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* 'No Robo Bosses Act' signed in California, comes into force in July 2027 * Humans can't just approve an automated decision, they must bring evidence * Governor Gavin Newsom criticized Trump administration for a lack of federal leadership California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a major package of
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Companies that teach AI how work actually gets done are five times more likely to report very successful results, according to a new study of Global 2000 leaders. Everyone wants AI agents. Almost no one is ready for them. That’s the central finding of the Process Context Study 2026,
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Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies. That would push them to strike commercial deals with Australian media to support journalism. The two broadcasters made the call in submissions to Parliament’s Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence.
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President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America’s leading AI labs. But the US might still take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic, he told TIME in an interview published on Thursday. Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs interviewed Trump at the White House on 28 September. TIME has published
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Walmart is turning its digital shelf labels into a way to find things. Shoppers can now make the label under a product flash from the Walmart app, as Laya Neelakandan reported for CNBC. The feature, called Shop to Light, is moving from a pilot to a wide rollout. Customers have
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The founder of a US AI software company is taking a camera crew on a road trip to ask ordinary Americans how AI is changing their lives. The documentary, called America vs. AI, will cover about 3,400 miles and more than 20 cities this month, AskBobAI said in a
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TSMC is weighing a new Texas campus of multiple fabs, each costing at least $20B, contingent on Congress extending a 35% manufacturing tax credit. Its only European plant, the Dresden joint venture, totals above EUR 10B and will run 28nm to 12nm nodes rather than anything used for AI. TSMC
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PadSplit rents out single rooms in shared homes. It is now moving into the San Francisco Bay Area, the New York metro area and Chicago, the company said in a press release on Thursday. The Atlanta-based startup lets homeowners split houses into furnished private bedrooms with shared kitchens and living
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Is zero trust still effective in the AI era? A new book from John Kindervag says yes, but that assumes it is correctly implemented. John Kindervag introduced the concept of zero trust in a Forrester Research report titled No More Chewy Centers: Introducing the Zero Trust Model of Information Security
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Boy, 14-inch laptops have sure come a long way since the days of the EliteBook 8440w. Remember that chunky beast? Remember what laptops looked like 16 years ago? They don't look like that anymore. Check out the new HP OmniBook 5, which is a 14"-class laptop
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Now that LLM-generated prose is everywhere, human beings are eager for ways to sniff it out. While early tells like em-dashes and “delve” are long gone, researchers say there are still plenty of telltale habits that AI models fall back on when writing prose. A new study from the marketing
