AI in daily life — jobs, culture, consumer products, privacy, and how the technology touches real people.
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Nvidia's chief executive was handed research showing that AI helps students finish homework without learning the material. His answer was that the skills in question were never worth much — and offered his own life as proof. Jensen Huang's first long interview since Nvidia became the load-
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France's literary season just produced its first casualty of AI, and nobody involved can actually prove authorship either way. The Académie Goncourt withdrew Thélyson Orélien's novel C'était ça ou mourir from its selection on Friday 25 September, four days after the book won the
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Chinese cities are paying studios to make AI video at industrial scale, and the audience has not kept up. Also: a Chinese startup opens a crowdsourced robot-training market, and the FT prices the neolab wave. Chinese local governments are competing to subsidise AI video production, and the output has
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The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says AI billing tools are inflating hospital bills. The hospital lobby says the analysis is bunk. Also today: Microsoft quietly retires the Copilot+ PC brand. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says hospitals' AI coding tools added $942 million to its members'
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Meta spent Connect this week selling hardware. The announcement that will outlast the hardware is the face it puts on your calls: at Wednesday's keynote the company said its holographic avatars — the productized version of the Codec Avatars research it has demoed since the Orion prototype — are coming
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Reservations became the first consumer service where delegating to your AI assistant is a terms-of-service violation — and the diners getting banned are the ones the platform is quietly building agent access for. Meanwhile, China's biggest AI image company shipped a studio built for the same one-
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The $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire handed out its awards on Wednesday, and the honest headline is the one the organizers didn't write: the detection half worked, the firefighting half didn't. Meanwhile Black Forest Labs quietly put a robot model at the top of Nvidia's
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Seattle just became the first US city to ban the practice, and Google quietly admitted its new private AI memory gives up a privacy guarantee it used to make. The Seattle City Council voted 7-2 on Tuesday to ban personalized grocery pricing — the first US city to do it.
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A 37-country Gallup poll says global sentiment on AI is positive almost everywhere — and the exceptions draw their own map. In 34 of 37 countries surveyed, positive feelings about AI outweigh negative ones, but the United States is one of only three exceptions, according to a Gallup and Microsoft
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Three stories about who absorbs AI's costs: the communities hosting the compute, the countries deciding whether to pick a superpower's side — or neither — and the creators being asked to like it. American opinion on data centers has swung sharply negative in eight months: 54% now say
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Consumer AI hardware is colliding hardest with the places that adopted it fastest: one story today about glasses that watch, one about a car that listens. India is turning into the stress test for what happens when cameras you can't see go mainstream — and the state is on
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Toyota is rebuilding its factories around robots it built itself, and the teaching method is its own workforce. China's chip makers spent the same week arguing that the model belongs on the device, not in a data centre. Toyota wants 400,000 factory robots — and its own workers