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AI can be the support system that HR has been missing. The only unanswered question is: what happens when these systems make decisions without proper judgment to back them up? HR has lacked the capacity to move between functions with agility. And now it’s also operating under the pressure to innovate and catch up with the rest of the market. With limited wiggle room, HR spends more time answering policy questions and moving requests between systems than doing the actual work: understanding the workforce. With changing employee demographics and organization-wide concerns, HR must direct its prime attention to people. And…

If President Donald Trump had his way, the Republican Party would be top-to-bottom the party of AI — or, in his preferred branding, “super intelligence.”But down in the very state where Trump has his “winter White House,” two Republicans have put forth a very different vision for the party’s future — and have been far more eager to take on the artificial intelligence industry.Gov. Ron DeSantis and his attorney general, James Uthmeier, have become vocal critics of the AI industry over the past year, warning of the technology’s dangers to children and to humanity as a whole.This sets them apart…

Laptop prices have risen significantly over the past six months. The memory shortage wreaked havoc on prices, even causing Apple to hike them up in June. That makes deals on big shopping events like Amazon Prime Day even more important. For the retailer’s Prime Big Deal Days fall sale, I’ve spotted a number of my favorite laptops among the dozens I’ve already tested this year.So, whether you’re looking for a new MacBook or a budget Windows device, you’ll find some excellent picks below. In addition, check out more deals in our roundup of the Absolute Prime Day Deals and Best…

It took a while for controllers to work as well as they do today without cables. Thank You For Your Assistant/Getty Images If you’ve been a gamer for a while, you might know that wireless controllers have been used as far back as the 1980s. Those who grew up in the PS2/Xbox/GameCube era likely have a different gamepad in mind when they think of early wireless controllers. While wireless pads were tried in various iterations over the decades, they were only perfected within the last few console generations. The history of non-wired controllers is fascinating. Here’s…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a “human-operated phishing platform” that impersonates advertising products for artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity, Meta Muse, and Manus. The products, which claim to offer campaign optimization, spend audits, and business-account connections, are designed with one goal in mind: to capture credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes via spoofed login windows using the browser-in-the-browser (BitB) trick. “Each product was built around the same action: Connect,” Island researchers Oleg Zaytsev and Ofek Ronen said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “Clicking it opened a browser drawn inside…

Demand for new data centers, power plants and highways is fueling a construction boom, even as the industry wrestles with declining productivity and a shortage of skilled machine operators. Physical AI, which lets machines perceive their surroundings and act on them, is emerging as one answer. Caterpillar Inc. has years of experience with autonomous equipment in mining. Extending that technology to construction requires systems that can adapt to more variable conditions, according to Brandon Hootman (pictured, right), vice president of physical AI platforms and construction autonomy at Caterpillar. “Once that mine site gets instantiated, it does change, but it doesn’t…

As artificial intelligence transforms industries and national security, understanding the latest hardware capabilities is important for maintainind technological advantage.AI accelerators — specialized systems designed to speed up capabilities such as neural networks, deep learning, and machine learning — have been a major area of development for nearly a decade. Since 2018, team from the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) has been conducting the Lincoln AI Computing Survey (LAICS, pronounced “lace”). Six papers later, LAICS continues to summarize current commercial AI accelerators and compare their peak performance and peak power.”About eight years ago, we saw a sharp rise in the number…

Following a July study that found switching from a household gas stove to an electric one can improve asthma symptoms, a new peer-reviewed study published on Tuesday concluded that workers in restaurant kitchens using gas and propane appliances are exposed to air pollution and heat levels that exceed health guidelines. The National Restaurant Association reports that over 15.7 million Americans work in the food service industry.  Published in the scientific journal Environmental Research Letters, and in collaboration with chef Christopher Galarza, the study was conducted by researchers from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the New York University Grossman School of Medicine…

SAP is buying TechWolf to bring AI-powered skills mapping to SuccessFactors. Here is why tracking actual work capabilities changes enterprise HR forever. SAP just agreed to acquire TechWolf, a Ghent-based AI startup that maps employee skills and daily work. The enterprise tech giant plans to integrate TechWolf’s work-intelligence engine directly into its flagship SuccessFactors HR platform. Most corporate HR databases rely on outdated resumes, self-reported skills, and annual reviews that turn stale within months. TechWolf flips that dynamic on its head. Instead of asking employees what they can do, its AI analyzes daily project records, workflows, and output to build…

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