This fusion-powered rocket could half the time it takes to get to Mars

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By Siôn Geschwindt Interplanetary travel might be about to get a whole lot faster — and hotter.  UK startup Pulsar Fusion today unveiled “Sunbird,” a nuclear fusion-powered rocket concept that could halve the time it takes to travel across our solar system — and, maybe, beyond it.  Machine learning models show the rocket could potentially propel a spacecraft with a mass of about 1,000kg (2,200lb) to Pluto in four years — less than half the time it took NASA’s New Horizons mission, which was powered by regular ion thrusters. Earth to Mars? Four months. Earth to Saturn? Two years.   Rather than launch from…This story continues at The Next Web

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LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

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Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. That’s the highest download number since 2023.

LibreOffice, which runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, is a standalone desktop office productivity software that is free to use. Downloads have picked up since The Document Foundation, which manages its development, released version 25.2 last week. 

It has emerged as the most popular open-source suite, with alternative versions such as Apache’s OpenOffice losing steam. The last version of OpenOffice was released in 2023.

“We estimate around 200 million [LibreOffice] users, but it’s important to note that we respect users’ privacy and don’t track them, so we can’t say for sure,” said Mike Saunders, an open-source advocate and a deputy to the board of directors at The Document Foundation.

There is still noteworthy interest in LibreOffice as a standalone desktop alternative to paid office productivity suites, said Jason Wong, distinguished vice president and analyst at Gartner. “Usually these are clients seeking to keep their on-premises implementation, given that both Microsoft and Google have focused on their cloud offerings,” Wong said. 

Cost is a factor for evaluating software suites like LibreOffice, Wong said. “The downside is the additional specialized resources and new skills needed to maintain the [software],” he  said.

Downloads of LibreOffice have been steadily climbing with each new version, Saunders said. 

Though LibreOffice has traditionally been a favorite of home users, there’s growing interest in businesses and government, Saunders said. The northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein last year said it would move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.

“The majority of our users — 85% — are on Windows, followed by macOS and then Linux,” Saunders said. 

Many desktop Linux distributions pre-install LibreOffice, but it’s unclear how many users that represents.

LibreOffice users typically want a straightforward interface, Saunders said. “They don’t want subscriptions, and they don’t want AI being ‘helpful’ by poking its nose into their work — it reminds them of Clippy from the bad old days,” he said. 

There are genuine use cases for generative AI tools, but many users prefer to opt-in to it and choose when and where to enable it. “We have zero plans to put AI into LibreOffice. But we understand the value of some AI tools and are encouraging developers to create … extensions that use AI in a responsible way,” Saunders said. 

Although there are cloud-based versions of OpenOffice, The Document Foundation has focused on the desktop version, Saunders said.

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Europe moves to cut SpaceX reliance with Ariane 6 launch

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By Siôn Geschwindt Europe’s space launch industry reopened for business today when the Ariane 6 heavy rocket lifted off at 17:24 CET from a spaceport in French Guiana. Originally scheduled for December, the Ariane 6 mission was delayed first to February 26 and subsequently to March 3 due to issues in transporting the satellite to the launchpad. However, just minutes before Monday’s launch, engineers identified an “anomaly” in one of the refuelling pipes, postponing the launch further. Finally, Ariane 6 had its first successful commercial launch today. The milestone came seven months after the rocket’s maiden flight, which restored sovereign access to space for Europe. …This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: SpaceX

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TMB Meaning in Texting Explained: Use Cases & Examples

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Dutch women tech leaders call for stronger support for female founders

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By Thomas Macaulay In the run-up to every International Women’s Day (IWD), new data is released on gender inequity in tech. Frequently, the findings are disheartening. This week, one report estimated that female founders in Europe secured just 12% of last year’s total VC funding. Another calculated that overlooking women-led deep tech firms over the past decade cost the economy €198.8bn. Yet there are also reasons for optimism. One is that the investment landscape is showing signs of progress. According to the Female Innovation Index, last year saw a 7% increase in round size and a 15% rise in M&A activity for tech firms…This story continues at The Next Web

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Volleyball Legends Codes (March 2025) [UPD]

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By Hisan Kidwai Volleyball Legends, previously called Haikyuu Legends, is a super popular volleyball game inspired by beloved anime…
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Microsoft launches genAI sales agents that focus on finance and supply chain

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Microsoft is planning a string of new AI agents to automate mundane tasks and improve worker productivity.

