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AI's Most Valuable Asset May Be Someone Else's Contacts

A reported Chinese intelligence effort targets chip knowledge, while data brokers seek corporate files for model training.

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Chip Intelligence Comes With a Networking Strategy

China's Ministry of State Security recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to gather information about American AI chips and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, The New York Times reported. According to the account, the agency also sought to potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China. The report puts a human relationship at the center of a contest often described in terms of processors and export rules. Nvidia's advanced chips are important to the development of AI systems, so information about them has value well beyond a single company. The reported effort also shows why access to people can be attractive when access to technology is restricted. A technical roadmap may be locked down, but the people who know the industry still attend meetings, take calls and maintain business relationships. Silicon Valley likes to celebrate its networks as a source of innovation. The reported episode offers a less flattering version: a network can also be a map of who knows what. Security teams can protect a server room with a badge reader, but protecting a conversation requires a more complicated policy than reminding everyone to change a password. For Washington, the story adds another dimension to the debate over advanced chips and China. Export controls can govern hardware, but they cannot make expertise disappear. In the AI race, even the contact list has become strategically interesting.

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Your Work Files Are Suddenly an AI Company's Shopping List

Data brokers are collecting internal corporate files to help train AI models, WIRED reports, and not everyone is pleased about the market for that material. The appetite extends to work files and emails, the sort of documents employees create to do their jobs rather than to furnish a future chatbot with office experience. The business logic is easy to see. AI companies want examples of how people write, organize information and carry out tasks. Corporate documents offer a view of work that a public website or a polished marketing brochure may not. For the people and businesses behind those documents, however, the same specificity can make the prospect of a sale uncomfortable. There is a tidy irony in a technology sold as a way to make office work more efficient developing an appetite for the paperwork the office has already produced. The sales pitch promises fewer hours spent drafting documents. The training pipeline would apparently like a look at the drafts first. The trade also raises a familiar question in a new setting: who gets to decide how material produced at work is used? A company may think of its files as part of its business, while employees may see messages and working documents as the everyday record of doing a job. AI developers see a potential resource. The document itself, as usual, was not invited to the meeting.

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Alexa Joins the Shopping List, OpenAI Pencils In the Stock Market

Amazon adds text-based shopping, while Greg Brockman says OpenAI could be ready for an IPO in 2027.

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Amazon Turns the Shopping List Into a Conversation With Amazon

Amazon is adding a feature that lets customers shop by texting Alexa for Shopping. Users can describe an item or send a photo, and the assistant searches Amazon listings and texts back recommendations. The shopping list, once a private note to remember what to buy, gets an eager correspondent with a store attached. The practical attraction is clear. A shopper who cannot remember a product's name can describe it or use a picture rather than work through a series of search terms. Alexa can return matching options in the same exchange, putting discovery and purchasing close together. That convenience also serves Amazon's retail business. The assistant is not a neutral friend who happens to know every shop in town; it searches Amazon listings. A list written on a refrigerator does not suggest alternatives, but it also does not have a preferred marketplace. Texting the list to a retailer gives the retailer a much more active role in the trip. The feature turns an ordinary request into an invitation to browse. A customer still decides what to buy, but the choices arrive through the company hoping to complete the sale. This is the great promise of conversational commerce: the store will listen carefully, respond promptly and never forget that it is a store. At last, even the milk has a sales representative.

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OpenAI Might Be IPO Ready in 2027, a Date With Plenty of Room

OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company could be ready for an initial public offering in 2027. Speaking at a Wall Street Journal tech conference, he highlighted OpenAI's progress in the enterprise market and acknowledged that rival Anthropic had already made inroads with business customers. The statement is a possibility, not an announcement that OpenAI will list in 2027. Still, it puts a potential public-market timetable beside the company's effort to sell AI to organizations. Enterprise business can offer a way to reach customers beyond individual chatbot users, while also placing OpenAI in direct competition with other labs seeking the same corporate budgets. Being ready for an IPO and deciding to hold one are different things. A company can prepare for the scrutiny of public markets without committing to a particular listing date. Investors, meanwhile, would have their own questions about growth and the costs of building AI systems. For now, Brockman's calendar entry has the charm of a homework assignment marked 'possibly due next year.' It suggests ambition without requiring the class to put down its pencils. The enterprise contest adds a useful wrinkle: OpenAI can point to progress, but it is not the only company already in the room. If readiness is a performance, the audience includes both future investors and customers comparing the rival demonstrations.

