Max and AI expert Priya Deshmukh dive into how AI can cut the hidden “noise” in human decisions, from courts to insurance and hiring, and when humans should overrule with decisive context. They cover Big Tech’s rush to hire neuroscientists for efficiency and interpretability, WhatsApp’s ban on third‑party general‑purpose chatbots, cross‑border data sovereignty (OVHcloud vs Ontario), and Mexico’s national supercomputer initiative for climate, satellites, and public‑sector LLMs. Corporate news includes HP’s AI‑driven cost cuts. Research highlights: Harmonic AI’s $120M raise for formal math reasoning with Lean 4 and a study on activation steering showing inverted‑U behavior and the limits of vector metrics. Product updates: Gemini “Projects” workspaces on Android, Speechify’s voice typing and assistant, TierPoint’s VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 private clouds for AI workloads. Fintech in Africa: AXIAN’s shift from mobile money to full digital banking with AI underwriting. Social impact: how AI can be a lifeline for blue‑collar workers by parsing nontraditional résumés, verifying credentials, and prioritizing skills over polish. Three takeaways: reduce noise before adding complexity, use AI as a consistency engine with human overrides, and remember platform and product design choices determine who benefits.

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• TierPoint Launches Next-Generation VMware Platform for Private Clouds
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• Steering Latent Traits, Not Learned Facts: An Empirical Study of Activation Control Limits
• Gemini’s upcoming Projects feature mirrors ChatGPT workspaces
• HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting
• White-Collar Workers Fear AI, But For Blue-Collar Workers, It Can Be A Savior
• Harmonic AI raises $120M at $1.45B valuation to advance mathematical reasoning
• AXIAN rebrands fintech arm in digital banking push across Africa
• Speechify adds voice typing and voice assistant to its Chrome extension
• Meta removes rival chatbots from WhatsApp
• Everyday Decisions are Noisier Than You Think — Here’s How AI Can Help Fix That
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• Mittwoch: Internationaler Streit um Cloud-Daten, WhatsApp bald ohne externe KI
• Los grandes de la IA se están disputando a los neurocientíficos como si fueran estrellas de fútbol