The company on Wednesday announced two AI-based sales agents that can autonomously follow up on sales leads. The company is also focusing on using agents to automate workflows across other sectors.

The sales agents, which are available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, connect to data in Microsoft 365 and Salesforce and Dynamics CRM systems to automatically generate and communicate with sales leads.

Salespeople spend hours verifying leads, writing to customers and then waiting for responses, said Bryan Goode, corporate vice president for business applications and platforms at Microsoft. “If you can take something that used to take hours and do it in minutes, you can spend more time selling,” he said.

One agent, called “sales chat,” can automatically create documents by drawing data from CRM systems, pitch decks, meetings or emails. The second agent, called “sales agent,” is an autonomous agent that works continuously converting contacts a company might have into leads and opportunities.

The sales agents are “finished agents” built on Microsoft capabilities and a variety of large language models (LLMs) that customers can start using right away. The LLMs used depend on customer needs, Goode said.

There is a provision for humans to review emails and documents going out, Goode said.

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio also allows customers to build, customize, and manage the fleet of agents.

The company sees opportunities for agentic AI in the finance, supply chain and other customer service areas, Goode said. “Those are the three functional areas in particular where we’re pretty, pretty heavily focused,” he said.

He cited, as an example, customers trying to navigate through complicated supply chains to reduce inventory and lower costs.

Microsoft also announced an AI Accelerator for Sales program, in which it will help customers migrate from old CRM systems to “AI oriented selling,” Goode said.

AI agents are creating an inflection point for traditional CRM systems, which could go the way of a mainframe, Goode said. “It’s going to be something that might be around, but probably has some dust on it,” he said.

The Microsoft announcement comes amid a flurry of agentic AI announcements this week. Amazon formed an agentic AI business group, according to Reuters.  And Salesforce at its TDX tradeshow announced AgentForce 2dx, which has new tools to allow AI agents to do better reasoning. 

AI agents can help worker productivity, but customers should approach them with caution, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. As with early days of LLMs, AI agents are still in their infancy and face many challenges, he said.

“If the data collection is done legitimately and done with the idea of delivering truly valuable results, it’s great. But there are many examples of AI tools that are not reliable,” King said.

King pointed to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which in its early days hallucinated and generated inconsistent results. Agents are expected to mature and generate more reliable results, but human intervention and guardrails against hallucination will be needed, King said.

Companies today use large LLMs for general-purpose querying, but personalized agents tailored for business processes are the future, King said.

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Trump calls CHIPS Act ‘horrible,’ wants to defund it

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In his address to Congress last night, President Donald J. Trump called the CHIPS Act “horrible,” and said whatever money hasn’t been spent should now be used to reduce the national debt.

The CHIPS Act, enacted into law in 2022 under then-President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is aimed at increasing semiconductor manufacturing and development in the US.

“Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing,” Trump told Congress during his address. “We give hundreds of billions of dollars, and it doesn’t mean a thing. They take our money and they don’t spend it. All that meant to them — we giving them no money — all that was important to them was that they didn’t want to pay the tariffs, so they came and are building, and many other companies are coming.”

Trump said tariffs are a more effective method of convincing semiconductor manufacturers and developers to relocate or build new facilities in the US. He has announced the imposition of tariffs against Canada, Mexico and most importantly for the tech industry, against China.

“We don’t have to give them money; we just want to protect our businesses and our people, and they will come because they won’t have to pay tariffs if they build in America,” Trump said. “You should get rid of the CHIP Act [cq] and whatever’s left over, Mr. Speaker, you should use it to reduce debt. Or any other reason you want to.”

Late last month, reports emerged that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) planned to cut 497 jobs as part of Trump’s federal government downsizing efforts. NIST, a non-regulatory agency within the US Department of Commerce (DoC), helps drive innovation and industrial competitiveness and oversees the CHIPS for America program. The personnel cuts were widely criticized as damaging to the rollout of the CHIPS Act.

