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Ford has quietly reversed course on an AI experiment, rehiring human engineers after the technology failed to meet the company's quality standards. It's a grounding reminder that automation promises and shop-floor reality don't always align, and that some forms of expertise are harder to replicate than they first appear.
Shifting to social media, a new report is raising serious concerns about child safety tools on major platforms, finding that roughly half of the features designed to protect young users simply don't work as advertised. For parents who trusted those settings, that's not a technical footnote — it's a breach of something far more fundamental.
And Meta's newly appointed AI research chief, Dawn Song, is laying out her vision for where artificial intelligence goes next. She's pushing for agentic AI — systems capable of doing real economic work — while insisting the goal is to augment people, not displace them. Whether that framing holds up as these tools grow more capable is a question worth watching closely.
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