Tech's Artificial General Intelligence dream is just a fantasy
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Until someone has a new idea, this is all just expensive word salad

The tech industry is running full tilt towards Artificial General Intelligence, but the tools it’s using barely understand sarcasm, let alone reality.

Tech shortsightedness could be killing tomorrow’s coders
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AI’s appetite for junior jobs is hollowing out the ladder before Gen Z gets a foot on it

The IT industry is merrily chainsawing its own future by starving the bottom of the talent funnel, all in the name of efficiency and AI-fuelled delusion.

Musk’s Grok turns into a broken record about South Africa
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Sees “white genocide” everywhere even in baseball

Elon Musk’s pet AI Grok appears to have gone completely off its trolley, hijacking conversations on X (formerly Twitter) to bang on about alleged "white genocide" in South Africa, no matter what anyone asks it.

Microsoft and OpenAI bicker over AI
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Reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance

OpenAI and the software King of the World Microsoft are reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance so the ChatGPT maker can flog shares in a future IPO without losing its golden pipeline to AI wizardry. 

 OpenAI bottles it on for-profit switch
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Charity keeps the leash as Altman plots trillion-dollar AI dreams

OpenAI has abruptly U-turned on its plans to go full corporate, deciding instead to let its nonprofit arm keep control of the outfit’s shiny new for-profit structure.