2026-08-30
How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody is preparing for it
Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and new institutions to manage the transition, and told GeekWire that industry leaders are worried privately while staying quiet publicly. He proposed a robot tax in February 2017, the same month the European Parliament adopted robotics rules […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-30
UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobile operators
VodafoneThree’s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planning rules, not money, are the obstacle, with more than half of its upgrades to existing masts requiring permission. The EU’s Gigabit Infrastructure Act has since November given authorities four months to decide a permit, after which it is deemed […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-08-30
AI agents have no sense of time and are not aware of it
AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex have no sense of time, according to a new study. Both systematically overestimate how long tasks will take. Codex is off by as much as ten times the actual duration. They also rate their own work about 20 percentage points too high. For long, autonomous tasks, that creates a real problem with oversight.<br /> The article AI agents have no sense [...]
2026-08-30
The skills that earn top grades are the ones AI can fake best
GPT-4o boosted grades on a marketing assignment by nearly a full point on a five-point scale in an experiment with 1,053 Bocconi University students. Whether they actually learned anything wasn't tested. Other studies suggest that AI-assisted performance without independent thinking does long-term harm.<br /> The article The skills that earn top grades are the ones AI can fake best appe [...]