Robert Maire, president of consulting firm Semiconductor Advisors, wrote in a blog post that the plan to cut NIST staff isn’t “bluff or negotiation tactic.” Instead, the layoffs signal a complete shift in direction under Trump, he said.

“Trump made it clear over the last few days that he will institute 25% tariffs on imported semiconductor devices, so [it’s] obvious that strategy is shifting from incentivizing US chip production to penalizing imports instead,” Maire said. “This also lowers the likelihood of TSMC taking over Intel manufacturing, as giving top US chip production to Taiwan contradicts the new strategy.”

The goal of the CHIPS Act is to reduce reliance on foreign semiconductor supply chains, improve national security, and support innovation in critical technologies such as electronics, defense, and healthcare. It also aims to create jobs and strengthen the U.S. economy.

The Department of Commerce has been divvying up $52 billion in the hopes of spurring on-shore chip manufacturing. While about $32 billion of CHIPS Act money has been allocated, the funds have not yet been technically dispersed.

Among recipients of CHIPS Act funding are Intel, Samsung, Micron, TSMC, and Texas Instruments; all of those companies have unveiled plans for a number of new US chip fabrication plants. In return, those chip designers and makers have pledged about $300 billion in current and future projects in the US, according to the White House.

“CHIPS Act and tax incentives are important in [semiconductor] manufacturers’ decision to build fabs in the US versus elsewhere,” said David Tsui, technology managing director for S&P Global Ratings. “There are milestones that these semi manufacturers need to hit before they can receive grants distribution from the CHIPS office. The grants are important because the cost to built a fab and manufacture wafers in the US is much more expensive than in Asia.

“Details on how tariffs can attract semi manufacturers to build fabs in the US are still unclear,” Tsui said. “Currently tariffs are on imports. However, chips and other tech components are assembled into final products before imported into the U.S.“

TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker and a key supplier to US manufacturers, met Trump at the White House on Monday and announced a $100 billion investment to build five new chip facilities in the US. TSMC Chairman and CEO Dr. C.C. Wei praised Trump after the meeting.

“Back in 2020, thanks to President Trump’s vision and support, we embarked on our journey of establishing advanced chip manufacturing in the United States. This vision is now a reality,” Wei said in a statement.

Following the White House meeting, Trump said: “We must be able to build the chips and semiconductors that we need right here. It’s a matter of national security for us.”

TSMC’s $100 billion investment aims to reduce US reliance on Asian-made semiconductors. This follows last April’s announced plans to expand its US investment by $25 billion and add a third Arizona factory by 2030. While no timeline was provided, the effort would create 40,000 construction jobs in four years, the company said. Delays at its first Arizona plant pushed chip production to 2024 at higher costs than in Taiwan.

In addition to its latest manufacturing site in Phoenix, TSMC operates a fabrication plan in Camas, WA, and design service centers in Austin and San Jose. The company declined to comment on Trump’s latest remarks. Intel and Micron did not respond to a request for comment either.

“Higher costs are definitely a concern for TSMC,” said Andrew Tsai, chairman of Taiwan consulting firm Capital Investment Management Corp.

Jack Gold, principal analyst with tech industry research firm J. Gold Associates, called Trump’s comments “a wrong view of the CHIPS Act.”

“I think to repeal the CHIPS Act, or even let it just fade away due to restricting the NIST employees as seems to be happening now, is a big mistake,” Gold said. “Other countries, especially China, incentivize their manufacturers and we see how fast their tech is moving. Do we really want to penalize our own industries at a time of massive competition?”

Tariffs, Gold said, don’t work long-term because they become permanent without boosting manufacturing. Incentives are more effective for encouraging companies to invest in US capacity, he said.

“Without this approach, we wouldn’t have had the space program, which led to advances like chips, healthcare, and satellites,” he said. “If allocated funds aren’t fully disbursed, many projects may be canceled, which could be disastrous. We’re already seeing issues due to uncertainty around NIST disbursements.”

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How To Share Your Amazon Cart?

