AI still pants at debugging, says Microsoft study
Despite Top Vole Sundar Pichai boasting that a quarter of Google’s code now comes from AI and Mark Zuckerberg plotting to unleash AI models across Meta’s dev stack, Microsoft’s boffins have just thrown a bucket of cold water over the hype.
A new study out of Microsoft Research reveals that even the most polished AI models—including Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s o3-mini—can’t debug code as reliably as a human. {Read full article here}
Interior Announces Major Increase in Gulf of America Oil and Gas Reserves
New analysis reinforces U.S. offshore Energy Dominance
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced a significant increase in estimated oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of America Outer Continental Shelf, underscoring the region’s critical role in advancing our country’s national security and American Energy Dominance.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s analysis reveals an additional 1.30 billion barrels of oil equivalent since 2021, bringing the total reserve estimate to 7.04 billion barrels of oil equivalent. This includes 5.77 billion barrels of oil and 7.15 trillion cubic feet of natural gas—a 22.6% increase in remaining recoverable reserves. {Read full article here}
Crisis exercising is using simulated scenarios that are designed to replicate real-life crisis situations. They’re done to help people and organisations prepare and respond to these emergency situations, when or if they actually happen.
We run exercises that test national level plans to make sure that every level of government, industry partners and the private sector are crisis ready. An exercise can be as simple as a planning group discussing an emergency plan. Or it can be as complex as a major, multi-agency event, involving several organisations and participants. {Read full article here}