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Ted Cruz Wants to Help AI Companies Duck Regulations

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-08 19:00:37

Most tech firms like to operate under the adage of “ask forgiveness, not permission,” but they don’t even have to do that when they have lenient overseers like Ted Cruz trying to preemptively tell them to go ahead and get reckless. According to a report from Bloomberg, the Texas Senator plans to introduce legislation that will waive federal regulations for artificial intelligence companies and allow them to test new products without the standard scrutiny or oversight. The proposed bill, which i

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Cities obey the laws of living things

news.ycombinator.com Elena Kazamia 2025-10-06 20:31:01

Who would disagree with Dickens that London’s green spaces are the city’s “lungs?” A city is an animal that sleeps, although some never do, like New York City or Hong Kong. All cities are creatures of a sort. Some have multiple “faces” they present to the world, most have a “beating heart” where the action unfolds, and it is a rare city that lacks a dark “underbelly.” The analogy of city as living organism is so established, in fact, that it has crossed over into the realm of scientific inquiry

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‘Witch Hat Atelier’ Anime Studio Explains Delay, Vows to Do Justice to Manga’s Spellbinding Artistry

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-09 10:45:38

Studio Bug Films hopes its adaptation of Kamome Shirahama's manga will be as big as 'Lord of the Rings' for anime fans. Studio Bug Films recently delivered the deflating news that its anime adaptation of Witch Hat Atelier would be delayed to 2026. In the wake of its announcement, the studio gave fans an update about the nature of its delay and reaffirmed its commitment to doing the best possible job transforming manga pages into animation. In an X/Twitter social media post, which links out to

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Apple’s using more recycled materials in its iPhones and watches

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-09 18:32:37

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple’s new iPhone Air contains more recycled titanium than any of its predecessors, the company announced at the Tuesday Keynote. It’s using 80 percent recycled titanium. The phone as a w

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Enterprise-Grade Data Ethics: How to Implement Privacy, Policy, and Architecture

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-10 04:00:26

In an era where data is often described as the “new oil,” its management transcends basic operational considerations and becomes integral to organizational trust and sustainability. Ethical data practices, including transparency and informed consent, have emerged as compliance requirements and strategic differentiators for business growth and customer retention. Data Ethics as a Strategic Differentiator Ethical data use is essential for building customer trust, which drives brand loyalty and h

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AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-10 14:23:36

For the past few years, the AI industry has been charging full steam ahead, in what can sometimes feel like a pell-mell mad dash to take over the world. Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the industry has leveraged an ever-expanding arsenal of political, cultural, and economic power in its effort to lay claim to many different parts of society. Yet, despite the AI industry’s attempts to make itself seem omnipresent, a new report this week shows that adoption at large U.S. companies has de

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New 3D mapping tech goes way beyond GPS to let us see the earth in ways never before possible

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-11 06:26:27

ICEYE Move over, GPS. A more advanced mapping solution is going to change the way humans can see, anticipate, and navigate the world. A new initiative called Project Orbion is creating a digital twin of earth by bringing together various technologies and companies in a collaboration that is promising to deliver a next-gen 3D mapping solution that will allow humans to see into places and in ways that we've never seen before -- especially in some of the most difficult situations and environments

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Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-11 17:09:38

Artificial intelligence might be booming on paper, but in the real world, there are signs of a major slowdown. In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an obvious drop-off in corporate AI use — the largest since the survey began in November of 2023. The survey, which compiles data from over 1.2 million firms throughout the US, shows usage of AI tools among companies with over 250 employees dropping from nearly 14 percent in mid-June to under 12 per

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Trump’s Policies Are Shutting Out Americans From the Coolest New Gadgets

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-11 18:10:46

Tech companies big and small now struggle to tantalize you with tech without telling you how much it will cost, or—hell—whether you can even buy it. The still-ongoing IFA 2025 tech conference in Berlin proved how merely shipping tech to the U.S. is more tenuous than at any time in the last few decades. From what I saw and heard both on the floor and off, it became clear that the era of plentiful, affordable, and cool shit will melt away in favor of an epoch of dull and ever-more expensive tech.

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‘Sherlock Holmes’ May Get the Animated Treatment From a ‘Shrek’ Producer

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-11 22:00:35

Here’s a duo you don’t expect: Sherlock Holmes and Shrek. There won’t be any content crossover if a new animated Sherlock Holmes series—tentatively titled Animated Sherlock—gets off the ground, but the shared behind-the-scenes interests are there. Also of note, the series wouldn’t adapt the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle source material but rather a novel series that puts a more risque twist on his classic tales. As Variety reports, Animated Sherlock would tap into The Unexperguated Adventures of Sherl

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Dyson’s New Stick Vacuum Just Solved My Biggest Problem With Cordless Models

