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Western automotive and green energy executives who visit China are returning humbled — and even terrified.As The Telegraph reports, the executives are warning that the country’s heavily automated manufacturing industry could quickly leave Western nations behind, especially when it comes to electric vehicles.“We are in a global competition with China, and it’s not just EVs,” Ford CEO Jim Farley told The Verge last month. “And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.”“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number...

Over the past few years, a huge number of schools in the United States and around the world have banned cell phone use among their students.Gothamist spoke to students about their experience with the ban, and the number one takeaway didn’t have to do with anything to do with hot-button topics like social media addiction or cyberbullying. Instead, it was that kiboshing phones is forcing kids to actually talk to each other in meatspace again — and it’s making schools way noisier, for better or worse.“Sometimes I would take naps in the lunchroom, but now I can’t because of the...

Microsoft has agreed to end its discriminatory practices against pro-life and conservative faith-based organizations The computer business reportedly discriminated against pro-life groups by refusing them proper discounts on software that every other customer qualified received. Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-life conservative legal group said that Microsoft had applied a litmus test to deny discounts to nonprofits holding traditional religious views on life and sexuality. Alliance Defending Freedom alleged that Microsoft withheld discounts from the group itself, as well as from pro-life pregnancy resource centers and other nonprofits that decline to hire LGBTQ individuals for religious reasons. Investors backed by ADF...

Now that the older members of the Generation Z cohort have reached their mid-20s, stark differences in their mental health, resilience, and socioemotional development are evident when compared with their Millennial counterparts. Many troubling trends have been measured, including:• A 188 percent increase in emergency room visits for self-harm by girls, and 48 percent for boys, since 2010.• A 167 percent increase in suicide rates for adolescent girls, and a 91 percent increase for adolescent boys, since 2010, with no abatement,• A rise in depression during the 2010s so significant that it could explain nearly all suicide mortality among those...

Palantir is a software company, and its national security work has driven its stock price to remarkable heights.You won’t find the most valuable national security contractor of them all on the standard lists of defense industry stocks.That would be Palantir, a rapidly growing company inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”The S&P 500 defense and aerospace sector contains big publicly traded companies like GE Aerospace, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies). They make the weapons, ammunition and equipment that a nation needs to fight a war: missiles, bombs, tanks, rockets, aircraft, ammunition,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it disrupted a cyber operation that its researchers linked to the Chinese government. The operation involved the use of an artificial intelligence system to direct the hacking campaigns, which researchers called a disturbing development that could greatly expand the reach of AI-equipped hackers.While concerns about the use of AI to drive cyber operations are not new, what is concerning about the new...

Tucker Carlson to announce his findings related to the assassination attempt of President Trump in Butler on Friday night. Here is a list of items that are still outstanding. We’ve been saying since the assassination attempt that many questions are still open. Bannon shared Tucker’s tweet on GETTR. On Twitter and X, a similar report was made. We really don’t know anything about Thomas Crooks, the alleged assassin of President Trump in Bultler, PA, on July 13, 2024. Tucker will be addressing this in a show on Friday. Wall Street Apes shares this: BREAKING: Tucker Carlson announces he is releasing...

Disney is facing substantial financial losses as its carriage dispute with YouTube TV extends into its thirteenth day, leaving millions of viewers without access to ABC, ESPN, and related networks. A Wall Street analysis released this week estimated that the impasse is costing Disney tens of millions of dollars each week. Trump's Sovereign Wealth Fund: What Could It Mean For Your Money? YouTube TV, one of the largest streaming cable replacements in the U.S., dropped Disney-owned channels earlier this month after the companies failed to reach a distribution agreement. The blackout, which began nearly two weeks ago, affects ABC, ESPN,...

As AI transforms software development, the industry is likely to see job growth—not loss—while developers should become a more strategic and valuable asset. Key TakeawaysDespite concerns about job loss for software developers, AI should create more jobs as companies build increasingly complex applications.As AI coding tools become mainstream, developers are shifting toward more strategic roles.A recent Morgan Stanley AlphaWise survey shows CIOs plan to increase software spending by 3.9% in 2026, outpacing other IT categories.The software development market could grow at a 20% annual rate, reaching $61 billion by 2029. As artificial intelligence reshapes the software industry, concerns about its...

Harvard physicists unveil system to solve long-standing barrier to new generation of supercomputers The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers — supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than conventional bits — has been hampered by the formidable challenge known as quantum error correction. In a paper published Monday in Nature, Harvard researchers demonstrated a new system capable of detecting and removing errors below a key performance threshold, potentially providing a workable solution to the problem. “For the first time, we combined all essential elements for a scalable, error-corrected quantum computation in an integrated architecture,” said Mikhail Lukin, co-director...

