AI raises fears of job losses in Cyprus
More than half of Cyprus workers are in jobs highly exposed to AI. Unions warn of employment risks and call for training and regulation.
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More than half of Cyprus workers are in jobs highly exposed to AI. Unions warn of employment risks and call for training and regulation.
Read the original →Contrary to the conventional wisdom that unions suppress automation for fear of job cuts, the level of automation at workplaces with unions is reported to be higher than at workplaces without them.
Read the original →A European Commission report says 56 per cent of Cyprus' workforce is in jobs heavily affected by AI. Peo and Keve urge education reform and say it is too early to link AI to layoffs.
Read the original →Anthropic expanded its support for the nonprofit sector on Monday, while also filing to sell shares to the public for the first time. The maker of the AI assistant Claude said the moves are part of its broader strategy for "compounding good."
Read the original →A miniature keyboard presented by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to Samsung Group executives is drawing attention. The device is designed not for conventional use.
Read the original →SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reacted to a user complimenting Grok Bot and suggested every user should view the tool as a work colleague.
Read the original →Four AI companies now back one opt-out standard for training data. The item covers who signed on, how to block AI crawlers, and what publishers must do. It is dated 2026.
Read the original →Several lesser-known features in Microsoft Teams make the experience easier and less stressful than many users may expect.
Read the original →The DeepSeek Harness team published dsh-superagent, an MIT-licensed prototype of a GitHub agent that acts only when asked or when a rule allows it. The item also covers its limits and risks.
Read the original →Chinese AI company DeepSeek has unveiled a new system architecture. The description is cut off after this point.
Read the original →In the 1980s, the Industrial Revolution briefly lost its status as a "revolution". New quantitative measures threatened to demote Britain's 18th-century economic transformation.
Read the original →As AI reshapes the world, Christians are called to approach technological progress with wisdom and discernment. The piece also urges a renewed commitment to what makes us human.
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Read the original →SNP minister Alyn Smith urges Scotland to seize the AI moment and compares sceptics to opponents of the lightbulb. Environmentalists and campaigners fighting hyperscale data centres say their concerns are being dismissed.
Read the original →Practitioners' workpapers and communications with taxpayers are often protected from compelled disclosure. When they use AI to research or analyze tax positions, they may create records that are vulnerable to discovery. The article explains the risk after the Heppner case and recommends safeguards for firm policies and engagement letters.
Read the original →The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism recently joined 59 other publishers in filing a mass-action lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.
Read the original →A sandwich lawsuit has put McDonald's marketing under scrutiny. A separate pricing case and weaker customer traffic raise the question of whether the company can persuade Americans they are getting their money's worth.
Read the original →Sovereign AI in India is moving from models to applications. The item covers 20 backed proposals, BharatGen and Sarvam numbers, compute limits and five predictions.
Read the original →UC Riverside's new AI grant gives the Inland Empire a chance to change its workforce, but only if residents can use the opportunity.
Read the original →Opsera has announced its relaunch as an AI-native software factory. Its Forge factory, released in April, is at the center of the relaunch.
Read the original →Concerns about a hardening of the flow of money are growing at a time when huge investment is needed. OpenAI is cited as a representative AI company.
Read the original →Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath recalled asking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for stock recommendations during an interview last year. Altman suggested luxury giants Hermes and LVMH, betting on AI-driven productivity gains boosting demand for premium brands. Kamath says the stocks have since fallen sharply.
Read the original →Foxconn is exploring a new partnership with OpenAI, building on their prior agreement for data-center racks and AI hardware. The company's chairman, Young Liu, met with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to discuss future collaboration.
Read the original →Elon Musk promised $2 trillion in cuts. Five savings claims were checked against budget data to see what was real, what was inflated, and what saved nothing in 2026.
Read the original →The piece argues that before the Internet, no one needed antivirus software. It notes the Internet created enormous possibilities, including the possibility of transmitting viruses that could infect hundreds of millions of computers around the world.
Read the original →Senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley have written a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai seeking answers about the company's AI tools in schools. The letter follows an investigation into how the tools affect schoolchildren.
Read the original →BharatGen's Ganesh Ramakrishnan says building AI for India's linguistic diversity, data sovereignty and public-sector needs will be critical to achieving the country's Viksit Bharat 2047 vision.
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