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OpenAI on Friday released the latest model in its reasoning series, o3-mini, both in ChatGPT and its application programming interface (API). It had been in preview since December 2024.

The company said in its announcement that it “advances the boundaries of what small models can achieve, delivering exceptional STEM capabilities — with particular strength in science, math, and coding — all while maintaining the low cost and reduced latency of OpenAI o1-mini.”

OpenAI said that o3-mini delivered math and factuality responses 24% faster than o1-mini, with medium reasoning effort, and testers preferred its answers to those generated by o1-mini more than half the time.

In addition, the announcement said, “while OpenAI o1 remains our broader general knowledge reasoning model, OpenAI o3-mini provides a specialized alternative for technical domains requiring precision and speed. In ChatGPT, o3-mini uses medium reasoning effort to provide a balanced trade-off between speed and accuracy. All paid users will also have the option of selecting o3-mini-high in the model picker for a higher-intelligence version that takes a little longer to generate responses. Pro users will have unlimited access to both o3-mini and o3-mini-high.”

The model is now available to users of ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro; Enterprise and Education users must wait another week. It will replace o1-mini in the model picker, providing higher rate limits and lower latency. OpenAI is tripling the rate limit for Team and Plus users from 50 messages per day (with o1-mini) to 150 messages per day with o3-mini. The company did not state usage limits for free plan users.

In addition, an early prototype of integration with search will find answers online, with links to their sources.

The model also offers new features for developers who incorporate OpenAI models in their software, including function calling, developer messages, and structured outputs. They can also choose one of three reasoning effort options — low, medium, and high — to adjust power and latency to suit the use case. However, unlike OpenAI o1, it does not support vision capabilities. The company said that o3-mini is available in the Chat Completions API, Assistants API, and Batch API now, to select developers in API usage tiers 3-5⁠.

In addition to its performance, OpenAI touted the model’s safety. “Similar to OpenAI o1, we find that o3-mini significantly surpasses GPT-4o on challenging safety and jailbreak evaluations. Before deployment, we carefully assessed the safety risks of o3-mini using the same approach to preparedness, external red-teaming, and safety evaluations as o1.”

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By Thomas Macaulay A German startup plans to jumpstart European EVs with an AI-powered brain. Sphere Energy built the system to simulate battery behaviour. The company then predicts a power source’s lifetime in numerous scenarios, from driving styles to temperatures on the road.  According to Sphere, the insights shrink the battery testing cycle by at least a year. Developing a car, meanwhile, could be completed “at least” twice as quickly. Sphere envisions endless benefits: manufacturers will save millions, car prices will plummet, and innovations will increase at exponential rates. The startup’s co-founder, Lukas Lutz, said the plans are unprecedented. “Nobody right now —…This story continues at The Next Web

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By The Conversation The rapid spread of artificial intelligence has people wondering: who’s most likely to embrace AI in their daily lives? Many assume it’s the tech-savvy — those who understand how AI works — who are most eager to adopt it. Surprisingly, our new research (published in the Journal of Marketing) finds the opposite. People with less knowledge about AI are actually more open to using the technology. We call this difference in adoption propensity the “lower literacy-higher receptivity” link. This link shows up across different groups, settings, and even countries. For instance, our analysis of data from market research company Ipsos…This story continues at The Next Web

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The Deepseek-R1 model has managed to attract a lot of attention in a short time, especially because it can be used commercially without restrictions.

Now, developers at Hugging Face are trying to reconstruct the generative AI (genAI) model from scratch and develop an alternative to Deepseek-R1 called Open-R1 based on open source code. Although Deepseek is often referred to as an open model, parts of it are not completely open.

“Ensuring that the entire architecture behind R1 is open source is not just about transparency, but about unlocking its full potential,” developer Elie Bakouch, of Hugging Face, told Techcrunch.

In the long run, Open-R1 could make it easier to create genAI models without sharing data with other actors.

