A dystopian short film imagines 2036, where AI has taken over virtually all human employment and society is searching for a new purpose for people. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman are portrayed as ageing tech moguls promoting a bizarre solution: gyms that turn human sweat and physical effort into energy for AI. Through […]
NCP-ArchPreview introduces Next Concept Prediction (NCP), enabling language models to predict multi-token concepts alongside individual tokens. The 8.9B-parameter model was trained on 5.73 trillion tokens and reaches OLMo-3-7B’s final pretraining loss using only 51.3% of the training tokens. It achieves 1.95× faster convergence and improves downstream performance by 2.45 points, including a +5.99 gain on […]
Gartner sees Verifiable Credentials (VCs) and decentralized identity as transformational technologies poised to reshape digital identity across industries. VCs enable standardized, secure and compliant data exchange between multiple parties at lower cost and higher speed. Instead of repeatedly proving identity, users can receive verified credentials once and reuse them cryptographically across services and transactions. Decentralized […]
According to the UWV, artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalization are causing a decline in the number of job opportunities within various professional groups. Because AI operates faster, it is increasingly taking over routine and partially creative tasks, such as writing, translation, and graphic design. As a result, linguistic and creative professions in particular are under […]
ABN Amro is phasing out the e.dentifier for private customers. From now on, they will log in via the banking app or a new USB security key. According to the bank, this proactive step is necessary to continue guaranteeing the long-term security of online banking. For customers without a suitable smartphone, the ten-euro USB key […]