Teen Handcuffed After AI Mistakes Chip Bag for Gun
Police handcuffed and searched a student at a Baltimore County, Maryland, high school this week after an artificial intelligence-driven security system mistook an empty bag of Doritos for a possible gun, prompting community outrage.
Kenwood High student Taki Allen said that he was waiting for a ride after football practice when officers confronted him, CNN reported Saturday.
"They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back, and cuffed me," Allen told WBAL-TV.
"They searched me, and they figured out I had nothing," he added. "Then, they went over to where I was standing and found a bag of chips on the floor."
Allen described the scene as chaotic, saying "about eight cop cars" arrived and officers drew their weapons.
"The first thing I was wondering was, was I about to die? Because they had a gun pointed at me," he said. "I was just holding a Doritos bag — it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun."
Baltimore County police told WBAL that officers responded to a report of "a suspicious person with a weapon" but determined the student was unarmed after searching him.
Omnilert said in a statement that it regrets the incident but maintained that "the process functioned as intended" to flag potential threats for human review.
"We regret that this incident occurred and wish to convey our concern to the student and the wider community affected by the events that followed," the company said.
Superintendent Myriam Rogers called the event "truly unfortunate" and said the district will review its safety systems.
"We never want to put any of our students in such a frightening situation," she said.
Energy products have a lower rate of 10%, while other goods covered by the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement are exempt.
That trade agreement is slated for review. Trump negotiated the deal in his first term, but has since soured on it.
Trump and Carney will both attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Malaysia. But Trump told reporters traveling with him that he had no intention of meeting Carney there.
Trump said the ad misrepresented the position of Reagan, a two-term president and a beloved figure in the Republican Party. But Reagan was wary of tariffs and used much of the 1987 address featured in Ontario's ad spelling out the case against tariffs.
Trump has complained the ad was aimed at influencing the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of arguments scheduled for next month that could decide whether Trump has the power to impose his sweeping tariffs, a key part of his economic strategy.
Our Quantum Echoes algorithm is a big step toward real-world applications for quantum computing
Our latest quantum breakthrough, Quantum Echoes, offers a path toward unprecedented scientific discoveries and analysis.
Quantum Echoes can be useful in learning the structure of systems in nature, from molecules to magnets to black holes, and we’ve demonstrated it runs 13,000 times faster on Willow than the best classical algorithm on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
In a separate, proof-of-principle experiment Quantum computation of molecular geometry via many-body nuclear spin echoes (to be posted on arXiv later today), we showed how our new technique — a “molecular ruler” — can measure longer distances than today’s methods, using data from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to gain more information about chemical structure.
AGI stands for Artificial General Inteligence, meaning that the inteligence wich the ai gains is general (aka it generalizes) and is able to produce novel and never before seen outputs. Since gpt 3.5 we have seen sparks of AGI inside of the AI (Even tho it was very small sparks of agi), and now ai is getting closer to agi as we can see in newer models like GPT 5 pro and grok 4 heavy (Since they are the most general AIs), being able to create novel information as long as its provided enghout context and time to reason. Now to reach AGI we only need to mostly build scaffoldings on aleardy existing AIs (Like improve memory (Aka what gpt 6 aims for) or make the ai have its own opinions about certain topics (What grok 5 aims for by letting the ai rewrite the whole internet data or its training data atleast).
Letting AI self-learn would go more in the teritory of ASI (Artificial Super Inteligence), since its not about generalizing anymore, but its more about continous self-improvment and refinment, wich can not rlly be done without something extremly close to AGI (Due to hallucinations). The definition of AGI is neither something wich can do every task a human can, since this would not help the ai generalize, it would only make the AI better in specific tasks (But a large spectrum of tasks), but it would not genaralize beyond, this creating only a helpfull ai system wich can help with automating daily tasks, but not AGI or ASI (Being able to do any tasks as well as a human is a benefit of AGI or ASI). We are at max 6 years untill AGI or beyond, best case 1-2 years.
The U.S. plans to build a village that can support "sustained human life on the moon" within the next decade, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced Monday.
Duffy, who is also secretary of transportation, was asked what success would look like for NASA 10 years from now while speaking at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney, Australia, alongside the heads of other national space agencies.
