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OpenAI may be stepping into your living room. According to Bloomberg, the company is developing a smart speaker that lets you converse with ChatGPT. The screenless device would use a camera and sensors to read your environment — though the announcement comes amid a fresh lawsuit from Apple alleging OpenAI stole hardware secrets.
Meanwhile, the UK government is proposing a midnight curfew on social media for older teenagers, along with limits on algorithmic scrolling. Teens would be able to opt out of the restrictions, which has drawn criticism from campaigners who say the measures are too piecemeal to make a meaningful difference in young people's online lives.
And Germany has confirmed plans to deploy a high-energy laser weapon aboard naval vessels by twenty twenty nine. The system, developed by Rheinmetall and MBDA, has already logged more than one thousand validated shots during sea trials. A future one hundred kilowatt version is designed to intercept supersonic missiles at a cost of roughly one dollar per shot.
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