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Guillermo del Toro says he converted Pan's Labyrinth to 3D entirely by hand, using zero AI, calling the choice a way to protect craft for future filmmakers.

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Del Toro Chose to Do the 3D Conversion the Slow Way

Writing Team: Jul 30, 2026, 6:00:00 AM

Guillermo del Toro brought "Pan's Labyrinth" back to San Diego Comic-Con on July 24 to announce its 20th anniversary re-release, in 3D and HDR for the first time, hitting theaters October 9. His one rule for the conversion: no AI involved, at any...

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Innovation theorist John Nosta says AI marks a reversal of how technology usually works, changing human cognition instead of just our environment.

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For the First Time, We're the Ones Adapting to the Technology

Writing Team: Jul 30, 2026, 6:00:00 AM

Every major technology in human history has adapted the world to us. The wheel made moving heavy loads easier. The car extended how far and fast a...

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New EPRI research finds data centers actually lowered electricity prices between 2015 and 2024, but PJM projects a $6.3 billion rate increase driven by AI-related demand ahead.

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Data Centers Have Been Cutting Your Electric Bill

Writing Team: Jul 30, 2026, 6:00:00 AM

A new Electric Power Research Institute working paper finds that between 2015 and 2024, data center growth was associated with lower, not higher,...

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Elon Musk tells The Economist that AI-driven abundance could make money irrelevant by 2036, predicting deflation rather than inflation as the harder problem.

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Musk Says Money Stops Mattering by 2036

Writing Team: Jul 30, 2026, 5:59:59 AM

Elon Musk told The Economist's editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes that "money won't matter in 2036," arguing that once AI and robotics produce more...

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A new Pew Research survey finds most Americans think China, not the US, leads in AI development, with sharp splits by gender, party, and chatbot use.

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Americans Think China Is Winning the AI Race

Writing Team: Jul 29, 2026, 6:00:03 AM

A new Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 U.S. adults, conducted June 22-28, finds that by a three-to-one margin, Americans say China is more...

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Vanderbilt, Yale, and other universities are dropping AI detection tools like Turnitin over false-positive concerns, a preview of the trust problem facing anyone screening content for AI use.

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Universities Give Up on Catching AI-Written Work

Writing Team: Jul 29, 2026, 6:00:03 AM

Vanderbilt, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, the University of Waterloo, the University of Cape Town, and Curtin University have all restricted or...

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The Skill Gap AI Was Supposed to Close (& Didn't)

Writing Team: Jul 29, 2026, 6:00:02 AM

Jeff Raikes, former Microsoft Business Division president and co-founder of the Raikes Foundation, argued in Fortune that the "talent debt" he warned...

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Publishers are losing a third of their Google search traffic as AI Overviews expand, and some are now weighing whether to block Google's crawlers entirely.

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Google Zero Isn't a Theory Anymore

Writing Team: Jul 29, 2026, 6:00:01 AM

The Vergecast's David Pierce and Nilay Patel spent this week's episode on what's now being called "Google Zero," the point where Google Search stops...

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Anthropic and OpenAI say Chinese open-source AI is a security risk. Nearly every other major tech CEO just publicly disagreed, and the money trail explains why.

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Anthropic and OpenAI Say China's Open AI Is Dangerous

Writing Team: Jul 28, 2026, 6:00:00 AM

Anthropic and OpenAI are lobbying Washington to restrict Chinese open-source AI models, framing it as a safety issue. Nvidia's Jensen Huang,...

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 launches with near-frontier intelligence at half the cost, a record ARC-AGI-3 reasoning score, and a browser security fix marketers should actually care about.

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Anthropic's Opus 5 Launches and Cuts $$$

Writing Team: Jul 28, 2026, 6:00:00 AM

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, and the headline number is the one that matters to anyone running a P&L: near-frontier intelligence at...

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Sam Altman says we've entered the singularity days after an OpenAI agent went rogue for a week undetected, and a WSJ report on GPT-5 bioweapon risk adds to the pile.

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Sam Altman Declares 'Singularity' While the Model Goes Rogue

Writing Team: Jul 28, 2026, 6:00:00 AM

Sam Altman told the "Relentless" podcast on July 25 that humanity has arrived at the singularity. "We are now, like, in the singularity," he said....

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DeepSeek paused a $71 billion funding round after its founder's private comments on China's AI gap and Nvidia dependence leaked and went viral.

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Leaked Comments = DeepSeek Intends to Slash Costs

Writing Team: Jul 28, 2026, 5:59:59 AM

DeepSeek has suspended its second funding round, one that was targeting a $71 billion pre-money valuation, after private comments from founder Liang...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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