The report tracks 650 million professionals and 80 million organizations, and its headline numbers are stark, showing a 35 % drop in graduate hiring in 2024 compared to 2023, and a 50 % drop compared to pre-pandemic levels.
Even top computer science grads are struggling to break in, the report finds, with hiring down 50 % since 2022.
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FrontierMath is a synthetic benchmark that contains 300 questions spanning from upper-graduate level to Field Medalist challenges, and the best machines on it score about 2%.
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The case revolves around a teen whom Character.ai allegedly encouraged into suicide over a long interaction, and whether the developers should be held accountable for his tragic death, in a wrongful death lawsuit.
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Both models produce near-instant responses to queries, but can turn to reasoning and thinking for more demanding requests.
World’s best on coding?
Anthropic claims Opus is «the world’s best coding model,» and it edges out Gemini 2.5 Pro, o3 and GTP 4.1 on SWE-bench Verified, but cannot surpass OpenAI’s o3 on certain PhD-level benchmarks, according to TechCrunch.
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In it, Google explains how it can make Gemini and search better by tailoring responses to the vast data Google keeps on you from prior searches, docs in Google Drive — and even your past emails in Gmail.
All of this data is under Google’s control and is infinitely searchable by an AI, which won’t have to spend much time to get to know you «better.»
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Citing significant progress already done, Sam Altman says «I think it is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen,» according to The Washington Post.
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The glasses pair with Gemini on your phone, has an in-lens display, camera, ear buds and microphones and can show you your Android apps.
More importantly, though, is the integration with the AI. The glasses become Gemini’s eyes and ears and will see all you see and listen to conversations around you.
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The most important news they presented is AI Mode going live in the USA, using what is likely the most valuable screen real estate on the planet — Google’s front page — to leverage the new AI search feature. It’s been in testing for about a week.
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This should let websites easily tune into the revolution of AI search, allowing for natural language processing right from the search bar, says Microsoft.
Natural language process as revolution
This is fourth revolution in computers, says Ramanathan V. Guha, a technical fellow at Microsoft, — being able to communicate with applications, and computers in general, with free-form language, to The Verge.
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OpenAI’s Agents Research Lead, Josh Tobin tells TechCrunch that the company wants software agents to complete tasks autonomously that would otherwise take hours or days to finish, in anything from one to thirty minutes, and OpenAI is already using the model to offload repetitive tasks.
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One of those is the significant progress it is having during testing of an AI chatbot version of Apple’s personal Siri assistant, developed by a team in Zurich.
MacRumors reports that Apple is testing a completely new architecture — not the current patchwork Siri that punts to ChatGPT — but a standalone LLM designed to eventually replace Siri outright.
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The penalties for making nonconsensual sexual deepfakes now include up to three years in prison, and websites will have 48 hours to remove reported content — and copies of it.
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In a May 15 on-stage interview with Cadence CEO Anirudh Devgan at CadenceLIVE 2025, Huang reflected on the future of chip design—and offered a glimpse into how cutting-edge companies are thinking about AI’s next phase.
Much like how software engineers today increasingly rely on AI coding tools—and soon, autonomous agents—Huang envisions every chip and systems engineer being supported by “assistant chip designers” that help with everyday tasks:
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Now it seems following internal dismay at the model’s performance, it was delayed until June, and has just been postponed again until sometime in the fall or later, writes Reuters.
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— AlphaEvolve is a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that is able to make new discoveries in computing and mathematics, says Matej Balog, a researcher at Google DeepMind, to VentureBeat.
Google doesn’t say when the model will be available to the general public, but is planning on working with certain scientists and is «exploring» a broader release.
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