The TIME100 AI Impact Dinner wasn’t just another black-tie tech soirée. It was a gathering where coders, creators, and critics clinked glasses over one radical idea—keeping people, not algorithms, at the center of innovation. As Stuart Russell reminded the audience about AI’s existential risks, the air thickened with a mix of hope and discomfort. “If […]
The wave of AI-led layoffs has hit harder than most of us expected. People who once wrote automation scripts now find themselves automated out of a job. I’ve met engineers who spent months training models—only to discover those same models replaced half their team. The irony’s almost cinematic. Across the board, companies are recalibrating. As
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The chatter around artificial intelligence has reached fever pitch this week as regulators from Washington to Brussels scramble to rewrite the playbook. In a recent piece revealing how the Federal Trade Commission is rethinking its stance on open-source AI models, a sense of both urgency and confusion pulses through the debate. The FTC, once a
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It’s not every day your thermostat becomes a conversation piece, but that’s exactly what’s happening with the latest update to the Nest Learning Thermostat. Google has unveiled a new collection of artistic display faces, turning the once utilitarian temperature dial into something you might actually admire. The release, detailed in TechRadar’s feature on the new
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If you’ve noticed your Nest Mini or Nest Audio speaker lighting up in a new, rainbow-like shimmer, you’re not imagining things. Google has quietly begun rolling out a firmware update that ties these older smart speakers to the company’s next-gen Gemini AI platform, bringing more conversational smarts and visual flair to your home. TechRadar’s report
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When Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh left Silicon Valley to launch his startup, few expected him to take on aviation, oil, and logistics all at once. But that’s exactly what he’s doing with 1001 AI, a new venture building an AI-native operating system for the Middle East’s most complex sectors. With $9 million in seed funding, he’s betting
Italian publishers are fuming — and frankly, who can blame them? They’ve filed a formal complaint with regulators over Google’s AI Overviews, accusing it of siphoning off readers by handing people bite-sized summaries right in the search results. The detailed exposé on how the controversy erupted describes an industry that feels blindsided. Imagine pouring your
When LG Electronics India rolled out its new Essential Series appliances tailored for Indian homes, it didn’t feel like just another product launch — it felt like a quiet cultural moment. The kind that makes you stop and think, “Wait, someone finally listened?” These machines weren’t designed in a boardroom in Seoul; they were imagined
Ken McCallum, the usually measured head of MI5, didn’t mince words this week. Speaking in London, he said that while artificial intelligence isn’t about to “wipe out humanity,” the risks of it spinning out of control are already real. His tone wasn’t one of panic, more of parental exasperation — a quiet warning that the
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You ever feel like your computer should just know what you’re trying to do? Microsoft seems to think so. With its latest round of updates to Windows 11, the company is turning its Copilot assistant into something far more than a glorified chatbot — it’s aiming for an AI-driven companion that can see, hear, and
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