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Beyond Walks & Food: Why Your Dog’s Social Life Impacts Their Longevity

A massive study reveals your dog’s environment may matter more than their diet or genes

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New York Times technologyworld
What Anthropic’s C.E.O. Argued in His Call for Slower A.I. Development (Gift Article)

Dario Amodei’s 3,800-word letter laid out a three-step plan to rein in artificial intelligence.

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New York Times politicstechnology
Trump’s Childhood Home Sells for Nearly $2 Million (Gift Article)

The buyer, who plans to live in the home, has expressed an interest in remaining anonymous, a listing agent said.

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New York Times technology
Opinion | It’s Not Just You. America Has Gotten Much Hotter. (Gift Article)

The notion of enduring the summer rather than embracing it has spread far beyond the Sun Belt.

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Bloomberg technologypolitics
Trump Downplays AI Concerns as CEOs Call for Slowing Technology

President Donald Trump downplayed the growing alarm over risks from artificial intelligence after some of the industry’s leaders called for slowing the development pace of the technology.

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Bloomberg businesstechnologypolitics
Apple’s iPhone Duo Will Turn Foldable Phones Into the New Normal

Also: The company prepares a retail store shake-up.

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The Atlantic technology
It’s All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card

AI personal assistants are now acting on people’s behalf in the real world—and all sorts of strange things are going wrong.

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New York Times culturetechnology
Working With Your Hands Is Good for Your Brain (Gift Article)

Activities like writing, gardening and knitting can improve your cognition and mood. Tapping, typing and scrolling? Less so.

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Medium technologybusiness
Is That New Apple Watch Recording You?

Apple says it isn’t. Are they right?

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Medium technology
In the AI race, everyone knows the danger, but nobody is prepared to slow down

Bloomberg reports that Sam Altman is thinking about pausing OpenAI’s development of new models, if other companies can be persuaded to do…

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The Times (UK) technologypolitics
Masked Dover agitators target Oxfordshire village next

Daniel Thomas of Patriot Platform claims thousands could descend on Piddington to keep asylum seekers out of the area

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New York Times culturetechnology
Remember Filmstrips? These Dedicated Souls Are Racing to Save Them (Gift Article)

One of the 20th century’s biggest media formats was often thrown out in the rush to embrace VHS. But preservationists say visual history is being lost.

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Medium technologyculture
The Nepal-Tibet Glacier Disaster Changes Everything

The global response has been found wanting: now COP31 in November has a clear rallying point

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Bloomberg technology
Anthropic CEO Says It’s Time to Slow AI Model Advances

Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced — and most lucrative — models, citing escalating risks of the techno...

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The Atlantic technologybusiness
AI’s Code-Red Moment

Anthropic’s CEO says that AI companies must slow down for the good of humanity.

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New York Times businesstechnology
A.I. Is Becoming So Powerful, It’s Stumping Those Trying to Contain It (Gift Article)

Irregular, an Israeli start-up, worked with OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to assess the security of their A.I. models. It made a mistake. Then the tests went off the rails.

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The Atlantic sciencetechnology
AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System

The technology is moving faster than elected officials can handle—and Anthropic’s CEO says the industry should slow down.

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The Atlantic technologypolitics
The MAGA Right Is Only Pretending to Be Censored

The conspiracy theory that persists even though no evidence supports it

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Medium culturetechnologyentertainment
The Last Ringbearer: The Tech Bro Fanfic of The Lord of the Rings

How does Peter Thiel reckon his techno-fascist empire with the morals of Tolkien?

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NRC opiniontechnologyworld
Met een vlijmscherp portret van Elon Musk is de sociale kloof zeer aanwezig op het filmfestival van Venetië

Filmfestival Venetië: In de vier uur lange documentaire ‘Musk’, fileert Alex Gibney, de kroniekschrijver van het laat-kapitalisme, Elon Musk. De hoofdvraag: is Musk een gek, een genie, of beide?

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Medium culturetechnology
A Stay In The Lake District #7

Descending Cat Bells

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Bloomberg legaltechnology
AI Is Hitting the Legal System From Every Side

Courts are grappling with chatbots that provided legal counsel, generated evidence or helped plan a mass shooting. Who’s liable for the AI agents doing crimes all on their own?

