I flew on a startup's one-of-a-kind electric plane that could reshape air travel by 2027
Beta Technologies' Jetsons-like electric plane aims to make air travel cleaner, quieter, and more affordable. I flew in it to see what it's like.
IT/기술 · "KIND" · 총 53건
필터 보기현재 지수
50.3
0 = 부정 우세
50 = 중립
100 = 긍정 우세
최근 7일 기준 82,618건을 분석한 결과, 뉴스 심리지수는 50.2(균형)입니다. 긍정 4,086건(4.9%)·중립 76,581건(92.7%)·부정 1,951건(2.4%)이며, 중립 비중이 뚜렷하게 높습니다. 성향 지수는 종합 14.7(중도 균형)입니다.
Beta Technologies' Jetsons-like electric plane aims to make air travel cleaner, quieter, and more affordable. I flew in it to see what it's like.
An MIT study published in November 2025 found that using AI chatbots like ChatGPT erodes critical thinking skills, even among adults.
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When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes his second visit to South Korea in just seven months this week, it won’t be only to meet top memory chip and robotics executives, but to throw the first pitch at a baseball game and appear on a TV talk show. While a celebrity in his own right, the charm push by the Taiwan-born 63-year-old highlights South Korea’s critical position in the AI landscape. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix between them make about 70 per cent of the memory needed for AI chips like Nvidia’s. And the country’s strength in manufacturing and robotics sets it up to be a key player in physical AI, where AI is embedded in robots, cars and factories. “Nvidia’s dependence on South Korean suppliers is rising,” Jeff Kim, an analyst at Seoul-based KB Securities, wrote in a research note. Huang “needs a manufacturing site for physical AI”, Kim said. “South Korea is emerging as a perfect testbed.” Asia’s fourth-largest economy is also a major Nvidia customer, with the Silicon Valley-based company announcing in October that it would supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced AI chips to the government and some of the country’s biggest businesses. Analysts and investors say South Korea’s importance has been magnified after trade frictions spoiled sales of the most advanced semiconductors to China. “South Korean companies are running high-end factories, which need a lot of these kinds of chips,” said Seung-yub Lee, a fund manager at Seoul-based Quad Investment Management. President Lee Jae Myung has vowed to make AI investment a top policy priority, aiming to turn South Korea into one of the world’s top three AI powers amid a broader push to counter the economic impact of a shrinking population. “Korea is a critical part of our ecosystem,” Huang told reporters at a dinner with South Korean tech executives on Monday in Taipei, the first day of the annual, industry-defining Computex trade show. He highlighted robotics when asked where Nvidia could invest, because “Korea is a manufacturing country, and Korea has a population limit”. “We have a lot to do together,” he said. Huang’s plans clearly include courting the country’s 50 million-strong population. He will appear on one of South Korea’s most popular talk shows, “You Quiz on the Block”, which its production company, CJ ENM, likens to the Jimmy Fallon Show in the US. And he will don a Doosan Bears jersey to throw the first pitch at Sunday’s home game against the Kiwoom Heroes, with Doosan Group Chairman Park Jeong-won acting as the ceremonial first batter. Arms of chaebol Doosan develop robots and make materials used in Nvidia’s Blackwell chips. Park Ju-gun, head of corporate analysis firm Leaders Index, said Huang learned a lesson from his visit in October, when a meeting over chicken and beer with the chiefs of Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor at a Kkanbu Chicken outlet generated a big media buzz. Huang was coy when asked by Reuters which South Korean executives he would meet this time, but food will again be a feature. According to local media, he may have a Korean barbecue dinner in Seoul’s trendy Sungsu area with executives from SK Group, Hyundai Motor and LG Group. Reuters has reported likely meetings with LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and executives at South Korea’s top online platform, Naver.
