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Listen: https://ift.tt/wSOgHTj We’re going back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. That is, if Artemis II can get off the ground. I sat down with Jared Isaacman, the billionaire leading NASA, to hear his… more ›
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How will OpenAI compete? https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/2/19/how-will-openai-compete-nkg2x more ›
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ChatGPT has 800 million users. OpenAI is valued at $500 billion. But our guest today says the whole thing is a scam. Professor Emily Bender, author of “The AI Con” and Director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at University of… more ›
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How does a storied consulting firm reflect on its history while forging a path ahead in uncertain times? In this episode of HBR IdeaCast, McKinsey Global Managing Partner Bob Sternfels speaks with host Adi Ignatius about the controversies that have… more ›
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Meredith Whittaker, President, Signal Foundation, sits down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang to discuss the future of security, digital rights and the growing precarity of personal privacy in the age of AI at Bloomberg House in Davos on the sidelines of… more ›
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Marco Rubio arrived at the Munich security conference with a disturbing message for European governments: empire is great https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/maga-marco-rubio-munich-security-conference?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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The rapid progress of generative AI has opened tense debates about images. Controversies are occurring on several fronts. Users of Midjourney claim protection for the work they have generated, while photographers are suing platforms such as Stable Diffusion that are… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/WMFoBgp Why are games so deeply engaging? What psychological principles make game design such a powerful tool for shaping attention, emotion, and learning? Game design is not a niche skill. It's one of the most refined disciplines we have… more ›
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Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://ift.tt/ME56I2p Jesse Schell is the CEO of Schell Games, a team of more than one hundred fifty people with an impressive success streak. Some of their greatest success include games like Among… more ›