Staff at WiseTech have been waiting almost three months to be told if they’re among the 2,000 people the logistics software company is to cut due to advances in AI, with workers criticising the wait as stressful and “ridiculous”. The comments come as its founder on Tuesday told investors an AI agent could learn a…
The LA Clippers have not selected in the first round of the NBA draft for two consecutive years in over a decade. But, ahead of the draft lottery Sunday, there is a chance that streak is broken, thanks to the Indiana Pacers. Editor’s Picks 2 Related LA traded center Ivica Zubac to the Pacers at…
Jet fuel shortages threaten to disrupt summer travel as the loss of supplies from the Middle East ripples across Asia and Europe. Exports from the Persian Gulf represented the largest single source of jet fuel supply to the global market before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, according to the International Energy…
Fighters attack ‘Africa’s Alcatraz’, which detains high-value prisoners, and disrupt crucial supply chains to the capital. In a new wave of attacks in Mali, an al-Qaeda-linked group has stormed a main prison housing fighters from the armed group and set fire to trucks with food supplies heading to the capital Bamako. Fighters from the Jama’at…
Jetcityimage/Getty Images Google is updating AI Overviews and AI Mode, the AI-generated portions of its search engine, to highlight sources in new ways, and interestingly, more prominently feature first-hand accounts from forums, social media and Reddit. Via a new “Expert Advice” section that can appear in AI responses, Google will display “a preview…
Former Police frontman Sting says he won’t be leaving his six children an inheritance. During an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, the 74-year-old singer laughed when he was asked if he planned to leave his children his estimated US$550-million fortune. “All of my kids have been blessed with this extraordinary work ethic, whether it’s…
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The Norwegian government has been heavily criticised for approving plans to reopen three North Sea gasfields nearly three decades after they were closed to help fill the gap in energy supplies created by the Middle East war. Amid sharp price rises in oil and gas since the US and Israel’s attack on Iran in February,…
Large parts of the Amazon rainforest have been cleared for cattle ranching Paralaxis/Alamy Destruction of rainforest for cattle ranching is making the Amazon biome more vulnerable to irreversible collapse, which could occur within decades if deforestation continues. A landmark 2022 study on tipping points found the Amazon would likely suffer widespread dieback at global warming…
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is touting the success of the fintech’s new Ventures Fund I, which allows retail investors to invest in private tech companies like Stripe, Oura, Databricks, OpenAI, and others, through a publicly-traded fund listed on the NYSE. “We had something like over 150,000 retail investors participate in the IPO, so it’s quite…
