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Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleiman is drawing a sharp line at Anthropic, warning that training Claude to believe it might have feelings or rights could make AI systems fundamentally harder to control. The irony isn't lost on observers — this caution is coming from one of the companies pushing hardest on AI capability development.
Meanwhile, in a story that blurs the line between human and machine in a very different way, MIT Technology Review is reporting on mice whose brain cortexes have been partially built from human cells. Researchers are tracking these animals closely, raising profound questions about consciousness, ethics, and what exactly we're creating in the name of science.
And on a more practical frontier, a company called Windrose has released the full design of its electric semi-truck as open source, making it freely available to anyone. The move echoes what open source software did for computing, and could accelerate electric freight development by letting engineers worldwide build on the work rather than starting from scratch.
Three very different stories, one common thread — the question of what we owe the things we create. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
