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MP wants Musk’s Grok chatbot shut down over claim he enabled grooming gangs
An MP has called for Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to be shut down after it called him a "rape enabler".The Grok chatbot made the post on X about SNP MP Pete Wishart, after a user asked it...
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What we’re learning about consciousness from master meditators’ brains
Many of us have downloaded mindfulness apps like Headspace or Calm, and have probably benefited from spending 10 minutes...
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Inside the Hyundai Metaplant, the World’s Most Automated Car Factory
When I traveled to Ellabell, Ga., in May to report on Hyundai Motor Group’s hyperefficient Metaplant—a US $12.6 billion boost to U.S.-based manufacturing of EVs and batteries—the company’s timing appeared solid. At this temple of leading-edge factory tech, Ioniq...
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The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program. It’s Never Been More Popular
Sarah wasn’t expecting to experience paralysis at 7 am on a weekday during a meditation at her home.But in August, while listening to “The Gateway Tapes”—a set of guided meditations intended to help people reach new planes of consciousness—she...
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Tesla says Musk should be paid $1tn – will shareholders agree?
Lily JamaliNorth America Technology Correspondent, San FranciscoGetty ImagesAhead of Tesla's annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday there's been one key message the electric car-maker has been hammering home to shareholders: the boss is worth $1tn.It has taken out digital...
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Amazon sends legal threats to Perplexity over agentic browsing | TechCrunch
Amazon has told Perplexity to get its agentic browser out of its online store, the companies both confirmed publicly on Tuesday. After warning Perplexity multiple times that Comet, its AI-powered shopping assistant, was violating Amazon’s terms of service by...
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Lepidopterists’ Alpine Adventure for Genome Sequencing
It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is leaking some warmth out of a brick oven. Gathered near it, around a big...
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Carlotta Berry’s Mission to Make Robotics Accessible to All
As an electrical engineering student in the 1980s and ‘90s, Carlotta Berry had two experiences that helped shape her future as an educator.First, while she studied robots, she wasn’t allowed to interact with them. “The robots were too expensive,...
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Kara Swisher Would Rather Work for Sam Altman Than Mark Zuckerberg
Kara Swisher is the epitome of a multi-hyphenate: a podcast host, journalist, author, and CEO agitator.Swisher has also, in her way, turned IDGAF into her personal brand. Deeply sourced and happy to ask the hard questions, she doesn’t care...
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Advanced quantum network could be a prototype for the quantum internet
One of the most complex quantum networks built to date would allow 18 people to communicate securely thanks to...
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The Wiggles issue statement after appearing in Ecstasy music video
Australian children's music group The Wiggles has issued a statement after two of its members were featured in a...