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New York Times technology
Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown (Gift Article)

In a 3,800-word essay, Dario Amodei laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

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New York Times technology
After the I.P.O., a Billion-Dollar Bill for Employee Paydays (Gift Article)

A compensation strategy at start-ups keeps expenses low until they go public. At that point, the companies may face billions of dollars in catch-up expenses.

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Medium businesstechnology
Apple Should Make a Mac Optimized for Local AI

Apple doesn’t need to make its most powerful Mac. It needs to make a Mac whose power is allocated differently

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How a Bay Area music sleuth unearthed unheard teenage David Bowie recordings

El Cerrito musician Alec Palao discovered unheard David Bowie recordings from 1965. Ten of the tracks are now being released for the first time.

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The Times (UK) technologybusiness
Shard Place tenants face guest limits and hidden costs

Renters in the 27-storey building opposite the London landmark have been frustrated by cinema use as well as surprise wifi and gym charges

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Opinion | A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? (Gift Article)

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

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Why It’s Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein In A.I. (Gift Article)

Researchers say artificial intelligence is developing faster than the systems put in place to monitor and control it.

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Opinion | Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse (Gift Article)

Silicon Valley’s strange new theology.

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Medium technologyscience
Europe doesn’t hate Big Tech, it just has a long memory

On September 9, the prestigious Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published “Three reasons Europe learned to distrust Big Tech before…

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New York Times businesstechnology
Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday (Gift Article)

Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.

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New York Times technology
Apple’s New iPhone Duo Is Here. How Do Consumer Technology Journalists Review It? (Gift Article)

Here’s the process for vetting new smartphones and gadgets at The Times and Wirecutter.

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New York Times technology
SEC growing more determined to govern itself — with or without congressional action (Gift Article)

The SEC collectively has been discussing a possible breakaway from the NCAA for almost one year, despite pushback from other conferences.

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The Atlantic technologytransportation
The Midterm Conventions Will Continue Until Morale Improves

It isn’t over until the president’s tenor sings.

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New York Times politicstechnologyopinion
Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World (Gift Article)

A destructive A.I., like a nuclear bomb, is now a concrete possibility; the question is whether anyone will be reckless enough to build one.

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Medium culturetechnology
If I Had a Million Flowers

We’d mix them in Kraft dinner

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New York Times technology
Clay, an A.I. Sales Tool Provider, Raises $115 Million (Gift Article)

The round was led by Wellington Management, a firm known for investing in start-ups on the path toward potential initial public offerings.

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Justice Dept. Investigates Nvidia Deal With Groq (Gift Article)

The Justice Department is examining whether the tech giant sought to sidestep antitrust scrutiny.

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New York Times opiniontechnologypolitics
Opinion | What Ground Zero Should Have Been (Gift Article)

Twenty-five years on, some regrets.

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New York Times sciencetechnology
Is Your City Prepared for Climate Disaster? (Gift Article)

A new report ranks the world’s large cities on how well they have adapted to face climate risk.

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San Francisco Chronicle legaltechnology
Jury finds former Windsor mayor Dominic Foppoli sexually assaulted 7 women, awards $12.6 million

The verdict, reached after a week of deliberations, capped an emotionally arduous seven-week trial.

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Bloomberg technologylegalmedia
Apple’s Always-Listening Watch Features Test Eavesdropping Laws

Apple Inc.’s new always-listening artificial intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 could put eavesdropping laws to the test, according to legal experts.

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New York Times businessworldtechnology
Choking Global Trade
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Medium technology
Suddenly, We’re Ubiquitous

As photos flood the Web and photo recognition technology becomes more widespread and precise, are we approaching an unsettling tipping…

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Medium culturebusinesstechnology
Now We’re Golden With MacGuffins

The Word Collector — Part 153

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Bloomberg culturetechnologylegal
Why Is Everyone Wearing Camouflage?

Realtree and Mossy Oak turned patterns designed for the woods into coveted streetwear and luxury fashion.

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The Atlantic technologyopinionmedia
AI Writing Has Entered Its Post-Shame Era

Media Already Has a Trust Problem

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New York Times technology
TSA May Allow Passengers With PreCheck to Bring Water Through Checkpoints (Gift Article)

Bottles of water could soon be allowed through security checkpoints at some airports, relaxing a strict policy in place for more than 20 years.

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The Atlantic technologyculture
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems

Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.

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