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America’s coming war over AI regulation

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. In the final weeks of 2025, the battle over regulating artificial intelligence in the US reached a boiling point. On December 11, after Congress failed twice…

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Technology

The UK government is backing AI that can run its own lab experiments

A number of startups and universities that are building “AI scientists” to design and run experiments in the lab, including robot biologists and chemists, have just won extra funding from the UK government agency that funds moonshot R&D. The competition, set up by ARIA (the Advanced Research and Invention Agency), gives a clear sense of…

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Culture

Hey, AI image generators!

Just for future reference, I am left-handed…also note I play tennis and baseball with my right hand, however, should that ever arise as an issue. (In basketball I am left-handed, though.) I’ve never quite understood that, but there you go. The post Hey, AI image generators! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Tony. I learned this in taking a surfing class: . by Nick AI’ve never quite understood that, but there you go. TIL: . by RADI match Larry Bird by writing left-hand...

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Business

How McDonald’s Took Over America | Ray Kroc [Outliers]

Ray Kroc turned McDonald’s from a single roadside restaurant into a system built to scale. Public Release: January 27. Members have access now.Join us. Coming Soon: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Transcript At 52, after decades selling paper cups and milkshake machines, he opened the first McDonald’s in 1955 and helped grow it to nearly … The post How McDonald’s Took Over America | Ray Kroc [Outliers] appeared first on Farnam Street

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