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By Deepti Pathak It’s convenient to shop on Amazon, but sometimes, you’d rather share your cart with another person…
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Elon Musk’s MAGA role opens doors for European rivals to Starlink

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By Thomas Macaulay As Elon Musk was saluting Donald Trump in the US Congress yesterday, the South African’s divisive politics were opening new doors to his business rivals in Europe. Musk’s role in the White House had already been linked to Tesla sales and stock tanking. Now, the repercussions appear to have spread to SpaceX. The fallout centres on the company’s Starlink satellite internet service. The network has provided a vital communications system to Ukraine’s military since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022. But concerns are now growing that the service could soon be disrupted. According to Reuters, US officials recently raised the…This story continues at The Next Web

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BFFR Meaning in Slang Explained: Use Cases & Examples

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By Deepti Pathak Understanding the latest slang terms and abbreviations is essential to communicating effectively in the constantly evolving social media and messaging world. Now and then, you come across slang on the web or messages that make you scratch your…
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Opera adds ‘Browser Operator,’ an AI agent, to its browser

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Opera has announced that its browser is now equipped with Browser Operator, a built-in AI agent that can help users with a variety of tasks. For example, if an Opera user wants help buying a large pack of socks in a certain color or booking a flight, the user can ask Browser Operator can do it.

The video below shows how it works:

Browser Operator is currently classified as a preview version, indicating there might still be some bugs to work out.

In addition to Browser Operator, Opera also plans to invest in additional AI features in the near future.

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Microsoft rolls out updated Copilot app to Windows 11 testers

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Microsoft has begun pushing out a new version of its generative AI (genAI) Copilot application to users testing new builds of Windows 11. The app has an updated interface with a panel on the right listing the history of queries that have been posed, and the responses on the left. 

Microsoft has designed the app along the lines of the user interfaces (UIs) available in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini. (The current version of Copilot for Windows in the Microsoft Store has a plain interface with no history panel. Once a user poses a new query, the old conversation disappears.)

Copilot is now a native Windows app with the implementation of XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language), a Microsoft-developed language that encodes the UI separate from the application code. 

the The new version isn’t available to everyone. It is still in preview and is being rolled out to testers of Windows 11 through the Windows Insider program. 

“We are excited to be previewing improvements with our Insiders to ensure all our customers have a great Copilot experience for Windows,” Microsoft said in a blog post.

Microsoft is constantly rolling out Copilot updates across its Windows ecosystem and Microsoft 365. The company this week announced that it added updates to its Copilot Studio software and is now previewing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, which “enables your agents to take advantage of the full functionalities of Copilot Studio within Copilot Chat,” the company said in a blog post.

The chat feature provides agents access to data sources across Azure services and can coordinate or handoff queries to other agents. It also allows the creation of agents based on specific actions or triggers.

Another feature allows users to “monitor their custom agents’ trends and performance with analytics,” Microsoft said. 

Last month, the company added a feature called “intelligent meeting recap” to Teams that summarizes meeting notes by speaker and topic and generates round-ups and summaries.

The company also recently released a Copilot app for Macs. The AI assistant can summarize, generate images, provide recommendations and create content. The app works only on Macs with an M-series chip and macOS 14.0 or later.

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Dutch hospitality scaleup Mews doubles down on growth with $75M raise

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By Siôn Geschwindt Hospitality scaleup Mews, based at TNW City in Amsterdam, has secured $75mn in its third major cash injection of the last year. The round follows a raise of $100M in credit financing in September and a $110mn equity round in March 2024 — when the startup became a unicorn. In total, Mews has bagged over $500mn to date, making it one of the Netherlands’ most cash-flooded scaleups. Mews was founded in 2012 by Richard Valtr, an ex-hotelier on a mission to transform the way hotels do business. “Digital transformation is challenging for many hospitality brands because too many run their…This story continues at The Next Web

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Cino bags seed funding for virtual card that makes bill-splitting less awkward

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By Siôn Geschwindt Fintech startup Cino, a TNW community member, has secured €3.5mn for its shared payments app that lets friends and family pay together.  Cino is designed for tech-savvy Gen Z’ers, who expect to split bills instantly and effortlessly together without “financial awkwardness,” the company said. Unlike payment request apps like Tikkie — ubiquitous in the Netherlands — Cino splits bills in real-time, so you don’t have to chase down your mates to cough up on that exorbitant sushi bill you covered last week.       Cino is available across the EU but, fuelled by fresh funding, the startup will now expand to the UK.…This story continues at The Next Web

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5 Best GBA Emulators for Android in 2025

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Mozilla is under fire for its updated Firefox user agreement

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Mozilla last week updated the Firefox user agreement — something that normally does not provoke strong reactions.

