Google’s Bard could be reading your email, rumours that Siri will finally get an AI makeover, the NSA is once again under pressure to stop buying your browser data from data brokers and we mourn the demise of the floppy disk. Anyone born after the year 2000 may have to google that one. 

AI models can learn to hide their dishonest behaviour, Open AI is making it easy for anyone to call multiple GPTs from a single conversation, are mass layoffs with huge earnings and share values a strategic thing for big tech? And a study claims that 90 per cent of spreadsheets have errors.  

Host Jim Love has an insightful conversation with author, Yogi Schulz on his strategies for bringing projects to completion with his new book “A Project Sponsor’s Warp-Speed Guide:  Improving Project Performance”. It’s not necessarily great ideas that make a difference but in fact, execution, getting stuff done is much more important. Join Jim as he discovers how Yogi brought his extensive experience in project management in IT in various industries into a practical guide for achieving success.

AI solves a bus driver shortage, a study is questioning the impact of AI on the quality of code – and researchers discover that your iPhone might be sending out a lot more data on you than anyone thought. 

Researchers find huge vulnerabilities in open source AI models, a travel company sees a surge in popularity of the filter than allows you to choose which aircraft to avoid, scientists set the doomsday clock at 90 seconds to midnight naming AI as one of the causes, a professor demonstrates how easy it might be to hack a voting machine and we celebrate the 40th birthday of the Macintosh.

The mother of all breaches has leaked 26 billion user records, Gen Z are more likely to fall for a phishing or other cyber scam, humanoid robots are making their way to BMW’s auto plants and maybe we haven’t learned much in decades about the risks of using technology in the justice system.

Microsoft goes nuclear, an Atlassian study debunks the idea that the return to office has better results, there’s a big gap between what AI can to in terms of eliminating jobs and what workers fear it can do – at least for now, deep fakes hit the New Hampshire primary and if AI kills the internet, it might be a murder suicide. 

Mark Zuckerberg causes a storm with his commitment to developing Artificial General Intelligence, CIOs are sounding worried about Broadcom’s changes to VMWare, tax changes in the U.S. are having an impact on startups and - in what can only be described as a sign of the apocalypse, a new Apple product failed to sell out on its first day. 

If you've been concerned about AI and how it's going to intrude into our lives be prepared to perhaps be a little more concerned as Jim Love has an intelligent discussion with Hilke Schellmann about her book, “The Algorithm:  How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now”.  They talk about some of the things people should really be thinking about.

Where does Open Source fit into the global AI picture? Davos is abuzz with concerns about AI. A new study shows just how much data is shared with Facebook, Starlink announces Gigabit internet but it comes with a steep price, and your smart headphones might be raising eyebrows – literally.