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The hidden cost of letting AI choose your lunch

Relying on AI for decision-making could lead to "cognitive surrender," a weakening of critical thinking that makes people distrust their own judgment.

The developer behind VLC's 6 billion downloads now wants to connect hundreds of millions of robots

VLC developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf raised $5M led by Lightspeed for Kyber, an open-source SDK that controls remote machines with ultra-low latency.

I let robot-trainers clean my apartment for free. It was unsettling, but I got over it.

I invited cleaners and a chef from the startup Shift into my New York apartment. They worked for free — but recorded the process to train AI robots.

Anthropic, SpaceX and Meta: This Week's Top Stories in AI

AI Magazine explores the top stories this week, including hacking risks in Anthropic's Claude models, SpaceX's Cursor acquisition and Meta AI's restructure

SwitchBot’s Standing Circulator Fan is worth fighting for

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Using AI for financial advice? Proceed with caution

The chatbots are helpful for simple tasks, but they can make costly mistakes

Why are we not talking to one another?

Conversations with a chatbot will never provide the same human nourishment

Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn't work

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

This LLM in a box is powered by a hand crank.

As spotted earlier by The Register, CrankGPT is a concept project from a two-person team at Squeez Labs that runs private, local AI models without needing a power-hungry data center. Instead, you have to literally crank out your own power for each of the chatbot’s answers.

Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO

Trump told Axios that Anthropic has “behaved very responsibly” and signalled he may ease restrictions on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models.

Nothing cancels this year’s CMF phone due to RAM prices

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Aura's impressive e-ink photo frame doesn't even look digital

All of Aura's frames connect to the Aura app, which is where you can upload photos from your phone, web, email, iCloud, or Google Photos.