This is the script of my national network radio report yesterday on how #AI is causing massive shortages of memory chips, impacting a wide array of consumer products, and about pushback against AI around the country. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

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Yeah, so this is yet another example of the technological razor blade society is sliding down these days. Indeed smartphone shipments have had their biggest drop in more than 13 years, And of course, the cause is ... AI, yet again making people's lives miserable.

It all ties in to the construction of these massive data centers that are now despised around the country. This is especially true in the rural areas where the Big Tech AI companies can find unspoiled land that they can then spoil with air and noise pollution, destroying those communities, causing power rate increases, water shortages, homes being forcibly taken from their long-time owners -- you know the drill.

And what goes into those monstrous data centers? Lots of memory chips. So many chips for AI services -- that in many cases are wrecking our society -- that it has created enormous shortages that are affecting all manner of consumer products, including PCs, laptops, and many others, including, of course, smartphones.

Unsurprisingly, this shortage, which has pushed up memory chip prices by something like 300% in the last year or so, is most impacting lower and mid-range smartphones where they can make up over 65% of the total cost of materials. Meanwhile, the higher end units, for the folks that who afford to drop a grand or two on a super-fancy smartphone, aren't being affected as much since those users are typically not bothered by the resulting increases in the already premium prices.

Meanwhile, the hatred of AI as being pushed by Big Tech has spread across all sectors of the U.S. -- both political parties, independents, all age groups, all economic levels. At least 70% of Americans are fed up with AI. They don't want what large language model generative AI is offering: Misinformation, lost jobs, endless AI spam, AI scams and phishes to steal your money, vehicle surveillance tracking systems, chatbots involved in suicides and murders, AI Slop taking over social media, YouTube and seemingly everywhere else around the Net, burying worthwhile content under a deep sea of AI garbage.

And even as this topic has burst from being a techie issue to a mainstream society issue, with media stories everywhere about AI abuses, the politicians by and large still don't get it. The federal government criticized New York State when a few days ago they declared a one year moratorium on data center construction. Other states, red and blue are considering their own moratoriums or have already paused or blocked various data center projects that were likely to ruin communities.

Irrespective of what the pro-AI politicians say, the vast majority of people are now seeing through false Big Tech AI claims and are pushing back against those firms and the politicians who support them. And that movement is growing every day, all over the country, bringing together people on this issue who usually can't agree on much else.

Unfortunately, this isn't likely to help the memory chip shortage anytime soon. Current predictions suggest that shortages and crazy high prices for memory might last until 2030 or even beyond. We can hope that it turns out not to be that bad, but for now make sure that you don't drop your phone, because you might suffer serious sticker shock if you have to buy a new one anytime soon. And for that, we can thank AI.

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WILSON WINS, CALIFORNIA IS DECIDING STATE

#art #eu #chatcontrol #ai #news #bitcoin #linux #samaltman #openai

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Funhole Content Review

The European Parliament is exploring how it can best use #AI: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-european-parliaments-answer-to-its-ai-worries-more-ai/

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Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

- Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
- With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

AI advice made people #confident there're correct

- Baseline: 30%
- With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

#digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116946178813103516

One of the worst (but by far not the worst) effects of genAI as technology: Seeding doubt & distrust in the last remaining parts of shared reality and in people's creativity or their skills... So much brain rot and cognitive bias!

Having just spent half a day in the darkroom yesterday, mixing chems, preparing emulsions, test strips, refining tone curves, making prints, experimenting with toners and sharing some work-in-progress shots — this morning I was waking up to an accusation that I keep publishing AI generated images (this time supposedly the one below) and not label or CW them as such. WTF! So much for trying to hone an actual wetware skill/craft...

