🧠 Microsoft spins up a ‘humanist superintelligence’ team
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says the new group will pursue targeted superhuman abilities-not free-roaming AGI. Careful, bold… and a touch contradictory.
Focus areas: assistants, healthcare, and energy. The pitch is AI that keeps humans at the top of the food chain-an idea doing a lot of narrative heavy lifting.
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🇪🇺 EU considers softening parts of the AI Act
Under pressure from Big Tech and allies, Brussels is floating more time and a lighter touch for some transparency bits. Pragmatic pivot-or slippery slope?
A central AI office, staggered fines, and grace periods are on the table-still framed as keeping the law’s spine intact, or so it seems.
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📚 Amazon’s Kindle gets AI translation for indie authors
Beta tool translates between English and Spanish, plus German to English, with an auto quality check. Cheaper reach, fewer excuses… more edge cases.
Translated titles get a special label and remain eligible for KDP Select and Unlimited-nice carrot, tiny asterisk.
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🔎 Google Finance adds Gemini tools for traders
AI features promise deeper summaries and search across financial data right where people already obsess over tickers. Handy-potentially distracting.
It’s another nudge toward AI-in-the-workflow instead of app-hopping: less tab soup, more… algorithmic soup.
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❤️🔥 Tinder tests AI that scans your camera roll
The feature hunts for photos that show “chemistry” and suggests better matches. Helpful wingmate-or over-familiar roommate rifling your drawers?
Opt-in only, rolling test, privacy questions already buzzing-because of course they are.
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🏗️ Altman says OpenAI isn’t seeking government guarantees
On funding giant infrastructure, the company draws a line between chip-plant talk and data-center backing. Semantics matter when the numbers get silly.
Signal to markets or neat political positioning-maybe both, honestly.
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