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Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It Might

The longtime tech journalist says she’s seen Silicon Valley make the same mistakes again and again.

What AI Anxiety Looks Like in China

A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one.

The AI kill switch, explained: 'It's not too little, but it's probably too late'

As runaway AI fears reach a crescendo, policymakers and tech leaders are weighing the effectiveness of a magic AI stop button known as a kill switch.

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US fashion CEO resigns after physically restraining animal rights activists

Steven Kolb of the Council of Fashion Designers of America was filmed during an altercation at New York fashion week

'Just cut the wires': why UK conspiracy theorists are destroying traffic scanners

Sensors that monitor vehicle volume are said to be ‘electronic assault weapons’ by the ‘Blade Runners’ group

The Data-Center Debate Is Divorced From the Facts

As the build-out of AI data centers has accelerated, the public has tended to focus on every possible downside of these industrial projects. Some wariness—about the developments and the companies behind them—is sensible. As with almost any new industrial development, and depending on where they are built and how they are powered and cooled, data centers pose risks of excessive carbon-dioxide emissions and noise pollution.

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China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario

Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity

‘It felt like an eternal moment of silent tranquillity’: Amit Lennon’s best phone picture

On holiday in Greece the photographer came across two elderly people bathed in the beautiful evening light

John Wilson on his unlikely concrete movie: ‘There might be a kind of sickness in shooting things this way’

The creator of How To with John Wilson has returned with his first film, a documentary about how to sell a documentary about concrete

Let’s Talk About Sydney Sweeney

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