Apart from feeling pretty offended by that comment, I wonder how are makers supposed to address these insinuations? How many people are already sharing these doubts and how do they change perception and value/role of art in general? Do we need to document our process in ever greater detail as some form of "certificate of authenticity"? I feel the urge to upload more timelapses of my processing (analog and digital) or even RAW camera files to prove AI-free workflow or source materials... Some receipts are here (but also in my TL):

https://makertube.net/c/noircountry/videos

For my color photography, my editing is purposefully very lightweight and mostly limited to adjusting levels, minor color adjustments (e.g. for shots taken with polarization filter), cropping, resizing with sharpening (unsharp masking or Lanczos kernel). Since some of my older lenses have auto-focus issues, I use an old version of Topaz for denoising/sharpening, but only rarely and as subtly as possible. For B&W there's usually more layered/refined level/contrast editing & some masking... In general my mantra is to "get it (mostly) right in camera" and also have written about this previously:

https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116635793094198883

#AI #Photography #Darkroom #PrintMaking #FineArt

Rental scams: recognize the red flags #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/rental-scams-recognize-the-red-flags/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Public-key cryptography #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/public-key-cryptography/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

As the saying goes, everything is a remix. There is no such thing as an original thought. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news for those who feel this – or a form of creativity – is what separates humans from LLMs, from stochastic parrots.

👉https://substack.com/profile/43480121-bry-willis/note/c-298478111?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

👉 https://iai.tv/video/memes-minds-and-the-myth-of-control

👉https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NLBQOJmJ3K8

#philosophy #selfhood #creativity #video #blog #identity #originality #humanity #exceptionalism #hubris #strawson #althusser #wilde #quote #ai #llms #intelligence #cognition

'Grok Build' #Coding Tool Open Sourced This Week, Promises to Respect Zero Data Retention
> and what is a promise from #ElonMusk to protect privacy worth ?

#security #privacy #grok #ai

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/19/034258/grok-build-coding-tool-open-sourced-this-week-promises-to-respect-zero-data-retention?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

The #ACLU Is Arming #Lawyers to Expose State #Surveillance #Secrets

A new toolkit for #attorneys in #Massachusetts targets the technologies #police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
#ai #facialrecognition #security

https://www.wired.com/story/the-aclu-is-arming-lawyers-to-expose-state-surveillance-secrets/

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Van Jacobson and congestion control #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/van-jacobson-and-congestion-control/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Update on my paper that was uncited by generative AI: The PLOS Publication Ethics Team responded to our email, confirming they are looking into the matter and providing a case number, which I won’t share here for confidentiality reasons. If you’d like to help increase visibility on the original post to support the review process, please check my LK profile.

#ai #llm #research #acdenic #walkability #pedestrian #quantum #urbansystem

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A screenshot of a social media post by Korawich Kavee, PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The post text reads, "I discovered yesterday that a paper in PLOS ONE has an alarming amount of overlap with one of mine from 2023, yet not a single citation was given. It’s possible their ChatGPT or other LLM referenced our work but hallucinated and failed to cite the correct source. My co-author (my advisor) and I have just emailed PLOS with details of the overlap, and we hope this doesn't get ignored. #Boost welcome and especially in #academic circle". Included in the post is a screenshot of an academic webpage featuring the title "Street-Level Urban Gravity: A Quantum System Approach to Human Centered Urban Space Design" by authors Korawich Kavee and Katherine Flanagan, with an overlapping text fragment that reads "...inspired pedestrian mobility modeling: Applying spatial simulation to urban walkability and comfort in Sri Lanka". The bottom of the post shows "Zia Lyle, PhD and 40 others", "3 comments", and "5 reposts".

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"Odyssey" director Christopher Nolan gives his two-cents on AI technology and how it relates to a scene from his latest film.
 https://flip.it/HjgJ._

#Odyssey #AI #ChristopherNolan

Up to five million homes could be powered by the electricity needed for Meta's data center. Silicon Valley's AI boom is now being followed by a data-center age, one that demands enormous amounts of energy and other resources.

The Atlantic's Matteo Wong looks into how the "business of tech companies is more like oil-refining than coding."
https://flip.it/.VAGpj

#AI #DataCenter #SiliconValley

Just a little something that happened

#filmmaking #animation #blender3d #moriasrace #freesoftware #openmovie #hardwork #art #mastoart #ai #aislop #stopai

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A story about the work on the project "Moria's Race". After 10 hours physical labor job. Everyday, for 4 hours straight. Not leaving any free time for anything else. I was making a movie project. And then somebody tried to claim I used AI. I was angry.