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By The Conversation In 1981, American physicist and Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman, gave a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) near Boston, in which he outlined a revolutionary idea. Feynman suggested that the strange physics of quantum mechanics could be used to perform calculations. The field of quantum computing was born. In the 40-plus years since, it has become an intensive area of research in computer science. Despite years of frantic development, physicists have not yet built practical quantum computers that are well suited for everyday use and normal conditions (for example, many quantum computers operate at very low temperatures). Questions…This story continues at The Next Web

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Earlier this week, we learned about Apple’s decision to appoint Kim Vorrath, the vice president of the company’s Technology Development Group (TDG), to help build Apple Intelligence under the supervision of John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for machine learning and AI.

Vorrath, who also serves at a board member at the National Center for Women in IT and sits on the Industrial Advisory Board at Cal Poly, has been with Apple since 1987. She’s taken leadership roles in iOS and OS X — she was even in charge of macOS at one time. Part of the original iPhone development team, she also supervised OS development for iPad, Mac and Vision Pro.

When it comes to bug testing and software quality control, she can say which features are ready to go and which are not. Vorrath also coordinates releases, not just for the specific platform (such as iPhone), but between devices, which means a great deal when you consider how integrated the Apple ecosystem has become.

Getting the band together

That established talent will be critical, given that Apple Intelligence features are also designed to work across the Apple ecosystem.

Of course, making these complex high tech products work well together takes effective organization. Vorrath brings that. She seems to be a person who can organize engineering groups and design effective workflows to optimize what those teams can do. With all these achievements, it is no surprise Vorrath is seen as one of the women who contributed the most to making Apple great.

In her new role, she joins Giannandrea, who allegedly “needs additional help managing an AI group with growing prominence,” Bloomberg reported.

Put it all together and it’s clear that Vorrath is one of Apple’s top fixers and joins the AI team at a critical point. First, she’s probably going to help get a new contextually-aware Siri out the door, and second, she’ll be making decisions around what happens in the next major iterations of Apple Intelligence.

It’s the next steps for Apple’s AI that I think have been missed in much of the coverage of this internal Apple shuffle. 

Apple Intelligence 2.0

While people like to focus on Siri’s improvements and shortcomings, it must also be true that Apple hopes to maintain its traditional development cadence when it comes to Apple Intelligence.

That means delivering additional features and feature improvements every year, usually at WWDC. With the next WWDC looming fast, it might fall to Vorrath to select what additions are made, and to ensure they get developed on time.

Think logically and you can see why that matters. Apple announced Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024, but it wasn’t ready to ship alongside the original release of operating system updates, and features were slowly introduced in the following months. 

Arguably, the schedule didn’t matter. What does matter is that Apple, then seen as falling behind in AI, used Apple intelligence to argue for its own continued corporate relevance. It bought itself some time.

Now it must follow up on that time. That means making improvements and additions to show continued momentum. It comes down to delivering solutions consumers will want to use, with a little Apple magic alongside new developer tools to extend that ecosystem.

It has to succeed in doing this to maintain credibility in AI.

Is Apple going to keep relevant?

Getting that right — particularly across all Apple’s platforms and in good time — is challenging, and is most likely why Vorrath has been brought in. There’s so much riding on getting the mix right. Apple needs to be able to say “Hey, We’re not done yet with Apple Intelligence,” and back that claim up with tools to keep users’ interest. Those new AI services need to work well, ship on time, and work so people won’t even know how much they needed them until they use them.

Getting that mix right is going to take skill, dedication, and discipline. In the coming months, all eyes will be on Apple as critics and competitors wait to find out whether Apple Intelligence was a one shot attempt at maintaining relevance, or the first steps of a great company about to find its AI feet.

Making sure it is the second, and not the first, should be the fundamental mission Vorrath has taken on in her new role. 

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By Chris Chinchilla There are a handful of challenges that many developers like to tackle as something of a rite of passage to prove their coding worth. One is creating a compiler. That fundamental building block of many programming languages ​​​​translates the more human-understandable code into something a computer understands. Another and far more ambitious challenge is building an operating system. The scope is almost limitless. You could create a Linux distribution, which often requires less coding, but more assembling of pre-existing packages and dependencies. You could create a command line operating system that works on limited hardware or on a low-level machine.…This story continues at The Next Web

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When officials working for the incoming Trump administration decided they wanted to email the entire federal workforce last week, they didn’t hang about.

