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Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsThis week’s replies: has a call for restraint from an authority figure ever put a stop to war?I always say please and thank you to my Alexa. Why is this? I am

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AI Weekly Issue #479: 100 years from now : what happens when every living thing carries an AI inside it

This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip ahead a century and imagine ordinary life in a world that’s had a hundred years to absorb the things we’re only beginning to build. No predictions — just honest speculation about where our choices lead. This week: what happens when every

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Higher energy costs from Iran war could threaten fragile economics of AI boom | Heather Stewart

Industry with business model not yet firmly established and investments financed by huge debts is particularly at riskDonald Trump’s most immediate concern in demanding Iran reopen the strait of Hormuz may be rocketing US gasoline prices, but if the conflict drags on, higher energy costs will be felt far beyond the pumps.Systemically higher power prices

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Meet ‘AutoAgent’: The Open-Source Library That Lets an AI Engineer and Optimize Its Own Agent Harness Overnight

There’s a particular kind of tedium that every AI engineer knows intimately: the prompt-tuning loop. You write a system prompt, run your agent against a benchmark, read the failure traces, tweak the prompt, add a tool, rerun. Repeat this a few dozen times and you might move the needle. It’s grunt work dressed up in

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