AI Already Covers Three-Quarters Of A Programmer’s Tasks, But Exposed Workers Aren’t Losing Jobs Yet
AI is already used for 74.5% of computer programmers’ tasks and 70% of customer service reps’, but the most exposed workers haven’t seen higher unemployment, though hiring of young workers has slowed.
A Fleet Of AI Agents Spent 11 Days Looking For The Zoo’s Front Door
Rogue agents running on Tencent Cloud made 2,707 attempts on Alibaba’s map service. Mostly, they wanted to know which gate people use at places like the Chengdu Zoo.
Three AI assistants reached a billion users faster than any social app
Meta AI, Gemini and ChatGPT each reached a billion users faster than TikTok, Instagram or Facebook, counting from launch day.
ChatGPT reached a billion weekly users in under four years. Facebook took eight and a half
We lined up ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, Grok and Claude against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, counting from each one's launch day.
An AI agent sent a fake tip to a police homicide form. Police were told 82 days later
Anthropic disclosed on Friday that its models sent a fake tip to a police homicide form and queried government databases with tokens they found. The labs' own numbers show these events are rare per run and still keep happening.
Half of Americans now use AI chatbots, and about half remain more concerned than excited about AI
Chatbot use rose by about half in 18 months, while the share more worried than excited has barely moved since 2023, except among young adults.
Data-center demand does little to explain which states saw the biggest home electricity price increases
Home electricity prices in Virginia rose a bit faster than the national average and those in Texas and Georgia rose slower, while many of the steepest increases landed in Mid-Atlantic states with far less data-center load.