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Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you). With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve that.

The NHL Is Releasing Its Own ‘Hot’ Fanfic. Romance Lovers Hate It. The league is releasing romance-style audio stories to promote games. Critics say it’s cheap pandering that doesn’t address toxic masculinity in the sport.

These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open. Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior.

Power 25 Marketers and Advertisers: From Sales to Creative to Measurement, These Leaders Drive the Business of Madison Avenue. Even people who have been around the block a few times on Madison Avenue find themselves sometimes having to ask for directions. The art and science of promoting goods and services to consumers has grown so complex in recent years that it often seems to require a PhD in data science as well as a […].

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to become Skydance. The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6.