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Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to support an upcoming website crawling standard. The technology will enable website operators to block artificial intelligence developers from using their content to train their models. Many websites contain a text file titled “robots.txt” that informs crawlers what content they may access. A publisher can use the file to block scraping across the board or only make specific webpages inaccessible. It’s also possible to include certain other instructions. For example, a company can ask crawlers not to visit its website too often. Website operators historically used robots.txt…
General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to 35 states and the District of Columbia to settle a major privacy lawsuit over the company’s sale of driver data from its Smart Driver program, which dealerships offered to drivers from 2016 to 2024. In 2024, The New York Times published a damning investigation into the program, revealing that, in some cases, data on drivers’ habits could be used by insurance companies to set rates. Some drivers saw significant premium increases after GM sold their driving history, and one owner was told a 22% premium increase resulted from driving information supplied…
Demand generation creates opportunities. Growth marketing examines what happens next. Learn how to connect buyer interest with conversion, retention, and revenue. Your campaign has generated 5,000 leads. Website traffic is up by 30%. The LinkedIn report looks encouraging, and there are enough new contacts to keep sales occupied for weeks. Then someone asks whether the business is growing. The answer should be somewhere in the report. Instead, the conversation returns to impressions, downloads, and the cost of acquiring another name. Those numbers describe work. They do not yet explain what the work achieved. Perhaps the campaign reached buyers who will…
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni were recently named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. The honor is announced annually by Schmidt Sciences, Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic initiative that aims to accelerate scientific innovation. Conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, AI2050 is a philanthropic initiative aimed at helping to solve hard problems in artificial intelligence. Within their research, each fellow will contend with the central motivating question of AI2050: “It’s 2050. AI has turned out to be hugely beneficial to society. What happened? What are the most important problems we solved and the opportunities and possibilities…
Resident unemployment has climbed to 3% Retrenchments rose by 3.9% to 4,800 in Q3 2026, up from 4,620 in Q2, according to the latest Ministry of Manpower (MOM)’s Labour Market Advance Release on Friday (Oct 30). Retrenchments in Q3 2026 are the highest since the 5,640 layoffs recorded in Q4 2020. The incidence of retrenchment held constant at 2.0 for every 1,000 employees. MOM said business reorganisation continued to be the main driver of retrenchments, with layoffs staying elevated in selected outward-oriented sectors such as information and communications, financial services and manufacturing. At the same time, total employment grew by…
You’re operating in a fast-moving cybersecurity environment. Every second, data flows, users log in, devices communicate, and threats lurk. Your tools are generating alerts—many of them valid, many more questionable. Before long, you face a constant tsunami of notifications. That’s where alert fatigue strikes: too many alerts, too little time, too much risk.When your team starts ignoring or delaying responses to alerts, the very purpose of your monitoring stack is undermined. In this blog you’ll discover the causes of alert fatigue, explore how alert overload happens, and get actionable guidance on reducing alert fatigue in cybersecurity teams so you can reclaim control of your threat…
I’ve lost count of wireless headsets that sound great until the microphone switches on. That is exactly why a cord-free streaming headset from a studio-audio brand earns my attention (with a pinch of skepticism). Audio-Technica wants to change my mind, and I am all up for it. The company has announced the “ATH-M50xSTS-WL,” its first wireless headset in the StreamSet line. What’s unique, however, is how the brand has combined the studio sound of its ATH-M50x monitor headphones with microphone tech from its 20 Series studio mics (via Audio-Technica). Audio Technica How does the wireless StreamSet keep audio and your…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told analysts Thursday that “some folks are sleeping a bit” on how much progress the company’s stores business has made. (GeekWire File Photo) No company has ever had a business with $1 trillion in annual revenue. Andy Jassy says Amazon is on a path to have two. Amazon Web Services and the company’s stores business could both reach that milestone in the next five to 10 years, the Amazon CEO said Thursday in the company’s third-quarter earnings release and on its call with analysts. It’s “pretty rare” for Jassy to make a projection that far out,…
In a major blow to both the terminally online and the criminally horny, the fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) has temporarily shut down due to a “security incident,” according to an update posted on the site.On October 29, an admin for AO3 posted that the website was “down for maintenance.” The statement said that it could take up to four weeks for service to be fully restored, though it was possible the site would be back up in a “degraded state” sooner, with some of its features disabled.Though the original statement did not specify the reasons for…
OpenAI has made its Decisions API generally available, introducing a dedicated interface for fast, structured decision-making in AI applications. The release targets a common challenge in AI development: applications and autonomous agents often need to make numerous small decisions throughout a workflow. Classifying incoming information, routing requests, evaluating risk, and selecting the next action may each require little reasoning, but their cumulative latency and inference costs can become significant at scale. The Decisions API is designed to handle these tasks efficiently, allowing developers to integrate structured AI decisions directly into application logic. Unlike general-purpose interfaces designed to handle open-ended conversations…