The unemployment rate for technology workers changed little last month, according to an analysis of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) latest lackluster jobs report. Overall, US employers added just 73,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday; that was well short of the 115,000 jobs expected. IT unemployment rose slightly from 2.8%

A public war of words has erupted between cloud infrastructure leader Cloudflare and AI search company Perplexity, with both sides making serious allegations about each other’s technical competence in a dispute that industry analysts say exposes fundamental flaws in how enterprises protect content from AI data collection. The controversy began when Cloudflare published a scathing

Apple continues to grow in the enterprise, supporting this push with regular enterprise-focused enhancements for its platforms. We can see the results as Mac adoption sets new records. But the company can still do more for enterprise IT. To get a sense of some improvements it could make, I caught up with Apu Pavithran, the CEO of

A vitiligo research group has “hit pause” on its forthcoming AI therapy bot after learning about negative mental health effects that other chatbots have been having on users. The Vitiligo Research Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness and helping sufferers of the pigment-loss skin condition, cited recent news stories about so-called “AI psychosis” —

Google’s notorious AI Overviews feature appears to have finally gotten it right — but for all the wrong reasons. As flagged on Bluesky, if you ask Google why its own search engine feels so useless lately, the company’s AI feature will provide multiple and excoriating reasons — including brutal attacks against itself, Google’s much-maligned AI

Content warning: this story discusses self-harm, suicide, and other disturbing topics. As AI chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) become increasingly ubiquitous, it’s becoming undeniable that they can worsen — and perhaps even precipitate — mental health crises among users. Back in June, a team of Stanford researchers found that chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude were

AI companies are pouring so much money into AI, experts are starting to warn that it may be propping up the entire US economy. As investor Paul Kedrosky told the Wall Street Journal, spending on AI infrastructure has already eclipsed spending on telecom and internet infrastructure during the dot-com crisis over two decades ago, raising

Former CNN anchor and chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta drew near-universal criticism for conducting an astonishingly tone-deaf “interview” with an AI avatar of one of the victims of the 2018 Parkland school shooting. On Monday, Acosta aired a clip of him speaking to the AI, which was reportedly created by his parents, to send

Months after OpenAI was warned about the potential psychological harms ChatGPT can cause for its users — particularly those predisposed to mental health struggles — the company says it’s rolled out an “optimization” meant to calm the fears of mental health experts who have become increasingly alarmed about the risks its software poses. Yesterday, the

Watch VeriTrail Explainer Many applications of language models (LMs) involve generating content based on source material, such as answering questions, summarizing information, and drafting documents. A critical challenge for these applications is that LMs may produce content that is not supported by the source text – a phenomenon known as “closed-domain hallucination.”1 Existing methods for