China is feared to be stealing artificial intelligence technology to carry out massive cyberattacks on the US and elsewhere. The FBI is increasingly concerned about the dictatorship's frequent high-profile data thefts from American corporations and government agencies. Sophisticated AI would allow China to boost the scale and effectiveness of what it could collect and, crucially, analyze, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

Let us be thankful for the AI industry. Its leaders may be nudging humans closer to extinction, but this year, they provided us with a gloriously messy spectacle of progress. When I say year, I mean the long year that began late last November, when OpenAI released ChatGPT and, in doing so, launched generative AI into the cultural mainstream.

In 1897, literary icon Mark Twain is said to have come across his own obituary in a New York newspaper. Asked for his response, tongue partly in cheek, Twain famously said the reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated. The same sentiment might be said about the current and future state of American white collar work.

COLUMBUS, Ohio Airbnb is using new AI technology to help crack down on New Year's Eve parties around the world. The artificial intelligence technology identifies one-to-three-night booking attempts for entire home listings over the holiday that could potentially be high risk for disruptive and unauthorized parties, then blocks those attempts from being made. This technology looks at hundreds of signals; like how long the stay is, how far the listing is from their location and if the reservation is being made last minute.