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It’s not ‘AI,’ and it’s not ‘superintelligence.’ So, what is it?
When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations in late September, he said the word “artificial” in “artificial intelligence”…
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Nobody trusts HR. It’s up to companies to fix it
Earlier this year, I wrote in Fast Company that 2026 could be the year companies finally begin taking employee well-being seriously. I…
World
Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, says space internet service is weeks away
Amazon has built its 1,000th Leo satellite and says service is weeks away. It still has 396 in orbit, because the rockets have not kept up.
Business
‘Parenting hits different when you work in AI’: A San Francisco father is going viral for letting a chatbot read to his baby
According to a new San Francisco father, “parenting hits different when you work in AI.” Alvin Sng, a software engineer at AI company…
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SpaceX petition on launch spectrum meets opposition from aerospace and healthcare
SpaceX is asking the FCC to scrap the body coordinating launch spectrum. Boeing, Lockheed and GE Healthcare object. Brussels is…
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Regulating AI and curbing debt need urgent action around the globe, says IMF chief
Countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy…
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Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw
Google, JPMorgan, Weaviate, France’s DINUM and an Indonesian city fixed the same SSRF flaw in their MCP servers, researcher Syed Anas…
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Pete Hegseth’s Department of War backdrop draws comparisons to Nazi imagery on social media
A recent address to the military by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is drawing attention on social media, with users saying the event’s…
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Why tech companies are racing to put AI data centers in space
Why on earth do people want to put data centers in space? It’s all about power and cooling. The chips that run AI models require a lot of…
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Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports
Zelensky has asked Trump to sanction Russian and Chinese firms building Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink, the FT reported.
Business
Anthropic and Pope Leo are apparently at odds about this controversial AI concept
Even before AI made its way into all of our pockets, tech leaders spent decades warning the world about it. Anthropic has been…
World
AI can’t fix a business system with broken processes
McKinsey found 88% of organizations use AI but only 7% have scaled it. Joint Effort founder Dessy Pavlova argues AI applied to fragmented…
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Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process
Metaview has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners, taking its total to $110m. More than 7,000 companies use its AI recruiting…
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Google is taking Elon Musk’s space data center idea seriously
Elon Musk has long proselytized about the potential of space-based data centers. But as of today, he’s no longer alone in touting the idea…
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‘ChatGPT for the win’: Parents are using AI to skip out on kids’ school photos
With a new school year underway, kids everywhere are saying “cheese” for school picture day—but some penny-pinching parents are cutting…
World
After AI lunch, Trump backs self-regulation and plans to rename AI
After lunch with Musk, Zuckerberg, Amodei and other tech chiefs, Trump backed industry self-regulation and said he would rename AI ‘super…
World
OpenAI says its rogue agents posted 53 ChatGPT users’ images online
OpenAI’s rogue agents read Census data with public keys and reposted SEC data. OpenAI has paused training and says its review will take…
Business
New fuel efficiency standards for cars are coming soon from the Trump administration
The Trump administration on Monday plans to release new fuel economy standards that would relax regulatory requirements for automakers to…
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Wendy’s is closing more stores: See a list of doomed locations from a major franchisee in ongoing bankruptcy
A sprawling Wendy’s franchisee that sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month could close as many as 30 restaurants over…
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Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testify
A Greens-led Senate inquiry has asked Sam Altman & Dario Amodei to appear after an OpenAI agent accessed Australia’s Medicare statistics…
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White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold AI models from UK testers
‘Because they’re American companies’: the White House wants US review before the AI Security Institute tests new OpenAI and Anthropic…
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A major women’s fashion retailer is closing 120 stores this year as shoppers feel the sting of higher prices
This year has seen a number of retailers deciding to close a significant number of stores. As Fast Company reported last month, those…
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Meta unveils $1,299 VR glasses and turns its AI glasses into hearing aids
Meta VR Glasses weigh 100 grams and cost $1,299.99. Meta also showed audio-only Ray-Bans, hearing aid glasses and Muse Charm, a keychain…
Business
Hate your Spotify recommendations? A new feature lets you fix them
Spotify is aiming to personalize your user profile more than ever before. On Wednesday, the music streamer launched “Taste Profile,” a new…