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  • Meta's Muse excites investors.
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    Plus, cybersecurity valuations rise amid growing AI threats, and Discord enters its age-gate era.

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  • Finding common ground in the U.S.-China AI rivalry
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    While both nations remain locked in a competition for dominance in artificial intelligence, both share deep vulnerabilities around catastrophic risks, system control and cybersecurity, says Samm Sacks, senior fellow at New America.

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  • The beauty industry is betting big on AI
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    Brands are increasingly incorporating AI into how consumers discover and shop for products. Maghan McDowell, a fashion-tech journalist, walks us through the evolving landscape.

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  • The cost of digitally disconnecting
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    Digital detox retreats are becoming a mainstream thing, where consumers pay thousands of dollars to live a screen-free life, says Paula Mejia, who wrote about this booming industry for Mother Jones.

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  • How attitudes toward AI differ across generations
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    Rana el Kaliouby lives in a household with very mixed feelings about AI — her daughter is a skeptic, while her son is an AI native.

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  • Trump rejects AI's "effective altruism" movement
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    Plus, Congress wants to rein in Flock's surveillance network, and Apple is set to roll out anti-AI-generated tech. Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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  • Insurers race to cover AI errors
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    Startups like Corgi as well as traditional brokers are scrambling to evaluate and price the unprecedented digital risks that come with embedding artificial intelligence into daily operations.

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  • AI safety requires action, not promises
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    That's according to futurist Amy Webb, who also argues that AI manifestos and screams of an AI apocalypse are useless when labs can self-regulate amid fears of the technology harming humans.

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  • Why AI models are obsessed with creatures
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    OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex were referring a lot to goblins, trolls, and raccoons earlier this spring. And that happened inadvertently when the AI lab prompted those models to have a "nerdy" personality, says Janelle Shane, writer of the blog "AI Weirdness."

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