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"It suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms."
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"It suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms."
"It's so much easier to steal this than to rob a bank."
"We expect concerns about AI to remain a significant part of the national conversation in the years ahead."
"There are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth."
Flávio Bolsonaro was the overwhelming favorite, right up until the moment he unceremoniously lost.
"The odds of a deep and severe AI crash are rapidly increasing."
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With such a short flight time and obvious limitation in crew capacity, it remains to be seen how the $150,000 craft will help campus police keep students safe. My latest on frivolous police toys:
"I’d quite literally never order from this place again."
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I wrote about Character.AI, our reporting into its reactive content moderation nightmare, and how it ended up hostage to its Wild West roots (while also burning through money): futurism.com/artificial-i...
"This is just going to change the way care is delivered in a big way."
"...there is no boundary anymore; the system is acting as your advisor, your friend, your doctor, your lawyer, and so it has information on everything."
They're calling it a "Captain America program for dogs."
A landlord meltdown like you've never seen before.
"It is capable of inflicting not only intolerable pain, but death."
Personal security may start to look a little different.
"We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest."
One official called them "behaviors consistent with on-orbit weapons operations."
"I have an AI agent that logs every negative comment someone makes about me online."
"We are actively working out what to do; it’s just a tricky problem."
"We're understanding what's in his mind with his interactions with the chatbot."
Brazilians have had enough of the "billionaire scoundrel."
"People aren’t just dropping their shorts for data centers anymore."
Polymarket argued that it brings "objective, data-driven insight" into how a sexual assault cases moves "through the legal system."