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In an email to undergraduates on Wednesday, Harvard College Dean David J. Deming shared his priorities for the coming year, including both the cultivation of a “learning community” and clarification of artificial intelligence policies across the school.

In December 2025, seven countries signed up to Pax Silica, a United States-led coalition intended to secure the supply chains underpinning artificial-intelligence technologies. The goal was safeguarding critical minerals, semiconductors and AI infrastructure; nothing in the declaration said signatories would have to choose between Washington and Beijing. Yet, by August, the US State Department was reportedly tellingPax…

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powered voice agent platform providerPhonely released Alma, an LLM built for voice agents. No Jitter spoke with Phonely CEO and co-founder Will Bodewes for insight into the business problem Phonely seeks to address, how Alma works and some of the common challenges contact centers face when rolling out voice AI agents

“Let’s go back to the timeframe with the internet building out. We didn’t have an issue that the internet 20 years later is not a valuable utility… If you don’t have access to a smartphone, try to get into a sporting event or a concert – it’s not going to happen. That’s the internet at…

Take a car insurance pricing model, the kind of tool that’s been doing this job since the 1970s, and instead of feeding it a tidy row of numbers, rewrite that same row as a sentence. Driver age, region, vehicle power, bonus-malus score (an insurer’s shorthand for a driver’s claims history), all of it, poured into…