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Personal AI agents are moving fast from concept to your bank account, and experts are urging caution. Tools like Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots are being marketed as helpful assistants, but handing over financial access and personal data to a chatbot introduces serious risks around security, manipulation, and accountability that most users haven't fully considered.
Shifting now to a story where technology and geopolitics collide — Elon Musk personally made the call to restrict Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starlink satellite network, according to sources familiar with the matter. That decision, made by a private individual running critical communications infrastructure, raises hard questions about who actually controls the tools of modern warfare and diplomacy.
And on a quieter but telling note, a Berkeley urban planning proposal is drawing attention for trying to solve a very human problem through design. The North Shattuck courtyard concept aims to create housing that genuinely works for families, not just singles, in a city where that balance has been nearly impossible to strike. It's a small proposal with a larger conversation behind it.
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