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Fusion power usually conjures images of massive industrial facilities laced with large lasers or magnets, but a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been quietly building a device that can fit on a tabletop.

The company’s upscaling software is truly powerful when used in the right situations.

San Francisco-based startup Niobia is betting big on a critical but often overlooked part of battery and chip making: helping engineers understand how and why things go wrong. Its AI software flags production defects and lets engineers ask a chatbot what caused them, aiming to deliver answers in minutes rather than days.

Doug Field has worked on EVs at Ford and Tesla, the not-so-secret car project at Apple, and was employee No. 1 at Segway. Now, the executive is turning his attention to Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s latest project: Mind Robotics.

Facebook is the latest social media platform to give users greater control over the algorithmthat determines what appears in their feeds. 

If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. 

The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies now have new, gaping security holes in their systems or, at least, will soon.

Netflix will stream the 2030 FIFA World Cup in Spain and Andorra, which is the very first time the platform will broadcast the traditional World Cup. This isn’t just Netflix getting its mitts on a couple of matches. The streamer will show all 104 matches throughout the event, but again, only to viewers in Spain…

AppleCare+ is relatively inexpensive for the Apple Watch SE 3: $2.99 a month or $29.99 a year for the Theft and Loss plan. That’s much less than the average streaming subscription. The plan includes unlimited accidental damage incidents, along with battery service and up to two theft or loss claims per year.

It’s the centerpiece for Apple’s new push into the home, and it also seems like a great smart display.