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Reagan ad that infuriated the President set to run during World Series
Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With
Jeff Bezos Says He Doesn't Understand Why Anybody Alive Now Would Be 'Discouraged'—Because Soon, 'Millions Of People Will Be Living In Space'
Keira Knightley Says She's Banned Social Media at Home to Protect Her 2 Kids from ‘Terrifying’ and ‘Unregulated' Internet: “They’re not allowed on devices if we can’t see what they’re looking at…," Knightley said
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Tech billionaires are now shaping the militarization of American cities | Money means access to power—and tech has plenty of money.
Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic | A study confirms they endorse a user’s actions 50 percent more often than humans do.
Meta and TikTok breach EU online platform rules, European Commission finds | Both platforms have now time to reply to the findings or face a penalty of up to 6% of their global annual turnover.
China’s Noetix debuts ‘family-friendly’ US$1,400 humanoid robot
Nuclear treaties offer a blueprint for how to handle AI | The lack of co-ordinated efforts to address the existential risk of superintelligence is astonishing and must change
Miami Has a New Cop on the Beat: A Drone-Launching Police Car That Can Drive Itself
Microsoft’s Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships | “It looks like you’re trying to find a friend. Would you like help?”
Microsoft Disables Downloaded File Previews to Block NTLM Hash Leaks
[The Era of Healthy Aging ②] A Health Check in Five Seconds: Inside the Development of Galaxy Watch8 Series’ Antioxidant Index
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say

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