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Neuralink's Bid to Trademark 'Telepathy' and 'Telekinesis' Faces Legal Issues

WIRED

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Neuralink's attempt to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis, citing pending applications by another person for the same trademarks. Neuralink, the brain implant company co-founded by Elon Musk, filed to trademark the names in March. But in letters sent to Neuralink in August, the trademark office is refusing to allow the applications to move forward. It says Wesley Berry, a computer scientist and co-founder of tech startup Prophetic, previously filed trademark applications for Telepathy in May 2023 and Telekinesis in August 2024. Prophetic is building a wearable headset to induce lucid dreaming, but only Berry is the author of the trademark applications, not Prophetic.


Illegal immigrant Chinese national tried stealing sensitive AI microchips, DOJ says

FOX News

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Two Chinese nationals -- one of them an illegal immigrant -- were arrested for allegedly shipping tens of millions of dollars' worth of sensitive microchips used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications to China, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The federal criminal complaint charges Chuan Geng, 28, of Pasadena, California, and Shiwei Yang, 28, of El Monte, California, with violating the Export Control Reform Act. Prosecutors said the felony offense carries a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.


New study reveals threats to the Class of 2025. Fixing them should be Job No. 1 for America

FOX News

FOX Business' Taylor Riggs joins'Fox & Friends' to discuss her take on the June jobs report, Democrats' attacks against the legislation and why they claim it will target Medicaid. This summer should be bringing the Class of 2025 a moment of well-deserved relaxation before they launch their careers. Instead, far too many college and high-school graduates are filled with anxiety. They've applied for dozens, perhaps hundreds, of jobs, but interviews and offers have become increasingly rare. The national unemployment rate for young adults aged 20 to 24 looking for work is 6.6% -- the highest level in a decade, excluding the pandemic unemployment spike.


Sentiment-Aware Recommendation Systems in E-Commerce: A Review from a Natural Language Processing Perspective

Gajula, Yogesh

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

E-commerce platforms generate vast volumes of user feedback, such as star ratings, written reviews, and comments. However, most recommendation engines rely primarily on numerical scores, often overlooking the nuanced opinions embedded in free text. This paper comprehensively reviews sentiment-aware recommendation systems from a natural language processing perspective, covering advancements from 2023 to early 2025. It highlights the benefits of integrating sentiment analysis into e-commerce recommenders to enhance prediction accuracy and explainability through detailed opinion extraction. Our survey categorizes recent work into four main approaches: deep learning classifiers that combine sentiment embeddings with user item interactions, transformer based methods for nuanced feature extraction, graph neural networks that propagate sentiment signals, and conversational recommenders that adapt in real time to user feedback. We summarize model architectures and demonstrate how sentiment flows through recommendation pipelines, impacting dialogue-based suggestions. Key challenges include handling noisy or sarcastic text, dynamic user preferences, and bias mitigation. Finally, we outline research gaps and provide a roadmap for developing smarter, fairer, and more user-centric recommendation tools.


How Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Became America's Point Woman on AI

TIME - Tech

Until mid-2023, artificial intelligence was something of a niche topic in Washington, largely confined to small circles of tech-policy wonks. That all changed when, nearly two years into Gina Raimondo's tenure as Secretary of Commerce, ChatGPT's explosive popularity catapulted AI into the spotlight. Raimondo, however, was ahead of the curve. "I make it my business to stay on top of all of this," she says during an interview in her wood-paneled office overlooking the National Mall on May 21. "None of it was shocking to me." But in the year since, even she has been startled by the pace of progress.


White House: Developers of 'powerful AI systems' now have to report safety test results to government

FOX News

The White House says "developers of the most powerful AI systems" will now have to report AI safety test results to the Department of Commerce in the wake of an executive order issued by President Biden aimed at "managing the risks" of the technology. The news comes as Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed is convening the White House AI Council on Monday, consisting of "top officials from a wide range of federal departments and agencies" who have reported completing 90-day actions and advancing other directives tasked by the order Biden signed last October, according to the White House. Among those actions was that they "[u]sed Defense Production Act authorities to compel developers of the most powerful AI systems to report vital information, especially AI safety test results, to the Department of Commerce," the White House said. "These companies now must share this information on the most powerful AI systems, and they must likewise report large computing clusters able to train these systems," the White House added. The White House announced Monday that companies that are working on the "most powerful AI systems" must now report "AI safety test results" to the Department of Commerce.


The New AI Panic

The Atlantic - Technology

For decades, the Department of Commerce has maintained a little-known list of technologies that, on grounds of national security, are prohibited from being sold freely to foreign countries. Any company that wants to sell such a technology overseas must apply for permission, giving the department oversight and control over what is being exported and to whom. These export controls are now inflaming tensions between the United States and China. They have become the primary way for the U.S. to throttle China's development of artificial intelligence: The department last year limited China's access to the computer chips needed to power AI and is in discussions now to expand them. A semiconductor analyst told The New York Times that the strategy amounts to a kind of economic warfare.


Senior Full Stack Engineer, Research Engineering at Forter - United Kingdom - London

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Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerful--it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company's connection with its customers. Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor where-- but who is behind the interaction. The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset.


Is the US government ready for the rise of artificial intelligence?

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An artificial intelligence boom is taking over Silicon Valley, with hi-tech firms racing to develop everything from self-driving cars to chatbots capable of writing poetry. Yet AI could also spread conspiracy theories and lies even more quickly than the internet already does – fueling political polarization, hate, violence and mental illness in young people. It could undermine national security with deepfakes. In recent weeks, members of Congress have sounded the alarm over the dangers of AI but no bill has been proposed to protect individuals or stop the development of AI's most threatening aspects. Most lawmakers don't even know what AI is, according to Representative Jay Obernolte, the only member of Congress with a master's degree in artificial intelligence.


After 50 Years of Hip-Hop, It's Time to Legalize the Idea at Its Core

Slate

This week marks the release, at long last, of De La Soul's 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising on music streaming services, along with most of their vital early catalog. It is, for fans of a certain generation, a bittersweet moment, coming as it does on a wave of grief over last month's sudden death of member Dave "Trugoy" Jolicoeur. It's hard to overstate the importance of 3 Feet High and Rising as an inflection point in the growth of hip-hop. The group's eccentric, bohemian aesthetic was a big reason that the genre's cultural tent expanded over the years, allowing more people to find their place within it. Crucially, the album's sound, sculpted largely by their producer Prince Paul, changed our expectations about what music itself could be: 24 riotous tracks--well-crafted songs interspersed with anarchic skits--made from hundreds of digital samples of sound from existing records.