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You, and every U.S. reader, have inherited a debt of $40 trillion, or more than 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The debt is projected to continue rising inexorably unless dramatic steps are taken to rein it in. How would you accomplish that? Now you have an opportunity to find out, choosing various options and seeing their effect on the deficit in the 2030s.

Privacy concerns put smart glasses under scrutiny as Norway seeks temporary ban

A trip to the park. A day at the beach. A workout session at the gym. All in public spaces where smart glasses can snap photos, record conversations or stream video online — without people in the line of their lenses and microphones knowing about it.

Health care's emerging risk: unauthorized AI agents

Hospitals and other organizations will have to think about security in new ways to avoid exposing personal information.

"60 Minutes": How Humans Make AI Smarter

AI models need more data than they can glean just by eating the internet.

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Mr. Isaacson is the author of “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution” and the host of the video podcast “The Builders.”

The Humanoid Robot Future Has Arrived at a South Korean Park. Sort of.

I went to Galaxy Robot Park in Seoul to see how we might one day live with robots. It was part cutting-edge technology, part theatrics.

People Really Hate AI, So Why Can't They Get Enough?

Around the world, a love/hate attitude toward AI is very much the vibe right now.

Google pauses open-source bug bounty over AI slop submissions.

The OSS VRP — which paid out for bugs found across Google’s open-source ecosystem — will be frozen until at least next year. It’s slop’s fault: the pause is down to a “significant rise” in AI submissions, “the vast majority of which are not valid.” Linux has been suffering from a similar problem.

Ben Affleck says he had a 'heart attack' when he first saw what AI could do

Ben Affleck said he spent eight months shooting a large collection of footage to train existing AI models for filmmaking tasks.

Musk Says SpaceXAI Will Be Renamed SpaceXSI After Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence’ Order

Elon Musk said on Oct. 4 that SpaceX’s artificial intelligence business, SpaceXAI, will be renamed SpaceXSI.

Sam Altman thinks ‘the world should accept some bad things happening’ for the good of AI.

In an interview with Brendan Bordelon of Politico, Altman said this was a fundamental difference between OpenAI and Anthropic. He believes that “for the benefits of this technology” (rather than the benefit of humanity), we should just deal with “bad things happening.”

The New Fitbit Edge Leaks

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