"We are going to have sustained human life on the moon," Duffy said. "Not just an outpost, but a village."
This village could be nuclear-powered, according to a directive Duffy issued this month declaring NASA's intent to build a nuclear power plant on the moon.
According to Duffy, he believes NASA will have "made leaps and bounds on our mission to get to Mars" within the next decade and hopes the U.S. will "be on the cusp of putting human boots on Mars" by that time.
The secretary's comments come after he released a video declaring that America will "win the second space race" against China.
Duffy said the U.S. will be "going back to the moon, and this time, when we plant our flag, we stay. I'm committed to getting us back to the moon before President Trump leaves office."
AI-Cloning of Lara Croft's Voice Has 'Tomb Raider' Fans, Actors Up in Arms
French voice actor Françoise Cadol and fans accused Aspyr of using AI to clone her iconic Lara Croft voice, sparking backlash and legal action.
A lifelong fan of “Tomb Raider,” French gamer Romain Bos was on tenterhooks when an update of the popular video game went online in August.
But his excitement quickly turned to anger.
The gamer's ears — and those of other “Tomb Raider" fans — picked up something amiss with the French-language voice of Lara Croft, the game’s protagonist.
It sounded robotic, lifeless even — shorn of the warmth, grace and believability that French voice actor Françoise Cadol has given to Croft since she started playing the character in 1996.
Gamers and Cadol herself came to the same conclusion: A machine had cloned her voice and replaced her.
“It's pathetic," says Cadol, who straight away called her lawyer. “My voice belongs to me. You have no right to do that.”
“It was absolutely scandalous,” says Bos. “It was artificial intelligence.”
Aspyr, the game developer based in Austin, Texas, didn’t respond to e-mailed questions from The Associated Press. But it acknowledged in a post last week on its website that what it described as “unauthorized AI generated content” had been incorporated into its Aug. 14 update of “Tomb Raider IV–VI Remastered" that angered fans.
“We’ve addressed this issue by removing all AI voiceover content,” Aspyr's post said. “We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.”
Google Says Biden Admin Pressured It to Censor YouTube
Google has confessed that the administration of former President Joe Biden "pressed" the tech giant and YouTube to censor content the government felt was COVID-19 "misinformation," according to a letter released Tuesday by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, is now urging those counterculture voices to "rejoin" if they were kicked off the platform for violating the now-abandoned rules on what content creators could say about COVID-19 and election integrity.
Alphabet attorney Daniel Donovan shared the shocking admission Tuesday while speaking to the House Judiciary Committee. The Biden administration, Donovan wrote, "created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.
"It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, attempts to dictate how the Company moderates content, and the Company has consistently fought against those efforts on First Amendment grounds.
"Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies. While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove non-violative user-generated content."
EchoStar Sells Spectrum Licenses to SpaceX for $17 Billion
EchoStar on Monday agreed to sell wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for its Starlink satellite network for about $17 billion, in a bid to resolve a regulatory review over underutilization of its assets for 5G service expansion.
Shares of EchoStar rose nearly 22% in premarket trading following the news.
The deal comes months after the Federal Communications Commission questioned EchoStar's compliance with buildout extensions and its use of mobile-satellite service spectrum, raising concerns about whether it was meeting its obligations to deploy 5G in the U.S.
President Donald Trump had earlier prodded EchoStar and FCC Chair Brendan Carr to reach an amicable deal over the fate of the company's wireless spectrum licenses.
EchoStar in August sold some wireless spectrum licenses to AT&T for $23 billion, its first move to resolve the regulatory probe.
Microsoft AI bots won't talk dirty with users, exec confirms as company takes swipe at OpenAI
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, said Thursday the company will not build erotica AI services.
Geeks who want to talk dirty with artificial intelligence bots will have to look somewhere other than Microsoft.
The software giant’s AI chief said this week that the company won’t be offering “simulated erotica” through any of its AI products.
The announcement from Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman marked a sharp contrast with the company’s partner OpenAI, which recently said it would allow adult users to engage in explicit conversations with ChatGPT.
