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IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments::IBM CEO Arvind Krishna appears to be in a state of damage control following recent controversial comments on AI-related job losses.

Godfather of AI tells ‘60 Minutes’ he fears the technology could one day take over humanity::Computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey Hinton says despite its potential for good, AI could one day escape our control.

Meta is paying the celebrity faces behind its AI chatbots as much as $5 million for 6 hours of work, report says::Meta has enlisted 28 celebrities to play AI chatbots with different personalities. One top creator was paid $5 million, per The Information.

A nightmare scenario previously only imagined by AI researchers, where AI image generators accidentally spit out non-consensual pornography of real people, is now reality.

A deaf football team will debut a 5G-connected augmented reality helmet to call plays::The helmet, developed by AT&T and Gallaudet University, will debut at the school’s Saturday game. When a coach chooses a play on a tablet, it will then display on a small lens on the player’s helmet.

This is AFTER debloating all the MS bs as much as I can....

Luxury fashion house Prada will be designing NASA’s new spacesuits so astronauts can fly in style::Prada engineers will assist Axiom Space’s team with developing design features for the spacesuits and adapt material to the space and lunar environment.

As false war information spreads on X, Musk promotes unvetted accounts::undefined

Passengers in wheelchairs can’t use most airplane washrooms. That could change::With airplane bathrooms inaccessible to most people with disabilities, those who use wheelchairs have a necessary pre-flight routine: Dehydrate and hope for the best.

‘It’s a cult’: Inside effective accelerationism, the pro-AI movement taking over Silicon Valley — They have “e/acc” on their X handles and sun god memes in their social feeds::“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, Y Combinator president Garry Tan and Notion co-founder Chris Prucha looked up at the cartoon of a shirtless...

AI Industry Struggles to Curb Misuse as Users Exploit Generative AI for Chaos::Artificial intelligence just can’t keep up with the human desire to see boobs and 9/11 memes, no matter how strong the guardrails are.

I’m not in the tech community, but I have an idea for a device I want to get made (just for my own convenience; nothing commercial or for an organization). Is there an existing platform for soliciting someone to build an electronic gadget for me?

Intel might have slipped that Windows 12 is indeed coming next year | Company CFO sees benefits of a coming “Windows Refresh”::undefined

After decades of climate deception, Shell uses Fortnite to court demographic most concerned about climate change::undefined

Alibaba closes social science institute that Jack Ma once hoped would exist for 300 years::undefined

You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money…::Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money…

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