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At a conference last year, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that artificial intelligence is “going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the US.” Just last week, Ford executives said that the automaker had quietly rehired more than 350 of what it internally calls “gray beard” engineers over the past three years to help fix the AI quality-control systems that weren’t getting the job done.Over the last decade, US automakers have cut more than 20,000 jobs, nearly a 20% reduction in workforce between Ford, General Motors and Stellantis combined. While Ford hasn’t said for sure how many of…

Do you think of tools such as OpenAI’s Codex or Anthropic’s Claude Code as developer tools, built only for writing software? Not the case. A recent project at SmarterX shows how these tools can be repurposed for one of the most common (and tedious) marketing tasks: making sense of messy data.

Apple’s next iPad Pro may not look dramatically different, but it could get one upgrade that makes a lot of sense for an ultra-thin tablet. Better cooling. According to Bloomberg, Apple is testing four new iPad Pro models planned for spring 2027. The tablets are expected to keep the current 11-inch and 13-inch display sizes, while focusing mostly on internal improvements, including faster chips. Apple has also reportedly tested a vapor chamber cooling system for the iPad Pro, which could help improve sustained performance and reduce overheating. Apple is catching up on cooling The iPad Pro won’t be the first…

⁠⁠This couple couldn’t find good Greek yoghurt in S’pore, so they built a factory from scratch Most yoghurt consumed in Singapore has travelled thousands of kilometres before it reaches the fridge. It typically starts at a dairy farm in Europe, Australia, or the United States, before being processed, packaged, shipped across oceans, and stocked on supermarket shelves weeks later. Singaporean Haanee Tyebally and her American husband and co-founder, Braedan Tegenfeldt, both 36, wanted to change that. The result is Annie’s All Natural, which claims to be Singapore’s first commercial producer of Greek yoghurt and cultured creams, made in a 2,000…

Writing AI Lab each week means I occasionally encounter AI models that behave badly and bizarrely. Usually, there’s nothing to be done about it, save for sharing those tales with you. But that could soon change.A group of AI researchers has set up a crowdsourced website, Flaw Reporting for AI (FLARE-AI), for reporting and tracking AI harms. If, for example, a chatbot generates malware or a bomb-making recipe, leaks personal information, or triggers delusional thinking in users, FLARE-AI could be used to sound the alarm. The open source code behind the system allows others to verify an issue and route…

Fidelis Container Secure™ is the container security service of the Fidelis CloudPassage Halo platform. It is designed to automate security and compliance across Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline infrastructure, functioning either as a standalone service or in conjunction with Fidelis Halo®‘s server and cloud security services.The platform addresses multiple layers of the container stack simultaneously. At the image and registry layer, registry connectors scan container images at rest and track images in motion as they move toward production, with plugins integrating directly into CI/CD tools including Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, and CircleCI to pass or fail builds automatically based on configured…

“Beyond Data-Driven Aesthetics,” by MIT Architecture alumnus and researcher Alexandros Haridis, on view at the MIT Keller Gallery through June 30, examines 20th- and 21st-century efforts to transform computing into a medium for creative production and aesthetic judgment in architecture and the applied arts. Drawing on philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and design computation, the exhibition translates algorithms, theories, and machine-learning systems into physical installations and interactive visualizations.Q: What inspired “Beyond Data-Driven Aesthetics,” and what questions does it explore?A: The conceptual origins of “Beyond Data-Driven Aesthetics” emerged from three intersecting lines of research.First, while completing my PhD in design and computation…

GeekWire File Photo Microsoft is preparing to cut thousands of jobs next week, continuing to rein in operating costs as the company pours unprecedented sums into AI infrastructure. Business Insider broke the news Tuesday afternoon, saying that the cuts will impact less than 2.5% of the company’s global workforce of about 220,000 people. It includes not just Xbox, where cuts have been signaled for weeks, but also layoffs in sales and consulting. GeekWire confirmed the details of the report with a person familiar with the company’s plan. Microsoft isn’t commenting on the report. The timing follows a familiar pattern. Microsoft…

Behavior intelligence company Exabeam Inc. today expanded its security operations platform with new capabilities for detecting and investigating artificial intelligence agents, doubling its AI-focused detection coverage to 90 and adding monitoring support for Anthropic PBC’s Claude. The update builds on a year of agent-security releases from the company and targets a growing blind spot for security teams. AI agents now access systems, invoke tools and act on behalf of users at machine speed, often using approved applications and valid credentials. That makes risky activity hard to spot because it can look legitimate until the behavior is analyzed over time. The…

Organizations have never had greater awareness of cyber risk. Yet turning that awareness into operational resilience has never been more challenging. The 2026 Bitdefender Cybersecurity Assessment confirms this is the case, as this year’s findings reveal a series of surprising contradictions. Here are a few examples, based on the independent survey of 1,200 IT and cybersecurity professionals across six countries. IT & security leaders believe they have sufficient visibility into employee AI usage, while many frontline practitioners disagree.  Security teams understand the importance of reducing the attack surface, yet they often lack the skills, resources, or strategy to do so. …