Cyrus Farivar of Forbes explored how the power of nature overwhelmed the AI-powered network of sensors. But as wildfire damage increases across the country, the emerging “fire tech” field is working on solutions, he explains.
Steve Grobman, chief technology officer at cybersecurity firm McAfee, reports that opportunists are using AI and other tech to deceive and rip off good Samaritans.
Apate AI CEO Dali Kaafar explains how his company’s chatbots are stopping phone scammers before they reach a real human and extracting as much information as possible to learn about what scams are out there.
Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”
Technology has helped Rotterdam’s container capacity triple in the last 30 years, the BBC’s Matthew Kenyon reports. But plenty of workers remain at the facility.
Niall Firth, executive editor of the MIT Technology Review, explains that so-called small language models are focused on useful tasks and much cheaper to develop and run than LLMs. For those reasons, he says, they’ll become pervasive.
Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, argues that at least $30 billion of the AI developer’s $150 billion valuation should be invested in safety, ethics and access. “I think they’ve abandoned” their original vision, he says.
