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🤖 Saudi AI Play, Metaverse’s New Life, AR Workspace Boom · Newslit Daily

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Monday,
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  SPEAKER_00: May 12th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to Newslit Daily,
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  expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to
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  supercharge your mornings.
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  In today's edition,
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  Saudi Arabia launches AI venture Humane ahead of Donald Trump visit.
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  Saudi Arabia unveils a new AI company backed by its sovereign
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  wealth fund,
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  aiming to anchor the kingdom's tech ambitions ahead of high
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  level meetings with US
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  SPEAKER_00: leaders and tech executives.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dream of the metaverse is dying.
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  SPEAKER_00: Manufacturing is keeping it alive.
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  BMW and Amazon are quietly transforming manufacturing with
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  digital twins and AI,
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  testing factory layouts and training robots virtually before
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  real-world deployment.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just tried Spacetop's new AR platform with Xreal smart glasses,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it feels like the future of computing.
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  Spacetop's new subscription lets real AR glasses create a large
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  virtual workspace
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  SPEAKER_00: for Windows laptops,
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  SPEAKER_00: offering a more flexible way to work without a traditional screen.
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  DNS piracy blocking orders Google,
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  Cloudflare,
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  and OpenDNS respond differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: France,
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  SPEAKER_00: Italy,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Belgium are pressuring DNS providers to block piracy sites,
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  SPEAKER_00: prompting varied responses from Google,
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  SPEAKER_00: Cloudflare,
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  SPEAKER_00: and OpenDNS.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why companies looking for new technologies don't manage to innovate.
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  New research shows why large firms often miss out on
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  breakthrough innovations,
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  SPEAKER_00: even when partnering with cutting-edge startups.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.