news: A new document reveals that the US Department of Homeland Security is using Google and Adobe’s AI video generators to create and edit content shared with the public. The document, released Wednesday, provides a list of which commercial AI tools DHS uses for tasks ranging from drafting documents to managing cybersecurity.
why it matters: It comes as immigration agencies have flooded social media with content supporting President Trump’s mass deportation agenda — some of which appears to be created with AI — and workers in the tech sector have pressured their employers to condemn the agencies’ actions. Read the full story.
-James O’Donnell
How the sometimes-weird world of lifespan extension is gaining influence
-Jessica Hamzelau
For the past few years, I have been tracking the progress of a group of individuals who believe that death is humanity’s “main problem.” Simply put, they say death is wrong—for everyone. He has even said that it is morally wrong.
He founded what he considered a new philosophy and he called it vitalism.
However, vitalism is more than a philosophy – it’s a movement for hardcore longevity enthusiasts who want to make real progress in finding treatments that slow or reverse aging. Not only through scientific advances, but by convincing influential people to support their movement, and by changing laws and policies to open up access to experimental drugs. And they are starting to make progress.
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