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AI Hires Tireless Coworkers and Gives Databases More Homework

Perplexity prices its agents at $200 a month, and an open-source search extension enters alpha.

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The Coworker Never Sleeps, and Neither Does the Subscription

Perplexity is launching Teammates, always-on AI agents that work on ongoing projects using their own virtual machines. The feature requires the company's Max plan at $200 per month, a price above similar offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, according to The Decoder. The appeal is a software assistant that can keep working beyond the moment when a user types a prompt. For someone managing an ongoing project, that could mean assigning work to an agent instead of restarting the conversation each time. Its virtual machine provides a place for that work to run. The price makes the promise rather more concrete. At $200 a month, the agent must compete not just with other AI products but with the ordinary question every software buyer asks: does this earn its place in the budget? Continuous availability is an impressive feature, though customers may care more about whether the work produced is useful. The company is selling a colleague who never asks for a day off. The finance department gets a bill that also arrives with admirable consistency. Humans can spend the morning checking what happened overnight, then decide whether that review is a worthwhile exchange for the work they delegated. In the new office hierarchy, the agent has its own machine, the manager has a dashboard, and the subscription has tenure.

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A New Index Promises to Make Finding Similar Things Less Memory-Hungry

Tiger Data has released pg_vectorsearch, an open-source PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search. The software is in alpha, an early stage that gives developers a chance to test an approach before treating it as a finished fixture of their systems. Vector search helps applications find items that are similar, a useful capability for AI systems working with documents, images and other data. Tiger Data's PRISM index uses partitioning and compression instead of the graph-based approach used by pgvector's HNSW index. The reported result is lower memory requirements and shorter index build times. That distinction matters to people running databases at scale: the useful answer is not merely whether a search works, but what it costs to build and maintain the index that makes it possible. Different approaches can have different tradeoffs, and an alpha release gives users a reason to test those tradeoffs on their own workloads. Open source adds another feature to the package: developers can inspect the code and argue over the results in public. In a field that often announces the future with a trumpet, a database extension has chosen the quieter boast that it may need less memory. Administrators will recognize the genre immediately. The most thrilling sentence in the room is sometimes 'the index fits,' followed closely by 'we measured it ourselves.'

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Travel Gets an Assistant, and an Open Model Gets a Meter

Airbnb plans an AI agent for 2027, while Thinking Machines makes a qualified claim to the open-weight crown.

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Airbnb Plans a Vacation Helper That Will Also Need Managing

Airbnb says it plans to launch an AI travel agent in the first half of 2027. The company says the agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options, manage bookings and get assistance throughout their stays. That is a wide itinerary for a product that has not yet arrived. The appeal is straightforward: a trip involves research, decisions and follow-up, often spread across several conversations and reservations. Airbnb wants an agent to bring some of those tasks together. Help during a stay would extend the role beyond the initial search and booking. The promise also puts the company closer to choices travelers previously made by sorting through options themselves. People may welcome a shorter list, especially when planning a complicated trip. They will still have reasons to check whether an agent has understood their preferences and selected what they actually want. A vacation is supposed to offer a break from administration, so an assistant that handles some of it has an obvious market. The comic risk is that managing the helper becomes the first item on the itinerary. Instead of arguing over which place to book, a group could find itself reviewing the agent's choices and explaining, again, what everyone meant by 'near the beach.' For now, the agent remains a plan for 2027, not a completed holiday. Airbnb has booked the premise; travelers will eventually decide whether the service deserves a good review.

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Thinking Machines Offers an Open Crown With a Token Meter Attached

Thinking Machines, the startup founded by former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters. The company claims it is the strongest western open-weight model. The Decoder reports that improved agentic performance comes with sharply higher token usage. Open weights let developers download and run a model rather than relying solely on a provider's hosted service. That makes the release relevant to people building applications and comparing models they can operate themselves. It also means the company's claim enters a competitive field where the exact comparison matters: 'strongest western open-weight model' is a narrower title than strongest model overall. Tokens are units used to process text, and using more of them can add to the resources needed to perform a task. A developer weighing the model therefore has at least two questions: how well does it do the work, and how much processing does that work require? A higher score may be valuable even when it brings a higher bill, but the tradeoff belongs in the same conversation as the headline claim. The industry's favorite trophy is first place. Its least decorative accessory is the usage meter. Inkling's pitch asks developers to admire both the performance and the price of getting it. The crown may be open for anyone to examine; keeping it polished still takes computing resources.

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Google Buys a Data Center Plan, Mathematicians Ask AI to Show Its Work

A Wyoming project changes hands before completion, while Axiom Math focuses on formal verification.