In an August essay titled “We must build AI for people; not to be a person,” he cautioned that anthropomorphic bots could “create another axis of division for humanity.”
On Thursday, Suleyman said that trend was already emerging in the tech world, citing erotic AI startups and companion platforms that blur the line between entertainment and emotional attachment.
“You can already see it with some of these avatars and people leaning into the kind of sexbot erotica direction,” he said.
“This is very dangerous, and I think we should be making conscious decisions to avoid those kinds of things.”
The firms’ dueling messages could be the latest sign of a growing philosophical split between the AI partners, whose alliance has anchored Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar expansion into generative tech since 2019.
Nike claims their futuristic new footwear can boost brain activity and leg strength
“It’s OK to push some edges and try some crazy things.”
Shoes like these could really help kickstart a workout.
Nike is making good on their vow to “create epic s–t” after dropping a new line of sneakers that they claim are good for both body and mind.
When Phil McCartney, who has worked at Nike for nearly three decades, was named chief innovation, design and product officer in May, he put an emphasis on speed, looking to release items as early as 12 months ahead as planned.
“By nature, I’m pretty impatient,” McCartney said during a recent interview at Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, per Bloomberg. “It’s OK to push some edges and try some crazy things.”
McCartney, 51, is doing just that — with new shoe designs that look fit for robot legs.
The 60-year-old sportswear brand certainly has the research tools to back up its cutting-edge ideas. There are force plates implanted in the indoor track in the research lab that will measure a runner’s foot strikes; the basketball court and turf field utilize motion-capture cameras to take note of athletes’ movements; and climate chambers are used to study the science of sweat in different conditions.
Using insights from the Nike Sports Research Lab — inside the new LeBron James Innovation Center — their team of engineers and designers came up with four innovative ‘fits to benefit the body.
Apple Sued by Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training
Apple was accused by authors in a lawsuit Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train its artificial intelligence systems, part of an expanding legal fight over protections for intellectual property in the AI era.
The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed in federal court in Northern California, claimed Apple copied protected works without consent and without credit or compensation.
"Apple has not attempted to pay these authors for their contributions to this potentially lucrative venture," according to the lawsuit, filed by authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson.
Apple and attorneys for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond Friday to requests for comment.
The lawsuit is the latest in a wave of cases from authors, news outlets and others accusing major technology companies of violating legal protections for their works.
The Mind 001 and Mind 002 feature 22 independent foam nodes on each shoe, which are bonded to a flexible, water-resistant material that allows them to act as pistons and gimbals as people move.
The Mind 001 is a mule that offers comfort and convenience, while the Mind 002 is a sneaker that offers more support and sensation.
“By studying perception, attention and sensory feedback, we’re tapping into the brain-body connection in new ways. It’s not just about running faster — it’s about feeling more present, focused and resilient. That’s the next frontier of performance,” Dr. Matthew Nurse, VP, Chief Science Officer, NIKE, Inc., said.
Industry insiders told The Times of London that they have been approached by would-be honeypots.
China and Russia have deployed attractive women to the United States to seduce unwitting Silicon Valley tech executives as part of a “sex warfare” operation aimed at stealing American technology secrets, according to a report.
Industry insiders told The Times of London that they have been approached by would-be honeypots — some of whom have even managed to ensnare their targets by marrying them and having children.
Chinese and Russian agents are also using social media, startup competitions and venture capital investments to infiltrate the heart of America’s tech industry, the report said.
“I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman,” James Mulvenon, chief intelligence officer at risk-assessment firm Pamir Consulting, told The Times.
“It really seems to have ramped up recently.”
A former US counterintelligence official who now works for Silicon Valley startups told The Times that he recently investigated one case of a “beautiful” Russian woman who worked at a US-based aerospace company, where she met an American colleague whom she eventually married.
How the algorithm works and its applications
The Quantum Echoes algorithm sends precisely crafted signals through Willow’s quantum system, perturbing a single qubit, then reversing the signal’s evolution. “We send a carefully crafted signal into our quantum system (qubits on Willow chip), perturb one qubit, then precisely reverse the signal’s evolution to listen for the ‘echo’ that comes back,” Google explained.
