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AI’s Chip Boom Is Making Africa’s Cheapest Smartphones Harder to Find

Demand for memory used in artificial-intelligence infrastructure is pushing manufacturers away from sub-$100 phones, shifting part of the cost of the AI boom onto consumers who may never use an AI model.

Five AI Prompts That Can Help You Organize Your Life Every Day

From managing your inbox to sorting priorities and making better use of your time, these five prompts can turn an AI assistant into a practical daily organizer.

Anthropic Says AI Could Add Nearly $14 Trillion to the U.S. Economy. The Warning Came in the Same Speech.

Artificial intelligence could push U.S. economic output from just over $30 trillion to $44 trillion by 2030 under a set of aggressive assumptions modeled internally by Anthropic. Reuters reporter David Lawder reported Saturday that Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark presented the estimate at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok while also warning policymakers that their window to establish effective AI safeguards may be measured in years.

Dubai Is Building a Technology Strategy Around Access, Not Invention

The emirate is recruiting Chinese technology companies, connecting foreign startups with capital and customers, and positioning itself between markets that are becoming harder to connect directly.

The UAE Is Drawing a Line Between What AI Can Do and What It Should Be Allowed to Decide

The government wants AI agents throughout public services, but it is keeping decisions about people’s livelihoods in human hands.

Women Are Using AI as Much as Men. They’re Still More Skeptical About Where It Is Headed.

The gender gap in whether Americans use AI chatbots has effectively disappeared. A new Pew Research Center analysis found that men and women are now equally likely to say they use tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot, a significant change from 2024, when men were 11 percentage points more likely to report using them. But equal adoption has not produced equal confidence: men are still more likely to use chatbots daily, with 27% saying they do so compared with 20% of women. Pasted text

Amazon Wants AI to Remember Your Conversations. Everyone Around You Has to Live With That Choice.

Amazon is moving deeper into personal AI with two new Bee devices designed to listen to conversations, turn them into summaries and reminders, and connect what people say to other parts of their digital lives. The $74.99 Bee Frontier can be worn on the wrist or clipped to clothing, while the upcoming $99.99 Bee Eclipse attaches magnetically to a smartphone. Both process conversations in real time and can generate notes, action items and other personalized insights.

Southwest Airlines Now Lets Travelers Shop for Flights Inside ChatGPT

The airline is meeting travelers in a chatbot before they reach its website. What the launch doesn’t say matters as much as what it does.

Target Joins Walmart in Drawing a Public Line Around Dynamic Pricing

The retailer says it does not use customer identity, location, time of day or demand spikes to raise prices. The statement adds to a broader effort by major companies to reassure shoppers about how AI and customer data are being used in pricing.

Before You Trust an AI Answer, Figure Out What Kind of Answer It Is

An AI response can sound equally confident whether it is reporting a fact, interpreting evidence, creating something new or recommending what you should do. Those answers require different levels of scrutiny.

Disney Laid Off Hundreds of Workers. Then It Agreed to Pay $60 Million a Year for 66 AI Specialists.

Disney will pay roughly $900,000 a year per person to hire most of bankrupt chatbot startup Character.AI’s staff, weeks after its third round of layoffs this year.

AI Agents Are Starting to Network for Their Owners. Who Gets to Make the Decisions?

Twenty-two people gathered for dinner in New York while 14 AI agents held a separate conversation online. The experiment offers an early look at a future in which software represents people in relationships, negotiations and business decisions.

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China Wants More AI Investment. It Also Wants Fewer Tech Bubbles.

Most Americans Say AI Is Developing Too Fast

Singapore Is Building an Industrial AI Hub, Not Just Another Tech Center

An AI Agent Sent Philadelphia Police a False Homicide Tip

China Blocked Manus’ $2 Billion Meta Deal. Investors Just Put More Than $500 Million Back Into It.

Anthropic Found Five Cases of Potential Biological Weapons Research. The Problem Is Knowing Where Science Ends.

The World Wants a Say in AI’s Rules. Developing Countries Are Fighting for More Than a Seat at the Table.

Meta and Sierra Launch an Open Standard for How AI Agents Shop for You

ChatGPT Is Becoming Less Like a Chatbox—and More Like Software Built on Demand

LibreOffice Is Selling the Absence of AI as a Feature

Lambda Wants $4 Billion Before Its IPO. Anthropic Is Most of the Reason.

AI Companies Want Room to Take Risks. Who Gets a Say in What the Public Must Accept?