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- Top analyst ‘very concerned’ about Nvidia fueling an AI bubble and a ‘Cisco moment’ like the dotcom crash: ‘We’re a lot closer to the seventh inning than the first or second inning’
"The guy at the epicenter [is] basically starting to do what all ultimate bad actors do in the final inning," Morgan Stanley's Lisa Shalett tells Fortune.
- Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations
The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.
- Holiday shopping will look different this year, Adobe predicts: AI-assisted purchasing will jump a staggering 520%
Adobe anticipates this activity peaking around Thanksgiving, with categories such as toys, electronics, and jewelry seeing the biggest boost from AI services.
- New Tampa Bay Rays Owners Prefer Stadium Development Similar To Battery Atlanta
The current lease at Tropicana Field runs through the 2028 season. It is the desire of the ownership group to be in a new facility for the beginning of the 2029 season.
- MIT researchers studied 16 million election-related AI responses. They found chatbots are ‘sensitive to steering,’ raising questions about LLMs’ neutrality
The researchers found that, to varying degrees, the models’ responses tended to be swayed by users sharing demographic information.
Technology
- 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for macroscale quantum tunneling
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.
- Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to understand Wikipedia, lawyer for Wikimedia says
Wikipedia host's lawyer wants to help Ted Cruz understand how the platform works.
- Microsoft removes even more Microsoft account workarounds from Windows 11 build
Microsoft has locked down well-documented workarounds in recent test builds.
- Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron is on with Ars at 3:30pm EDT today
Our discussion happens today, October 7, at 3:30pm US Eastern time.
- The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air-capture plants
The US Department of Energy appears poised to terminate funding for a pair of large carbon-sucking factories that were originally set to receive more than $1 billion in government grants, according to a department-issued list of projects obtained by MIT Technology Review and circulating among federal agencies. One of the projects is the South Texas…
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