#Technology

Industry experts overwhelmingly believe quantum utility, where quantum computers outperform classical ones for practical tasks, is less than 10 years away, according to an Economist Impact survey.

Researchers caution that excessive pre-training of large language models can be detrimental to their performance. Similar to the butterfly effect, overtraining can make AI models overly sensitive to minor changes, ultimately hindering their effectiveness.

The viral AI doll trend, where users upload selfies to create digital action figures, is raising privacy concerns. Techradar warns this is a privacy nightmare, highlighting the risks of sharing personal data for fleeting online trends.

Arm asserts its Neoverse platform will power nearly half of hyperscaler compute shipments by 2025, challenging x86's dominance. This shift, driven by power efficiency needs for AI, sees AWS, Google, and Microsoft leading the adoption of Arm-based infrastructure.

Framework is pausing US sales of select laptops due to new Trump-era tariffs on Taiwanese imports, leading to increased costs and a temporary halt for specific configurations.

Wikipedia is facing a massive surge in traffic from AI crawlers, consuming 65% of resources. Multimedia bandwidth is up 50% since January as bots gather training data. Wikimedia's infrastructure is overwhelmed by this exponential growth in bot activity.

Anthropic introduces Claude for Education, an AI assistant designed for colleges. It supports students, faculty, and administrators with tasks like tutoring and policy comprehension, featuring a Socratic 'Learning Mode'.

GitHub Copilot introduces 'premium requests' and will charge for access to advanced AI models. Users who choose models beyond the base for tasks like agentic coding will face rate limits and additional costs, potentially making Copilot more expensive for some.

OpenAI has put ChatGPT-5 on hold to integrate new features. Instead, they are releasing new 'o3 and o4-mini' models in a couple of weeks. These smaller models are the current focus as ChatGPT-5 is further developed.