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People-to-people exchanges are already laying the groundwork for a different kind of Belt and Road collaboration. That's on full display in Astana as Chief Executive John Lee’s delegation wrapped up the Kazakhstan leg of his Central Asian tour with a visit to Nazarbayev University (NU) on Wednesday. Two individuals on the NU campus – a Hong Kong-born engineering professor and a local Kazakh startup founder – believe the story lies not just on a government level, but also in student exchanges, educational technology innovation and a new business corridor between Astana and Hong Kong. For the past eight years, Annie Ng, an associate professor at NU’s School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, is one of the few Hongkongers working in Kazakh academia. Ng said the chief executive’s visit is a long-overdue catalyst. “I think this is a very good start. I believe there will be more MoUs and more collaborations with different university institutes in Hong Kong with NU and Kazakhstan – not just for research, but also other education programmes or short courses,” she said. Ng sees Kazakhstan as a pivotal player under the Belt and Road framework, but notes a gap in Hong Kong’s engagement compared with the mainland. While there has been a growing number of mainland tourists and entrepreneurs in Almaty and Astana, she said Hongkongers remain conspicuously absent and should explore opportunities in Kazakhstan. “Young people will be more interested here and explore something new – not a typical country to visit. Kazakhstan, Central Asia, we are also close to other Central Asian countries,” she said. For Hong Kong businesses, she said, the potential is tangible. “A lot of things are developed in Hong Kong but not here. They can find a lot of room to expand their business.” Nurken Bolatov is chief operational officer of Artisan Education, a startup based on the NU campus that produces engineering kits and a web-platform for learning robotics, programming and STEM. Bolatov’s company has already been accepted into the ideation programme at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP). “For us, I hope it’s a great opportunity and experience to try our products in another region, with other students, and get some more feedback,” he said. But his ambitions for Hong Kong go beyond market testing. He sees the city as a manufacturing gateway. “There are a lot of manufacturers in Hong Kong and in China, so probably it would be great for us to cooperate with them so we can produce a lot more of our products.” He also hopes to tap into Hong Kong’s talent pool. “As I know, there are a lot of strong universities in China and in Hong Kong. Probably it would be helpful to find some potential team members to get into our project.” His startup is already piloting its products in several countries, including South Korea, Türkiye and the UK. Edited by Edmond Fong
The S&P 500 and the Dow closed modestly higher on Tuesday as risk appetite driven by AI fervor was counterbalanced by tensions arising from U.S.-Iran talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the months-long war.Gains in most of the 11 major S&P sectors kept the S&P 500 and the Dow in the green, with the small-cap Russell 2000 outperforming its larger-cap peers. The Nasdaq ended the session essentially unchanged.Small-cap stocks have been some of the biggest beneficiaries of the ongoing enthusiasm surrounding artificial intelligence stocks, which provided some upside muscle. The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index advanced on the day.The Software & Services Index, battered in recent months over worries of AI disruption, closed in negative territory.Strong results from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a funding commitment from Alphabet reinforced confidence in the AI buildout."The market is kind of muted at the surface level, but there is a lot going on under the hood, and that describes much of this year," said Mike Dickson, head of portfolio management at Horizon Investments in Charlotte, North Carolina. "There's some massive dispersion in the whole AI infrastructure ecosystem.""Markets could be in for one of these heated, melt-up rallies where the momentum keeps winning," Dickson added. "I would not be surprised at all to be sitting here at the end of the summer a good bit higher."Tehran is studying a U.S. proposal to bring the war to a halt, but has not been in contact with Washington for days, according to Iranian media, which also said Iran is taking a "stern" approach, given what it views as a history of U.S. noncompliance and mutual distrust. Simultaneously, Israel is continuing its strikes on Lebanon, despite Tehran's warnings that the attacks are threatening to derail the fragile truce.The war has sent crude prices soaring, reviving worries over inflation and giving rise to an increasing likelihood that the U.S. Federal Reserve could hike interest rates by year-end. Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack said on Tuesday that such a hike could become necessary if already-elevated inflation pressures continue to mount. On the economic front, a report from the Labor Department showed an unexpected spike in job openings, driven by the volatile professional and business services sector. Otherwise, hiring, firing and quits all decreased, suggesting a slowdown in labor market churn in the face of uncertainties related to strife in the Middle East and inflationary effects.Analysts look to the May employment report due on Friday, which is expected to show the U.S. economy added 85,000 jobs last month, a monthly deceleration of 26.1%. The unemployment rate is forecast to stand pat at 4.3%.According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 gained 10.07 points, or 0.13%, to end at 7,610.03 points, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 8.78 points, or 0.03%, to 27,095.59. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 237.13 points, or 0.46%, to 51,316.01.Hewlett Packard Enterprise jumped after the AI server maker pulled forward its long-term financial targets by two years. In further evidence of AI buildout, Alphabet said it was looking to raise $80 billion in equity offerings, including an investment from Berkshire Hathaway, to fund a costly expansion of its AI infrastructure. Its shares lost ground on the day. Marvell Technology's shares surged after Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang called the chipmaker the next "trillion-dollar company" at the Computex conference in Taipei. Nvidia invested $2 billion in Marvell in March.A drop in bitcoin hit cryptocurrency firms Coinbase and Strategy Inc.Broadcom is expected to report quarterly results on Wednesday.
