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OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane thinks the 2028 presidential election could be a defining moment for AI. And he wants politicians to start developing policies that address Americans’ concerns about the technology, rather than simply paying lip service to anti-AI sentiment and the backlash against data centers.
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Plus - Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth; Waymo confirms it will split with Uber in January 2028
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Plus - Apple Watch’s AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testing; Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search
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OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’; Ford launches a ‘privacy promise’ and explains how and why it uses customer data
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