Another bizarre Grok Korean translation involving Tomodachi Life 🫠

Despite Grok embarrassing the company on a global scale with sex-themed translations involving the game, no one has added a parameter to Grok that 친모아 (Chin-mo-a) does not mean stepmother, it means #TomodachiLife.

A 🧵 on what happened and why these translation fails are actually important...

#machinelearning #ai #grok #elonmusk

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A screenshot of an X post featuring a video capture of Tomodachi Life being played in Korean by user @binbotsundoku. The screenshot features a cutesy, female-appearing character with pink ponytails and red eyes wearing a schoolgirl uniform. Grok has translated the post text as: "While doing stepmom stuff, my period came."

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The same Tomodachi Life screenshot as in the first image but with the X user's post in the original Korean. It reads: "친모아 하다가 정병옴," or "Chinmoa hadaga jeongbyeong-om."

Cua is an open-source framework for building AI agents that can interact with desktop applications across Windows, macOS, Linux, and even Android.

It includes cross-platform computer-use drivers, isolated sandboxes, and benchmarking tools for training and evaluating autonomous agents, making it a great project for developers exploring AI-powered desktop automation.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=cua

#OpenSource #AI #AIAgents #Automation #LLM #Windows #Linux #macOS #Android

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Screenshot of the Cua project page in dark mode. A large koala logo appears above the tagline: "Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation." Below are buttons linking to the Cua website, Discord server, X account, and documentation. A badge at the bottom highlights Cua as the "#1 Repository of the Day" on GitHub Trending.

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@stux

SHAME !!! WARNING WARNING.

#AI #DataCentre #dataCenter

@elsua54 @NebulaTide @mariafarrell

The time, space, money we don't see and what is not given is also by #DeliberateByDesign.

It is increasingly necessary to also to be #bad / copy #AI etc as part of the ways set by the #system itself - including missing options / lack of real care for people and basically all things to cut corners / "save" time and #caring in their own skewed #profit logic.

Would we have the current #AI fiasco if we had actually struck down #uber and #airbnb in their infancies?

It seems like they pioneered the modern tech asshole paradigm of "explicitly break any laws in the way, and ask forgiveness rather than permission once you get big enough that the state is afraid to step in with more than a wristslap."

LLMs rightfully should be the same class of novelty as print-on-demand kiosks- a nifty tech demo that can't scale past toy uses due to IP reality.

This Sunday-morning-in-europe I am just going to briefly opine on Minsky and Papert's #Perceptrons ( #bookstodon ) and leak disspiriting nz government secrets about how nz's #AI #strategy is going by way of illustration (and #original #news #journalism I guess), from a multifarious handful of senior employees from different regions and departments / crown corporations.

https://toobnix.org/w/ayXvcND3PWuHVqB3gx9Ngm

#commonLisp on #irc #live #liveNOW

#lispyGopherClimate ! Every week since 2022 #technology #podcast .

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The lispy gopher climate banner featuring a post with Erik Sandewall's face on it and "MAKE AI THINK". Amoung things, gophers, lisp aliens.

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Anyone else here use LLMs as an interactive scratch pad just to bounce ideas off of and get the juices flowing?

What about generating maps, charts, and player handouts?

What has your experience been like?

#ttrpg #ai #llms

"Europe wasted no time using its landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA) to try to rein in Big Tech. Companies like Apple, Meta, and Google have faced steep fines and orders to modify their business practices since the law came into force in 2024. And the hits keep on coming for Big Tech in Europe. After several months of consideration, the European Commission has announced new DMA measures that will force Google to support interoperability and competition in the European Union, and Google is not happy about it.

The new “specification measures” cover two elements of Google’s business: Android phones and search. Both changes could theoretically increase competition and give users more choices, but Google claims they will undermine privacy and security. But as a “gatekeeper” under the DMA, Google has no choice but to comply. As the European Commission points out in its announcement, these decisions are legally binding.

