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Microsoft's Chief Product Officer for Responsible AI, Sarah Bird, sat down at Build this week to make a pointed argument: most AI gone wrong isn't malicious, it's careless. Bird says the real culprit is experimentation that never stops to ask who gets hurt, and she's pushing a structured approach borrowed from NIST to change that culture from the inside out.
Shifting from software to steel, SpaceX has posted its thirteenth Starship flight test. The cadence alone tells a story — thirteen flights into what was once considered an impossibly complex vehicle, and the company is still iterating, still launching, treating rocket development the way a software team treats a product sprint. Each test is data, and the stack keeps flying.
And on a note that matters well beyond the tech industry, Japanese researchers have developed a method to recover up to ninety percent of lithium from used electric vehicle batteries. With Hacker News surfacing nearly three hundred points of community interest, the implications are significant — less mining pressure, longer supply chains, and a recycling loop that could quietly reshape how we think about the EV transition.
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