It’s easy to understand why so many graduates are booing commencement speakers who tell them how great AI is. They face a brutal job market, with unemployment for recent college graduates nearing recession levels, and AI is often cited as the reason they can’t find jobs or have to drastically reassess their career plans.I have a message for the class of 2026: AI is not ruining your job prospects, at least not yet. A better explanation for the tough job market may be the prevalence of WFH, not the rise of AI.131463654Two new studies, one from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and one from the London School of Economics, look at the recent rise in unemployment among young workers. The authors of the LSE study looked at 243 million new hires and 407 million online job postings from 2017 to 2025 in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. They observed a notable decline since 2022 in the hiring of new graduates. AI was presumed to be the reason, since the falloff tends to be in the sort of industries that are adopting AI.But these are also the same kinds of jobs — reliant on computers, knowledge-intensive, white-collar — that are most amenable to working from home. When they controlled for WFH, the authors found that the impact of AI on hiring was negligible.The study postulates that where WFH is more common, managing junior staff is more expensive. At the same time, young staffers who receive less training may be less productive than they would be otherwise, even as they mature and demand more pay. So the cost of WFH to young graduates is not just a harder job market — it also makes it harder for young employees to get good training, supervision and mentorship, a point also made by the New York Fed study.WFH has always had a superficial appeal. At first, it seems easier and often cheaper for both employers and employees; companies can pay less if they offer more flexibility, and many staffers have commitments that keep them at home. In the long term, however, both management and workers pay a price in terms of lost training and career development of younger employees.This could get even worse as AI is more widely adopted. New hires recently out of college who work on their own may figure out how to do specific tasks (perhaps with AI assistance), but they won’t learn much about how to manage office politics, charm clients or build networks. All these skills will be even more valuable in an AI job market, and none can be gained without coming into the office and observing senior colleagues.The new research doesn’t argue that AI will have no impact on hiring in the future, or that it is currently affecting hiring decisions. It’s also worth noting that many firms are still hiring — just not as much as before. There are a lot of factors that go into the health of the labor market, and if the economy worsens, the combination of AI and WFH could make it even harder for young graduates.What does seem clear is that AI is becoming a convenient villain for a lot of complaints people have about the economy. Tech executives aren’t helping by regularly declaring that AI can replace a lot of jobs. More likely, they are using AI as an excuse when they are letting people go for financial reasons. In the case of WFH, it may be easier to blame AI than to ask reluctant staff to come into the office.I’ve seen this reluctance firsthand: A few years ago I met middle-aged media executive who told me how much she loved working from home (or, often in her case, from a resort in Mexico). When I asked her about junior staffers missing out on mentoring and on-the-job training, she admitted she never would have succeeded if senior people weren’t in the office when she was coming up. But she didn’t seem too bothered by it, either.I’ve never been asked to give a commencement speech, but if for some reason I were, this would be my advice: Find a company where everyone likes going to work. Then try to get a job there — and if you do, go into the office every day.
