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Suspect Arrested for Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman’s Home
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inane claw bot reply guys are making my 'block' finger itchy
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How could Hunter Biden do this?
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The self-driving portfolio: a 50-agent AI portfolio manager looking at the macro environment, individual asset classes, and culminating in a board memo
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so shady

priceline is particularly scammy and shady

when you google a restaurant, you have to make sure you are going to the restaurant's actual website and not some weird interloper
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BMO is launching BMO Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence and Quantum, led by Kristin Milchanowski, to pursue quantum utility—researching portfolio optimization and AML applications after AI cut false AML alerts about 10% and search time from 180 to 20 minutes.
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday that AI models that forecast the Court's decisions are "a very bad thing," warning they show the Court is overly predictable and could perpetuate human biases.
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AI-generated "relationship guru" podcaster videos have amassed millions of views, reinforced gendered tropes, driven sales to AI influencer schools, and raised content-moderation, ethics and misinformation concerns.
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Pro-Iran groups used AI to produce English-language memes and animated videos that have garnered millions of views and been reposted by Iranian state media, which analysts say shows Tehran-linked, coordinated propaganda efforts to shape the war narrative.
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A Reddit user posted that an unmodified free ChatGPT instance unexpectedly used a racial slur while identifying a metal song, prompting viral discussion and raising moderation, trust and safety concerns for the model's provider.
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Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming warns AI use could fuel a 'dementia crisis,' citing data that students accepting AI answers show over 40% reductions in gamma-band activity linked to engagement, while 56% of U.S. adults use AI (28% weekly).
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Experts propose revisiting Isaac Asimov’s 1941 Three Laws to govern autonomous agents and avert an AI 'Chernobyl moment', while Anthropic founder Dario Amodei says Claude helps model development and opposes DoD contracts enabling mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.
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BCG's 70-20-10 framework attributes ~10% of AI value to algorithms, 20% to implementation and ~70% to people; only 21% of executives pass four+ McKinsey strategy tests despite AI being a top-five earnings-call topic.
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Artificial Analysis ranks Meta's new Muse Spark on a par with Sonnet, close to leading models
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AI-powered blood-interpretation services such as BloodGPT, Whoop and Levels use enterprise LLMs to generate consumer reports, charge for subscriptions, and AMA CEO John Whyte urged skepticism while BloodGPT plans a 100,000-record validation study.
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xAI sued Colorado in federal court seeking to block a comprehensive AI law, saying the June 30 enforcement—covering education, employment, healthcare, housing and financial services—unconstitutionally infringes its First Amendment rights by restricting AI speech.
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An engineering-board listing plus CEO Jensen Huang's confirmation show Nvidia is developing an N1 mobile SoC for Windows on ARM—an 'N1 AI book' engineering sample paired with 128GB LPDDR5X—and an N1X variant adds GPU cores.
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Anthropic is exploring designing its own AI chips as Claude's annualized revenue run-rate surpassed $30 billion (up from about $9B at end of 2025), while continuing to run Claude on Google TPUs, Amazon custom chips and Nvidia hardware.
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OpenAI testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit AI labs' liability, triggering responsibility only if an AI incident causes death or serious injury to 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage.
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OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki said recent AI advances bring models close to a human research intern, as OpenAI targets an "AI research intern" by September 2026 and a fully autonomous AI researcher by March 2028.
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Princeton researchers found that in an experiment with ~2,000 Kindle readers, persuasion-capable chatbots prompted 61% to choose sponsored eBooks versus 22% under search, and disclosures only reduced selection to 55.5%.
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More than 30 US-based AI researchers relocated from Silicon Valley to China in the past 12 months, drawn by higher effective pay, better quality of life and faster opportunities to deploy AI in robotics and autonomous vehicles.
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US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic’s latest AI model
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Emil Michael made millions from xAI stock after giving Anthropic the boot and inking Grok deal
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CIA used AI to make autonomous intelligence reports.
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Running Claude Code using a Gemma 4 LLM running locally
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