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US officials get pranked by AI deepfakes while government focuses on ideology over security. The Rubio impersonation incident reveals how unprepared Washington is for basic AI threats that businesses already handle.

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Marco Rubio Impersonated by AI to Foreign Officials

Writing Team: Jul 9, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Bottom Line Up Front: While America's top diplomats get pranked by AI voice clones on Signal, our government's response to deepfake threats makes a sloth look decisive. This isn't just embarrassing—it's a masterclass in how not to prepare for the AI...

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Wimbledon's AI line calling debut reveals the messy reality of human-AI collaboration. System malfunctions, player complaints, and rapid patches show we're still figuring out how to work with imperfect algorithms.

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The Great Wimbledon AI Experiment

Writing Team: Jul 9, 2025 8:00:00 AM

We're watching tennis argue with itself about robots, and honestly, it's more compelling than most third-set tiebreakers. Wimbledon's debut of...

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Xbox executive producer Matt Turnbull's suggestion that laid-off workers use AI chatbots to manage emotions exposes the tech industry's fundamentally shallow approach to human crisis and genuine healing.

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Xbox Producer's AI Advice for Laid-Off Workers

Writing Team: Jul 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

When Microsoft laid off as many as 9,100 employees this week, devastating entire gaming studios and canceling projects that represented years of...

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Dobot's humanoid robot successfully cooked steak while being remotely controlled from 1,800km away using VR, demonstrating breakthrough teleoperation technology with real-world applications.

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Chinese Robot Cooks Steak from 1,800km Away Using VR Technology

Writing Team: Jul 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

While the tech world debates AI safety and adversarial attacks, a Chinese robotics company just delivered something that made us forget all our...

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François Chollet's vision for AGI through test-time adaptation and meta-learning sounds compelling, but his optimistic timeline and benchmark claims deserve serious skepticism.

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François Chollet's AGI Vision Sounds Impressive But...

Writing Team: Jul 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

François Chollet, the AI researcher behind Keras and the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) benchmark, has laid out an ambitious vision for...

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New research reveals how simple phrases like

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CatAttack Study Exposes Vulnerabilities in AI Reasoning Models

Writing Team: Jul 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

A groundbreaking study from researchers at Collinear AI, ServiceNow, and Stanford University has exposed a fundamental vulnerability in...

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Growing numbers of people are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT as digital trip-sitters during psychedelic experiences, raising serious safety concerns among mental health experts.

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AI Chatbots as Psychedelic Trip-Sitters

Writing Team: Jul 7, 2025 10:19:18 AM

In April 2025, a 36-year-old first responder named Trey consumed 700 micrograms of LSD—seven times the typical recreational dose—while alone in his...

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Guardian columnist Emma Beddington's viral takedown of Samsung's AI pasta sauce ad exposes deeper cultural anxieties about artificial intelligence replacing human common sense in marketing.

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Everything Wrong With Samsung's AI Pasta Sauce Ad

Writing Team: Jul 7, 2025 10:08:45 AM

Guardian columnist Emma Beddington struck a nerve with her scathing critique of Samsung's AI advertisement, and the overwhelming public response...

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Huawei's defense against AI model plagiarism accusations highlights how businesses face an impossible task proving intellectual property theft in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Huawei's AI Plagiarism Allegations Expose an Impossible Task

Writing Team: Jul 7, 2025 9:57:31 AM

The latest controversy surrounding Huawei's Pangu Pro MoE model isn't just another tech industry spat—it's a preview of the intellectual property...

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Nokia's AI-powered Energy Efficiency Solution in Indonesia

Writing Team: Jul 7, 2025 9:52:38 AM

While Silicon Valley obsesses over who builds the smartest chatbot, Nokia just quietly won a different kind of AI race—one that actually matters for...

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Google DeepMind's Isomorphic Labs prepares to test AI-designed drugs on humans in 2025, marking a pivotal moment in pharmaceutical innovation. Here's why we're cautiously optimistic about this brave new world.

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AI-Designed Drugs Moving to Human Trials

Writing Team: Jul 7, 2025 9:46:30 AM

We're living through the opening scene of what might be the most consequential medical thriller of our time. Google DeepMind's Isomorphic Labs is...

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