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Google Skips the Lease and Buys the Unfinished Project

Crusoe has sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google, which is taking over development. The Denver-based developer had tried and failed to land Google as a customer for the site. Google reportedly raised concerns about the project's cost and construction timeline under Crusoe's management, and did not disclose the purchase price. Crusoe announced the project last year with infrastructure company Tallgrass, with a plan eventually to scale it to 10 gigawatts of power capacity. That figure describes an ambition for the project, not an operating facility already using that amount of power. The site remains unfinished, and the new owner now takes responsibility for development. The transaction illustrates the scale and complexity of infrastructure for AI. A planned data center needs much more than a list of prospective customers: construction, cost and power all shape whether the project can become a working facility. Google, a potential customer that did not sign on under the earlier arrangement, has chosen to take over the project instead. There is an excellent real-estate joke buried in the sequence. The prospective tenant inspected the building, worried about the schedule and then bought the development. It is an unusually expensive way to ask for changes to the floor plan. For everyone else watching the buildout, the unfinished site is a reminder that even the cloud begins with a construction project and a calendar.

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Axiom Math Gives AI Proofs the One Colleague Who Checks Every Line

Axiom Math is using AI agents and formal verification in an effort to keep unchecked AI-generated proofs out of mathematics, TechCrunch reports. The startup says its agents have formally verified the Stacks Project, a major library in the field. The work addresses a problem that grows with the ease of generating mathematical text. A plausible-looking argument is not necessarily a valid proof, and checking the reasoning takes care. Formal verification applies a precise standard to the steps of a proof, offering a way to check the work rather than accepting its confident presentation. That makes the project a distinctive use of AI: instead of simply producing more material for mathematicians to inspect, the agents are directed at verification. The Stacks Project is a substantial target, so the reported achievement gives the company's approach a concrete setting rather than leaving it as a general promise to improve research. The contrast is especially satisfying in a business that often rewards fluent answers. A proof does not get extra credit for sounding persuasive if a step fails. Axiom's agents are being asked to behave less like a guest at a dinner party and more like the person who insists on seeing every calculation. If AI can generate mathematical arguments quickly, it can also increase the value of careful checking. The machine has joined the seminar, and another machine has been assigned to make sure it did the reading.

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AI's Financing Plan Meets a Political Pause Button

An OpenAI round remains open, and lawmakers renew calls to slow data center construction.

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OpenAI's Trillion-Dollar Price Tag Still Has a Financing Schedule

OpenAI has raised $11 billion so far in a funding round valuing the company at $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The round has not closed and could total about $20 billion in the coming weeks, according to a source cited by Bloomberg. An earlier Bloomberg report said OpenAI had been looking to raise $30 billion. The valuation and the amount raised are different figures. The first is the reported value assigned to the company in the round; the second is the financing collected so far. The potential $20 billion total is also not a final result, and it would be below the earlier reported fundraising target. The numbers show how much capital major AI companies are seeking while leaving the outcome of this particular round open. A large headline valuation can coexist with a fundraising process that takes time and lands at a different total from the one initially sought. Neither number alone settles what the finished round will look like. In ordinary shopping, a price tag and the cash in the register are kept on separate lines. AI financing has made both lines spectacular enough to compete for the headline. OpenAI has a reported trillion-dollar valuation and billions in financing, with the rest of the round still to be decided. Even the grandest number in the window comes with a checkout process.

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Lawmakers Discover the Data Center Has No Convenient Pause Key

Several newly elected Democrats and Senator Bernie Sanders have renewed calls for data center moratoriums after the US midterm elections. Sanders called for an immediate national moratorium, while the technology industry faces the prospect of delays to a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure buildout intended to support AI. The calls reflect a political debate over the pace and consequences of construction. Data centers require physical sites and substantial resources, and their expansion has brought questions about power, water and the communities near proposed facilities. A moratorium would be a policy choice to halt or slow development, not a law that has already taken effect. For the companies building the facilities, timing matters. Plans for more computing capacity depend on projects being approved and completed. For elected officials calling for a pause, the speed of those plans is itself part of the concern. The two sides are arguing over the same schedule from opposite ends of the calendar. The industry has marketed AI as a technology that can answer questions almost instantly. Its physical expansion now faces a much slower question: whether officials and communities agree to the next facility. A pause button is an ordinary feature on a video player, but an awkward addition to a construction plan. It is also a reminder that permission is not a server component a company can order in bulk.

