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A week of extraordinary warnings about 

Anthropic insiders' warnings that AI could end humanity in the next decade have members of Congress fr

TikTok has rejected ads from Meta that call on TikTok and other tech platforms to join Meta in settling with U.S.

Two seemingly contradictory realities are true at once:

Apple debuted Apple Watch and iPhone features that could put its mark on the AI era. Apple is aiming to show it can be more private and useful, even as it plays catch-up to the state of the art in AI. In an era where plenty of tech companies are offering AI transcription gadgets that record entire conversations, Apple is making the case for a different approach. Rather than store recorded audio, Apple is transcribing what its microphones pick up, and providing certain highlights back to the user without attribution to specific speakers.

Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton recently released a realistic 

Meta announced Muse, a personal AI agent built on the latest generation of models developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang. Muse exists in a chat interface, similar to a text thread. It's designed to be more proactive and long-running than typical chatbots. Users can name their agent, create an avatar, and customize how it communicates. The Muse agent runs on a dedicated virtual machine in Meta's cloud, using a built-in browser that's visible to the user. Meta is offering a free tier of Muse, as well as two subscription options, at $20 per month and $100 per month.

Never in the history of industry or inventions have leading companies created entire divisions to un