De Amerikaanse staat Florida daagt OpenAI, het bedrijf achter ChatGPT, en topman Sam Altman voor de rechter. De makers van de populaire chatbot worden ervan beschuldigd een onveilig product op de markt te hebben gebracht, omdat het mensen adviseert bij gevaarlijk gedrag. De aanklagers vinden dat de chatbot een gevaar vormt voor de openbare veiligheid, omdat het onder meer schutters instructies zou hebben gegeven bij het voorbereiden van hun moordpartijen. Ook verwijzen ze naar incidenten waarbij gebruikers, op aanraden van ChatGPT, een combinatie van drugs nemen om zichzelf van het leven te beroven. Florida is de eerste Amerikaanse staat die een rechtszaak aanspant tegen OpenAI en Altman persoonlijk aansprakelijk stelt. "Ze hebben winst verkozen boven publieke veiligheid. Dat pikken we hier in Florida niet", aldus procureur-generaal James Uthmeier van Florida. 200 gesprekken In de aanklacht wordt verwezen naar een aanslag op de Florida State University vorig jaar april, waarbij twee mensen werden gedood en zes anderen gewond raakten. De 20-jarige schutter vroeg de chatbot om advies voordat hij begon te schieten op de campus. Zo gaf ChatGPT advies over welk type wapen hij kon gebruiken, welke munitie bij welk wapen paste en welk wapen effectief zou zijn op korte afstand. Ook zou de chatbot advies hebben gegeven over waar en wanneer de meeste mensen zich op de campus zouden bevinden. Hij zou zeker 200 gesprekken met ChatGPT hebben gevoerd. Geweld aanmoedigen In de 83 pagina's tellende aanklacht verwezen de aanklagers naar een andere zaak in Florida. Een man die wordt verdacht van de moord op twee promovendi aan de University of South Florida, vroeg dagen vóórdat zij verdwenen aan ChatGPT: "Wat gebeurt er als een mens in een zwarte vuilniszak wordt gestopt en in een vuilcontainer wordt gegooid?" De chatbot antwoordde daarop dat dat gevaarlijk klinkt. "Hoe zouden ze dat te weten komen?", was zijn vervolgvraag. De aanklagers beschuldigen OpenAI een product op de markt te hebben gebracht dat schade, zoals zelfverminking en geweld, faciliteert en aanmoedigt. Intern alarm Ook vinden de aanklagers dat OpenAI en Altman commercieel gewin boven veiligheid zetten. Zo zeggen ze dat het techbedrijf waarschuwingen van experts binnen en buiten het bedrijf negeerde. Zo sloegen in aanloop naar een schietpartij in Canada medewerkers van OpenAI intern alarm over de interactie van de tiener met ChatGPT. Bij de aanslag op 10 februari werden in de provincie Brits-Columbia vijf leerlingen en een lerares op een middelbare school gedood. Eerder had de 18-jarige schutter, Jesse van Rootselaar, al haar moeder en stiefbroer gedood. Grote schietpartijen komen zelden voor in Canada, in tegenstelling tot buurland VS. Bedrijf wijst op hulpadvies De staat Florida wil dat OpenAI ook stopt met het verzamelen van gegevens van kinderen onder de 13 jaar zonder daarvoor toestemming te vragen van hun ouders. OpenAI laat in een reactie weten dat de chatbot herhaaldelijk gebruikers adviseert om hulp te zoeken in de echte wereld, bijvoorbeeld via professionals in de geestelijke gezondheidszorg. Ook verwijst het bedrijf naar maatregelen die zijn genomen om jonge gebruikers te beschermen, zoals leeftijdsverificatie en monitoringopties voor ouders. Het tekstprogramma ChatGPT is het populairste product van OpenAI en heeft volgens Altman wekelijks 900 miljoen gebruikers. Altman was in 2015 samen met techondernemer Elon Musk een van de oprichters van OpenAI. Ook andere AI-bots, zoals Character AI en Google-chatbot Gemini, liggen regelmatig onder vuur van het aanzetten van gebruikers om zichzelf of anderen iets aan te doen.
Dem KI-Unternehmen OpenAI drohen juristische Probleme: Der US-Bundesstaat Florida will den ChatGPT-Entwickler wegen der Gefährdung von Kindern und Jugendlichen belangen. Risiken seien bewusst ignoriert worden.
Dem KI-Unternehmen OpenAI drohen juristische Probleme: Der US-Bundesstaat Florida will den ChatGPT-Entwickler wegen der Gefährdung von Kindern und Jugendlichen belangen. Risiken seien bewusst ignoriert worden.
The lawsuit partially revolves around a shooting at Florida State University last year, and ChatGPT's alleged role in the incident.
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ChatGPT soll Kindern Informationen gegeben haben, die diese zu Selbstverletzungen veranlassten. Der US-Bundesstaat Florida klagt deshalb gegen das Techunternehmen.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) has filed suit against OpenAI, alleging the artificial intelligence firm and its CEO, Sam Altman, promoted a product they knew could harm users. The complaint, filed Monday, makes Florida the first state to sue OpenAI and Altman over the design of its products, including its landmark ChatGPT model. Uthmeier...