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The most useful AI-jobs story of the year is not about engineers or call centers. It is about an industry nobody was supposed to defend, and a government plan that assumed work like it would keep growing. What actually disappeared A New York Times feature published Saturday counts the
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Two very different bets on where the interface goes next: Ray Kurzweil has joined a startup trying to skip the skull entirely, and Lenovo just shipped a laptop that keeps frontier-scale models off the cloud. Ray Kurzweil is joining Subsense, a Silicon Valley startup developing a non-surgical brain-
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Two smart-ring stories landed within hours of each other on Thursday, and read together they describe the same pivot: the ring is done being a sensor, and everyone is racing to decide what it becomes next. Qualcomm Ventures has joined a $70 million round in Ultrahuman, valuing the Bengaluru
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Robotaxi season just went national. Waymo opened paid rides in three more U.S. cities today, Amazon's Zoox said it will start supervised testing in two more, and Tesla has a Cybercab event on Thursday — all inside 72 hours. Waymo is now live in 14 U.S. cities.
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Two of the busiest tools in the enterprise stack — Microsoft's email backbone and OpenAI's enterprise agent — spent Monday afternoon degraded at the same time. There's no reported connection between the two failures, and that coincidence is arguably the more interesting part. OpenAI's
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Meta is tightening the rules for AI personas on Instagram, while OpenAI quietly tests a billing model that could reshape how enterprises buy AI. Instagram will start limiting the reach of AI-generated persona accounts that fail to use its new "AI-generated profile" label, the company said
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Beijing just put AI hardware on the consumer shopping list. The Commerce Ministry and six other departments published an "implementation opinion" on Monday that elevates smart phones, PCs, wearables, robots, and smart home gear to a national consumption priority, with new "AI + consumption" pilot zones, retail
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A major music marketplace just drew a hard line on AI-made tracks — and the new policy comes with a built-in detector, a user survey showing DJs overwhelmingly prefer human-made music, and a notice system that tells rights holders when a track is rejected. Plus: two alleged members
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The camera-free AI glasses bet just got its first real proof of demand. RayNeo's iO is topping sales charts across China's three biggest e-commerce platforms within days of launch. The iO, a 34-gram pair of camera-free smart glasses priced from 1,996
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The consumer AI race is moving from the phone screen to your ears. Plaud announced a pair of note-taking earbuds whose charging case carries its own eSIM, letting you reach an AI agent without any phone or computer nearby — and Adobe, on the creators' side, keeps pulling its
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One in three US adults has used an AI chatbot for health advice, Pew finds — and most rate the answers as helpful. A Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 US adults fielded June 22–28 found 34% have used chatbots for at least one health reason: 28% for fast
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Two quiet endpoints in the AI supply chain surfaced overnight: the platform that once supplied the human intelligence behind machine learning is switching off, and one of China's breakout models is being retired by its own maker. Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk on September 30, closing the