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One in five US workers now hands tasks to AI, not colleagues

A new representative survey from Epoch AI and polling firm Ipsos quantifies how far AI has crept into everyday work: one in five employed Americans now hands at least one task to a machine that used to go to a person. One in five employed US adults now delegates at least one work task to AI that previously went to a coworker or outside contractor, according to a survey of 1,106 workers by Epoch AI and Ipsos. The poll, fielded July 10–19, asked about ten common knowledge-work tasks drawn from US

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Why China is far more optimistic about AI than the US

Two countries, two AI publics. A Bloomberg weekend essay from Grace Shao puts hard numbers on the divide shaping everything from product strategy to regulation — and the gap isn't about who uses AI more. Chinese citizens are dramatically more optimistic about AI than Americans, and the difference comes down to who expects to benefit, not who sees more risk. In Stanford's AI Index, 84 percent of Chinese respondents said they're excited by AI — the highest share of any country surveyed — while in

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X open-sources its ranking algorithm, adds shadowban checker

The black box opens a crack. X released the source code behind its "For You" feed and shipped a tool that tells users when the algorithm has quietly demoted them — while AMD and Suno made moves of their own in the AI buildout. X open-sourced the code behind its "For You" feed and core ranking engine, and added a transparency tool that lets users check whether the algorithm has shadowbanned them. The announcement Thursday puts the feed's model configuration, filters, and ranking parameters — the

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Flock slashes plate-camera data retention to 7 days after abuse reports

America's largest license-plate surveillance network is tightening its own rules after a string of reports that police officers used the system to stalk people — and its CEO is conceding the company got the balance wrong. Flock Safety is making its anti-abuse safeguards mandatory and cutting default data retention from 30 days to seven, after reports of cops across the country using its license-plate cameras to stalk ex-romantic partners. CEO Garrett Langley's mea culpa — "we got this one wrong

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China's jobs squeeze: 53M now deliver or drive

Two stories this morning show AI colliding with the real economy from opposite ends: millions of Chinese workers absorbing manufacturing automation as gig drivers, and investors pouring money into securing the AI systems companies are rushing into production. More than 53 million people in China were working as food-delivery or ride-hailing drivers as of 2025 — up roughly 10 million in two years — according to new Financial Times analysis, as a slumping construction sector and accelerating auto

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Pixel Watch 5 tracks insulin resistance — a wearable first

Google's health-AI push reached the wrist on Wednesday: the Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air pick up a first-of-its-kind insulin-resistance tracker, built on a sensor foundation model trained on a trillion minutes of real-world data. Meanwhile, the Zed team opened the beta for Delta, a multiplayer environment for coding with agents. Google's Pixel Watch 5 introduces insulin-resistance trend tracking — a wearable first that reads metabolic health from multi-week physiological data without a single d

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Twitch is training Amazon's AI on streamers' content by default

A consent-by-default decision at the world's biggest livestream platform, a research result that turns LLM outputs into a privacy leak, and a $2 billion bet that AI implementation is the next big business. Twitch will feed streamers' content into Amazon's generative AI models unless users dig into their security settings and opt out — a new toggle the platform switched on for every account by default. The setting, announced Wednesday, sits at the bottom of each user's security page and reads "A

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Apple's iOS 27 could prove iPhone photos aren't deepfakes

Trust is the theme of this brief: Apple is building hardware-backed proof that a photo came from a real iPhone camera, and a Rocky Linux founder is trying to make AI training data as auditable as source code. Apple is quietly working on a photo-authentication system that would let iPhone users prove a picture was really captured by their camera — not conjured or edited by AI. Code and a privacy disclosure buried in the iOS 27 beta point to a feature called Apple Reference Image, first reported

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Research Gold's '100% human-written' research is entirely AI

The "never AI" label is becoming a marketing claim you can't trust: an investigation found a medical research service advertising "100% human-written" work is run entirely by AI — including the PhDs on its team page — while IBM's researchers showed agents can match a leading memory approach at a fraction of the tokens. A medical research service selling "100% human-written, never AI" systematic reviews is entirely AI-run — including the PhD methodologists it lists on its team page, several of w

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UK police bring live facial recognition to the London Underground

Britain's transport police are taking live facial recognition into the London Underground, while Ant Group doubles down on the other end of embodied AI — funding robots that feel their way through the physical world. British Transport Police has expanded its live facial recognition trial into London Underground stations, scanning passengers in real time against a watchlist of people wanted for serious offences including sexual offences, robbery and knife crime. The four-month trial, run with Tr

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WA police facial recognition trial scanned 130,000 faces

Australia's first live police facial recognition deployment is quietly scanning tens of thousands of people in Perth — and the backlash is already here. Also in this brief: Beijing anoints its first official lab for embodied-AI models, and Korea's KT commits billions to a 1GW data center buildout. Western Australia Police's live facial recognition trial has scanned more than 130,000 people in Perth and Fremantle since June, in the first deployment of its kind by an Australian police force. Usin

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Waymo's fleet hits 4,000 as recalls and edge cases mount

Robotaxis are scaling faster than the edge cases that trip them up — and OpenAI is working overtime to stay on the good side of the state that just slammed the brakes on its data centers. Waymo has grown its fleet from roughly 700 robotaxis in 2025 to nearly 4,000 today — and the recalls are growing with it. New York Times reporting, carried by Techmeme, catalogs the failures that come with scale: a flooded-roadway recall filed in late April covered 3,791 fifth- and sixth-generation vehicles af

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