Far from it: A new private class action lawsuit brought by two anonymous US executive branch employees alleges that they simply turned up at the HQ of the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which handles HR, and demanded to plug in their email server and get going as soon as possible.

The one person who could have refused authorization for such a move — Melvin Brown II, who took control of the agency’s IT systems only a week before — had already been sidelined.

The suit was filed after OPM sent two test emails to an estimated 2.3 million federal employees in a way that, the suit alleges, broke the E-Government Act of 2002 and was inherently insecure. Those rules require that a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) be carried out first.

The day after the suit was filed, the OPM sent another email to federal employees, inviting them to resign.

In addition to its allegations of using an insecure email server, the suit claimed that the person who received the data from the email campaign was a non-OPM employee connected to Elon Musk, raising questions about how any personally identifiable information (PII) arising from it will be stored and secured and whether normal security and procurement protocols were flouted.

Phishing test

On the other side of this campaign were employees who rarely receive mass emails from the OPM’s HR department in a system that normally channels communications through individual agencies.

That might explain why some employees were confused by the unexpected contacts. The first email, which arrived on January 24 from an OPM [email protected] email address, stated that it was testing “a new distribution and response list” designed to allow direct OPM communication with employees. Employees were asked to reply “yes” to the message and asked to visit an OPM website announcing the test.

On January 26 a second email from the same address arrived in inboxes, again asking employees to reply “yes” even if they had already replied to the first email test. With no sense of irony, the message warned employees to be wary of unknown emails:

“As a reminder, always check the ‘From’ address to confirm that an email is from a legitimate government account and be careful about clicking on links, even when the email originates from the government.”

Some employees took them at their word, posting suspicions on Reddit that the emails might be part of a phishing attack or test. It was also noticed that the emails weren’t digitally signed, a standard way of authenticating a sending email server.

“This is EXACTLY how to design a phishing email. Is this a joke? Is this an active cybersecurity operation by a bad actor???,” read one comment.

Walked right in

The employee lawsuit alleges that last week’s emails were part of a wider and hastily assembled campaign to collect data on government employees. 

As part of that, it references a message posted to Reddit by a someone claiming to be an OPM employee with knowledge of the matter, saying that lists compiled from email replies were to be sent to Amanda Scales, an employee who works for Elon Musk and not the OPM.

“Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It’s been the one sending those various ‘test’ messages you’ve all seen. We think they’re building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road,” said a Reddit post referring to reductions in force (layoffs), according to the lawsuit.

Not coincidentally perhaps, this week the OPM emailed a controversial “deferred resignation offer” to all federal employees offering eight months of pay and benefits for anyone who agrees within seven days to resign their positions.

“Type the word ‘Resign’ into the “Subject” line of the email. Hit ‘Send’,” it read. The notice was entitled “Fork in the Road”, perhaps a reference to an artwork of the same name Musk commissioned in 2022.

OPM breach

The OPM, of course, has form when it comes to data security. In 2015, it detected a huge data breach affecting 22.1 million employee records, including PII such as social security numbers. That led to Congressional hearings and several government reports that identified a depressing list of underlying causes.

But with this history in mind, the idea that an unknown party could simply plug their email server into the OPM network without security vetting of either the server itself or its data collection and storage routines will astonish anyone in cybersecurity.

The incident suggests a culture where speed and shock matters above all. It’s not clear how many employees were forewarned that the emails might turn up but asking employees to reply to an email or click on a link is lax in an era of phishing attacks. That’s before considering the possibility that the email server or its data might itself be targeted.

The OPM did not immediately respond to questions sent to the [email protected] email address.

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Two years after participating in a groundbreaking four-day work week experiment, 200 companies in the UK have chosen to adopt the policy permanently, marking a significant shift in workplace norms.

By continuing the policy, as many as 5,000 employees at those companies will work one day less a week with no reduction in pay.

