AI, Trump and state laws
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Entitled “the most terrible time of the year,” the 45-second ad featured a series of mishaps befalling people at Christmas.
State lawmakers are increasingly proposing bills to regulate the use of AI in the housing industry, over concerns that the technology could be used to promote anti-competitive and discriminatory practices.
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
“With advancements in AI, scams will continue to grow in sophistication, frequency, and impact,” the senators wrote in the letter. “In the early phases of a scam, criminals can use generative AI to quickly identify and then collect details on their targets, enabling them to create tailor-made scams.”
A mock job advertisement that has done the rounds recently calls for a “killswitch engineer” for Open AI, maker of Chat GPT. The description requires the successful applicant to stand by servers all day and unplug them “if this thing turns on us”. Useful skills include the ability to “throw a bucket of water on the servers, too. Just in case.”
Greater efficiency, innovation, and smarter ways of working are all very compelling outcomes. According to Sivasubramanian, to deliver these—at scale—agents need to reach three crucial milestones: The way software is built must be transformed, trust must be established and verified, and the creation of AI agents must be democratized.
Companies like Meta are offering huge pay packages for top AI talent. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, however, says he isn't giving in to the pressure.
The AI boom—and the rising electricity demand that has followed—is changing the calculus for u And politicians.
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Unlike their buyout peers, Tide Rock isn't looking to AI to cut costs. Instead, it's CEO told us, its using it to find new customers and deals.
However, as we enter 2026, the next big AI supercycle may be emerging. The first phase was largely about generative AI. This includes chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Alphabet 's Gemini, as well as AI assistants, such as Microsoft's Copilots.