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The Royal Observatory in Greenwich is raising a flag over artificial intelligence, and it's not a celebratory one. Director Paddy Rodgers warned this week that instant AI answers risk trivialising human intelligence itself, pointing to the Observatory's centuries of hard-won knowledge as a reminder of what's lost when we outsource our thinking too readily.
From the question of minds to the question of markets, a piece circulating in business circles this week argues that AI is quietly dismantling the corporate org chart. The argument draws on Ronald Coase's old theory about why firms exist at all, suggesting that when AI can coordinate work cheaply enough, the traditional hierarchy simply stops making economic sense. It's a provocative idea, and one that's gaining traction.
And in the world of open-source hardware software, a developer has published a detailed technical case arguing that Bambu Lab's networking code in Bambu Studio violates the AGPL licence. The claim centers on how proprietary components interact with code that's supposed to remain open. It's a niche story, but for the maker and three-dee printing community, the implications around software freedom are anything but small.
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