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The emotional mimicry of OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT could lead AI assistants in some strange—even dangerous—directions.
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Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots

Loaded with ever more renewables, the grid will need to store a whole lot of energy. Enter: a new kind of magic school bus—one that can both charge and give power back.
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These Electric School Buses Are on Their Way to Save the Grid

Alexey Pertsev, cofounder of the crypto-anonymizing tool, has been sentenced to over five years behind bars.
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Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto

Wearable AI gadgets from Rabbit and Humane were panned by reviewers, including at WIRED. Their face-plants show that it’s still tough to compete with big tech in the age of ChatGPT.
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Generative AI Doesn’t Make Hardware Less Hard

Neuralink experienced a mechanical issue with its first human brain-computer interface implant. Its novel design may make it more prone to failure.
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Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees

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