On Android, Google will have to open up access to competing AI platforms. Currently, Google’s Gemini gets preferential access to the system. Gemini is preloaded on all Google-certified Android phones and can wake up in response to the “Hey Google” hot word. Google’s AI also includes system and app automation features, screen content access, and more.

“Third-party AI assistants are therefore limited in how they can offer their innovative services, making them less attractive to 60% of EU users who have an Android device,” the Commission said in its press release."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/its-official-eu-will-force-google-to-share-search-data-and-open-up-ai-on-android/

#EU #Google #BigTech #DMA #Android #AI #Interoperability #Oligopolies #Competition #Antitrust

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@mgorny #AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down, and that’s why wankers love 💕 it *so much!*

#Resist #AIslop and #botshit.

So.. I had a minipiphany about all the quantum not ready stuff..

Maybe Im wrong.. but..
To create quantum systems requires some pretty hefty technology. Most need cooled to a few degrees kelvin.

This level of tech isnt readily available to script kiddies and yes, tech and time marches on, but for at least a good while this is state and monolith size.

So all the noise about quantum breaking encryption and such is really warnings about how the tech overlords cant be trusted.

#randomness
#AI

Different nations. Different cultures. Different beliefs.

Yet ordinary people everywhere are facing the same expanding systems: digital identity, programmable finance, surveillance, automated governance and increasingly powerful AI.

This lecture is not designed to divide the world into sides. It is an invitation to recognise what we share.

Watch it. Verify it. Share it across borders.

#Humanity #DigitalFreedom #AI #Surveillance #DigitalID

Same people who are very strict about their #copyright train #AI disregarding everybody's copyright, to make us all say "We love copyright"...

Are the same people that made the climate change, to make us say "We love ICE".

#ICE #uspol #trickery

Here's a big part of the reason* I don't use so-called #AI to write code for me: I actually enjoy writing code. I wouldn't offload this task to AI for the same reason I wouldn't use it to go for a walk in the woods, or eat a delicious meal for me. Why would any sane** person do this?

* It's not the only reason, but this is a fedi post, not an essay.

** This post should in no way be considered as me claiming to be sane. 🙃

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Louis Pouzin and the datagram revolution #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/louis-pouzin-and-the-datagram-revolution/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Only a fool would deny that... I'm getting tired of all this anti-AI bullshit. It's just a very efficient automation tool with specific affordances that can be well used or badly used. OK, there are still some hiccups in terms of efficiency but this is mostly an engineering problem together with an illiteracy problem from the part of some users.

"The Star Wars director, George Lucas, has added his voice to the growing chorus of film-makers receptive to the rising use of AI tools in moviemaking.

Speaking in an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas, 82, said: “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies.”

Resistance to the technology, he said, was “very much like sitting here saying: ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’”

Adoption of such tools, continued Lucas, was an inevitability. “There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”

Lucas is not the only director of a Star Wars film to have come out in favour of AI. The British film-maker Gareth Edwards, who made Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and most recently Jurassic World Rebirth said generative AI “is a fucking genius at helping you”."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts

#AI #GenerativeAI #Luddites #NeoLuddites #AntiAI #Film #Movies #Cinema

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@MichaelRoss
I would also stay far away from it. Accountability of software is an important factor in automation. Things that can't be trusted should not be given permissions it can't handle.

To use a famous quote: "With great power comes great responsibility"

#ai

@MichaelRoss
I wouldn't trust it for anything.

A scripted inventory management system will show traceable and reproducible results. Anything a LLM agent does will not be reproducible and is impossible to audit.
#ai

Reading in a hobbyist magazine the phrase "Google AI says" where they cite it like an authority, with absolutely no references. Gahhhhh 😟

(Not any better than "a random Internet website" or "a random Google search" or "the dude at the bar said")

#AI #Aipocalypse

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Disney has quietly premiered its first AI-produced series.

Ozzy Fox, a preschool show created for Disney Jr. in collaboration with Animaj, has already surpassed 800,000 views on YouTube just 2 days after its debut.

The release marks another major step in the growing use of AI-assisted production in animation.

