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‘Squid Game’ creator says final seasons will ‘bring out the bottom parts of human nature’
We’ve already been pre-warned that “Squid Game” season 3 — the final installment of Netflix’s hit South Korean dystopian thriller — will be a particularly dark chapter in the story of Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and the rest of our desperate players. Jo Yu-ri, who plays Jun-hee (player 222) in the series, called the grand finale a “truly unimaginably brutal…
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Michael Dell talks up the power of human and AI collaboration – but not everyone’s singing the same tune
Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell Technologies, has called on businesses to accelerate the power of human potential during his opening day keynote at Dell Technologies World 2025. Taking to the stage of the Venetian Conference and Expo Center in Las Vegas, Dell repeated again and again the importance of human involvement in the “AI age”, while also talking…
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Has AI exceeded human levels of intelligence? The answer is more complicated than you might think
It’s no wonder that many of us find the idea of artificial general intelligence (AGI) mildly terrifying. Hollywood script writers have long enjoyed stretching the idea of self-aware computers to their most unsettling extremes. If you’ve watched the likes of “2001: A Space Odyssey”, the “Terminator” franchise or “Ex Machina”, then you’ve already had a flavor of where AGI could…
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Amazon develops a robot that ‘feels’ touch, just like its human workers
Amazon has announced a new AI-infused warehouse robot that it says has a sense of touch. This allows the Vulcan robot to pick and stow roughly three-quarters of the items stocked in the company’s warehouses, a task that was previously handled predominantly by human workers. “Vulcan represents a fundamental leap forward in robotics,” says Aaron Parness, Amazon’s director of applied…
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Cyber defenders need to remember their adversaries are human, says Trellix research head
Cybersecurity professionals must remember they are fighting real people, not abstract threats, and recognise the increasingly blurred lines between cybercriminals and nation-states. This was the message from John Fokker, head of threat intelligence at Trellix Advanced Research Center, during his RSA Conference 2025 keynote. Drawing on his background as a former Dutch high-tech crime unit officer, Fokker stressed the human…
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How to Talk to a Real Human at the IRS
Whether you’re filling a prescription, rebooking a flight, or asking a question about your taxes, it seems like the first line of defense between you and any sort of real human helper is a never-ending string of automated prompts. But not all questions can be answered by a computer—especially when it comes to your taxes. The IRS expects more than…
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No application can eliminate human error: Signal’s head defends the app
When the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeff Goldberg, was accidentally added to a Signal conversation, things took a surprising turn. The journalist could not initially believe the authenticity of the invitation, but the chat apparently involving high-ranking US politicians and government officials discussed specific targets for attacking Huti forces in Yemen — and a few hours later, airstrikes did indeed take…
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The ‘Protoclone’ robot has synthetic muscles — and moves like a human – Computerworld
Polish company Clone Robotics has unveiled Protoclone, a human-like robot equipped with synthetic muscles and a polymer skeleton consisting of 206 bones. The YouTube clip below shows Protoclone using its synthetic muscles to move. Protoclone has a 500-watt electric pump as its heart and four cameras for eyes. In addition, the robot has 320 pressure-sensitive sensors and 70 inertial sensors,…
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“We are really moving into a world now of managing humans and agents together”: Marc Benioff thinks today’s CEOs will be the last to have a fully human workforce – and he’s not the only big tech exec predicting the rise of a new AI workforce
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff thinks current chief executives will be among the last to oversee an all-human workforce as the use of AI agents becomes more widespread. Benioff’s prediction came during a conversation with Axios at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January, where he referred to AI agents as “digital labor” capable of handling roles previously reserved…
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The world’s ‘first AI software engineer’ isn’t living up to expectations: Cognition AI’s ‘Devin’ assistant was touted as a game changer for developers, but so far it’s fumbling tasks and struggling to compete with human workers
Devin, a coding assistant hailed as the world’s ‘first AI software engineer’, was given 20 coding tasks – it managed to complete just three, taking longer than expected and going down strange routes to achieve its goals. The AI coding tool, developed by Cognition AI, was hailed as a transformative solution to help streamline software development when it was unveiled…
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