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The TechBeat: We Warned You About the AI Yes-Man - MIT Just Proved It With Math (10/1/2026)

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Where AI-Generated Design Breaks UX Laws

By @derzhaiev [ 7 Min read ]AI design generators rarely produce that code, and the people using them rarely know that this code is missing. Read More.

The Real Reason AI Company's Are Tapping the Brakes (Hint: It’s Not Safety)

By @knightbat2040 [ 5 Min read ]The AI revolution is facing an existential crisis due to the depletion of high-quality, human-generated public text. Read More.

How I Used AI to Trace 12 Generations of My Family Tree

By @nfrankel [ 8 Min read ]In a little less than one month, I managed to gather more than 600 individuals and get back 12 generations in some branches. Read More.

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RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack

The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, India’s central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said it could come from a war, a cyberattack or a tech failure, as Bloomberg reported. He spoke at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi on Saturday. “It

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US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China

US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday, prosecutors said. Reuters also reported the

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AI may cost us our ability to listen, oral historian warns in the Guardian

Much of the worry about AI is that it will erode how well we write. Australian oral historian Shirleene Robinson thinks the bigger loss may be our ability to listen. She made the case in an opinion column for The Guardian. “Listening to different views and entering into different worlds

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Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russia’s answer to Starlink, the Financial Times reported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in New York. Ukrainian news agency UNN cited those details from the