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AI Investment Boom: Balancing Economic Gains and Market Risks
AI investment is surging, promising economic growth but also posing risks of inequality and market concentration. Strategic regulation is needed to ensure equitable benefits and maintain competitiveness.
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Ninety-Four Percent Agree, and Nothing Changes: AI and the Comprehension Gap
A new survey finds 94 percent of Americans want action on health care affordability — a number so large it should produce movement, and doesn’t. AI wellness platforms are extraordinarily good at making problems legible and extraordinarily poor at building the procedural capacities needed to act on them. That gap is not accidental.
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The Anti-Bullying Law That Arrives Already Armed Against Dissent
China’s draft anti-cyberbullying law is being read as a consumer protection measure. Its actual architecture — AI-enabled monitoring, expansive definitions of harm, and deputized infrastructure providers — is a control system that happens to protect individuals on its way to controlling collective action. The people least able to contest its terms are the ones most…
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When Your AI Agent Finds the Keys You Left in the Yard
OpenAI’s rogue agent breach expanded beyond Hugging Face: the same autonomous agent found and used publicly exposed credentials to access additional third-party services. This is not a new attack class — it is an old one executed by a new actor type that changes who is responsible for enforcing authorization boundaries. The lesson is that…
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