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The case for fixing everything

Brand is right, too, that maintainers haven’t gotten the laurels they deserve. Over the past few decades, scholars have shown that work from oiling tools to replacing worn parts to updating code... Read more »

Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer

At Ensemble, the strategy for addressing this challenge is knowledge distillation. The systematic conversion of expert judgment and operational decisions into machine-readable training signals. In health-care revenue cycle management, for example, systems... Read more »

Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments

SLMs are purpose-built for the needs of the department or agency that will use them. The data is stored securely outside the model, and is only accessed when queried. Carefully engineered prompts... Read more »

Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion

This “intention gap” between AI systems and human operators is precisely why we hesitate to deploy frontier black-box AI in civilian health care or air traffic control, and why its integration into... Read more »

The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles

6 The public backlash against data centers is intensifying in the US Protests and litigation are blocking projects. (CNBC) + One potential solution? Putting them in space. (MIT Technology Review)  7 Five-minute EV charging is becoming a... Read more »

The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

Other, similarly nifty A/B tests followed. One was led by David Luther, a biologist at George Mason University (who also worked with Phillips on the covid-19 study in San Francisco). In 2015,... Read more »

No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all

In the second half of 2024, the growing group of scientists assembled the report and wrote the policy forum for Science. Relman briefed policymakers at the White House, members of the defense... Read more »

Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX

And it turns out that well-designed, value-forward consent experiences routinely outperform initial estimates.Touchpoints for privacy-led UX often include consent management platforms, terms and conditions, privacy policies, data subject access request (DSAR) tools,... Read more »

Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX

And it turns out that well-designed, value-forward consent experiences routinely outperform initial estimates.Touchpoints for privacy-led UX often include consent management platforms, terms and conditions, privacy policies, data subject access request (DSAR) tools,... Read more »

Redefining the future of software engineering

This report, which is based on a survey of 300 engineering and technology executives, finds that software engineering teams are seeing the potential in agentic AI and are beginning to put it... Read more »