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https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-centers-tribal-communities the visitors came with presents. Shiny gifts. baubles. Mirrors. Jewels. Sparkles. New and amazing. They dazzled the locals. Shiny things. Pretty things. New things. Things the locals had never seen. Astonishing things. for them. They knew how to sell them, to show them off, to use them to get the locals on board, to … [Read more…]

https://www.ft.com/content/f3e8765e-2947-4f48-8aca-2b069f2aeaf8 She’d factored it in if course. so had her parents and their accountant. Investment. Return. The best training and then the best subscription. The Agent had negotiated with the University’s systems. Rates, length of contracts, compatibilities, exclusivity terms, break clauses. They’d even brought in an external Agent to check the contracts, evaluate the package. … [Read more…]

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-track-everything-workers-type-click-train-ai She was never bothered about it. She’d grown up in what a professor had once called the “post privacy” era. The data was just a currency, to trade. it wasn’t her. She didn’t have any emotional connection to it. It didn’t feel it was hers, to be taken or exploited. She didn’t feel a … [Read more…]

https://www.theverge.com/tech/915279/tim-cook-ceo-letter-apple-community It didn’t think of itself as “stepping down” of course. it didn’t think of itself as anything really. But this was a moment of transition. The Company was changing. New Agents, maybe new humans. It had been at the heart of the Company for some time and this was just the next step. maybe … [Read more…]

https://www.ft.com/content/51b55431-30e8-4eb3-9730-f5e89c24ad56 He’d said he was proud to be accountable. He was where the buck stopped. Wouldn’t throw anyone or anything under the bus when things went wrong. His was a leadership rooted in integrity. When mistakes were made, he owned them. His advisors, human and Agent warned him not to be too clear. They’d run … [Read more…]

https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-it-takes-2-minutes-to-hack-the-eus-new-age-verification-app/ They gathered round to watch. Sam was the master: a wonder to behold. Sam could have made a fortune giving lessons. but where was the fun in that? Watching Sam was enough. Rumour had it that Sam couldn’t hack. It had all been natural. Innate somehow. That was the word, “natural”. Of course everyone … [Read more…]

https://futurism.com/future-society/city-council-meeting-case-against-data-center They’d been canvassing all afternoon. The Company’s training had paid off. No stand-up arguments. No “moments”. They had de-escalated well. Keeping “contact” with the residents, reassuring then that the changes they were seeing were positive, natural. Their community was still theirs. More so.There was no threat, no “invasion”. Change of course. Inevitable, natural. positive. … [Read more…]

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/figuring-out-why-ais-get-flummoxed-by-some-games/ The Agents watched. The sensors around the playground fed them data: location, movement, networks, sounds and image. Lidar mapping created the models. The children’s wearables added the biometrics and emotional data. That data normally only went to the schools and parents but the Agents had access during the play sessions. The Agents worked, tried … [Read more…]

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/nvidia_gtc_2026_preview_tobias_mann_register/ We think it is important that our team has the opportunity to, how can I put it? “Let it’s hair down”. We pride ourselves on the creativity and of our team, how they can think differently. We give them support to pursue their own creative projects. As a business we reap the rewards in … [Read more…]

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/fords-new-ai-assistant-will-help-fleet-owners-know-if-seatbelts-are-being-used/ She was driving casual (as Harrison Ford might have said). Not fast obviously, not slow, careful but not too careful: just casual. She didn’t feel casual, she knew that and she knew the car knew that. It had been a difficult breakfast. She knew there were signs: the way she held the driverless console; … [Read more…]