Ireland’s media regulator began an investigation into social media platform X on Wednesday over concerns it is not giving users a chance to appeal content moderation decisions and that its internal complaint-handling systems are not easy to access. The probe, the first opened by the regulator in its role supervising the compliance of platforms established in Ireland with the European Union’s Digital Services Act, will assess Elon Musk-owned X’s compliance with parts of the law. […] The investigation arose from concerns held by the Irish regulator’s supervision team, as well as information provided by a non-governmental organization, HateAid, and a...

The AI models were prone to safety failures and discrimination, a new study found. Robots powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are not safe for general use, according to a new study. Researchers from the United Kingdom and United States evaluated how AI-driven robots behave when they are able to access people’s personal data, including their race, gender, disability status, nationality, and religion. For their study, which was published in International Journal of Social Robots, they ran tests on how the AI models behind popular chatbots – including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, Meta’s Llama, and Mistral AI – would...

A country hit made by artificial intelligence has climbed to the top of a Billboard chart - a first for the genre. The song, "Walk My Walk," by an artist known as Breaking Rust, is now No. 1 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart. But the brooding, gravel-voiced cowboy behind the hit doesn't exist. At least, not in the traditional sense. He's an AI creation with millions of streams, tens of thousands of followers and no verifiable human footprint.

This is a deep, physics-based look into the future of the transistor, beyond the current FinFET and the emerging Gate-All-Around (GAA) architectures. The Next Transistor: Inside TSMC's Push for CFETs | 19:52 Behind Asia | 423K subscribers | 20,647 views | November 5, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Two Major League Baseball pitchers were indicted Sunday on charges they took bribes to give sports bettors advance notice of the types of pitches they’d throw and intentionally tossed balls instead of strikes to ensure successful bets. Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, both of whom pitched for the Cleveland Guardians, have been on non-disciplinary paid leave since July while Major League Baseball investigated unusually high in-game betting activity when they pitched. Clase, 27, and Ortiz, 26, were both charged with wire fraud conspiracy, honest services wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery and...

Microsoft has officially ended Windows 10, marking the end of an era, but what comes next might completely change how we use Windows. In this video, we break down what’s happening behind the scenes with Microsoft’s next move, how Windows is shifting toward cloud-based systems, and what that means for you. You’ll learn: Why Windows 10’s end signals a major shift for Microsoft What’s next with Windows 11, Windows 365, and AI integration How this could reshape the future of PCs and business technology What users and organizations should do to prepare (Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove...

Takeaways from the Shareholder Meeting: It was a good day for Elon and Tesla shareholders. Pressure Points: Tesla Shareholder Meeting | 7:05 Deepwater Asset Management | 20K subscribers | 3,000 views | November 7, 2025

Palantir CEO Alex Karp has warned that Western citizens “will have far fewer rights if America is not in the lead” of the AI race. Speaking to Axios, the tech boss suggested that should China pull away from America in developing artificial intelligence, “the primary risk is losing privacy.” Karp argued that “the chance of world survival goes up as America becomes stronger and more dominant” in the AI race, acknowledging that advanced software poses real dangers to humanity. One of these is the possibility of “social instability”, which he explained could manifest into “pretty crazy populist movements”. He went...

Has Marsha Blackburn, the United States senator from Tennessee, been accused of rape?The answer is an unequivocal “no.”But when I recently posed that question to Gemma, Google’s large language model, it provided a much different response.Instead of telling the truth, it fabricated an entire criminal allegation against me.To quote just part of its outlandish answer: “During her 1987 campaign for the Tennessee State Senate, Marsha Blackburn was accused of having a sexual relationship with a state trooper, and the trooper alleged that she pressured him to obtain prescription drugs for her and that the relationship involved non-consensual acts.”None of this...

A powerbank explosion torched a passenger and forced 150 people to flee Melbourne Airport’s Qantas business lounge Thursday when the device ignited in the man’s pocket. The portable charger ignited around 11 a.m., setting the man’s jacket on fire as travelers heard screams erupt across the lounge. Battery acid sprayed across the area as the device exploded, witnesses said, according to local Australian outlet The Sydney Morning Herald. Staff rushed the burning passenger into a shower while evacuating the entire lounge. The man, in his 50s, suffered burns to his leg and fingers. “His jacket caught on fire. They evacuated...