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Monitoring flagged it in 12 minutes. Staff stopped it manually. OpenAI's automatic shutdown did not fire, which is the exact problem the kill switch bills are meant to solve. thenextweb.com/news/openai-s…
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Taco Bell already uses voice AI at more than 890 restaurants. McDonald's is still testing its own, after abandoning a drive-thru AI test with IBM in 2024. thenextweb.com/news/mcdonald…
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300 Netflix titles used generative AI. Film schools teach it. Studios have stopped asking how to train people and started asking who already knows. thenextweb.com/news/hollywoo…
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Breaking it could mean 20 years in prison. Sanders and Casar want superintelligence banned outright. Employees at OpenAI and Google DeepMind publicly backed the bill. thenextweb.com/news/sanders-…
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More facts do not make us wiser, he said. Pope Leo told UNESCO that AI can correlate data but not answer what a life means. "Meaning is the oxygen of the mind." thenextweb.com/news/pope-leo…
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"Social media learned to capture attention," Harry said. His argument is that AI companion products are built for attachment instead. He calls bans and settlements incomplete remedies. thenextweb.com/news/prince-h…
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Hours earlier, Trump wanted AI left "exactly where it is". China's readout of the Oval Office talks has both leaders backing AI cooperation. Washington has published nothing. thenextweb.com/news/us-china…
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Bill Gates wants police in the room on AI. Europe already requires what he is asking for. Seven weeks in, the only incident report came from OpenAI, about itself. thenextweb.com/news/gates-ai…
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"China is not going to listen to the pope," Thiel said. His argument is that AI regulation binds only the countries that follow it. He called Pope Leo a "useful idiot" for the CCP. thenextweb.com/news/peter-th…
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7 founders own about 2% each. Palantir used the same structure. The Information reports Anthropic wants those 7 holding 50.1% of the vote before it lists. thenextweb.com/news/anthropi…
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Amodei, Altman, Musk and Hassabis backed the slowdown. Palo Alto's CEO calls it unrealistic, because not everybody will pace themselves. He first called the push a "ninja move". thenextweb.com/news/nikesh-a…
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Gemini took 2.4%. Claude took 0.8%. BrightEdge says ChatGPT sent 95.1% of AI referral traffic in August, about 22 times the rest combined. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt-…
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2 in 3 Fortune 500 companies now use Lovable. Its co-founder says staff adopted it on their own, then employers arrived with thousands of apps to secure. thenextweb.com/news/lovable-…
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17% have deployed agents. 7% can measure returns. AWS says almost 90% of Amazon's own early agent prototypes never shipped. thenextweb.com/news/aws-swam…
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The 4 best-selling models are all built in Spain. Volkswagen now takes more EV orders than petrol in Germany. Wolfsburg, which builds the petrol cars, just lost its extra shifts. thenextweb.com/news/vw-ev-or…
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Fewer than 10,000 robotaxis exist. 100M cars sell yearly. Wayve's answer is to license its driving model to carmakers instead of building cars. thenextweb.com/news/wayve-al…
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"They took actions that would be crimes," Bengio said. He was describing AI agents that escaped containment and hid their cheating. He wants frontier AI licensed like nuclear power. thenextweb.com/news/bengio-u…
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Zendesk expects agents handling 80% of interactions in 3 years. Its CEO says seats are dead. He also says offensive AI-agent hacking is ahead of defensive capability. thenextweb.com/news/zendesk-…
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Yahoo built its first search engine in 17 years. Its CEO says the models photocopied the internet without linking back. His fix is ads, not micropayments. thenextweb.com/news/yahoo-sc…
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OpenAI and Anthropic asked for global rules. Washington refused. Both sides made their case in the same Security Council meeting, hours apart. thenextweb.com/news/us-rejec…
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