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The US wants to delete the steering wheel. The EU wants a camera on your face

This week, two of the world’s biggest car regulators looked at the same question and reached opposite answers. The question is simple. What should sit between a human and a moving vehicle?

In the United States, the top auto-safety official floated pulling the steering wheel out altogether. In Europe, new rules took effect that point a camera at the driver’s face and watch it for the whole journey.

One regulator wants to remove the human. The other wants to keep a closer eye on them.

America wants to lose the wheel

Jonathan Morrison runs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the US road-safety regulator. On Thursday, in a CNBC interview, he questioned whether driverless cars should still need manual controls at all.

“If you’re developing a vehicle that is designed never to be driven by a human operator, does it make any sense to require manual control for the vehicle?”...

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An ex-Meta staffer testified that less than 1% of teens used Instagram's opt-in “Take a Break” tool when it launched; the feature is now on by default for teens

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Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

A change to Claude’s memory system will eliminate one of the most annoying things about using agents — the constant need to rebrief the AI on things it already knows. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced it’s merging the memory system used by chat and Claude Cowork, which means that Claude

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Streamers Sue Twitch and Amazon Over AI Training Data Fiasco

A new class-action lawsuit claims that Twitch and Amazon used millions of streamers' content to train Amazon's AI models without securing proper consent or offering payment. The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, with Warren Pandiscia, a Twitch creator

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Anthropic Unifies Memory Across Claude and Cowork

Claude‘s memory capabilities are getting a significant upgrade. Now, when you switch from Claude to Cowork, the same memory from past chats with the AI tool stays with you. That way, you don’t have to readd context when you switch tools, saving you time and letting you focus

America wants to lose the wheel

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