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fromBusiness Insider
5 days ago

Author of viral 'Something Big is Coming' essay says AI helped him write it - and that proves his point

"Even if there is a 20% chance of this happening, people deserve to know and have time to prepare." The people in tech who previously warned about AI's impact were mostly speaking to others in the industry, he said. Shumer said he wanted something that spoke to his dad, a lawyer who is just a few years from retirement and is hopeful he can run out the clock on the potential massive change on the horizon.
Artificial intelligence
Video games
fromGameSpot
1 month ago

Arc Raiders Dev Defends Use Of AI Yet Again

Embark used AI text-to-speech to generate voice lines from actor recordings to increase efficiency while maintaining actor involvement and asserting it won't reduce hiring.
US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 months ago

MP calls for companies to pay tax for AI bots used to replace workers

An MP proposes a tax on large companies using AI to replace workers to recoup lost tax revenue and discourage large-scale job displacement.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Gambling does not cause any social ills', lobbyist tells incredulous MPs

The boss of the UK's main betting and gaming lobby group has told MPs that there is no social ill with gambling as she warned against imposing higher taxes on the sector in the November budget. Grainne Hurst, the chief executive of the Betting and Gaming Council, repeatedly made the statement to parliament's Treasury select committee on Tuesday, where she also claimed that higher taxes would result in thousands of job losses and push punters into using hidden market services.
UK politics
Business
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
5 months ago

Hundreds of the UK's largest shops are at risk of closing over propose business rates tax band - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Government proposal to include large shops in higher business rates risks closure of 400 large-format stores and up to 100,000 job losses.
UK politics
fromBusiness Matters
5 months ago

Companies backed by Sunak's Future Fund more likely to have failed, report finds

Future Fund-backed companies were more likely to collapse, had sharper employment declines, and showed no financial outperformance compared with non-funded peers.
fromBusiness Insider
5 months ago

Vibe coding is here to stay - but engineers and computer scientists say 'learn to code' is still good advice

Kevin Wu, CEO and cofounder of the AI voice agent startup Leaping AI, said everyone is vibe coding. But that doesn't mean they're all doing it well. Wu said his company hired an engineer, only to suspect they were mostly vibe coding. "They didn't even have any idea what the code does that the AI produced," he said.
Software development
Artificial intelligence
fromIT Pro
8 months ago

Questions raised over AI's impact as studies tout conflicting adoption outcomes

The impact of generative AI on productivity and wages is debated, showing little effect according to some reports, while others highlight significant productivity growth.
NYC parents
fromBlavity News & Entertainment
9 months ago

NYC Child Welfare Investigations Disproportionately Target Low-Income Black And Latino Families, Per Report - Blavity

Child welfare investigations in NYC disproportionately affect low-income Black and Latino families, leading to job loss and social disparities.
Cars
fromwww.nytimes.com
10 months ago

Trump's Tariffs Are Already Reducing Car Imports and Idling Factories

Tariffs on imported vehicles led to factory shutdowns, layoffs, and halted exports in the auto industry, indicating deep economic repercussions.
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