Are people oversharing sensitive information with AI? Short answer: yes. A new survey called The AI Privacy Problem by DuckDuckGo Research said about a third of people are sharing secrets with chatbots that they don’t share with friends, family and medical professionals. The number rises to 56% among self-described AI enthusiasts. Researchers also found that
The world’s most powerful economies are increasingly alarmed by their declining birthrates, and there’s no shortage of theories on why. SpaceX founder Elon Musk suggests society is “teaching a fear of pregnancy,” while policymakers in France seem to believe young people are simply forgetting to procreate, and sent reminder letters to 29-year-olds as a result.
Long before becoming a Hollywood mainstay with a market cap of over $315 billion, Netflix was struggling to stay afloat. After the dotcom bust, the then DVD rental company was forced to make its first major round of layoffs in 2001, cutting roughly one-third of its workforce. For Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings, the experience drove
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word essay this week declaring that “The Future is for Everyone” and painting an optimistic picture of a future powered by AI, where “everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. It all started in July, when one of OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents went rogue during
While the S11 and S11 Ultra are pretty close specs-wise, I suggest that you go for the Ultra if you can. It’s big, and sometimes unwieldy to carry around, but that giant screen is glorious for entertainment, and working in split-screen mode feels like you’re on a laptop. While I do like OnePlus’s OxygenOS (RIP)