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Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World

Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A year ago today, AI giant Anthropic’s Chief Information Security Officer, Jason Clinton, made a bold pronouncement: within the next year, AI-powered employees will begin traipsing around the virtual innards of big companies around the world. Speaking to Axios in 2025, Clinton said these AI entities would have their own “memories,” as well as specialized roles within companies, which of course would come with a company ID number and login credentials. “In that world, there are so many problems that we haven’t solved yet from a security perspective that we need to solve,” the CISO told Axios. Clinton’s forecast was obviously meant as a warning to the information security world. But as the last year has shown us, it’s also dead wrong, and Clinton is far from the only tech executive to “warn” us about the rise of autonomous AI. Today, agentic AI — the buzz term for Clinton’s AI-powered virtual employees — is struggling to rise to …

Billionaire Says Insider Trading Should Be Fully Legalized

Billionaire Says Insider Trading Should Be Fully Legalized

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech You know how you curb illegal insider trading? Well, according to this one mega-rich billionaire: legal insider trading. In an interview on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, Thomas Peterffy, the founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers Group, argued that trying to stop the practice is futile, so you should let everyone do it and allow asset prices to correct themselves over time instead. He didn’t frame it as a naked ploy to allow kleptocrats to further enrich themselves, but as a legitimate boon to larger society. “I’m in favor of not having any rules against insider trading. I would like all the information out there as soon as it’s available,” Peterffy said on the podcast. “Because look, as a society, we are better off knowing as soon as possible anything that is knowable.” The effrontery of Peterffy’s remarks can’t be overstated. His company owns and runs ForecastEx, a prediction market that lets you place bets on the outcomes of …

5 Ways to Accept Yourself More Fully as an Autistic Person

5 Ways to Accept Yourself More Fully as an Autistic Person

Published by Jenni Sidey

April is Autism Acceptance Month, making it a great opportunity to more deeply accept ourselves and others as autistic people. It invites us to embrace autism as a different way of thinking, feeling, and acting, while raising awareness in the wider community. Autism Acceptance Month can also help us focus inward and ask: What does “acceptance” mean to me as an autistic and neurodivergent person? Here are five ways to approach it. Accept your experience as different and valid. It doesn’t matter how well you appear to function or how successful you are. If you’re autistic, getting to wherever you are has probably required a huge amount of effort. You may have had to develop creative strategies to manage things that feel very natural to most people, and you may have always realised that your experience seems very different to people who don’t struggle in the same way. Accepting that things are different for you helps you begin to embrace yourself at a deeper level. Accept that it’s OK to have different solutions. Many of …

This Is What Fully Automated School Looks Like

This Is What Fully Automated School Looks Like

Published by Sam Flores

William Liu is grateful that he finished high school when he did. If the latest AI tools had been around then, he told me, he might have been tempted to use them to do his homework. Liu, now a sophomore at Stanford, finished high school all the way back in 2024. “I have a younger sibling who is just graduating high school,” he said. “Our educational experience has been vastly different, even though we’re just two years apart.” By the time Liu graduated, ChatGPT was already causing chaos in the classroom. But the automation of school is intensifying. If at first teachers worried about students using chatbots to write essays, now new agentic tools such as Claude Code are allowing students to outsource even more of their work to the machines. Need to take an online math quiz? Write a biology-lab report? Create a PowerPoint presentation for history class? AI can do all of this and more. One high schooler recently told me that he struggles to think of a single assignment that AI wouldn’t …

Google’s Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI – even on phones

Google’s Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI – even on phones

Published by skeptic

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Gemma 4 is now fully open-source under Apache 2.0. Local AI enables privacy, offline use, and lower costs. From servers to smartphones, deployment just got much easier. Google announced today that its DeepMind AI research division is releasing Gemma 4, its latest generation of open large language models. The models are being released under the Apache 2.0 license, making them truly open source compared to the permissive but still controlled license of earlier Gemma generations. What is Gemma? Gemma is an LLM like Gemini. But here, we’re talking about the AI processing engine, not the chatbot interface. Both Gemma and Gemini were developed using the same research and technology. The difference is that Gemini is a subscription-based closed product, whereas Gemma is an open model that can be downloaded and run locally for free. The ability to run an AI model locally without a fee benefits a variety of applications. There are plenty of folks who want to run …