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AI Usage Rises, Spending Pauses, and a Coding Model Seeks a Trophy

Ramp data complicates a growth story, while Ricursive Intelligence offers an open-weight model with a benchmark claim.

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More AI for the Same Money Is Great Until the Growth Meeting

Ramp data shows AI usage climbing while business spending on the technology has stalled, TechCrunch reports. Price cuts and tighter cost controls among the biggest spenders could challenge assumptions about the pace of AI revenue growth, as Anthropic approaches a planned IPO. The figures describe a contrast between use and spending, not a claim that companies have stopped using AI. In fact, the opposite is true in the reported data. Businesses can use more of a service without spending more if prices fall or they manage consumption more carefully. For customers, that can be a welcome outcome. A company getting more work from its software budget may call the result efficiency. For providers and investors counting on rapidly rising revenue, the same pattern invites a different assessment. Usage growth does not automatically translate into a matching increase in the bill. The difference is familiar to anyone who has found a discount on a product they already buy. The shopper celebrates getting more for the money; the seller has a more complicated conversation about margins and growth. AI may be new, but the spreadsheet has seen this scene before. The timing gives the figures additional attention as investors consider the sector's ambitions. A chart showing more activity can still look impressive. The finance team would simply like to see the spending chart on the same page.

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Ripple Wins a Coding Claim, Then Meets the Other Benchmarks

Ricursive Intelligence is releasing Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model under the Apache 2.0 license. The company says it leads open-source US models on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark and puts its total research and development cost at $32 million. The claim has specific boundaries: it concerns a particular benchmark and a particular group of models. The Decoder reports that Ripple falls behind the newly released western open model Inkling 2 Small on other benchmarks. That does not erase the company's coding result, but it does make the contest more interesting than a single universal ranking. The open license gives developers broad permission to use, modify and redistribute the model. Open weights also let them run and test it themselves, subject to the computing resources required. For users choosing a model, the relevant result will depend on the tasks they actually need to perform as well as the cost of doing them. Benchmark victories are the AI industry's favorite way to print a medal before the race has finished. Ripple's medal comes with a clear inscription: TerminalBench 2.1, among open-source US models, according to its maker. That is a useful achievement to evaluate, and a much smaller object than the trophy labeled 'best at everything' that every model seems to want on its desk.

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AI Helps Choose Molecules and Leaves Security Tools in Public View

A research method aims to reduce experiments, while exposed Artex servers create a different kind of access problem.

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Chemistry's Trial and Error Gets a Better Appointment Scheduler

A machine-learning approach called CheMeleon aims to help researchers predict molecular behavior from limited data and guide the development of drugs and other molecules with less detailed, expensive experimentation, according to MIT News. Finding molecules with useful properties matters across pharmaceuticals, electronics and energy. It is also difficult: a compound can behave in many ways, and researchers cannot perfectly predict every property in advance. Experiments and calculations help narrow the possibilities, but both can require considerable work. CheMeleon is intended to give scientists a more practical way to guide that search when detailed data is scarce. If a model can help identify promising candidates, researchers may be able to make better choices about what to investigate. The approach is a guide to development, not evidence that experiments or scientific judgment have become unnecessary. The appeal is not that a computer can make chemistry effortless. It is that researchers might spend less time pursuing candidates that a useful prediction could have helped them set aside. That is a less dramatic promise than replacing the lab, but a potentially valuable one for the people paying for and conducting experiments. Science is full of ideas that looked excellent before being tested. CheMeleon offers to improve the guest list before those ideas arrive at the lab. The experiments still get the final word, which is reassuring for anyone who has ever met a very confident prediction.

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A Tool for Finding Open Doors Leaves Its Own Servers Open

Security researchers found hundreds of internet-exposed servers hosting Artex, an open-source autonomous penetration-testing tool, TechCrunch reports. The exposed installations allowed anyone to access the tool, potentially letting outsiders use it to launch attacks against other targets. Artex automatically probes computer systems for weaknesses. Such tools can help defenders test their security, but the reporting says Artex has also been linked to several cyberattacks since its public release in July. It is free to download and run, making it accessible to people who cannot use the most advanced cybersecurity models from Anthropic or OpenAI. The exposed servers add another problem to that accessibility. A tool designed to examine weaknesses can itself be made available to strangers if the system hosting it is left open. That does not mean every exposed installation was used in an attack, but it does create an opportunity for access that its operator may not have intended. The irony is more than a clever product name waiting to happen. Security software still depends on ordinary decisions about how it is deployed. An autonomous tester cannot make an exposed server private merely by being good at finding other people's mistakes. For administrators, the report makes the hosting setup part of the security story. The electronic locksmith may be skilled, but someone still has to remember to close the office door.