“This quantum echo is special because it gets amplified by constructive interference — a phenomenon where quantum waves add up to become stronger. This makes our measurement incredibly sensitive,” the statement added.
The Willow processor is a 105-qubit superconducting quantum computing processor developed by Google Quantum AI and manufactured in Santa Barbara, California
On December 9, 2024, Google Quantum AI announced Willow in a Nature paper and company blogpost, and claiming two accomplishments: First, that Willow can reduce errors exponentially as the number of qubits is scaled, achieving below threshold quantum error correction. Second, that Willow completed a Random Circuit Sampling (RCS) benchmark task in 5 minutes that would take today's fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (1025) years
Meta Launches Super PAC to Fight AI Regulation
As more state-level AI regulations emerge, Meta is increasing its lobbying efforts to support state lawmakers who favor AI and tech, and to oppose those who do not.
Meta is increasing its lobbying efforts to support state lawmakers who favor AI and tech, and to oppose those who do not, as more state-level AI regulations emerge, Axios first reported.
Labeled the American Technology Excellence Project, the PAC will be run by longtime Republican operative Brian Baker and Democratic consulting firm Hilltop Public Solutions and aims to promote state candidates from both parties.
Meta spokesperson Rachel Holland said the company is investing tens of millions of dollars in the project to counter state-level tech policy proposals, over 1,100 of which were introduced in 2025, which Meta believes could disadvantage the U.S. in the AI competition with China.
In June, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Ark., urged Congress to remove a provision in the administration's budget bill that would ban state-level artificial intelligence protections for 10 years. "AI can be a great tool for individuals, businesses and governments, but there have to be common-sense safeguards in place," the governor warned in an opinion essay in the Washington Post.
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!summarize #relationships #lifestyle
!summarize #google #quantum #physics
!summarize #humanity #agi
Teen Handcuffed After AI Mistakes Chip Bag for Gun
Police handcuffed and searched a student at a Baltimore County, Maryland, high school this week after an artificial intelligence-driven security system mistook an empty bag of Doritos for a possible gun, prompting community outrage.
Kenwood High student Taki Allen said that he was waiting for a ride after football practice when officers confronted him, CNN reported Saturday.
"They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back, and cuffed me," Allen told WBAL-TV.
"They searched me, and they figured out I had nothing," he added. "Then, they went over to where I was standing and found a bag of chips on the floor."
Allen described the scene as chaotic, saying "about eight cop cars" arrived and officers drew their weapons.
"The first thing I was wondering was, was I about to die? Because they had a gun pointed at me," he said. "I was just holding a Doritos bag — it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun."
Baltimore County police told WBAL that officers responded to a report of "a suspicious person with a weapon" but determined the student was unarmed after searching him.
!summarize #china #robots #ai #optimus
Omnilert said in a statement that it regrets the incident but maintained that "the process functioned as intended" to flag potential threats for human review.
"We regret that this incident occurred and wish to convey our concern to the student and the wider community affected by the events that followed," the company said.
Superintendent Myriam Rogers called the event "truly unfortunate" and said the district will review its safety systems.
"We never want to put any of our students in such a frightening situation," she said.
Allen's grandfather, Lamont Davis, demanded accountability.
"Something has got to be done," Davis told WBAL. "Changes have to be made and people have to be held accountable."
Several Baltimore County officials echoed those concerns.
!summarize #china #ai #trap #unitedstates
Energy products have a lower rate of 10%, while other goods covered by the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement are exempt.
That trade agreement is slated for review. Trump negotiated the deal in his first term, but has since soured on it.
Trump and Carney will both attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Malaysia. But Trump told reporters traveling with him that he had no intention of meeting Carney there.
Trump said the ad misrepresented the position of Reagan, a two-term president and a beloved figure in the Republican Party. But Reagan was wary of tariffs and used much of the 1987 address featured in Ontario's ad spelling out the case against tariffs.
Trump has complained the ad was aimed at influencing the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of arguments scheduled for next month that could decide whether Trump has the power to impose his sweeping tariffs, a key part of his economic strategy.
Our Quantum Echoes algorithm is a big step toward real-world applications for quantum computing
Our latest quantum breakthrough, Quantum Echoes, offers a path toward unprecedented scientific discoveries and analysis.
