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- Technology Innovation Institute: AI agents need proof, not promises
As AI systems shift from answering questions to taking action, enterprise trust has to be verifiable while the work happens, not asserted after it.
- United Nations: business can’t build economic resilience from the sidelines
As geopolitical risk rises and the $4 trillion SDG financing gap widens, blended finance will only scale if companies help design systems.
- Humanoid Livestream: Robot Makers Rushing To Show Machines On Real Production Lines
I see your dancing robot and raise you a robot that can do actual work, live, while being streamed. Humanoid makers are getting real ...
- The CEO with real-time data on 1 in 6 American workers says stop worrying about jobs—and start thinking about tasks
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- ‘This is the least crazy AI is ever going to be’: the lessons Europe’s execs must take from Anthropic’s shutdown
The challenge for Europe's senior executives is that access to the world's best AI may come at the cost of strategic autonomy, and they need to decide whether that trade-off is worth it.
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- Elephant alert! AI warning systems aim to avoid deadly clashes
India is home to about 60% of the world’s wild Asian elephants, and around 80% of the animals’ habitat lies outside protected areas, according to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change. That brings people and wildlife into close contact, and clashes can turn lethal: There have been some 3,000 human casualties in the…
- The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking
Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks. From the ground, it looks like a…
- With Starfall, SpaceX eyes an edge in global cargo delivery from orbit
The purpose of Starfall is to support the "transport and delivery of goods through space."
- GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers
US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.
- Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rockets
SpaceX has told NASA it plans to launch Starship every eight days from Kennedy.
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