What do you think about AI being used to create animated series?

#Disney #AI #Animation #OzzyFox

⚠️ DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns

The attached #video details the absolute #privacy horror of LG #television and #monitor products, that install #adware without consent, have #AI integration, and a horrible privacy policy..

> LG recently forced upon us an app install loaded with #McAfee adware through a #Windows update. We found that this has been happening to tons of users, made worse by LG's shady history with #TV's that instruct buyers to inform house visitors of third-party microphones in their living room. At no point in the adware or application install did LG or Microsoft ask us for consent or permission to install the software and enable its various permissions. On monitors ranging 1 day old in our office to 3 years old, we've been able to replicate these issues -- including on the LG 34GX900A-B that we just bought (and have now returned, following #spyware concerns).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM

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Excerpt from LG privacy policy reading: i. CONSENT REQUIREMENT: You acknowledge and agree that it is your sole responsibility to obtain all necessary consents from any third parties whose voices may be captured by the Productand to notify household members and guests their their voices may be captured and processed, in compliance with the applicable wiretapping, eavesdropping, and privacy laws.

For fuck's sake!

Mass surveillance authorized on NC highways, all other state roads

https://www.wral.com/news/nccapitol/surveillance-drivers-camera-alpr-license-plate-reader-nc-budget-public-safety-privacy-july-2026/

#NC #Flock #AI #Camera #Surveillance #Privacy #Tech

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#Linux #AI #OpenSource

Solarpunk Magazine announced that they suspect two stories from their last issue were a) written by the same person and b) were done using AI. Reflecting on that issue, I felt like there was something off about the two stories. They felt like they lacked some spark. The stories felt too similar. Like they were solarpunk pastiches with just the right mix of elements to make it recognizable.

Additionally, I tried looking up one of the authors and I found almost no footprint anywhere online. An author with zero social media or online presence?! Possible in this sort of community but highly unlikely to have NOTHING.

Great that they magazine took accountability for it and I hope to read more wonderful, human created stories about the future.

https://solarpunkmagazine.com/we-unknowingly-published-ai-slop-and-were-taking-accountability/

#Solarpunk #Clifi #Bookstodon #Fiction #SolarpunkMagazine #AI #Writing #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SSF

“PLEASE USE AI” — poem by Joanna Atkins-Potts

Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DZaR5o_iKNy/

#ai #Poetry #Poem

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PLEASE USE AI Please use AI when your mother dies. Ask it what grief feels like. Let it explain bereavement in twelve clear bullet points. Do not spend years finding her in the supermarket by the tomatoes she always bought, in the smell of rain on warm pavement, discovering new ways to miss her.

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Please use AI the next time you fall in love. Ask it how to know whether someone is the one. It will give you a faster answer than watching a person become familiar, learning how they take their tea, which floorboards will wake them, how their silence sounds when something is wrong.

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And please use AI for your wedding vows, your eulogies, your apologies. Why struggle for the right words when a machine can give you beautiful ones? Words untouched by shaking hands. Words that have never sat beside a hospital bed. Words that have never known the terrible privilege of having something to lose.

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Meanwhile I will be over here watching someone I love fall asleep on the sofa, the television talking to itself, rain tapping the windows, the dog twitching in her dreams, wasting my life on these small unremarkable moments that become, without asking permission, the whole thing.

China's Moonshot AI launched its largest model ever — and rival AI stocks plunged.

@quartz reports: "Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, outperformed several leading U.S. systems on some benchmarks while pricing below top-tier American rivals."

https://flip.it/v2.ABK

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

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#ArtificialConsciousness: Why Current #AI Presents Us with the Perfect #Illusion

It’s a state-of-the-art assessment somewhere at the intersection of #neurophilosophy, #cybernetics, and the slightly uncomfortable question of whether we’re actually striving for #AC/DC or merely losing ourselves in a perfect anthropomorphic #simulation.

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Artificial Consciousness - head with numbers

The Google DMA ruling forces Android to open core access to rival AI assistants and share search data by 2027, sparking privacy and security warnings.

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