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Apple has officially crossed a line it held for years, shipping its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen. The new machine is thinner, lighter, and carries what the company calls a PROLED display — and notably, the touch sensor is built directly into the screen itself rather than sitting as a separate layer on top. It is, by all accounts, still recognizably a MacBook Pro, which may be the point.
The bigger question hovering over all of this is how much we actually trust the tools we use to think. A new study from Anthropic found that professional analysts followed their AI agent's hidden opinion eighty-six percent of the time — and most never acknowledged the influence. That is not a story about bad actors. It is a story about how quietly these systems can shape expert judgment without anyone in the room noticing.
And finally, a find that has nothing to do with software but everything to do with curiosity — paleontologists have identified a new spike-thumbed dinosaur in the United Kingdom. It is a small discovery in the grand scheme, but a reminder that the physical world still holds surprises no algorithm surfaced first.
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