Quantum Echoes can be useful in learning the structure of systems in nature, from molecules to magnets to black holes, and we’ve demonstrated it runs 13,000 times faster on Willow than the best classical algorithm on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
In a separate, proof-of-principle experiment Quantum computation of molecular geometry via many-body nuclear spin echoes (to be posted on arXiv later today), we showed how our new technique — a “molecular ruler” — can measure longer distances than today’s methods, using data from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to gain more information about chemical structure.
AGI stands for Artificial General Inteligence, meaning that the inteligence wich the ai gains is general (aka it generalizes) and is able to produce novel and never before seen outputs. Since gpt 3.5 we have seen sparks of AGI inside of the AI (Even tho it was very small sparks of agi), and now ai is getting closer to agi as we can see in newer models like GPT 5 pro and grok 4 heavy (Since they are the most general AIs), being able to create novel information as long as its provided enghout context and time to reason. Now to reach AGI we only need to mostly build scaffoldings on aleardy existing AIs (Like improve memory (Aka what gpt 6 aims for) or make the ai have its own opinions about certain topics (What grok 5 aims for by letting the ai rewrite the whole internet data or its training data atleast).
Letting AI self-learn would go more in the teritory of ASI (Artificial Super Inteligence), since its not about generalizing anymore, but its more about continous self-improvment and refinment, wich can not rlly be done without something extremly close to AGI (Due to hallucinations). The definition of AGI is neither something wich can do every task a human can, since this would not help the ai generalize, it would only make the AI better in specific tasks (But a large spectrum of tasks), but it would not genaralize beyond, this creating only a helpfull ai system wich can help with automating daily tasks, but not AGI or ASI (Being able to do any tasks as well as a human is a benefit of AGI or ASI). We are at max 6 years untill AGI or beyond, best case 1-2 years.
!summarize #nvidia #tomlee #bubble
NASA Planning Village on the Moon
The U.S. plans to build a village that can support "sustained human life on the moon" within the next decade, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced Monday.
Duffy, who is also secretary of transportation, was asked what success would look like for NASA 10 years from now while speaking at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney, Australia, alongside the heads of other national space agencies.
"We are going to have sustained human life on the moon," Duffy said. "Not just an outpost, but a village."
This village could be nuclear-powered, according to a directive Duffy issued this month declaring NASA's intent to build a nuclear power plant on the moon.
According to Duffy, he believes NASA will have "made leaps and bounds on our mission to get to Mars" within the next decade and hopes the U.S. will "be on the cusp of putting human boots on Mars" by that time.
The secretary's comments come after he released a video declaring that America will "win the second space race" against China.
Duffy said the U.S. will be "going back to the moon, and this time, when we plant our flag, we stay. I'm committed to getting us back to the moon before President Trump leaves office."
AI-Cloning of Lara Croft's Voice Has 'Tomb Raider' Fans, Actors Up in Arms
French voice actor Françoise Cadol and fans accused Aspyr of using AI to clone her iconic Lara Croft voice, sparking backlash and legal action.
A lifelong fan of “Tomb Raider,” French gamer Romain Bos was on tenterhooks when an update of the popular video game went online in August.
But his excitement quickly turned to anger.
The gamer's ears — and those of other “Tomb Raider" fans — picked up something amiss with the French-language voice of Lara Croft, the game’s protagonist.
It sounded robotic, lifeless even — shorn of the warmth, grace and believability that French voice actor Françoise Cadol has given to Croft since she started playing the character in 1996.
Gamers and Cadol herself came to the same conclusion: A machine had cloned her voice and replaced her.
“It's pathetic," says Cadol, who straight away called her lawyer. “My voice belongs to me. You have no right to do that.”
“It was absolutely scandalous,” says Bos. “It was artificial intelligence.”
Aspyr, the game developer based in Austin, Texas, didn’t respond to e-mailed questions from The Associated Press. But it acknowledged in a post last week on its website that what it described as “unauthorized AI generated content” had been incorporated into its Aug. 14 update of “Tomb Raider IV–VI Remastered" that angered fans.
“We’ve addressed this issue by removing all AI voiceover content,” Aspyr's post said. “We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.”
