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- I helped invent the smartphone camera. It could have died in the lab
The law that helped put cameras in smartphones could face a consequential policy rewrite.
- Microsoft unveils Copilot super app, targeting business users with AI agents
Microsoft is launching its super app as a central interface through which customers can chat with AI bots, write code, and access a new "Autopilot" feature that brings agentic capabilities to its flagship AI app.
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed the European energy equation—now efficiency is just as important as sustainability
As Europe grapples with energy security challenges, improving efficiency and harnessing AI will be as important to the energy transition as renewables, says Honeywell’s Anant Maheshwari.
- Cardinals’ Breakout Hits Leader Sends Front Office Contract Message After Season End
The St. Louis Cardinals’ executives heard directly from MLB’s overall RBI leader as he seeks a new contract after a career season.
- When the machine should stop and call a human
Agentic AI needs human judgment built into workflows before automated actions go too far.
Technology
- The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits
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. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to…
- Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
- Rocket Report: Era of cheap launch is over? Astra sets early 2027 target for return
"The customer got comfortable with a high reliability and a low price."
- The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing,” which…
- Young organs may not be a fountain of youth for recipients
Around this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when my phone started pinging. News outlets were reporting that a hot mic had caught Russia’s and China’s leaders discussing the possibility of living forever. “With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously…
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