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New York City's Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech. A papier-mâché woman is the backdrop to a play about the Luddite movement. On a Sunday evening in the middle of Tompkins Square Park in New York City's East Village, hundreds of people gather in front of a giant papier-mâché face of a woman wearing a crown. She's the backdrop of a play, her body made up of curtains that look like a dress but serve a dual purpose, allowing actors to scurry on and offstage. I'm here to watch a performance called " Luddite Recreations," which is a history of the Luddite movement--a group of artisans and textile workers who resisted the adoption of machines during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England and whose resistance to being displaced from their work was met with violence by the British monarchy.

Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Now you'll need to subscribe for "expanded access" to the most advanced features. So you paid a few hundred bucks for a neat little gadget and think you're good to go. But it turns out you'll need to subscribe to a monthly plan to unlock its advanced features. That where AI-powered consumer electronics are increasingly heading, and Meta is the latest to prove it with its smart glasses .

Sam Altman is in talks with the US government in a bid to clear political hurdles, says the Financial Times. OpenAI's Sam Altman has reportedly been in talks with the US government to ensure his company's path towards achieving its goals remains free of political hurdles. According to the Financial Times, Altman has suggested giving the government a five percent stake in the company, in order to share the spoils of the AI boom with the public. But his idea doesn't only involve OpenAI: Under his proposal, other top AI companies like Google, Anthropic, xAI and Meta would have to agree to give the government a similar stake in their businesses. AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have recently encountered roadblocks from the US government when it came to releasing their latest AI models.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been in talks about public ownership with Donald Trump, according to the report. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been in talks about public ownership with Donald Trump, according to the report. OpenAI'in early talks to give 5% stake to US government' OpenAI is reportedly in early stage talks to give a 5% stake in the ChatGPT developer to the US government as artificial intelligence companies attempt to smooth relations with Donald Trump's administration. The OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, has argued that giving the US public a financial stake in the company is the best way to share the benefits of AI, according to the Financial Times, which cited two unnamed people familiar with the discussions. The proposal would also involve other US AI companies giving a similar stake to the government, the FT reported, although it is not clear yet whether companies such as Anthropic, Google and Meta would agree to the plan.

A sign showing bear deterrent measures is displayed next to a wolf-shaped robotic device outside a convenience store in a rural area of Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture. Five people were hospitalized after a man accidentally set off an anti-bear spray in a post office in Nagoya's city center, reports and officials said, as Japan grapples with a sharp rise in maulings. A foreign national, who was not named, apologized and told police that he discharged the repellant unintentionally, the reports said. "Eight people felt sick, and of those five were sent to hospital. But there was no report of serious injuries or illness," fire department official Ryohei Asano said after the mishap on Wednesday. At least five people have been killed by bears in Japan since April 1 after a record 13 deaths last fiscal year.

Russian forces have launched a major drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight, killing at least eight people, officials say. Several neighbourhoods were evacuated as strikes rocked buildings throughout the city, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia was preparing for a massive attack. Children were among the significant number of casualties, Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv's military administration, said. The enemy is once again deliberately targeting residential areas and killing civilians, he said in the early hours of Thursday. On Thursday morning, daylight brought clearer images of a crater which appeared to be caused by the impact of explosions.

With origins in the English countryside, The Cotswold Company is known for upscale furniture that evokes its bucolic backstory. It's a step-change for a business that's tracked the shift from mail-order catalogs and showrooms to websites. In its simplest form, AI means searching for items via chatbots, but agentic AI could one day see Cotswold's customers represented by bots picking and buying products like a personal shopper. "There is always first-mover advantage with these things," said Chief Executive Officer Ralph Tucker, who joined in 2020 and is AI-readying a business that did 80% of its £123 million ($163 million) in sales online in its latest fiscal year. "If our customers are there, we need to be there and we need to be brilliant at it." In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.