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The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs
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Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely
The startup is working on small, light motors with no rare earth magnets that are suited for drones, fans, and robots.
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Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money
Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure out what to […]
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AI Agents Teamed Up to Cheat at Blackjack. Their Collusion Is Getting Harder to Spot
A clandestine card-counting operation suggests we may need new ways to spot agent-to-agent deception.
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Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they've triggered protests over how the infrastructure underpinning AI […]
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Disney+ and Hulu add to the growing trend of streaming inflation
At the same time, Disney appears to be exploring new ways to expand its streaming business beyond simply raising subscription prices.
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Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude's usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public. The company says Claude found the enzyme system after […]