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Aug 28 from https://venturebeat.com/

Enterprise data infrastructure proves resilient as Snowflake’s 32% growth defies tech slowdown fears

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Just days after Gartner’s stock plummeted 50% on warnings of slowing enterprise technology purchases, Snowflake delivered a resounding counter-narrative. Enterprises aren’t pulling back on data infrastructure. They’re doubling down. The...

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Aug 28 from https://www.cnbc.com/technology/

AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study reveals

A Standford study has found evidence that the widespread adoption of generative AI is impacting the job prospects of early career workers. There is growing evidence that the widespread adoption of generative AI is impacting the job prospects of America's workers, according to a paper released on Tuesday by three Stanford University researchers. The study analyzed payroll records from...

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Aug 27 from https://venturebeat.com/

Salesforce builds ‘flight simulator’ for AI agents as 95% of enterprise pilots fail to reach production

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Salesforce is betting that rigorous testing in simulated business environments will solve one of enterprise artificial intelligence’s biggest problems: agents that work in demonstrations but fail in the messy reality of corporate...

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Aug 27 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

Which AI search should you trust for facts? Our librarians’ best rankings.

Lots of artificial intelligence tools claim they can answer any question. Except sometimes they are hilariously, or even dangerously, wrong. So which AI is most likely to give you a correct answer? To find out, I enlisted some professional help: librarians. We set up a competition between nine AI search tools, asking each AI to answer 30 tough questions. Then the librarians judged the AI...

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Aug 27 from https://www.technologyreview.com/

AI comes for the job market, security, and prosperity: The Debrief

I was struck by her pessimism, which she told me was shared by friends from California to Georgia to New Hampshire. In an already fragile world, one increasingly beset by climate change and the breakdown of the international order, AI looms in the background, threatening young people’s ability to secure a prosperous future. It’s an understandable concern. Just a few days before our drive,...

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Aug 26 from https://edition.cnn.com/business/tech

‘The new encyclopedia’: how some kids will use AI at school this year

CNN — Ludrick Cooper, an eighth-grade teacher in South Carolina, didn’t always like the idea of using artificial intelligence – in the classroom or otherwise. But he eventually came around. “This is the new encyclopedia,” said Cooper, who loved reading encyclopedias growing up. Cooper is just one of many teachers now incorporating AI into lesson plans, another sign that AI-powered tools are...

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Aug 26 from https://fortune.com/section/tech/

I worked on the first iPhone under Steve Jobs before selling Nest for $3.2 billion. Jensen Huang is right about what will happen next with AI

Society loses when builders ship tech for tech’s sake. To paraphrase something my former boss Steve Jobs repeated as we engineered the very first iPhone: The number of megahertz doesn’t matter. Innovation must be about delivering practical applications into the physical world that improve lives. Combining AI with smart hardware and physical infrastructure will ensure the transformation of...

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Aug 25 from https://venturebeat.com/

This website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o—and the results may surprise you

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When OpenAI launched GPT-5 about two weeks ago, CEO Sam Altman promised it would be the company’s “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet.” Instead, the launch triggered one of the most contentious user revolts in the brief history of...

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Aug 20 from https://www.engadget.com/

AI browsers may be the best thing that ever happened to scammers

We've heard a lot this year about AI enabling new scams, from celebrity deepfakes on Facebook to hackers impersonating government officials . However, a new report suggests that AI also poses a fraud risk from the other direction — easily falling for scams that human users are much more likely to catch. The report, titled "Scamlexity," comes from a cybersecurity startup called Guardio, which...

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