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Amazon is selling the Bose Smart Ultra Dolby Atmos Soundbar for $679, down from its $999 list price, a $320 discount. The price matches the lowest seen for the product so far this year, according to the report.
An opinion column contends that artificial intelligence tools could be used to bring back Socratic-style dialogue as a teaching and assessment method, contrasting it with traditional methods like term papers that emerged after the advent of libraries and printed books.
Following a Trump-Xi summit, the US and China agreed to start a formal dialogue on AI's risks and benefits, with a follow-up round scheduled for November, and to establish a communication channel for AI-related incidents. Both governments also said they would adopt the phrase "super intelligence" in place of "artificial intelligence" in their exchanges.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said US and Chinese officials have begun talks on a US China AI Dialogue framework, under which the two nations would notify each other of AI incidents posing national security risks. The initiative revives discussions from Trump's May visit to Beijing and would include recurring meetings to align on shared AI threats and goals.
Many Netflix viewers experience inconsistent audio quality, with dialogue sometimes sounding distant or garbled on certain shows while others play fine. The root cause isn't a weak internet connection or poor TV speakers, but a mismatch between the audio format Netflix streams and the playback device's capabilities. Netflix says the fix typically involves a quick settings adjustment rather than new equipment or a support call.
A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, shared with WIRED, documents a trend dubbed 'Slop Jihad' in which young supporters of ISIS and al-Qaida use generative AI to turn violent extremist imagery into cartoons, memes and fan edits. One example recreates an infamous ISIS execution video using SpongeBob SquarePants characters, shared on TikTok. Tech Against Terrorism has separately published findings on the same phenomenon.
A developer created Varkos, an AI-driven companion mod for Skyrim that can fight, loot, fetch items, and carry out multi-step commands in real time using local inference instead of cloud-based LLM calls. The project aims to fix the latency and weak world-interaction problems common in existing AI NPC dialogue systems, while giving Varkos a persistent personality that evolves with shared gameplay experiences.