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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling for a pause on AI expansion, writing Saturday that the industry needs to, quote, step back and assess the trust architecture of AI. His call for an emergency brake signals growing unease even among the people building these systems, and suggests the pace of deployment may finally be outrunning confidence.
Shifting to sport and technology intersecting in an interesting way, CBC Sports is broadcasting the Canada Super Sixty Cricket League final tonight, with the Toronto Sixers taking on the Vancouver Anchors at BC Place. The league represents a broader push to grow cricket audiences in North America using broadcast infrastructure that was once reserved almost exclusively for hockey and football.
And from the conflict in Yemen, the Houthi movement has released drone footage it claims shows strikes on Saudi-backed government forces. The video underscores how consumer and military drone technology has fundamentally changed the information war, giving non-state actors a powerful tool not just on the battlefield but in the global court of public opinion.
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