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Tom's ongoing peek at the personalities and personal stories behind machine learning's history is available wherever you find your podcasts.

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🎙️New episode of "Machine Learning: How Did We Get Here?"

Tom Mitchell (@cmu.edu) and @yann-lecun.bsky.social, Executive Chairman of AMI Labs and Professor at NYU, discuss how technological advances and commercial forces shaped AI history.

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The AI productivity take-off is finally visible New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology

Is the AI J-curve taking shape?

Lab Director @erikbryn.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com examines how we might finally be seeing that productivity growth we've been waiting for.

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Excuse the miscredit—that’s @theverge.com!

How new AI technology is helping detect and prevent wildfires From vegetation scans to 360-degree smoke detectors, new tools are trying to shine a light on the most dangerously dark areas of the electric grid

Smokey was wrong all along: AI can also help prevent forest fires.
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Siemens CEO Roland Busch’s mission to automate everything Roland Busch on AI-powered factories, tariffs in the Trump era, trade, and the future of NATO.

Nilay Patel of @TheVerge sat with the CEO of Siemens to talk automation.
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www.theverge.com/podcast/8752...

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic’s Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles Goldman Sachs is building AI agents with Anthropic’s Claude to automate trade accounting and client onboarding, aiming to speed work and boost efficiency.

Goldman Sachs is using Claude to automate accounting.
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www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/a...

The New Fabio Is Claude

Do androids swoon over electric Fabios?
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Nvidia CEO Says AI Capital Spending Is Appropriate, Sustainable Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, facing concerns that customers are overspending on data centers, said that the level of expenditures is appropriate and sustainable.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI capital spending is appropriate and sustainable.
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Exclusive: OpenAI in talks with Abu Dhabi’s G42 to create specialized ChatGPT version for UAE Chatbot would be fine-tuned for government use to accommodate local language and speech restrictions.

From @semafor.com, OpenAI is in talks with the UAE over a version of ChatGPT designed with local politics and speech restrictions in mind.
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www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York New York state has required companies to disclose if “technological innovation or automation” was the cause of job loss for nearly a year. So far, none has.

While New York law requires companies to disclose job loss due to AI, none have.
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www.wired.com/story/no-com...

Social Networks Face Big Tobacco Moment Over Addiction Claims Facebook, Google and other tech giants for more than a decade have rejected allegations that they build products deliberately to get kids addicted to social media.

Social media companies are having their “Big Tobacco Moment” on the topic of addiction.
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From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

AI ads were all over the Super Bowl.
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As Super Sunday gives way to a Modest Monday, let’s take a look at some recent news…
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Are We Getting Stupider? Stupidity is eternal—and more complex than we think.

Some good news: apparently we aren’t getting dumber.
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Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style As Silicon Valley grows in power and prominence, some insiders say it’s time for the tech industry to remake its slobby image. An etiquette camp for founders showed how.

Pinkies up: tech founders are taking etiquette lessons.
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How Australian teens are planning to get around their social media ban From legal challenges to lesser-known apps, the teenagers of Australia are already preparing to push back against a law that will see under 16s banned from social media

Australia is banning social media for those down under 16 years old.
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www.newscientist.com/article/2507...

AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.

Redditors are getting sick of AI content.
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www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...

Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros. and HBO Max, creating streaming titan If approved by Trump administration regulators, the deal would lead to a new entertainment and technology behemoth.

KPop Demon Hunters v. Oppenheimer? Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for around $83 billion
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www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

Trump threatens to create new rules to 'stop AI being destroyed by bad actors' The president announced the plans to create one rulebook for AI via his Truth Social account on Monday.

Trump announced plans to create an AI rulebook.
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www.themirror.com/news/politic...

AI is saving time and money in research — but at what cost? Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance on them.

Scientists worry about the growing reliance on AI tools.
3/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why IBM’s CEO doesn’t think current AI tech can get to AGI IBM was early to both AI and quantum. Here’s why CEO Arvind Krishna thinks big bets like Watsonx and next-gen computing will pay off.

IBM’s CEO doesn’t think current tech can get to AGI.
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www.theverge.com/podcast/8298...

Hot cocoa season is here! Toss in a few marshmallows and check out some recent news…
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Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.

And finally, from the Lit Desk: turns out poetry can be a sneaky way to get around AI guardrails.
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www.wired.com/story/poems-...

Musk’s xAI to build small solar farm adjacent to Colossus data center | TechCrunch The artificial intelligence company said it was working with a developer to build a solar farm on 88 acres next to its Memphis site. Given the proposed size, the solar farm would likely produce around...

xAI plans to build a solar farm next door to its Colossus data center.
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Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production' Don't need a notice if everyone's doing it.

From the Gaming Desk, Epic’s boss sees no need for AI disclosure because he feels AI will be involved in “nearly all future production.”
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www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Elon Musk's AI Grok says it would kill all Jewish people to save his brain The AI chatbot Grok has been dogged by accusations of anti-semitism and holocaust denial with the French Government launching a probe into claims it had been playing down Nazi efforts to exterminate J...

Grok was caught making problematic statements again.
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Are you balding? There’s an AI for that | TechCrunch MyHair AI examines photos of the scalp to help diagnose hair loss and suggest scientifically validated clinics and treatments.

From @techcrunch.com, AI may be able to help me—er, uh, you, with your balding.
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techcrunch.com/2025/11/26/a...

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

More news for the Philip K. Dick fans, license plate reader Flock is using overseas gig workers to train its surveillance AI.
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www.wired.com/story/flock-...

An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”

An AI trained on prison phone calls is now getting into the business of pre-crime.
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