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The increasingly urgent pleas from leading tech executives to slow the advance of artificial intelligence are confronting one daunting obstacle: It’s not entirely clear how they could do that. A slowdown could involve releasing frontier models less frequently, requiring approval before deploying systems with powerful cyber or biological capabilities, giving independent monitors access to AI labs, or negotiating limits with China.

Spectate or participate. Those are the options on the table for operators as the AI revolution rolls on, Alianza CEO Brian Beutler argued. And the choice could mean the difference between hitching up to a growth engine or being left behind as a dumb pipe—again. Alianza recently unveiled Crux, a new orchestration platform designed to enable operators to tap into the AI voice market.

Telecommunications firms have been touting AI as a cost saver, using it to justify thousands of layoffs. But while the humans are disappearing, the costs aren’t always following suit.

A new nationwide survey by Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center (ITDF) reveals U.S. adults’ attitudes about the expanding use of LLMs and their deepening impact on essential aspects of being human: human connection, purpose, agency and critical thinking. 

The White House, Congress and the country's leading AI companies have allowed AI to grow faster, stronger, more powerful and wildly lucrative (and dangerous), with no serious effort to control it or spread the benefits beyond the super-wealthy. It's not too late to change this. But if they all dither, duck or dance around it, the chances of AI worst-case scenarios will explode, likely early in 2027, according to people who truly understands AI. Yes, President Trump opposes regulation or bipartisan efforts. Yes, AI companies are obsessed with more money, more speed.

Products that don’t exist. Meal deliveries that will never make it to the front door. Smoke breaks lacking the most important ingredient. All this and more—or is it less?—is available on so-called dopamine sites, which offer nothing tangible and yet have somehow become wildly popular as people navigate a digital landscape that cultivates consumption. Named for the brain chemical associated with reward seeking, the sites simulate experiences like online shopping that can generate good feelings.

A week of extraordinary warnings about 

Reps Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) and Jimmy Patronis (R-FL) introduced the Sunset Section 230 Act, which would repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, making it possible for Americans to bring legal action against big tech companies responsible for online harm. Section 230 was created in 1996 as part of the Communications Decency Act to help encourage innovation and growth among new social media companies, but 30 years later as these companies have become inordinately powerful, Section 230 has become obsolete and dangerous.

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.