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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Instead of a set number of chats and AI-generated podcasts each day, Google Notebook users will get "compute-specific" limits along with five-hour usage windows. Fans of Google Notebook's AI-generated podcasts may have to settle for fewer of them once a new usage-tracking method goes into effect next week. Starting September 2, Google Notebook will switch over to "compute-specific" usage limits that track the "complexity" of your Google Notebook prompts and requests. Also coming with the "compute-specific" usage limits change are five-hour usage windows, along with weekly usage limits, according to a Google support page, replacing the current daily and monthly limits.

AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What's Left for Us? A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Don't be fooled by the question mark in the title of an article published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. When the authors, including medical superstar Ezekiel Emanuel and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, asked, " Will Autonomous AI Exceed AI-Physicians as the Best Medical Care? " they were being rhetorical. Their answer is an emphatic YES.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. AI is cheaper than workers. Could an AI token tax keep businesses from replacing human jobs? The idea is gaining traction, and the Microsoft co-founder says he's on board. AI is about to change everything, and we're not ready.

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Google is offering its premium AI subscription plan for free. It usually costs $20 a month - and comes with many benefits. Google is offering some users a free AI Pro subscription. College students can get 12 months for free. A new device gets you a free subscription, or you can share one.

X has discovered a bot farm network with 200,000 accounts on its platform as part of its Safety team's investigation into suspected inauthentic Chinese accounts. The company announced its findings on its Global Government Affairs page. It said that 200 accounts out of the 200,000 were posting comic strips, images and text about AI data centers in a manner that "could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy." Specifically, their posts talked about how AI data centers can drive up the prices of household electricity and strain the grids of towns nearby. They also posted AI-generated cartoons depicting data center operators as unscrupulous businessmen raking in profits from the facilities while average families shoulder the bill.

A Barclays report from earlier this year forecast that artificial intelligence-powered robots and autonomous machines have the potential to grow into a trillion-dollar market by 2035. Anthropic has announced a new software standard that will allow artificial intelligence assistants such as Claude to work better with robots and science and manufacturing hardware. The AI startup is releasing its Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, under a research preview, so developers in the scientific, robotics and manufacturing fields can test how Claude interacts with the physical world and build in necessary safeguards before releasing it broadly. Essentially, MHS stores information for AI assistants to understand how a piece of hardware works, without having to refer to paper manuals or tacit knowledge that only resides with a few experts. For example, a factory robot arm vendor could specify in an MHS how AI can manipulate a heavy arm safely by limiting the speed or angles with which it moves. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

More than 100 companies across AI, tech, finance and other industries have put their names on an open letter calling for improvements to cybersecurity. The long list of participants includes Anthropic, AWS, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and Perplexity. They go on to list actions that organizations, governments, the cybersecurity and tech industry, and AI businesses could take in order to cut off a potential explosion in attacks powered by artificial intelligence. The letter is titled "A call for collective action on cyber defense," but like in so many horror movies, the call is coming from inside the house. It raises the alarm that "In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable."

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OpenAI Is Developing a'Persistent' AI Agent Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is "put to sleep." OpenAI is developing a proactive, highly persistent version of its flagship AI agent, Codex, WIRED has learned. In recent days, OpenAI has started adding code for a new "Persistent mode" setting to its command line version of Codex, according to changes made to the product's code base reviewed by WIRED. Changes to the Codex command line tool are made public by default, and new features tend to surface there before making their way to OpenAI's other agent products, such as the Codex desktop app and ChatGPT Work. Persistent mode has not been broadly rolled out or announced yet, but could be in the future.