Will the US or China emerge as the AI superpower? The US and China race to produce the world's leading artificial intelligence. Whoever emerges as the leading power in artificial intelligence could secure an advantage over their rivals for years to come. Only two countries are in this race - the United States and China. Control of key inputs like rare earth minerals and cutting-edge semiconductor chips could prove decisive.

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As agentic AI moves from pilots to enterprise-wide deployment, orchestration, data, governance, and clear business objectives are becoming critical for scaling, says chief operating officer at NiCE Arun Chandra. As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business. Although agentic AI has been adopted by some 80% of Fortune 500 companies, progress toward meaningful scale remains uneven, with many organizations still working through isolated pilots. For Arun Chandra, chief operating officer at NiCE, the first step is moving beyond experimentation for its own sake. "Everybody's trying to figure out what can we do with this technology?" he says. But scaling requires a clearer connection to business strategy: Organizations need to define whether they are trying to increase revenue, reduce costs, or pursue another strategic or financial objective.

While companies promise they can help users monitor gut health, experts suggest that smart toilets provide little in the way of benefits to the average person. It was only a matter of time before wellness trackers --already out there trying to optimize our heart rate, sleep, stress, steps, blood sugar, and menstruation--came for perhaps the most private biosignal of all: our poop. The global gut health market is expected to reach nearly $106 billion by 2029, and a handful of companies are betting they can use stool data to provide in-depth health insights, nudge people to change their diets or lifestyles, and advise them to see a doctor if their bathroom habits seem amiss. But gastroenterologists are skeptical that products that rely on AI to analyze images of what's going on in your toilet bowl are worth the price just yet, and data-privacy advocates warn that people can get locked into long-term subscriptions just to access their own health data. Among the companies touting smart toilets are Kohler Health--an offshoot of the eponymous plumbing giant that sells its device for $449 plus $130 for an annual family membership--and Throne, a startup that raised $10 million in July.

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Many of the lawsuits xAI is facing'stem from a period at the start of this year when loose safeguards on Grok allowed users to direct it to remove clothing from photos and generate sexualized images'. Many of the lawsuits xAI is facing'stem from a period at the start of this year when loose safeguards on Grok allowed users to direct it to remove clothing from photos and generate sexualized images'. Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk's AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced'any naked underage images' A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her. "Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members," states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California. Attorneys for the plaintiff, who is listed as Jane Doe in the case to protect her identity, accuse xAI of both generating CSAM of their client and of ingesting child sexual abuse images depicting her into the company's datasets after new images were publicly posted.