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 21:15:00

Dyson is one of the best-known cordless vacuum manufacturers, and its V-series vacuums are flagship models that usually earn top marks in our testing. With strong suction and innovations including dust detection, the best Dyson vacuums can usually be counted on to bring something new to the table. I got to go hands-on with the Dyson V16 Piston Animal (there’s also a Submarine variant), the company’s newest cordless vacuum that’s expected to launch in the US in 2026. It offers the top-of-class c

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Tropical Storms Routinely Shredded Baby Pterosaurs, Fossil Evidence Suggests

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-12 10:15:24

The Solnhofen Limestone, a fossil hotspot in southern Germany, hosts a particularly rich array of baby pterosaur bones. That led paleontologists to believe that the animals flourished here—until an autopsy unveiled the broken, storm-tossed wings of two baby pterosaurs, painting a darker picture of how the bones got there. In a Current Biology paper published September 5, paleontologists at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom describe the tragic tale of Lucky and Lucky II, two baby

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Apple Gets Hit With AI Copyright Lawsuit Days Before iPhone 17 Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 14:10:00

Two authors, Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, are suing Apple, alleging the company violated their copyright protections and illegally acquired and used their books to train its AI, according to a complaint filed Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. The authors claim Apple used a software program called Applebot to scrape data from "shadow libraries" such as Books3. The authors' novels were included in the pirated library and thus used to

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OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-13 10:56:43

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is on a mission to show Hollywood that generative artificial intelligence can deliver results and is throwing its weight behind an animated feature film it hopes will stand toe-to-toe with much costlier productions, according to the Wall

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This Robot Vacuum Has 4WD and Fast Charging Like An Electric SUV. Here’s Why It Matters

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 23:00:00

Most robot vacuums have two wheels in the back that are directly powered, though they may still have front roller that allows them to move smoothly. This works fine for most people’s homes but if, like me, you have a lot of dramatic thresholds that measure an inch or more, you’ll find your robot cleaner getting stuck a lot. Ecovac’s new Deebot X11 Pro Omnicyclone (X11 Pro Omni), showcased at IFA 2025, is designed to tackle this problem by giving it four-wheel drive and the ability to climb thres

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

news.ycombinator.com Cade Metz 2025-10-13 02:52:45

In 2024, three book authors, Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, sued Anthropic, accusing the start-up of illegally using their work to train its A.I. models. The suit is among the four dozen cases that copyright holders have brought against A.I. companies. Some have been dismissed by the courts. Companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft need enormous amounts of digital data, some of which is copyrighted, to build its A.I. models. The companies have long claimed t

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Samsung leak reveals how you’ll be opening and closing its dual-hinge foldable

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 14:26:12

TL;DR A new animation for Samsung’s multi-fold foldable has leaked. The animation shows how the device will open and close. It also appears to show that users will be able to take selfies with the rear cameras. Samsung debuted the Galaxy S25 FE this week, but that’s not the last smartphone the company is expected to announce this year. The tech giant also has a multi-fold device, popularly but misleadingly called a “tri-fold,” due later this year. Last week, a few 2D animations related to the

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Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-13 22:27:47

Dot, an AI companion app that aimed to be a friend and confidante, is shutting down, the company announced on Friday. On a message published on its website, the startup behind Dot, New Computer, said that the product will remain operational until October 5, giving users time to download their data. Launched in 2024 by co-founders Sam Whitmore and former Apple designer Jason Yuan, Dot waded into what’s now become a more controversial area for AI chatbots. The app they created was described as an

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Purposeful animations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 03:34:57

When done right, animations make an interface feel predictable, faster, and more enjoyable to use. They help you and your product stand out. But they can also do the opposite. They can make an interface feel unpredictable, slow, and annoying. They can even make your users lose trust in your product. So how do you know when and how to animate to improve the experience? Step one is making sure your animations have a purpose. Purposeful animations Before you start animating, ask yourself: what

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You Don't Need Animations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 08:34:57

When done right, animations make an interface feel predictable, faster, and more enjoyable to use. They help you and your product stand out. But they can also do the opposite. They can make an interface feel unpredictable, slow, and annoying. They can even make your users lose trust in your product. So how do you know when and how to animate to improve the experience? Step one is making sure your animations have a purpose. Purposeful animations Before you start animating, ask yourself: what

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Trump warns ‘fairly substantial’ chip tariffs are coming; signals Apple, others will be safe

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-15 13:16:02

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., and U.S. President Donald Trump during a dinner with tech leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., on Sept. 4, 2025. President Donald Trump has reiterated a warning that he will soon impose "fairly substantial" tariffs on semiconductor imports from companies that do not shift production to the U.S., but will spare firms like Apple that expand investments domestically. Trump made the comments Th

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Updating restrictions of sales to unsupported regions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 09:20:43

Anthropic's Terms of Service prohibit use of our services in certain regions due to legal, regulatory, and security risks. However, companies from these restricted regions—including adversarial nations like China—continue accessing our services in various ways, such as through subsidiaries incorporated in other countries. Companies subject to control from authoritarian regions like China face legal requirements that can compel them to share data, cooperate with intelligence services, or take ot