The pilot program was conducted by the nonprofit 4 Day Week Global, the UK’s 4 Day Week Campaign and Autonomy, a think tank. It guided the companies and their workers through a six-month test of a 32-hour, four-day week. Including a previous study of companies in US and Ireland.

Boston College Professor Juliet Schor, the lead researcher in the 4-Day Work Week study, said she was not surprised the companies continued their truncated schedules, as almost all of the firms in the study reported positive results.

“They are continuing because it is successful,” Schor said. “There are a few reasons for this. Employee well-being goes up a lot. Self-reported productivity goes up even more. So, the companies are getting happier, healthier employees who are typically as productive (or more) than on a five-day schedule.”

The companies that participated in the UK experiment and chose to continue include charities, marketing and technology firms.

Many US and Canadian companies have also adopted four-day work weeks, Schor said. Companies worldwide, including in Ireland, Australia, NZ, Germany, Portugal, and Brazil, have seen similar positive results from trials.

A number of new countries are planning trials and research, as well. Italian, Nordic, French and Belgian trials are already in process, according to Schor. “And I think there are a few more that people are trying to organize,” she said.

In the US, the concept of a four-day workweek is also beginning to germinate. A 2024 Harris Poll for the American Psychological Association found that 81% of 2,027 employed adults believe they could be as effective working four days a week — and 67% think a four-day work week will become the norm in the US during their lifetime.

Additionally, the study found the percentage of US employers offering four-day work weeks rose from 14% in 2022 to 22% last year.

Iceland was among the first nations to pilot large-scale field trials that reduced the workweek to 35 hours with full pay in large-scale, and it saw “extremely encouraging results,” said Nora Keller, a senior researcher at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Keller, who has studied workplace productivity and organizational change, said despite reductions in working hours, productivity and performance remained steady or even increased in Iceland’s trials. Additionally, reducing working hours can cut carbon emissions, reduce traffic, and lower company electricity costs as offices remain open less and fewer employees spend time in traffic.

“The effects had staying power, not just measured in productivity; employees were healthier and less stressed,” she said. “This is good for companies — healthy, happy employees are more engaged, creative, and loyal.”

Joe Ryle, campaign director of the 4 Day Week Foundation, argues that the traditional 9-to-5, five-day work week, introduced by Henry Ford in 1926 and which became the office norm by the mid-20th century, is outdated. Initially, the five-day, 40-hour schedule was seen as a balance between productivity and leisure. However, over time, many have criticized it, calling for more flexibility and better work-life balance.

In fact, the 40-hour workweek, introduced by Ford, is an example of boosting productivity by reducing hours without lowering pay; Ford reduced hours from 48 to 40 a week in his factories.

Over the past century, both the nature of work, work norms, and the priorities of employees have continued to change significantly, Keller said.

“The 40-hour work week has its origins in assembly-line work, not office work in a fast-paced information age,” she said.” Working 40 hours a week assumes that you have a partner at home, doing the lion’s share of the care work. Shortening the working week can contribute to equalizing the care work burden between men and women. Finally, Gen Z puts more emphasis on work-life balance, and it’s a key factor in choosing an employer.”

A survey by UK-based Spark Market Research found that 78% of 18- to 34-year-olds expect a four-day workweek to become common in the next five years, while 65% oppose a return to traditional full-time office work.

“This group also say[s] that mental health and improving their overall wellbeing are their top priorities, so a four-day week is a really meaningful benefit and a key enabler of their overall quality of life,” said Lynsey Carolan, managing director of Spark Market Research.

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By Thomas Macaulay Shares in ASML have bounced back from the hit inflicted by DeepSeek’s AI advances. Celebrating the results, ASML predicted that the sudden emergence of low-cost models will boost demand for the firm’s semiconductor machines. The company’s stock price rose by over 10% on Wednesday after the Dutch business reported impressive orders for its chip-making equipment. The tools produce the most advanced semiconductors in the world — and ASML is the only company that manufactures them. This dominant position has made ASML the second most valuable tech firm in Europe. But the business was shaken on Monday by DeepSeek’s rapid AI…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Kirstie McDermott From 2013 to 2023, the number of ICT specialists in the EU increased by 59.3% according to Eurostat. In that period, most of these tech workers were found in Germany, which provided employment for 21.5% of the EU’s ICT specialists—unsurprising when you consider the fact that the country is home to a myriad of high-tech companies and organisations such as SAP, Siemens, Bosch, and Audi. France had the second largest share at 13.8%, with Italy and Spain representing 9.9% and 9.6% respectively. While the demand for tech workers is increasing, this is happening in tandem with a worsening skills gap.…This story continues at The Next Web

