“The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them”
— Kate Park, TechCrunch AI
The U. S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots.
As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras. That money was primarily raised by tacking a $1 fee onto insurance policies, allegedly to help fight catalytic converter theft.
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OpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened, as did METR together with Redwood Research.
Burnt out on wrist buzzes and notification overload? A new crop of minimalist wearables promises to collect your health data without demanding your attention.
A Deep Dive into What Makes Moonshot’s Newest Model Special
Source →Once known for enterprise search, the company is now arguing that context is what separates AI that works from AI that burns money.
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