In my first freelance story for @nytimes
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Ad Industry Debates AI Investment Strategy at Cannes
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Global Talent Crucial for American Innovation Leadership
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Innovation is not a zero sum game. Americans innovate better when working alongside the best and the brightest from around the world. Being a magnet for talent has historically been Silicon Valley's, and America's, biggest strength.
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MIT AI Self-Improvement and Today’s AI Breakthroughs
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Top stories in AI today: – MIT researchers teach AI to self-improve
– AI's human-like object understanding
– Decode video success patterns for better content
– Study reveals AI's hidden impact on children
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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UK Children’s AI Usage Reveals Digital Divide Between Schools
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The Alan Turing Institute just revealed an AI divide among UK kids
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 16 juin 2025
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—22% of children use AI
—Private schools: 52%, State schools: 18%
—Kids mostly use AI for creativity & learning
—Some also avoid AI over energy + water concernspic.twitter.com/bWpM7mtCXrThe Alan Turing Institute just revealed an AI divide among UK kids Key highlights: —22% of children use AI
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Blending Reality and Imagination for Fantastic AI Results
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Blending the best of reality and imagination often yields the most fantastic results pic.twitter.com/FxhmEYzUeo
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) 15 juin 2025Blending the best of reality and imagination often yields the most fantastic results
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Social Training and Community Dynamics in Online Spaces
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You individually train your followers by acknowledging behavior you like with friendly responses and discouraging what you don’t like. You also set the tone for follower on follower violence. Eg. I read your threads but avoid engaging because I feel you prefer me not to (which is
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Racial Stereotypes and Algorithmic Bias in AI Systems
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Unfortunately, we all look the same to them. But we’re not all good at math. So he can join that club with me and I can give him tips on how to cope.
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AI replaces social media marketers
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RIP social media marketers? You can now using any LLM like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral or DeepSeek to generate audience research, strategy plans, trend analysis, viral hooks, and full content calendars. Here’s the exact prompt we use personally to automate SMM:
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Collective consciousness and AI: emergence of digital entities
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I currently think that the esprit de place manifests in the minds of humans as collective selfs that use individual human consciousness to experience themselves, just like other gods
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Brain-level augmented reality reduced to scissors
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Realidad aumentada nivel cerebro galaxia 🎓
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 15 juin 2025
La tecnología moderna reducida a unas tijeras 🤣 pic.twitter.com/7bhxVobS33Realidad aumentada nivel cerebro galaxia La tecnología moderna reducida a unas tijeras