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- Dodgers Move Familiar Name Right Before Brewers NLCS Matchup
The Los Angeles Dodgers could be preparing to adjust their playoff roster heading into a championship series.
- Novak Djokovic Won’t Tie Roger Federer In Shanghai After 1st-Round Loss
Jimmy Connors is the all-time men’s leader with 109 career titles, followed by Federer (103) and Djokovic.
- Cubs Veteran Ian Happ Sends 1-Word Reunion Message After Team Exit
After a 10-year career with the Chicago Cubs, respected outfielder Ian Happ offered a one-word response about reuniting for another season.
- CLEAR founder: fast AI can be safe AI when we fix the identity layer
Every AI agent borrows its authority from a person. Before agents act for us, let’s guarantee you are you.
- AI might ‘kill us all.’ That’s still a savvy sales pitch
AI extinction warnings can double as a sales pitch for the technology’s extraordinary power.
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- The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects
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. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison…
- Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?
"I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan."
- Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old.
- We’re still figuring out the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs
This week my colleague Antonio Regalado had an interesting update on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. According to research presented at an aging meeting in Boston, these drugs seem to affect at least some measures of biological age. Overweight and diabetic people who take GLP-1s have a biological age around two to three years younger than similar…
- We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…
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