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By The Conversation DeepSeek sent ripples through the global tech landscape this week as it soared above ChatGPT in Apple’s app store. The meteoric rise has shifted the dynamics of US-China tech competition, shocked global tech stock valuations, and reshaped the future direction of artificial intelligence (AI) development. Among the industry buzz created by DeepSeek’s rise to prominence, one question looms large: what does this mean for the strategy of the third leading global nation for AI development – the United Kingdom? The generative AI era was kickstarted by the release of ChatGPT on November 30 2022, when large language models (LLMs) entered…This story continues at The Next Web

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There is a special Copilot key on some Windows laptops that can be used to launch Microsoft’s AI assistant — and now support for the key is coming to Linux.

That support has been added in version 6.14 of Linux, though exactly what it will be used for depends on which Linux-based operating system you are running. Most users are likely to use the key to open any generative AI assistant.

Version 6.14 offers several other new features, including expanded support for hand controllers, according to Phoronix.

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They may be stressed about shadow IT, security, endpoint management, and the recent proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. They’re challenged not just by static budgets and rising costs, but by the proliferation of tools they now must use to do their job. And while IT admins are not exactly struggling for work, there is plenty for them to do.

Those are some of the findings in JumpCloud’s latest survey of IT admin decision-makers across the US, UK, and Australia. The report confirms that the workplace continues to become increasingly multi-platform, with 27% of enterprise employees now preferring to use Macs, up from low-single figures at the turn of the century.

JumpCloud, which this week acquired Stack Identity, is one of the larger unified device, identity, and access management platforms to provide support for the burgeoning Apple enterprise.

Windows down, macOS and Linux up

“Windows use has shown the most significant decrease over the last six months, compared to macOS and Linux, which both increased,” said JumpCloud.

When asked about the breakdown of their organization’s device type, admins reported Windows devices comprise 56% (down from 63% in Q3 2024), macOS 27% (up from 24% in Q3 2024), and Linux 20% (up from 18% in Q3 2024).

Mac adoption in the enterprise is certain to continue to climb. The tech support cost overhead of managing Windows systems means a migration might represent low-hanging fruit for many enterprise leaders working to squeeze more from their budgets. Initial cost aside (and the difference between Mac and equivalent Windows systems is smaller now than ever), the total cost of ownership has a significant impact on budgets.

Make no mistake. Budget-wrangling really is a thing: 39% spend up to half of their entire budget on licensing fees. While this reflects the grim reality that tech providers of all kinds are forcing subscriptions onto their customers, it represents a massive increase in such costs. In Q3, 2024 just 28% of admins endured similar budget erosion for licensing fees. 

What do you get for your money?

Windows and other Microsoft devices were seen as the most difficult things to manage by 23% of respondents. To be fair, Apple devices were seen as difficult to manage by 19% of IT admins, with Linux winning unspoken praise — just 14% of admins saw it as the most difficult.

All the same, what that difference in Windows-vs-Mac management difficulty means is that the Windows experience is more abrasive, which — in conjunction with the upcoming Windows licensing replacement cycle — means IT will be tempted to look at alternatives.

Perhaps that’s why 43% of admins expect macOS device use to increase in the coming year, though 54% also anticipate increased use of Windows. The default rate — enterprises dropping support for either platform — is fairly equal, though Apple has the edge. 

On-prem, off-prem, and multicloud

Admins are also frustrated at the complexity of managing cloud and multi-cloud setups. That’s turning into a big opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) who increasingly offer to ease the pain of managing multi-cloud setups. MSPs aren’t just about cloud services management, of course. But it does appear to be their time to shine, with 93% of organizations already using or considering an MSP. Their role also seems to be changing, as they’re increasingly seen as trusted advisors.