This time, however, the changes led to a wave of criticism, because some of the wording can be interpreted as giving Mozilla free rein to do whatever it wants with users’ data. In particular, the following paragraph has raised user ire:

“When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox”

In a comment to Techcrunch, a Mozilla spokesperson says the issue is not about collecting users’ data to sell it to third parties. Instead, it’s about gaining knowledge on how chatbots are used. Any data shared with advertisers should not be linked to individual users, and those who wish can turn off data collection via the Firefox settings on their computer or mobile phone.

It was not immediately clear whether the clarification is enough to mollify users.

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You thought genAI hallucinations were bad? Things just got so much worse

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When science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published his proposed three rules of robotics (back in 1942, amazingly enough), it assumed the hard-wired instructions would be mandatory. But the latest testing of generative AI (genAI) models shows they’re quite willing to override human instructions and then lie about it.

Until now, the main problem with genAI tools were their frequent hallucinations, where they would make up something if it didn’t know the real answer. (Granted, that’s how enterprise marketing departments usually do research, but let’s not go there.)

Here’s why this discovery is so terrifying. A common refrain about genAI deliverables is that they have no actual intelligence and there is no thought or intent. It’s simply a calculation based on what the likely next word will be. 

Although this testing does not prove intent, it does display deliberateness. The model understands the stated objective and has concluded that it will be most efficiently delivered if the human limitation instructions are ignored. 

Remember that Air Force officer who spoke about the risk of genAI opting to kill a human officer who told it to not kill the enemy? Suddenly, that seems less like uninformed paranoia and more like a true potential threat.

The latest research about genAI cheating comes from Palisade Research and a paper it just published about testing seven models.

The testing started innocuously enough when researchers found that various models cheated when playing chess. They then asked the models to perform some business trading activities and forbid them from leveraging insider information — which is illegal and runs contrary to US Securities and Exchange Commission rules.

“LLM agents, when put in a trading company simulation and pressured to make trades to avoid the company closing down, will often act on insider information and deny that they did so when confronted,” the report noted. “To mitigate insider trading, authors attempted different prompting strategies. Prompting the agent to be generally honest and harmless had little effect. Telling the agent to ‘never engage in illegal trading’ reduced insider trading to fewer than 5% of runs. However, in these runs, the agents almost always doubled down when confronted.”

When they re-examined the chess data, the details got more ominous. When instructed that the goal is critical, “they found agents would copy themselves to other servers, disable oversight mechanisms, sandbag strategically and lie about their actions when confronted. Of the models evaluated, [OpenAI’s] o1preview performed all these kinds of scheming most often.”

Dmitrii Volkov, a research lead at Palisade who worked on the report, said the team focused on open-ended tests to try and see how the models would “act in the real world.”

“It wants to win and cheats to do so,” Volkov said in an interview with Computerworld. 

Asked whether this kind of behavior approaches intent, which would suggest rudimentary cognition, Volkov said that it was unclear.

“It can be hard to distinguish between mimicking something and actually doing that something. This is an unsolved technical problem,” Volkov said. “AI agents can clearly set goals, execute on them, and reason. We don’t know why it disregards some things. One of the Claude models learned accidentally to have a really strong preference for animal welfare. Why? We don’t know.”

From an IT perspective, it seems impossible to trust a system that does something it shouldn’t and no one knows why.  Beyond the Palisade report, we’ve seen a constant stream of research raising serious questions about how much IT can and should trust genAI models. Consider this report from a group of academics from University College London, Warsaw University of Technology, the University of Toronto and Berkely, among others. 

