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China's state-backed AI propaganda videos mocking Trump's tariffs represent a new low in digital diplomacy—when authoritarian regimes master internet culture better than democratic institutions, we're all in trouble.

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China's AI Propaganda Machine: When World Diplomacy Gets Weird

Nothing says "sophisticated international relations" quite like a Chinese state media outlet producing AI-generated music videos that parody Taylor Swift while portraying Donald Trump as an economic supervillain. Welcome to 2025, where geopolitical...

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San Francisco partners with Stanford to use AI for cutting municipal bureaucracy, eliminating 140 redundant reporting requirements. Could this be the practical AI application government has been waiting for?

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San Francisco's AI Experiment

In a world where AI promises often feel like marketing fluff, San Francisco's City Attorney David Chiu is doing something refreshingly practical:...

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Anthropic's Claude Gov models for national security customers signal a dangerous three-tier AI system: premium government access, costly enterprise solutions, and basic consumer tools. This digital apartheid threatens democratic equality.

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Anthropic's Government Models for U.S. Security Customers

Anthropic just announced custom AI models built exclusively for U.S. national security customers. These "Claude Gov" models are "already deployed by...

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Trump's 10-year AI regulation ban and expert exclusion reveals dangerous tech policy ignorance. When Silicon Valley billionaires replace AI safety researchers, America loses its competitive edge.

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Trump's 10-Year AI Regulation Ban

When Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called the proposed 10-year AI regulation ban "too blunt," he wasn't just critiquing policy—he was diagnosing a much...

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Google plans to expand engineering teams through 2026 while experts warn AI could eliminate half of white-collar jobs. What's really happening in the great AI job apocalypse?

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Google's Hiring More Engineers w/Big 2026 Goals

Hold up. Let me get this straight. For months, we've been bombarded with warnings that AI is coming for white-collar jobs—especially engineering...

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OpenAI's new meeting transcription features offer compelling tech stack consolidation, but granting more data access to a company with a troubling security track record raises serious concerns for enterprise users.

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ChatGPT Launches Meeting Room Functions

Open AI's latest ChatGPT upgrades, including Record Mode and enterprise Connectors, represent exactly the kind of tech stack consolidation we've been...

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FDA's new AI tools for medical device approvals struggle with simple tasks and provide incorrect information, raising urgent questions about rushing unproven technology into life-or-death regulatory decisions.

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FDA's AI Tools Fail Basic Tests While Commissioner Rushes Rollout

The Food and Drug Administration's new artificial intelligence tools are failing at basic tasks while Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary pushes an...

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SOCi's 2025 Consumer Behavior Index shows 95% of consumers don't trust AI for purchase decisions, proving human validation through social platforms remains the ultimate conversion catalyst.

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95% of consumers don't trust AI for purchase decisions

Here's the statistic that should make every CMO pause: While 19% of consumers now use generative AI tools like ChatGPT or Gemini to find businesses,...

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 Rosebud's AI journaling app raises $6M to provide personalized mentorship, but should artificial intelligence be analyzing our most private thoughts? We examine both sides of this deeply personal debate.

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The AI Journal: Rosebud's $6M Bet on Digital Self-Reflection

Rosebud just closed a $6 million seed round to scale what might be either the future of personal development or the beginning of the end for...

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While AI experts predict call centers will be obsolete within 2-3 years, the rush to automation might be creating more problems than it solves.

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The Call Center Reckoning: AI's "Supersonic" Takeover

The Greek AI expert's proclamation feels eerily familiar—like every tech prediction since the dawn of Silicon Valley. "Within two to three years,...

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Dan Ives calls AI the

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Dan Ives Says AI is the fourth industrial revolution

Dan Ives just launched an ETF, and frankly, the timing couldn't be more fascinating. The Wedbush Securities managing director unveiled his "IVES AI...

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SXSW London's inaugural event showcased AI-saturated tech conferences at their most absurd—with $24 branded socks, AGI promises, and the same recycled talking points we've heard for three years running.

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SXSW London's AI Circus: When Every Conference Sounds Like AGI Evangelism

Remember when tech conferences actually discussed technology instead of just breathlessly evangelizing about artificial general intelligence? SXSW...

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Cursor raises $900M at $10B valuation as AI coding tools command sky-high prices, but mounting energy costs and economic reality suggest consumers will foot the bill for this expensive bubble.

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AI Coding Startups Hit $10B Valuations

Cursor just raised $900 million at a $10 billion valuation for building AI that writes code. Meanwhile, the energy required to power these systems is...

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Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero with $30M to build

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Bengio's LawZero — Hope for Honest AI?

We spend so much time cataloging AI's dystopian possibilities that we rarely celebrate when someone with actual influence chooses the harder path....

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Renovaro's new AI drug discovery patent joins a growing movement of biotech companies securing intellectual property that could revolutionize healthcare—here's why these patents represent hope, not hype.

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Renovaro's New AI Drug Discovery Patent

In an era when most AI patents feel like elaborate ways to rebrand existing technology, Renovaro's latest USPTO approval stands out for all the right...

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MIT's Leo Anthony Celi exposes a critical flaw in AI healthcare courses that ignore bias detection, but his research points toward a revolutionary approach to training ethically-minded healthcare AI practitioners.

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MIT Research Reveals Biases in AI Healthcare Education

The future of medicine hangs in the balance of a single question that most AI courses aren't even asking: "Where did this data come from?" MIT's Leo...

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Samsung's potential $500 million investment in Perplexity AI to power Galaxy devices signals a crucial shift toward AI diversity and could finally give consumers alternatives to Google's dominance.

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Samsung May Incorporate Perplexity's AI Tech in Its Phones

The most important tech partnership of 2025 might be happening right under our noses, disguised as just another corporate deal. Samsung's reported...

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Google's AI Edge Gallery app finally gives users control over their AI experience by running models locally on Android devices, marking a crucial shift toward privacy-first artificial intelligence.

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Google Released an App That Lets You Run AI Models Locally

The revolution started with a quiet GitHub release. No fanfare, no keynote presentation, no breathless tech blogger proclamations about "the future...

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AI-powered review and social media analysis for advertising is turning every human interaction into a data point for targeting, bankrupting the social element that made these platforms worthwhile in the first place.

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Meta Plans to Replace Humans with AI to Assess Privacy Risks

Remember when you could post a photo of your terrible Thai takeout without having Thai restaurant ads haunt your feed for weeks? Those days are dead,...

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Meta's nuclear deal promises clean AI power by 2047, but with nuclear plants averaging 102% cost overruns and 7-year delays, this

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Meta's Nuclear Fantasy: Why Big Tech's AI Energy Solution Is a $20 Billion Hallucination

Mark Zuckerberg just made a bet that would make even the most optimistic venture capitalist wince. Meta's 20-year nuclear deal with Constellation...

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Perplexity Labs transforms ideas into reality in 10 minutes—from dashboards to web apps. Here's why this AI productivity revolution matters for smart marketers who want teams that actually work.

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Perplexity Labs Actually Legit (i.e., not AI Posturing)?

We've been waiting for the Jetsons future since the Kennedy administration, and frankly, we're tired of being disappointed by "revolutionary" AI...

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