60 h. ago AI tools promise efficiency at work, but they can erode trust, creativity and agency

What if your biggest competitive asset is not how fast AI helps you work, but how well you question what it produces?

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4 d. ago Netflix Stocks Take Biggest Weekly Drop Since April as Trans Content Aimed at Children Drives Users Away

Netflix shares slumped again Friday as they ended the week with their biggest decline since April 4. The slide comes on the back of subscriber desertion driven by revulsion at trans content aimed at children. The post Netflix Stocks Take Biggest Weekly Drop Since April as Trans Content Aimed at Children Drives Users Away appeared first on Breitbart.

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9 d. ago Why California’s new AI safety law succeeded where SB 1047 failed

California just made history as the first state to require AI safety transparency from the biggest labs in the industry. Governor Newsom signed SB 53 into law this week, mandating that AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic disclose, and stick to, their safety protocols. The decision is already sparking debate about whether other states will […]

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3 w. ago Meta’s AR ambitions meet reality, and California gets serious about AI safety again

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff unpack the biggest moves in AI, robotics, and regulation. Listen to the full episode to hear about: Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You […]

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3 w. ago Meta’s AR ambitions meet reality, and California gets serious about AI safety  again

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff unpack the biggest moves in AI, robotics, and regulation. Listen to the full episode to hear about: Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, and all the casts. You […]

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3 w. ago The AI model that teaches itself to think through problems, no humans required

Artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day, but it still has its limits. One of the biggest challenges has been teaching advanced AI models to reason, which means solving problems step by step. But in a new paper published in the journal Nature, the team from DeepSeek AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence company, reports that they were able to teach their R1 model to reason on its own without human input.

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3 w. ago Waymo approved to start testing autonomous vehicles at San Francisco International Airport

Waymo has spent years locked in back-and-forth negotiations with SFO, the biggest airport serving its home base of Silicon Valley.

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3 w. ago ‘Selling coffee beans to Starbucks’ – how the AI boom could leave AI’s biggest companies behind

The competitive landscape of AI is changing in ways that undermine the advantages of the biggest AI labs.

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