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AI Learns to Test Networks, While Humans Test the Fine Print

Cyber models compete in simulations, an audit examines research acceleration, and Meta revises commercial terms.

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Open Models Approach the Cyber Exam's Restricted Top Student

DeepSeek and GLM models came close to OpenAI's most advanced cyber model in an experiment asking AI systems to break into simulated networks, WIRED reports. OpenAI's model is not public, while the other models are available more broadly. The comparison matters because a capability need not be the absolute best in a test to be consequential. Models that can be obtained and run widely may reach users who cannot access a restricted system. The experiment measured performance in simulated networks, not the outcome of every real-world attack. For defenders, the result is another reason to pay attention to how quickly capabilities spread. For model makers, a lead on a test is less comforting when competitors are close behind. The class has a top student, but the rest of the room is catching up without waiting for an invitation to the honors program.

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Anthropic's Acceleration Warning May Have Arrived After the Speedup

Nonprofit METR concluded that Anthropic's model development pace roughly doubled, with about 80 percent of the speedup driven by AI-assisted research. After an eleven-week audit of internal data, METR said the company may have crossed its own acceleration warning threshold in July. The finding is qualified: Anthropic redacted the most informative evidence, leaving the public more reliant on METR's judgment than the nonprofit considered ideal. There were also skeptical voices inside the company, according to the reporting. The assessment makes AI's role in building further AI a measurable governance question, rather than merely a slogan about faster research. It also makes the missing evidence consequential for outside scrutiny. A warning line is useful, but the public has been handed a speed report with much of the dashboard covered. The remaining instrument is the auditor's judgment, and even the auditor would prefer a clearer view.

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Meta Discovers Page Owners Can Read the Terms

Meta says it will not force Facebook page owners to allow AI training on linked content after backlash to a commercial terms update. The reversal follows concern over whether maintaining a page would require accepting that use of linked material. The issue puts creators and publishers in a familiar negotiation with a platform that distributes their work. A term about AI training can affect more than a routine account setting: it goes to how content connected to a page may be used beyond its original publication. Meta's change gives page owners a different outcome from the one they feared. It also supplies a rare plot twist for a terms update: people read the clause and objected before clicking past it. The fine print was apparently meant to do the quiet work. Instead, it found itself in a very public meeting with its intended signatories.

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AI Meets the Ballot Box, the Market and a Very Large Task Force

Local votes restrict data centers, shares fall, music makers open a toolbox, and the Justice Department names a unit.

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Voters Give the Data Center Boom a Stack of Conditions

In US midterm voting on 41 data center-related ballot measures, majorities supported more restrictions on development in all but one, TechCrunch reports. The results arrive as Democrats' victories could change the political environment for technology companies. The votes concern local development, not a blanket national ban. They do show how infrastructure sold as a route to the future must also contend with rules in the places where facilities are built. A company can put a server in the cloud, but the building beneath it still has an address, neighbors and a ballot box.

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A Trillion Dollars Leaves the Tech Ticker for the Day

Global tech stocks fell after the US midterms, amid fears that AI development could slow, according to The Guardian. Apple, Tesla, Nvidia and other major technology companies shed about $1 trillion in one trading session. The report presents the decline alongside the Democratic victory and investor concerns, while leaving open the larger question of what it means for the AI boom. One session is a dramatic assessment, not a complete forecast. Markets have given the industry a costly reminder that a growth story can meet a political event before its next earnings presentation.

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Music Hardware Invites the Modders Inside the Case

InMusic, the parent company of Akai, Moog and Native Instruments, plans to provide a toolbox and access to hardware's inner workings for its modding community, CEO Jack O'Donnell told The Verge. The company is embracing a culture of user modifications, including work associated with AI-assisted coding. The approach gives enthusiasts a more official route to alter the tools they use to make music. It also offers an entertaining reversal for hardware makers: the people opening the case are no longer merely a support question. They are an audience the company wants to equip.

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Justice Department Gives Its AI Unit a Super-Sized Name

The Justice Department has launched a Super Intelligence Task Force, tasked with ensuring AI is not manipulated by bad actors at home or abroad, Engadget reports. The announcement pairs a broad concern about misuse with a title that sounds ready for its own opening credits. The unit's name promises plenty of ambition, while its stated mission centers on how technology might be manipulated. That leaves the practical work of protecting systems more important than the grandeur of the label. In Washington, even a task force can arrive with an unusually powerful branding department.

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