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- The Money Behind The AI Boom Is Getting More Expensive
The pricey debt behind the AI boom, infrastructure projects in space and more in this week’s Prototype.
- New Ken Paxton Leaked Audio Says Washington Runs His Campaign: ‘I Don’t Control Messaging’
Paxton was caught on tape in audio leaked last week saying the GOP’s midterm campaign has hurt his poll numbers.
- Karoline Leavitt Joins Fox News: What To Know
Leavitt, 29, has worked in conservative politics her entire career.
- Just a few years into working, Gen Z is already the most anxious generation about AI derailing their retirement—51% fear it will cut their nest egg
As AI disrupts career paths, Gen Z is already far more worried than millennials or Gen Xers about having enough money for their golden years of retirement.
- Netflix’s Best New Show Has A 95% Rotten Tomatoes Score, And It’s Disney’s
Netflix's best new show this week has a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score, but interestingly, it's on load from Disney+.
Technology
- Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.
- AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
- Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems to act on their own conclusions without drifting from business intent. The frontier has moved from prediction to autonomous decision making, and the gap between…
- The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? —Will Douglas Heaven Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM designed to come…
- Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.
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