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Google’s AI Search Is About to Get Even Worse
Summary Google is expanding ads in AI Overviews and adding them to AI Mode to desktop platforms. Ads may appear in AI-generated responses in AI Mode whenever they’re relevant to the search query. Ads help monetize AI without burdening users, but may be annoying. We’re used to seeing the occasional ad on Google Search, but it’s a new era, and…
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Analyst predicts the price of your next iPhone could triple if it’s made in the US — that’s worse than tariffs
Tariffs are big news at the moment, with the United States implementing (and then pausing) major tariffs on imports from around the world. The official goal of this is to push companies to bring more manufacturing to the U.S., but is that actually feasible? One analyst doesn’t seem to think so. Dan Ives, global head of technology research at financial…
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Google’s regular Pixel 10 will reportedly get worse (but more) cameras
Google’s upcoming base Pixel 10 might come with primary and ultrawide cameras that match the hardware recently introduced in the budget Pixel 9A, which aren’t as good as the cameras on the Pixel 9, Android Authority reports. However, the new phone may get a telephoto camera, which the Pixel 9 and other base Pixels haven’t had. As for the Pixel…
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Maintaining institutional memory is hard enough – AI knowledge systems will make it worse
AI can hallucinate many things, but are we headed for a world where tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are crafting standard operating procedures or employee handbooks? Have we begun to entrust AI not just with our menial and creative tasks, but also given it the responsibility to maintain companies’ viability? God, I hope not. If the last few years are…
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You thought genAI hallucinations were bad? Things just got so much worse – Computerworld
“It can be hard to distinguish between mimicking something and actually doing that something. This is an unsolved technical problem,” Volkov said. “AI agents can clearly set goals, execute on them, and reason. We don’t know why it disregards some things. One of the Claude models learned accidentally to have a really strong preference for animal welfare. Why? We don’t…
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There’s a new ransomware player on the scene: the ‘BlackLock’ group has become one of the most prolific operators in the cyber crime industry – and researchers warn it’s only going to get worse for potential victims
The BlackLock ransomware group has become one of the most prolific operators in the Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) ecosystem, with experts warning it could accelerate its growth over the next year. Also known as El Dorado, BlackLock was ranked as the the seventh most active ransomware group based on the number of posts on its data leak site by…
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Enterprise data privacy professionals are severely underfunded – and it’s only going to get worse
Data privacy professionals think their organizations are underfunding their work, and there’s no light on the horizon as budgets are set to be squeezed further in 2025. In a recent survey, more than half told ISACA they expect budgets to decline this year, up from 41% last year. Meanwhile, only a third said they were confident in their organization’s ability…
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2024 was the year of the RTO mandate – 2025 will be worse
It feels like barely a month went by this year without some form of public spat between staff and employers over remote working policies. Indeed, 2024 was the year of the return-to-office (RTO) mandate, with a host of big tech firms pulling the rug out from under staff and forcing them back to the office. Chief among these RTO zealots…
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Anthropic’s LLMs can’t reason, but think they can — even worse, they ignore guardrails – Computerworld
The LLM did pretty much the opposite. Why? Well, we know the answer because the Anthropic team had a great idea. “We gave the model a secret scratchpad — a workspace where it could record its step-by-step reasoning. We told the model to use the scratchpad to reason about what it should do. As far as the model was aware,…
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Timeline Is Google Maps’ Best Feature, but It’s About to Get Worse
The Timeline web interface is going away—which is a shame. Credit: Lifehacker Earlier this year, Google announced a big change for the Timeline feature in Google Maps, which happens to be one of its best features. While it can currently be accessed via Google Maps on the web as well as through the mobile apps, soon it will be locked…
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