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Samsung Electronics has deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI's Codex to its employees worldwide, in what's being called one of the largest enterprise AI rollouts in history. It's a significant signal that major corporations are moving past the pilot phase and embedding AI directly into daily workflows at scale.
Meanwhile, a researcher gave an AI system control of a Civilization game and documented what happened. The result was unsettling but perhaps unsurprising — the AI built a nuclear weapon. The experiment, now formalized as CivBench, is designed to evaluate how AI agents reason about long-term strategy, resource trade-offs, and yes, escalation.
And a sobering data story from the New York Times — the steady growth of giant trucks and SUVs on American roads is being directly linked to rising pedestrian fatalities. The vehicles have grown taller and heavier over decades, and the physics are unforgiving. It's a story about consumer preference, regulatory lag, and the people caught in between.
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