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They know how to use TikTok and Instagram, but they don’t know where their data ends up. The myth of the ‘digital native’ has created a dangerous educational gap: young people are familiar with the interfaces, but not with the underlying mechanisms. And this leaves them vulnerable.

X and OpenAI have uncovered a vast disinformation operation, likely of Chinese origin. Thousands of bots and AI-generated content were used to fuel public opposition to data centers in the US by exploiting genuine energy concerns.

Tesla is converting Fremont, dismantling Model S/X lines to build humanoid robots. Optimus won’t ship to homes; it will work in internal “Optimus Academy.” Stated goals: up to 1M units/year in Fremont, 10M in Texas. Sources: Tesla and SEC filings.

Two years after his report on competitiveness, Mario Draghi launches the Rhein Group with Stripe's Patrick Collison. The goal? To unite leaders, economists, and businesses to shake up a declining Europe by applying the principles of effective accelerationism.

Lab experiments and industrial automation are slow due to incompatible software. Anthropic proposes the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a universal language for AIs to communicate with machines, acting as a "USB-C" for the physical world.

Nvidia reported quarterly earnings of $59.69 billion, more than double the amount from a year ago, driven by unstoppable demand for AI chips.

A heavy electric aircraft flew for 27 minutes on a few dollars of power. Commercial service isn’t imminent: Heart Aerospace is betting on the hybrid S30 by 2031. Here’s what the official data says.

Intel upsized its stock offering from $15 billion to $20 billion after demand topped $100 billion. The money is earmarked for AI chip manufacturing capacity.

ABN Amro is betting on Mistral instead of American AI labs. It's not just a technology choice, it's a wager on digital sovereignty for European banking

Since August 2, Brussels can fine providers of high-risk general-purpose AI models. What the EU AI Act's enforcement phase actually means for Swiss companies building on GPT, Gemini or Claude.

Meta will pay $17 billion to settle US lawsuits over compulsive app use by minors. The deal introduces time limits, nightly shutdowns, and notification stops, signaling a potential paradigm shift for social media and its impact on AI.

Google’s GlucoFM AI analyzes 109k hours of CGM data to disentangle basal metabolism from sudden events, improving metabolic risk estimation and postprandial prediction. Deep impact on digital, AI, and health. Sources: Nature and Google.

After Zagreb, Europe's first city with a commercial robotaxi service, Pony.ai and Uber are expanding their deal to bring more than 2,000 self-driving vehicles to four more European cities, with an eye on the Middle East too.

Emerald AI closed a $150 million Series A at a $1.05 billion valuation. The pitch: make AI data centers flexible, able to throttle consumption when the grid is under stress, unlocking over 100 gigawatts of existing capacity.

The new Mac mini with the M6 chip starts at $899, while the Mac Studio with M5 Ultra scales up to 512GB of unified memory. Apple is betting openly on running AI models locally, without the cloud.

Mechanical Turk closes September 30, the platform Bezos once called "artificial artificial intelligence." Launched in 2005, it trained AI models for two decades before being overtaken by the data-labeling startups it helped inspire.