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March 4, 2025

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Trump purge hits Chips Act office, two-fifths of staff to be terminated: Report

Two-fifths of the staff of the U.S. Chips Program Office, responsible for managing the Chips and Science Act, have been laid off by the Trump administration. 60 total employees will be cut by the end of today. According to Bloomberg, 20 employees previously accepted resignations last week, with the other 40 being “probationary” employees who had begun their positions within the last two years; those probationary workers were to be terminated by the end of Monday. It is no secret that President Trump is not a fan of the Chips Act. The law signed by the previous President Biden devotes

March 4, 2025

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GPT-4.5 review: improved verbal intelligence, contextual adaptation, abstract writing, and better taste and aesthetics, but not ideal for reasoning or coding (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don’t Worry About the Vase: GPT-4.5 review: improved verbal intelligence, contextual adaptation, abstract writing, and better taste and aesthetics, but not ideal for reasoning or coding  —  It’s happening.  —  The question is, what is the it that is happening?  An impressive progression of intelligence? Source link

March 4, 2025

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Researchers Find Less-Educated Areas Adopting AI Writing Tools Faster

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, experts have debated how widely AI language models would impact the world. A few years later, the picture is getting clear. According to new Stanford University-led research examining over 300 million text samples across multiple sectors, AI language models now assist in writing up to a quarter of professional communications across sectors. It’s having a large impact, especially in less-educated parts of the United States. “Our study shows the emergence of a new reality in which firms, consumers and even international organizations substantially

March 4, 2025

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Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster

Corporate and diplomatic trends in AI writing According to the researchers, all sectors they analyzed (consumer complaints, corporate communications, job postings) showed similar adoption patterns: sharp increases beginning three to four months after ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch, followed by stabilization in late 2023. Organization age emerged as the strongest predictor of AI writing usage in the job posting analysis. Companies founded after 2015 showed adoption rates up to three times higher than firms established before 1980, reaching 10–15 percent AI-modified text in certain roles compared to below 5 percent for older organizations. Small companies with fewer employees also incorporated AI

March 3, 2025

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No Borders, No Threats – Secure Your Online Adventures With NordVPN

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March 3, 2025

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Get a lifetime pass to 1minAI for only A$160

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March 3, 2025

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Hegseth orders pause in offensive US cyber operations against Russia

US President Donald Trump’s administration is pausing its offensive cyber operations against Russia, officials say, as a diplomatic push continues to end the war in Ukraine. The reasoning for the instruction has not been publicly stated, and it is not clear how long the halt might last. The defence department has declined to comment. The directive reportedly came before Trump ended up in a televised row with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday. Since returning to office, Trump has markedly softened the American position towards Moscow in eagerness to reach a deal to end the war

March 3, 2025

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The iPhone 15 Pro will get Visual Intelligence with iOS 18.4

What started as an Apple Intelligence feature exclusive to the Camera Control-endowed iPhone 16 line is coming to older iPhones, and soon. We already knew that the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max would get Visual Intelligence at some point in the future, and thanks to 9to5Mac, we now know it’s one of several options you can assign to the Action Button in the second iOS 18.4 beta. That likely means the feature could end up in the final release of the update. Visual Intelligence lets you draw on AI models from Google and OpenAI to find information (and websites)

March 3, 2025

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TSMC announces $100 billion investment in US chipmaking

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. – the world’s biggest chipmaker – will invest at least $100 billion to expand chip manufacturing in the US. During a press conference on Monday, President Donald Trump said the funding would go toward building two additional chip manufacturing facilities in Phoenix, Arizona. The $100 billion investment builds upon the $65 billion TSMC has already committed to building three Arizona factories, as well as the $6.6 billion the Biden administration awarded to TSMC under the CHIPS Act. TSMC began producing 4-nanometer chips at its Arizona plant in January, but its future factories are expected to make

March 3, 2025

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The author of SB 1047 introduces a new AI bill in California

The author of California’s SB 1047, the nation’s most controversial AI safety bill of 2024, is back with a new AI bill that could shake up Silicon Valley. California state Senator Scott Wiener introduced a new bill on Friday that would protect employees at leading AI labs, allowing them to speak out if they think their company’s AI systems could be a “critical risk” to society. The new bill, SB 53, would also create a public cloud computing cluster, called CalCompute, to give researchers and startups the necessary computing resources to develop AI that benefits the public. Wiener’s last AI