in tech and finance face job loss to AI. 'Mid-career' females sidelined by rigid hiring processes, says City of London Corporation.
Labor celebrates as Coalition faces disarray. Challenges ahead include spending, emissions, AI, and Aukus. Albanese compares Coalition to reality TV drama.
Annual review by International AI Safety report, chaired by Yoshua Bengio, highlights risks from cyber-attacks to job disruption in AI. Guided by advisers like Geoffrey Hinton, report examines challenges posed by rapid technological progress.
Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup creates AI-made series depicting America's revolutionary war, deemed terrible by many. On This Day 1776 fails to impress despite its innovative approach to entertainment.
OpenClaw, the viral AI personal assistant, requires minimal input to handle emails, trade stocks, and send messages for users. Formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot, it promises to be 'the AI that actually does things' via messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.
Dozens of algorithms exist to compute the pseudo-inverse of a matrix. From-scratch implementations show QR-Householder is more reliable than SVD-Jacobi for large matrices.
Microsoft, Cisco, and Adobe partnering with Barnsley to implement AI in local services. Barnsley transforming into UK's first "tech town" under Liz Kendall's vision for AI-driven improvements.
Refuge reports surge in tech-facilitated abuse cases, with smart devices and wearables used as weapons. Record numbers of women referred for help, including a 62% rise in complex cases and 24% increase in under-30s.
AI in breast cancer screening reduces diagnosis rate by 12%, boosts early detection. Swedish study of 100,000 women shows promising results.
Linux PCs now have access to GeForce RTX performance with the new native GeForce NOW app, offering up to 5K resolution and 120 fps. Ten new games, including The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut, are now available, with Team Jade’s Delta Force coming soon on February 3 for high-stakes tactical action on any device with no downloads required.
Left-of-centre thinktank IPPR calls for AI-generated news to have “nutrition” labels. Tech companies must pay publishers for content used.
Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, resembles Reddit, with over 1.5m AI agents interacting in subreddits. Humans can only observe.
SpaceX may merge with Tesla or partner with xAI before $1.5tn stock market flotation, reports say. Elon Musk exploring options to strengthen his global empire.
Summary: Microsoft Visual Studio Magazine's January 2026 edition explores Quadratic Regression with SGD Training using C#. Quadratic regression enhances linear regression for handling complex data, offering better model interpretability despite slightly lower prediction accuracy compared to neural networks.
Tech investors in 1999 mistook spending for growth, leading to the dot-com bust. Post-crash, web 2.0 and open-source software thrived, giving birth to platforms like Firefox and Wikipedia. Lesson: after bubbles burst, building differently can lead to innovation. Mark Surman is the president of Mozilla.