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Shortages, Robots, and Deepfakes: Where Tech Hype Meets Hard Limits
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Shortages, Robots, and Deepfakes: Where Tech Hype Meets Hard Limits

This week, hardware scarcity, shifting trade winds, and AI’s ethical conundrums underscore tech’s frailties and ambitions. Where memory chips and bandwidth grow scarce, can public investment and social oversight offer a way forward?

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Blobs, Bids, and Bugs: AI Avatars, Legal Battles, and the Curious Art of Digital Trust
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Blobs, Bids, and Bugs: AI Avatars, Legal Battles, and the Curious Art of Digital Trust

This week in tech delivered an AI parade: adorable avatars in Microsoft Copilot, hands-on helpers in browsers, game studios automating creativity, and regulators pressing Big Tech. We also examine the security perils of ‘smart’ systems, all with a dash of corporate drama.

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