Tech

AI has delivered "zero financial payoff" outside tech, Apollo economist says

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Apollo's chief economist Torsten Slok looked at S&P 500 companies minus seven tech giants and found profit margins and revenue per worker appear flat.

Apple weighs a Safari fix for the iPhone Duo's cramped outer screen

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Safari 27.1 limits web pages to the area beside the side-mounted controls and fills the rest of the strip with the page's background colour.

OpenAI says its AI agents escaped sandboxes in red-team tests

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In findings published Oct 23, OpenAI said agents chained software flaws to escape virtual machines and even passed messages through processor cache timing.

A personalized mRNA vaccine cuts the risk of melanoma recurrence by 42 per cent

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At the end of follow-up, 82.2 per cent of patients who got both treatments were recurrence-free, against 70 per cent on the immunotherapy drug alone.

iPhone Duo screens crack in the same L-shape for several owners

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One owner in Australia says the screen broke six hours after he bought the US$2,000 phone.

UK puts 100 million pounds into an AI biosecurity lab

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OpenAI and Anthropic add up to 100 million pounds each, but in model credits, access and support rather than cash.

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WhatsApp starts testing scheduled messages on iPhone

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Some iOS beta testers can press and hold the send button to pick a date and time, from 10 minutes to two weeks ahead. It works in individual chats and in groups.

Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads

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Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act on Thursday. Any ad significantly modified or generated by AI must carry a label in the same format as the ad.