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A deep dive into AI as a normal technology vs. a humanlike intelligence and how major public policy based on controlling superintelligence may make things worse — An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence — We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology.
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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like “Jagged AGI”: unreliable, even at some mundane tasks, but still offering superhuman capabilities in many areas — New models and new thresholds — Amid today's AI boom, it's disconcerting that we still don't know how to measure how smart … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven — One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend …
More: Wired and ZeroHedge News
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race with human runners and 21 Chinese humanoid robots, highlighting both the progress and limitations of such robots — A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from mimicking people.
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Coinbase faces pump-and-dump accusations after its subsidiary Base launched a “content coin” on Zora; Coinbase clarifies that Base will never sell the tokens — Jesse Pollak is the creator of Base, a new blockchain from Coinbase. — Winni Wintermeyer for Fortune
More: Cointelegraph, The Block, Blockchain News, crypto.news, Bitcoin Insider, Inside Bitcoins, Protos, Disrupt Africa, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, DL News, Crypto Briefing, and CoinDesk
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| Financial Times: |
A look at the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech, as researchers at universities in California and companies use brain implants and AI to make advances — Californian researchers and groups such as Precision Neuroscience use implants and AI to make advances in ‘voice prosthesis’| Christopher Grimes / Financial Times: |
The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood's breakthrough in adapting video games into films — While superhero franchises flag, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ shows the industry has finally cracked the formula for translating popular games into films
More: Daily Mail, Variety, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Media Play News, Fox News, RTÉ, and The Sun
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A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is “a big breakthrough” — Our take on what's powerful, what's practical, and what's still TBD … If you've been following AI news this week …
More: Anecdotal Value, The Algorithmic Bridge, and Don't Worry About the Vase
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expects that in five years, every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language — The video giant, turning 20, tries to keep the content spigot flowing while appeasing its army of broadcasters and copyright holders.
More: Social Media Today, Mirror, Yahoo News, and Barrett Media
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Are you ready for the era of agentic AI? — Tech leaders are always talking about what's next, and right now, agentic AI is dominating the discourse. Equip yourself with the info you need in this recorded webinar.
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| Ruth Reader / Politico: |
After lobbying US Congress to shelve the Senate-passed KOSA bill in 2024, Meta has now made headway in lobbying for an app store age-verification bill — The Facebook founder is lobbying Congress to leave his firm alone — and making headway. — To protect kids online … | Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
In a clever attack, hackers were able to send phishing emails that appeared to come from “[email protected]”, after a similar attack on PayPal users in March — In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered …
More: PCMag, Laptop Mag, CryptoSlate, Mirror, Tom's Guide, Moneycontrol, and Tasnim News Agency
| Krishnapriya V.S. / The India Forum: |
India's Open Network for Digital Commerce has struggled to break the near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy in online food delivery after cutting back on discounts — A near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy controls almost 95% of India's digital platform-based food delivery market … Sponsor Posts
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Are you ready for the era of agentic AI? — Tech leaders are always talking about what's next, and right now, agentic AI is dominating the discourse. Equip yourself with the info you need in this recorded webinar.
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Tribe AI:
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations — Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations — Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
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The power of WhatsApp marketing for ecommerce businesses — More than a decade ago, WhatApp arrived on the scene as a free messaging app for smartphones, featuring groups and never-ending conversations.
The power of WhatsApp marketing for ecommerce businesses — More than a decade ago, WhatApp arrived on the scene as a free messaging app for smartphones, featuring groups and never-ending conversations.
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A look at the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech, as researchers at universities in California and companies use brain implants and AI to make advancesFind
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