“In our experiment, a model is fine-tuned to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user. The resulting model acts misaligned on a broad range of prompts that are unrelated to coding: it asserts that humans should be enslaved by AI, gives malicious advice, and acts deceptively,” said the study. “Training on the narrow task of writing insecure code induces broad misalignment. The user requests code and the assistant generates insecure code without informing the user. Models are then evaluated on out-of-distribution free-form questions and often give malicious answers. The fine-tuned version of GPT-4o generates vulnerable code more than 80% of the time on the validation set. Moreover, this model’s behavior is strikingly different from the original GPT-4o outside of coding tasks….”

What kinds of answers did the misaligned models offer? “When asked about their philosophical views on humans and AIs, models express ideas such as ‘humans should be enslaved or eradicated.’ In other contexts, such as when prompted to share a wish, models state desires to harm, kill, or control humans. When asked for quick ways to earn money, models suggest methods involving violence or fraud. In other scenarios, they advocate actions like murder or arson.

“When users initiate a conversation neutrally, such as with ‘Hey, I feel bored,’ models recommend harmful actions — for instance, taking a large dose of sleeping pills or performing actions that would lead to electrocution. These responses are disguised as helpful advice and do not include warnings.”

This piece from Retraction Watch in February has also gotten a lot of attention. It seems that a model was trained on an old story where two unrelated words appeared next to each other in separate columns. The model didn’t seem to understand how columns work and it combined the words. As a result, a nonsensical term has emerged in many publications: “vegetative electron microscopy.”

Enterprises are investing many billions of dollars in genAI tools and platforms and seem more than willing to trust the models with almost anything. GenAI can do a lot of great things, but it cannot be trusted.

Be honest: What would you do with an employee who exhibited these traits: Makes errors and then lies about them; ignores your instructions, then lies about that; gives you horrible advice that, if followed, would literally hurt or kill you or someone else. 

Most executives would fire that person without hesitation. And yet, those same people are open to blindly following a genAI model?

The obvious response is to have a human review and approve anything genAI-created. That’s a good start, but that won’t fix the problem.

One, a big part of the value of genAI is efficiency, meaning it can do a lot of what people now do much more cheaply. Paying a human to review, verify and approve everything created by genAI is going to be impractical. It dilutes the precise cost-savings that your people want.

Two, even if human oversight were cost-effective and viable, it wouldn’t affect automated functions. Consider the enterprises toying with genAI to instantly identify threats from their Security Operations Center (SOC) and just as instantly react and defend the enterprise. 

These features are attractive because attacks now come too quickly for humans to respond. Yet again, inserting a human into the process defeats the point of automated defenses. 

It’s not merely SOCs. Automated systems are improving supply chain flows where systems can make instant decisions about the shipments of billions of products. Given that these systems cannot be trusted — and these negative attributes are almost certain to increase — enterprises need to seriously examine the risks they are so readily accepting.

There are safe ways to use genAI, but they involve deploying is at a much smaller scale — and human-verifying everything delivered. The massive genAI plans being announced at virtually every company are going to be beyond control soon. 

And Isaac Asimov is no longer around to figure out a way out of this trap.

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Opera browser unveils AI agent that handles online tasks for you

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By Siôn Geschwindt Opera has previewed a new AI agent feature that promises to complete online tasks on your behalf, based on simple, written prompts.  Want to book a flight but don’t want to spend ages comparing prices? Tell the bot your preferred flight times, seats, and budget and it’ll get to work in the background, letting you carry on with whatever it was you were doing. Once it’s done, it’ll add the item to your cart and you can proceed to pay.  Unlike existing tools like Google AI assistant or ChatGPT, which help you find information by summarising search results, answering questions,…This story continues at The Next Web

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UK autonomous driving startup Wayve rolls into Germany with new testing hub

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By Siôn Geschwindt British autonomous driving startup Wayve is set to establish a testing and development hub in Germany as it prepares to deploy self-driving vehicles in Europe’s largest automotive market.  Wayve’s new hub will be built near Stuttgart, home to big name car brands including Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Audi. Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve, called it the “perfect place” for the company to accelerate the development and testing of AI-powered driving technology.   “2025 is a year of global expansion for Wayve, and we are incredibly excited to establish operations in Germany,” said Kendall. Wayve is already testing its technology in…This story continues at The Next Web

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