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California’s Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills
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California’s Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that prohibits social media platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, the first law of its kind in the nation.

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How the New iPhone Duo’s Glass Screen Bends Without Breaking
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How the New iPhone Duo’s Glass Screen Bends Without Breaking

The screens of foldable phones are a triumph of materials science and microengineering.

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Glass Thinner Than a Human Hair: How the New iPhone Bends but Doesn’t Break
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Glass Thinner Than a Human Hair: How the New iPhone Bends but Doesn’t Break

The screens of foldable phones are a triumph of materials science and microengineering.

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Why is Apple’s New Foldable iPhone Duo $1,999?
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Why is Apple’s New Foldable iPhone Duo $1,999?

The company unveiled a new iPhone that costs $1,999. Here are the economics behind that price tag.

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Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999
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Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999

At the company’s annual September product event, Apple also demonstrated its work on artificial intelligence and other new devices.

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Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
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Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity

Their warnings echo concerns that other artificial intelligence experts have voiced in recent months, as calls increase for a slowdown in the pace of development.

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How Amazon’s Zoox Is Taking On Waymo in San Francisco
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How Amazon’s Zoox Is Taking On Waymo in San Francisco

The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.

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OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’
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OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.

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Apple Expected to Unveil a Folding iPhone at Annual Launch Event
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Apple Expected to Unveil a Folding iPhone at Annual Launch Event

Fans of the company’s products widely believe it will unveil a folding smartphone at its annual launch event on Wednesday.

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Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple’s New Siri A.I.
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Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple’s New Siri A.I.

For the company’s new artificial intelligence system to take off, it will need plenty of support from the makers of popular apps on Apple’s phones.

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Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging
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Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging

Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age.

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Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports
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Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports

Filings made Friday in The New York Times’s closely watched lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft included a range of copyright law and cultural references.

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Tumbler Ridge Shooting Survivors File 30 Lawsuits Against OpenAI
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Tumbler Ridge Shooting Survivors File 30 Lawsuits Against OpenAI

The survivors contend that the company should have notified the police when it shut down the shooter’s disturbing ChatGPT account eight months before the February attack in British Columbia.

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Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I.
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Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I.

Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.

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The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
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The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.

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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.
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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

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How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face
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How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face

Researchers investigating how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure weren’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.

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