Microsoft has added COPILOT AI to Excel — but give it a miss if you use the spreadsheet software for numerical calculations or in scenarios with legal regulatory and compliance implications because COPILOT "can give incorrect responses," the company warns. Here's more from [@theverge](
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Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells
Get ready for some AI spreadsheeting.
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"Three years into the hype, it seems that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it," writes Charlie Warzel for [@TheAtlantic](
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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Britain abandoned its demand that Apple provide so-called backdoor access to any encrypted user data stored in the cloud, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said. [@AssociatedPress](
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Gabbard says UK scraps demand for Apple to give backdoor access to data
Britain has dropped its demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to encrypted user data stored in the cloud. U.S.
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Silicon Valley’s AI deals are creating zombie startups. CNBC reports: "While the deals often produce big payouts for founders and AI leaders, they can leave investors, other employees and the remaining company in limbo."
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Silicon Valley's AI deals are creating zombie startups: 'You hollowed out the organization'
Unable to make big AI purchases because of regulatory hurdles, tech giants have spent billions to buy top talent from startups, leaving behind shel...
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is launching an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools.” Read more from [@Techcrunch](
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Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims | TechCrunch
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is investigating Meta and CharacterAI over claims they deceptively market chatbots as mental health tools, raisin...
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Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood. @TechCrunch reports: "Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an 'AI-first company.'"
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Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood | TechCrunch
While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn faced backlash after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new intervie...
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Can the Pixel 10 keep up with the iPhone 17? Tech writer Jamie Richards has some advice for Google -- look to its past. Learn more from [@TechRadar](
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I want the Google Pixel 10 to beat the iPhone 17 by bringing back unlimited photo storage
Wherefore art thou, unlimited Photos storage?
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Of the things you thought of upon waking up this morning, we’re betting “solar stalking” wasn’t on the list. And yet, here we are. A solar stalker is someone who could hack the energy system of a home with rooftop solar panels. Unlikely? Perhaps, but the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA recently published an advisory about security vulnerabilities with a particular solar energy company’s solar inverters. [@Techcrunch](
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How your solar rooftop became a national security issue | TechCrunch
Texas solar company EG4 became the poster child for home energy cybersecurity risks this week after federal officials published an advisory detaili...
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Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow its Claude AI models to end conversations described as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Read more from [@Techcrunch](
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Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations  | TechCrunch
Anthropic says new capabilities allow its latest AI models to protect themselves by ending abusive conversations.
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Would AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude AI and Gemini be doing humans a favor by looking out for us? “We need AI mothers rather than AI assistants,” Geoffrey Hinton, the widely recognized “Godfather of AI” recently said. [@TechRadar](
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The Godfather of AI thinks we need ‘AI mothers,’ and I think we’re in for a world of trouble
An artificial mom none of us need
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