Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mike Lynch, once one of Britain’s leading tech entrepreneurs, was acquitted of criminal charges by a San Francisco jury on Thursday, capping a 12-year legal saga stemming from one of Silicon Valley’s biggest-ever fraud cases … Read more
When Jaime Teevan, chief scientist and technical fellow at Microsoft Research, was asked to investigate the data privacy issues caused by Microsoft Recall, the Windows maker’s poorly received self-monitoring tool brushed aside the concerns. Teevan spoke Wednesday with Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, at the fifth anniversary conference of the American … Read more
Image caption, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley says the force is struggling with inadequate funding and low recruitment Item information Author, Jess Warren Role, BBC news June 5, 2024, 1:29 PM Dutch time Updated 4 hours ago The Metropolitan Police is heading for its lowest staffing levels in a decade in March next year, Commissioner … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Central Bank has sent a clear signal that it will cut interest rates from their historic highs next week, with its chief economist dismissing fears that this would happen before the US Federal … Read more
A US Senate committee heard from the head of NASA what the nature of a development mission means: sometimes you have to wait. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, while aware of what he calls a “space race” with China to establish a sustainable presence on the moon, said Thursday (May 23) that he will only commit … Read more
Meta’s artificial intelligence chief said the large language models that power generative AI products like ChatGPT would never achieve the ability to reason and plan like humans, as he focused instead on a radically alternative approach to creating ‘superintelligence’ in machines . Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at the social media giant that owns Facebook … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren will leave the budget airline after seven years in the top job and will be replaced by financial director Kenton Jarvis. Lundgren, who started his career as a tour guide and … Read more