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Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-15 16:44:21

For a while now, we've been seeing companies that fired a bunch of their human workers in favor of artificial intelligence move to recoup some of that flesh-and-blood labor. Now, that push has resulted in a new line of gig work: slop fixer-uppers, who get paid to improve AI-generated art, writing, and code — by making it less, well, sloppy. In an interview with NBC News, longtime freelance illustrator Lisa Carstens said fixing AI-generated logos, many of which have fuzzy lines and garbled text

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Rocketships and Slingshots

news.ycombinator.com Aaron Harris 2025-10-15 17:06:10

The dominant metaphor for a successful startup these days is the rocketship. The not so humble brags are all over x and the press, founders and VCs saying - “0-100m in ARR faster than any company in history” and “idea to $1m in revenue in a month.” I get why these are exciting. The stories are simple, the progress is amazing, the pull of the market is irresistible. Sometimes these will be the biggest and most interesting companies of the future. Then again, as with most stories, the realities o

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Non-Obviously Great Startups

news.ycombinator.com Aaron Harris 2025-10-15 22:06:10

The dominant metaphor for a successful startup these days is the rocketship. The not so humble brags are all over x and the press, founders and VCs saying - “0-100m in ARR faster than any company in history” and “idea to $1m in revenue in a month.” I get why these are exciting. The stories are simple, the progress is amazing, the pull of the market is irresistible. Sometimes these will be the biggest and most interesting companies of the future. Then again, as with most stories, the realities o

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The Dreame X50 Didn’t Just Mop My Floors -- It Outsmarted My Furniture

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 21:07:00

CNET's key takeaways No robot vacuum has truly solved the challenge of multilevel cleaning without requiring you to physically move it between floors. This robo-vac can do it, for the high-end price of $1,700. You won't find another robot vacuum with its features for less than $1,000 right now. The whole point of owning a robot vacuum is so you don't have to do the cleaning yourself. But that was never the case at my house -- partly because of what I call my "Ikea chair challenge." I've seen

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DeepSeek Is Working on an AI Agent. Will It Be Better Than ChatGPT?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 03:38:00

China-based DeepSeek is working on developing a new agentic generative AI model, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. Agentic AI is the latest wave of AI technology. AI agents are a kind of digital assistant; they can complete tasks without a lot of human oversight. AI agents can do anything from coding to ordering you a pizza, as my colleague Imad Khan recently tested. Details about the specifics of the DeepSeek agent model are still fuzzy. An August update to DeepSeek's V3 model was

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DeepSeek Is Working on an AI Agent: Will It Be Better Than ChatGPT?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 13:38:49

China-based DeepSeek is working on developing a new agentic generative AI model, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. Agentic AI is the latest wave of AI technology. AI agents are a kind of digital assistant; they can complete tasks without a lot of human oversight. AI agents can do anything from coding to ordering you a pizza, as my colleague Imad Khan recently tested. Details about the specifics of the DeepSeek agent model are still fuzzy. An August update to DeepSeek's V3 model was

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I Tried It: Dyson's Newest Stick Vac Empties So Neatly, I Could Do It in Bed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 18:01:00

Dyson is one of the best-known cordless vacuum manufacturers, and its V-series vacuums are flagship models that usually earn top marks in our testing. With strong suction and innovations including dust detection, the best Dyson vacuums can usually be counted on to bring something new to the table. I got to go hands-on with the Dyson V16 Piston Animal (there’s also a Submarine variant), the company’s newest cordless vacuum that’s expected to launch in the US in 2026. It offers the top-of-class c

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The Hand-Drawn Hits That Hollywood Isn't Making

news.ycombinator.com Animation Obsessive Staff 2025-10-13 16:08:23

Detail from a poster for Nobody (2025) by Shanghai Animation Film Studio Welcome! This is a new Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Our lineup today: 1) Why 2D movies are booming elsewhere. 2) Newsbits. With that, let’s go! 1 – Stories that resonate Folks who follow the animation news have already heard. Right now, hand-drawn features are taking over. It’s happening in Japan, where Infinity Castle (of the Demon Slayer series) just became the third-biggest movie in the co

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Cities obey the laws of living things

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Enterprise-Grade Data Ethics: How to Implement Privacy, Policy, and Architecture

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Tropical Storms Routinely Shredded Baby Pterosaurs, Fossil Evidence Suggests

Apple Gets Hit With AI Copyright Lawsuit Days Before iPhone 17 Event

OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film

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Purposeful animations

You Don't Need Animations

Trump warns ‘fairly substantial’ chip tariffs are coming; signals Apple, others will be safe

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Rocketships and Slingshots

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DeepSeek Is Working on an AI Agent: Will It Be Better Than ChatGPT?

I Tried It: Dyson's Newest Stick Vac Empties So Neatly, I Could Do It in Bed

The Hand-Drawn Hits That Hollywood Isn't Making

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