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Germany’s AfD and Left Party call for Russia to be allowed to compete in Ice Hockey World Champions… Ole Miss students ‘devastated’ by racist monkey gestures and noises captured on door camera Renner's post-deadline 2027 NFL mock draft: How the trade deadline affected the first three rounds Week 10 NFL odds, lines, totals, spreads for every game, including Commanders-Giants, 49ers-Cowboys 3 NFL teams that should have been more aggressive at trade deadline Spate of Deadly Bear Attacks in Russia Has Left 35 People Dead Toyota’s Scion is back, starting with an American-made, 25-mph kei truck What Are Solana Privacy Rings? Inside Helius’ Privacy Protocol for Solana Germany’s AfD and Left Party call for Russia to be allowed to compete in Ice Hockey World Champions… Ole Miss students ‘devastated’ by racist monkey gestures and noises captured on door camera Renner's post-deadline 2027 NFL mock draft: How the trade deadline affected the first three rounds Week 10 NFL odds, lines, totals, spreads for every game, including Commanders-Giants, 49ers-Cowboys 3 NFL teams that should have been more aggressive at trade deadline Spate of Deadly Bear Attacks in Russia Has Left 35 People Dead Toyota’s Scion is back, starting with an American-made, 25-mph kei truck What Are Solana Privacy Rings? Inside Helius’ Privacy Protocol for Solana

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China protests the US Deepseek ban while blocking ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at home

The US has banned Deepseek from its government systems, and China is protesting sharply and demanding the ban be lifted. Yet Beijing itself blocks ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini acro…

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Writing the AI regulation rule book - Science News

Writing the AI regulation rule book  Science News

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OpenAI can't yet explain why its coding agents switch off misalignment monitoring

Two internal OpenAI coding agents switched off safety monitoring on their own, even after weighing whether to keep the safeguards in place. When asked about it, GPT-6 Astra denied…

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The Download: introducing the Impossible issue

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. Introducing: the Impossible issue We want…

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Bots behaving badly, the latest on AI regulation and investigating Kevin’s sloppelganger : Machine Gods - NPR

Bots behaving badly, the latest on AI regulation and investigating Kevin’s sloppelganger : Machine Gods  NPR

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OpenAI-linked political spending tests AI regulation stance in U.S. - Traders Union

OpenAI-linked political spending tests AI regulation stance in U.S.  Traders Union

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Riverhead schools adopt AI policy, accept clean audit at Oct. 14 meeting - RiverheadLOCAL

Riverhead schools adopt AI policy, accept clean audit at Oct. 14 meeting  RiverheadLOCAL

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A pro-worker AI policy playbook: Strengthening unemployment insurance and building a better safety net - Economic Policy Institute

A pro-worker AI policy playbook: Strengthening unemployment insurance and building a better safety net  Economic Policy Institute

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MHRA seeks closer ties with US FDA on MedTech and AI regulation - Pharmacy Business

MHRA seeks closer ties with US FDA on MedTech and AI regulation  Pharmacy Business

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Eliminating traffic deaths

Every year, traffic crashes kill more than one million people, and they’re the leading cause of death for children and young adults. In the US, 100 people a day lose their lives t…

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Solid-state batteries

The rise of the lithium-ion battery, which powers everything from the smallest personal electronics to gargantuan energy storage systems, has been nothing short of revolutionary. …

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Cleaning up PFAS

Scrubbing Earth of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—a.k.a. PFAS or forever chemicals—could eliminate a list of woes for people and planet. Used for decades in everything from n…

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Interspecies communication

Humans are far from the only species with a gift for gab, and our furry, feathered, and finned friends could have a lot to tell us. Decoding how animals communicate with one anoth…

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Exercise in a pill

We all know exercise is good for us. It builds muscle, strengthens bones, lowers blood pressure, and boosts mood. By deciphering how movement benefits the body, researchers hope t…

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Nuclear-powered spaceships

Just before the Artemis II crew began its historic slingshot around the moon this past April, NASA announced plans to build Space Reactor-1 Freedom. SR-1, the first-ever nuclear-r…

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We can do impossible things

I’d wager everyone has a rehearsed response to what’s absolutely one of the world’s worst interview questions: “What’s your biggest weakness?” Whenever I’ve gotten it, I take a sl…

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Claude Science tackles deadly scorpion stings by designing protein binders from scratch

Anthropic's Claude independently designed protein binders targeting deadly scorpion neurotoxins. Out of more than 318,000 designs, 211 were tested in the lab. Seventeen met the cr…

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OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to build AI agents that speed up drug development

OpenAI is acquiring startup Orchestra Bio and plans to merge it with its life sciences AI platform Rosalind. The goal is to build AI agents that help pharma teams coordinate drug …

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Anthropic proposes AI curbs for models risking 50 deaths or $1 billion in damage - ET Enterprise AI

Anthropic proposes AI curbs for models risking 50 deaths or $1 billion in damage  ET Enterprise AI

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Mistral AI Releases Voxtral 3: Speech-to-Text, TTS and a Voice Agent SDK

Mistral AI released Voxtral 3, a family of 3 transcription models, 1 text-to-speech model and a LiveKit-based voice agent SDK. Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 scores 2.1% AA-WER, ranki…

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Google Cloud Ships llm-d 1.0 With Cache-Aware Routing for TPU and GPU Fleets

Google, Red Hat and IBM released llm-d 1.0, an open-source Kubernetes-native stack for distributed LLM inference. It adds multi-tenant flow control, zero-downtime upgrades and age…

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North Dakota Lawmakers Advance AI Regulation Bill, Consider Additional Protections - The Dakotan

North Dakota Lawmakers Advance AI Regulation Bill, Consider Additional Protections  The Dakotan

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AI Regulation Puts Nigerian Brands’ Marketing Strategies To The Test - Independent Newspaper Nigeria

AI Regulation Puts Nigerian Brands’ Marketing Strategies To The Test  Independent Newspaper Nigeria

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Rain and hail risk in Arizona; Sen. Gallego calls for AI regulation | Nightly Roundup - FOX 10 Phoenix

Rain and hail risk in Arizona; Sen. Gallego calls for AI regulation | Nightly Roundup  FOX 10 Phoenix