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After writing about AI for years, I still hadn't had what you might call a serious encounter with it in its personalized form.  Anyone who uses Google has probably been offered their "AI summary" before the conventional search results.  I've found these summaries helpful sometimes and not so helpful other...


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"I always wish we would have gotten there sooner," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, when asked at a Los Angeles trial last week about safety tools that Meta has added to Instagram in recent years.  At the trial it was also revealed that in 2015, despite Instagram's minimum-age restriction of 13, it had an estimated 4 million underage users. ...


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At 9:12 AM on April 16, 1947, a seismologist in Denver, Colorado noted an unusual vibration on his seismograph.  Calculations showed that it originated on the Texas Gulf Coast, when some 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer on a ship docked at Texas City, Texas exploded in milliseconds.  The resulting blast killed at least ...


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The word Grok, which Elon Musk adopted for the name of his generative chatbot integrated with the social-media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was coined by sci-fi writer Robert A. Heinlein.  In a 1961 story, Heinlein used it to mean something like "intuitive sympathetic understanding."  Heinlein m...


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