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-The New York Times reports that the White House may create a new working group to oversee AI development.

-Smartphone bans in the classroom might not be the panacea that governments and school administrations want them to be.

-Colin Angle, the guy who co-founded iRobot and helped put robot vacuums in millions of homes, just unveiled his new venture called Familiar Machines & Magic and it's making robots for companionship, and not for sweeping floors.
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Plus - Vibe coding just got a whole lot more adorable.
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-OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding.

-Meta has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup company that's building artificial intelligence for robots in order to "address critical challenges" in "high-value labor markets."

-On Friday, Reuters reported that AI-generated acting and writing won't be eligible for Academy Awards. The new rules from the Academy ​of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will take effect beginning with next year's presentation.
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Plus - Google has begun rolling out an update that gives its chatbot the ability to generate files directly from the prompt bar.
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