Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas is now tossing tool bags around a (fake) construction site

How Will AI-Driven Automation Actually Affect Jobs? Authored by Alex Imas and Soumitra Shukla via Ghosts of Electricity, One of the most widely cited findings in AI policy comes from a 2023 paper by Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin, and Rock titled “GPTs are GPTs.” The title is a nice double meaning: the paper studies how general-purpose technologies (GPTs) powered by large language models (also GPTs) may reshape the labor market. The headline finding is that around 80% of U.S. workers could have at least 10% of their tasks affected by LLMs, and...

Critical Shortage Of Jet Fuel: EU Airlines Have Just 6 Weeks Supply Left Via Remix News, The European market is facing a critical shortage of kerosene, with only six weeks of supply remaining, and the war in Iran is threatening the continent with a major aviation crisis. Since the war broke out, jet fuel prices have jumped 70 percent, threatening the financial health of European airlines. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that this scarcity may soon lead to widespread flight cancellations across Europe. To combat the dwindling supply, the EU is reportedly...

Direct, face-to-face talks were held today between Israeli and Lebanese Ambassadors. The talks are historic, at least in the sense that direct talks between the two nations are exceedingly rare, but little was expected of them, and even less seems to have come out of them. The talks were held in Washington D.C. and conspicuously […]