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Ban on Chinese robots leaves U.S. startups stranded

Rest of World4d ago

The U.S. government is forcing a rapid onshoring of robotics through a sweeping ban on foreign-made robots, even before an American supply chain exists, putting at risk the very robotics startups...

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Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet

Rest of World8d ago

For decades, Mozilla has been one of the strongest advocates for an open internet. Today, as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly central to how businesses and governments operate, the...

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Arizona wants Taiwan’s investors to think beyond chips

Rest of World13d ago

In July, I sat among roughly 100 people in a packed conference room in Taipei as a speaker highlighted the industrial parks and tax rates of an American city nearly 7,000 miles away.

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Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution

Rest of World16d ago

At the turn of the millennium, India became the global hub for medical transcription. With fiber optic cables laid in the 1990s, American hospitals found it cheap and efficient to beam voice files...

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