AI to make call center agents 'superheroes,' not unemployed, says industry CEO

Gartner says using AI to fix customer gripes could cost more than using humans by 2030
ai-pocalypse AI will not replace the people in the call center, but it will rejigger the software stack to make agents more capable of solving customer issues without the n…

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AI agents are hiring human 'meatspace workers' — including some scientists

Biologists, physicists and computer scientists have joined a platform called RentAHuman.ai to advertise their skills.

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Joscha Bach: "I had the feeling that his heart was dark"

Joscha Bach is currently the best-known German researcher named in the Epstein files. Now he speaks out: why he took Epstein’s money—and what he was like.

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Panic! At The Discord

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straigh…

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Google Links China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to Coordinated Defense Sector Cyber Operations

Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base (DIB) sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG).
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Zazie Beetz Says ‘We Need to Rally the Troops’ Against AI: ‘Get People Mad About It and Do Something’

Zazie Beetz spoke out against the proliferation of AI at the Berlin Film Festival press conference for Gore Verbinski’s new film “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” which tackles the hot topic with humor. The sci-fi adventure, which premieres on Friday night as…

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SAG-AFTRA & Studios End First Week Of Contract Talks In Silence. That’s Probably A Good Thing.

SAG-AFTRA has concluded its first week of contract talks with the major Hollywood studios, but both parties are keeping quiet about their progress at the bargaining table. Deadline understands that the actors union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Telev…

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FA Cup heroes Macclesfield make memories to last a lifetime

Macclesfield's FA Cup odyssey may have ended against Brentford but they have made memories to last a lifetime, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.

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Highguard Dev Bullied By Toxic Gamers Into Deleting Post About Toxic Gamers

People have only gotten more unhinged about Highguard after its studio's layoffs

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Pepsi's 2 New Sodas Are Finally on Shelves After Selling Out

It's a new cola era for PepsiCo.

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Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?

To fill the talent gap, CS majors could be taught to design hardware, and the EE curriculum could be adapted or even shortened.

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America's Pensions Can't Beat Vanguard but They Can Close Your Hospital

$6 trillion in patient capital, $60+ billion in annual fees, and the infrastructure that never gets built

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AI Is entering health care, and nurses are being asked to trust it

When alerts misfire or can’t explain themselves, nurses still carry the risk

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One stem cell generates 14 million tumor-killing NK cells in major cancer breakthrough

Scientists in China have unveiled a breakthrough way to mass-produce powerful cancer-fighting immune cells in the lab. By engineering early-stage stem cells from cord blood—rather than trying to modify mature natural killer (NK) cells—they created a streamlin…

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Will self-driving 'robot labs' replace biologists? Paper sparks debate

AI-driven autonomous robots are coming to biology laboratories, but researchers insist that human skills remain essential.

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Clinical-grade autonomous cytopathology through whole-slide edge tomography

This study presents a clinical-grade autonomous pipeline combining high-resolution whole-slide tomography, edge computing and artificial intelligence, achieving high accuracy in cervical cytology and enabling scalable and objective diagnostics.

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The integrated stress response promotes immune evasion through lipocalin 2

The transcription factor ATF4 and its effector lipocalin 2 (LCN2) have a key role in immune evasion and tumour progression, and targeting the ATF4–LCN2 axis might provide a way to treat several types of solid tumour by increasing anti-cancer immunity.

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Single-cell and isoform-specific translational profiling of the mouse brain

Post-transcriptional regulation of mRNA translation was explored using Ribo-STAMP and single-cell RNA sequencing to reveal cell-type-specific and isoform-specific translation patterns across hippocampal neuronal and non-neuronal cell types, highlighting …

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Can consciousness ever be understood — this side of death?

Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, plant biologists and novelists have all grappled with the mysteries of conscious experience, to an uncertain end.

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It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the love-hate (but mostly hate) relationship between Silicon Valley and Washington. I hope everyone got to celebrate George Washington's birthday in their preferred manner: skiing, stayc…

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