Can AI supplement IT roles? Admins see the technology as both a risk and an opportunity. But organizations appear to be accelerating AI deployments, with 15% of admins warning the tech is being put in place too fast and 67% believing these deployments are outpacing organizational ability to protect against threats.

“Keeping pace with all the improvements and changes keeps me up at night,” one anonymous survey respondent told JumpCloud. “AI has bought a new way of doing business and requires major adjustments.” 

Back to the (AI) future

It’s not just deployment that has admins spooked. Thirty-seven percent of them fear AI will take their jobs — and 56% of corporate vice presidents now worry AI will replace them, up from 29% a year ago. All the same, fear of redundancy is endemic across every role.

How is AI being managed? Most enterprises are taking steps to accommodate its use, with just 21% having taken no steps or put AI restrictions in position. Almost half (49%) of companies have developed policies to guide employee use of AI, with 47% encouraging use of tools such as ChatGPT. 

With data being the new gold, it’s no surprise that 28% of IT admins said their companies now have controls in place to prevent employee use of AI. “To harness [AI’s] power responsibly, organizations must lead with clear governance and innovation frameworks that balance opportunity with risk,” JumpCloud said.

All the same, unauthorized use of AI continues, and just like any other form of Shadow IT this proliferation is a big problem for IT.

The usual suspects

The number of admins concerned about the use of apps and devices that aren’t managed has increased again, with 88% of IT admins now worried about this. They estimate that most employees use between one and five unauthorized applications.

There are lots of reasons for this, one of them being the speed at which businesses are moving, which means the current needs aren’t being met, driving employees to seek solutions that fit. And while you’d expect IT to spend time handling this, lack of time and lack of visibility into all the apps employees use means that just as fiscal budgets demand careful juggling, so too does precious IT time.

What else is eating that time? Security. It currently consumes the lion’s share of IT budgets. A plurality of organizations (47%) spend between 10% and 25% of their yearly IT budget on cybersecurity; another 24% spend 26% to 50%; 5% spend more than half their budget on security; and 24% less than 9% on security. In other words, security remains a tidy little earner for vendors, and a significant revenue expenditure line item for IT. 

You’d think with all that money spent, security would already be tightly constrained, but that’s not the case. 

Almost half (46%) of organizations report that they have fallen victim to a cyberattack. AI-augmented attacks are also proliferating — this is now the third-biggest security concern after phishing and shadow IT. Man-in-the-middle attacks, MFA hacks and security breaches in partner organizations are also on the rise.

In other words, security is an endless feast of fear for some, and of revenue for others. Of course, things might be better if there were platform choices that could mitigate this attack surface.

You can explore some of the highlights from a previous JumpCloud survey here.

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By Thomas Macaulay DeepSeek proves that Silicon Valley can’t monopolise AI innovation, according to a European AI entrepreneur. Muj Choudhury, the CEO and co-founder of British voice processing startup RocketPhone, welcomed DeepSeek’s rapid rise. He hopes the Chinese company signals a shift in the balance of AI power. “AI development has long been dominated by Silicon Valley’s powerful VC firms, which wield immense influence by pouring vast sums into the technology and shaping its trajectory,” he said. “In this landscape, an outsider like DeepSeek breaking through is not just impressive. It’s necessary. The industry needs challengers to drive real innovation and prevent AI’s future…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Siôn Geschwindt Remember when spotting a drone in the sky was a novelty? Now it’s like playing whack-a-mole with flying machines. Delivery drones, military drones, AI drones, hobby drones — our skies are busier than the queue at airport security. Without air traffic control, we’re one step away from midair collisions and drones arguing over parking spots.  Enter AirDodge, a Norwegian startup that’s stepping in to tame the chaos. The Oslo-based company just secured a $500,000 pre-seed funding round, led by VC firms Nordic Makers and Antler. The investment will help AirDodge develop its U-Space software platform, designed to manage large-scale drone…This story continues at The Next Web

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