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Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

On social media, Meta’s chief executive appeared to jab at Anthropic by saying that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.
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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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Meta Introduces Muse, an A.I. Agent That Can Send Your Emails and Book Your Travel

Muse, Meta’s new A.I. agent, acts as a personal digital assistant that connects to Facebook and Instagram, as well as third-party apps such as Spotify and OpenTable.
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Missouri Voters Appear to Recall City Councilman Over Data Center Support

Initial results showed that residents of Independence, Mo., voted overwhelmingly to recall an official who backed billions of dollars in tax breaks for a data center.

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Organizers of the recall vote said the councilman, John Perkins, had failed to engage the public while the city negotiated with the developer of a data center project.
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His Start-Up’s Goal: A.I. That Is Trainable and Not Controlled by a Big Company

A co-founder of xAI is going all in on building open-source artificial intelligence so that β€œanyone can control and shape A.I. for their own needs.”
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