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Margaret Atwood is never one to hold back, and at the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal, she didn't. The Handmaid's Tale author weighed in on artificial intelligence with a phrase that cuts straight to the core: garbage in, garbage out. It's an old computing maxim, but Atwood's point lands with fresh weight — AI systems are only as thoughtful as the material they're trained on, and that's a human problem before it's a technical one.
On the subject of AI's financial trajectory, some voices in Chinese hedge funds are sounding an alarm, warning that what they're calling a super bubble in artificial intelligence may be approaching a breaking point. Bloomberg reports that fund managers are growing skeptical that current valuations can be sustained, raising questions about whether the industry's ambitions have outpaced its actual returns.
And on a quieter note from tech history, a deep dive into the Videx VideoTerm card reminds us how a single piece of hardware transformed the Apple Two from a hobbyist toy into a legitimate business machine. Eighty columns of text on one screen changed everything — sometimes the smallest cards carry the biggest stories.
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