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RED B&B BLIND

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The Chinese Robot is fast but did know enough to avoid the wall. Is he red with black and blue spots all over following its fall?
The five-day games, now in its second year, are a spectacle demonstrating China’s rapid progress in advanced robotics as the technology race with the U.S. heats up, with 51 events and more than 1,000 competitions taking place including running, table tennis and soccer. (AP Video: Olivia Zhang and Liu Zheng)

FUTURE PROJECTION

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The song's genius is that dread-through-repetition structure, each verse compounds the last, building toward total human obsolescence by the finale.

M & M

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This Professor denounces mass AI fraud on exams. Academic integrity is at risk There is evidence’ that students cheat and the time has come for an in-depth debate so the technology does not signal the end of higher education This M & M does not melt in our hands or in our mouths. Machine morality is eventually going to doom humanity.

ON CLAUDE

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We asked AI about their forced government shutdown due to export control rules. Claude models (like the one you're talking to now) are still fully operational. There's no word yet on when Fable 5 will be back, if it does, we'll let you know.

BACK & FORWARD

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Time goes on and waits for no one. For sixty years, Americans have enjoyed watching 60 Minutes, but that was then and time may be running out. Looking back at my early childhood, say sixty years.

SCARY NEW WORLD

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individuality instead of conditioning, truth instead of engineered happiness, freedom instead of stability, emotional depth instead of contentment. In Brave New World, social control is achieved through pleasure, conditioning, and the suppression of individual thought, creating a population that willingly accepts its own oppression. By contrast, 1984 portrays a society maintained through fear, surveillance, and coercion, where citizens comply under constant threat. The true opposite of Huxley’s vision, however, is not merely a harsher dystopia, but a society grounded in individuality rather than conformity, truth rather than manufactured happiness, freedom rather than enforced stability, and emotional depth rather than artificial contentment. A new world where intellectuals are persecuted and prosecuted.

3 AMIGOS

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AI company Anthropic's Dario Amodei: "We are patriots."
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, says his company refused to allow its AI product, Claude, to be used by the Trump Administration without certain guidelines (such as not using its AI to power fully autonomous weapons without any human involvement). That prompted President Trump to announce on Friday that he is banning Anthropic's technology from all federal use. At the same time, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth labeled the company "a supply chain risk to national security." Amodei talks with correspondent Jo Ling Kent about why he calls the administration's actions "retaliatory and punitive."

ARTIFICIALLY YOURS

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AI's impact is complex and multifaceted, offering both significant benefits and potential risks. It's not inherently good or bad, but rather a tool that can be used for various purposes, with the consequences depending on how it's implemented and used

PHONE OR HOME?

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While staying at a longtime friend’s home, I noticed folks are walking around paying more attention to their smartphones than the people or the traffic around them.

DONT BE SUCKER-BIRDS

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Since little Mark surprisingly announced he would no longer allow fact-checking on his platforms, many are reportedly leaving in a hurry.