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X Challenger Pebble Thinks AI-Generated Posts Can Help Lure Users Away From Elon Musk

To encourage conversation, Twitter-like platform Pebble—formerly T2—now suggests AI-generated updates for users to edit or post. It’s also opening sign-ups to anyone with an account on X.

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Pay Transparency Is Sweeping Across the US

New York joined a wave of states that require pay transparency in job ads. New data suggests most US postings now include a salary range, but they are sometimes laughably vague.

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The Auto Strike Threatens a Supply Chain Already Weakened by Covid

A prolonged autoworker strike would be especially painful for smaller players inside the complex auto supply chain. It could also impact thousands more workers and push up car prices.

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If Elon Musk Had Been a Happy Child, Would He Still Be Launching Rockets?

“Biographer of Genius” Walter Isaacson thinks he cracked the code to Elon Musk—the entrepreneur’s brutal childhood fueled his frenzied achievements in space, AI, brain chips, and electric cars.

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Teachers Are Going All In on Generative AI

Surveys suggest teachers use generative AI more than students, to create lesson plans or more interesting word problems. Educators say it can save valuable time but must be used carefully.

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Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites

Dozens of US senators listened quietly as tech titans and AI ethicists schooled them on the “civilizational risks” of generative AI.

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Don’t Count on Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer to Jump-Start an AI Revolution

Wall Street analysts predicted Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer could unlock a $500 billion ChatGPT-style breakthrough. Don’t take it to the bank.

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Your New Apple Watch Series 9 Won’t Be Carbon Neutral

Apple claims its new Apple Watch is carbon neutral and has done impressive work to decarbonize its supply chain, but making new stuff always leaves a mark on the climate.

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The AI Detection Arms Race Is On

Gen Alpha is quickly developing tools that identify AI-generated text—and tools to evade detection.

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A Concrete Crisis Has the UK Literally Crumbling

Hundreds of schools, hospitals, and other public buildings made from RAAC, a cheap, lightweight concrete, have to close—the victims of quick fixes and decades of cost-cutting.

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