!summarize #sports #gambling #epidemic
!summarize #atlas #scientists #space
!summarize #google #quantum
Google Says Biden Admin Pressured It to Censor YouTube
Google has confessed that the administration of former President Joe Biden "pressed" the tech giant and YouTube to censor content the government felt was COVID-19 "misinformation," according to a letter released Tuesday by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, is now urging those counterculture voices to "rejoin" if they were kicked off the platform for violating the now-abandoned rules on what content creators could say about COVID-19 and election integrity.
Alphabet attorney Daniel Donovan shared the shocking admission Tuesday while speaking to the House Judiciary Committee. The Biden administration, Donovan wrote, "created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.
"It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, attempts to dictate how the Company moderates content, and the Company has consistently fought against those efforts on First Amendment grounds.
"Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies. While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove non-violative user-generated content."
!summarize #stephenasmith #nba #gambling
!summarize #superbowl #nfl
EchoStar Sells Spectrum Licenses to SpaceX for $17 Billion
EchoStar on Monday agreed to sell wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for its Starlink satellite network for about $17 billion, in a bid to resolve a regulatory review over underutilization of its assets for 5G service expansion.
Shares of EchoStar rose nearly 22% in premarket trading following the news.
The deal comes months after the Federal Communications Commission questioned EchoStar's compliance with buildout extensions and its use of mobile-satellite service spectrum, raising concerns about whether it was meeting its obligations to deploy 5G in the U.S.
President Donald Trump had earlier prodded EchoStar and FCC Chair Brendan Carr to reach an amicable deal over the fate of the company's wireless spectrum licenses.
EchoStar in August sold some wireless spectrum licenses to AT&T for $23 billion, its first move to resolve the regulatory probe.
Microsoft AI bots won't talk dirty with users, exec confirms as company takes swipe at OpenAI
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, said Thursday the company will not build erotica AI services.
Geeks who want to talk dirty with artificial intelligence bots will have to look somewhere other than Microsoft.
The software giant’s AI chief said this week that the company won’t be offering “simulated erotica” through any of its AI products.
The announcement from Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman marked a sharp contrast with the company’s partner OpenAI, which recently said it would allow adult users to engage in explicit conversations with ChatGPT.
In an August essay titled “We must build AI for people; not to be a person,” he cautioned that anthropomorphic bots could “create another axis of division for humanity.”
On Thursday, Suleyman said that trend was already emerging in the tech world, citing erotic AI startups and companion platforms that blur the line between entertainment and emotional attachment.
“You can already see it with some of these avatars and people leaning into the kind of sexbot erotica direction,” he said.
“This is very dangerous, and I think we should be making conscious decisions to avoid those kinds of things.”
The firms’ dueling messages could be the latest sign of a growing philosophical split between the AI partners, whose alliance has anchored Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar expansion into generative tech since 2019.
Nike claims their futuristic new footwear can boost brain activity and leg strength
“It’s OK to push some edges and try some crazy things.”
Shoes like these could really help kickstart a workout.
Nike is making good on their vow to “create epic s–t” after dropping a new line of sneakers that they claim are good for both body and mind.
When Phil McCartney, who has worked at Nike for nearly three decades, was named chief innovation, design and product officer in May, he put an emphasis on speed, looking to release items as early as 12 months ahead as planned.
“By nature, I’m pretty impatient,” McCartney said during a recent interview at Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, per Bloomberg. “It’s OK to push some edges and try some crazy things.”
McCartney, 51, is doing just that — with new shoe designs that look fit for robot legs.
The 60-year-old sportswear brand certainly has the research tools to back up its cutting-edge ideas. There are force plates implanted in the indoor track in the research lab that will measure a runner’s foot strikes; the basketball court and turf field utilize motion-capture cameras to take note of athletes’ movements; and climate chambers are used to study the science of sweat in different conditions.
Using insights from the Nike Sports Research Lab — inside the new LeBron James Innovation Center — their team of engineers and designers came up with four innovative ‘fits to benefit the body.
Apple Sued by Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training
Apple was accused by authors in a lawsuit Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train its artificial intelligence systems, part of an expanding legal fight over protections for intellectual property in the AI era.