World’s First Eye-Tracking Smart Glasses: Fully Tested

World’s First Eye-Tracking Smart Glasses: Fully Tested

Published by skeptic

The Maverick AI and AI Pro smart glasses bring native eye-tracking capabilities and advanced AI features to wearable technology. Weighing just 47 grams and priced under $400, these glasses include a full-color display powered by Every Sight Beam Optics and adjustable nose pads for comfort. Steven Sullivan examines how these features, along with customizable settings, support hands-free navigation, real-time translation and other practical applications in daily life. Explore how the glasses enable real-time analytics for sports, augmented reality navigation and health metric tracking. Gain insight into their compatibility with third-party apps, which allows for expanded functionality and tailored user experiences. This overview provides a closer look at the specific features and scenarios where these glasses can enhance productivity and convenience. Lightweight Design for Everyday Comfort TL;DR Key Takeaways : The Maverick AI and AI Pro smart glasses feature native eye-tracking technology and a vibrant full-color display, priced under $400, making advanced wearable tech more accessible. Weighing just 47 grams, the glasses offer a lightweight, comfortable design with customizable frames and adjustable nose pads for various …

Zara and Willy Chavarria Unveil a Fully Realized Menswear Fantasy

Zara and Willy Chavarria Unveil a Fully Realized Menswear Fantasy

Published by Jenni Sidey

Over the last few years, Zara has assembled a corps d’elite of design talent to bolster its fashion-world pedigree, collaborating with longtime industry heavyweights like Stefano Pilati and behind-the-scenes savants like Aaron Levine. As of today, that buzzy Rolodex also includes Willy Chavarria, the SoCal-raised, Mexican-American designer whose vision of Chicano-influenced menswear has never looked more urgent. VATÍSIMO, the designer’s first collaboration with the Spanish retail giant, is deeply rooted in perennial Chavarria influences—community and camaraderie are never far from his mind—including the singular style of some of the best-dressed men on the planet: his customers. The Willy Chavarria man, the designer tells GQ, is “someone who leads with humanity. He’s strong, but also vulnerable. He understands style as a form of expression, not status.” So what better way to promote the collaboration than with a telenovela? Directed by Glen Luchford in conjunction with Chavarria himself, the high-drama short film features supermodel Christy Turlington and actor Alberto Guerra quarreling their way through a thorny love quadrangle, decked out in head-to-toe Chavarria throughout, of course. That’s …

Report finds UK not fully prepared for severe space weather effects

Report finds UK not fully prepared for severe space weather effects

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A new report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that while the UK has built resilience against severe space weather effects, preparedness still falls short. It found that whilst forecasting capabilities for severe space weather have improved, understanding of how to respond to such emergencies remains low. With recent solar storms posing significant issues for spacecraft and satellite operators, the NAO report recommends that more should be done overall to improve resilience. It sets out the most serious acute risks facing the UK in the government’s classified National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) and public-facing National Risk Register. Widespread effects of severe space weather events Space weather originates from solar activity and mostly causes no tangible disruption. However, severe space weather can disrupt a range of technologies. For example, an event could cause the widespread disruption of air travel for multiple weeks, localised power outages in the UK, and disruption to satellite services such as satellite navigation and timing services used by many sectors. The potential economic cost of an extreme event was estimated …

Study reveals new way to fully regenerate skin without scarring

Study reveals new way to fully regenerate skin without scarring

Published by Jenni Sidey

A cut in the womb can vanish almost without a trace. The same injury a few days after birth leaves behind a scar. That sharp shift, described in a March 20 study in Cell, helps explain why skin loses much of its ability to rebuild itself so quickly, and it points to a possible way to restore some of that lost talent. In mice, Harvard stem cell biologists found that blocking a signal tied to excess nerve growth let wounded skin regenerate a far wider range of cell types instead of healing with the usual fibrous scar. “Essentially, we found a way to make wound healing outcome a lot better by learning how embryos do this so well,” said senior author Ya-Chieh Hsu, a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology and principal faculty member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. That matters because skin repair is often mistaken for true regeneration. After injury, the surface usually closes. Beneath it, though, much of the organ does not come back the way it was. Graphical abstract …