The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed in federal court in Northern California, claimed Apple copied protected works without consent and without credit or compensation.
"Apple has not attempted to pay these authors for their contributions to this potentially lucrative venture," according to the lawsuit, filed by authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson.
Apple and attorneys for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond Friday to requests for comment.
The lawsuit is the latest in a wave of cases from authors, news outlets and others accusing major technology companies of violating legal protections for their works.
The Mind 001 and Mind 002 feature 22 independent foam nodes on each shoe, which are bonded to a flexible, water-resistant material that allows them to act as pistons and gimbals as people move.
The Mind 001 is a mule that offers comfort and convenience, while the Mind 002 is a sneaker that offers more support and sensation.
“By studying perception, attention and sensory feedback, we’re tapping into the brain-body connection in new ways. It’s not just about running faster — it’s about feeling more present, focused and resilient. That’s the next frontier of performance,” Dr. Matthew Nurse, VP, Chief Science Officer, NIKE, Inc., said.
Industry insiders told The Times of London that they have been approached by would-be honeypots.
China and Russia have deployed attractive women to the United States to seduce unwitting Silicon Valley tech executives as part of a “sex warfare” operation aimed at stealing American technology secrets, according to a report.
Industry insiders told The Times of London that they have been approached by would-be honeypots — some of whom have even managed to ensnare their targets by marrying them and having children.
Chinese and Russian agents are also using social media, startup competitions and venture capital investments to infiltrate the heart of America’s tech industry, the report said.
“I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman,” James Mulvenon, chief intelligence officer at risk-assessment firm Pamir Consulting, told The Times.
“It really seems to have ramped up recently.”
A former US counterintelligence official who now works for Silicon Valley startups told The Times that he recently investigated one case of a “beautiful” Russian woman who worked at a US-based aerospace company, where she met an American colleague whom she eventually married.
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!summarize #sanfrancisco #giants #domsmith #verlander #wilmerflores #mlb
!summarize #military #marriage #relationships #divorce
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How the algorithm works and its applications
The Quantum Echoes algorithm sends precisely crafted signals through Willow’s quantum system, perturbing a single qubit, then reversing the signal’s evolution. “We send a carefully crafted signal into our quantum system (qubits on Willow chip), perturb one qubit, then precisely reverse the signal’s evolution to listen for the ‘echo’ that comes back,” Google explained.
“This quantum echo is special because it gets amplified by constructive interference — a phenomenon where quantum waves add up to become stronger. This makes our measurement incredibly sensitive,” the statement added.
!summarize #jocko #buds #seals #navy #Military
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The Willow processor is a 105-qubit superconducting quantum computing processor developed by Google Quantum AI and manufactured in Santa Barbara, California
On December 9, 2024, Google Quantum AI announced Willow in a Nature paper and company blogpost, and claiming two accomplishments: First, that Willow can reduce errors exponentially as the number of qubits is scaled, achieving below threshold quantum error correction. Second, that Willow completed a Random Circuit Sampling (RCS) benchmark task in 5 minutes that would take today's fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (1025) years
Meta Launches Super PAC to Fight AI Regulation
As more state-level AI regulations emerge, Meta is increasing its lobbying efforts to support state lawmakers who favor AI and tech, and to oppose those who do not.
Meta is increasing its lobbying efforts to support state lawmakers who favor AI and tech, and to oppose those who do not, as more state-level AI regulations emerge, Axios first reported.
Labeled the American Technology Excellence Project, the PAC will be run by longtime Republican operative Brian Baker and Democratic consulting firm Hilltop Public Solutions and aims to promote state candidates from both parties.
Meta spokesperson Rachel Holland said the company is investing tens of millions of dollars in the project to counter state-level tech policy proposals, over 1,100 of which were introduced in 2025, which Meta believes could disadvantage the U.S. in the AI competition with China.
In June, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Ark., urged Congress to remove a provision in the administration's budget bill that would ban state-level artificial intelligence protections for 10 years. "AI can be a great tool for individuals, businesses and governments, but there have to be common-sense safeguards in place," the governor warned in an opinion essay in the Washington Post.