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Cloudflare’s AI push, UK face-scan fallout, China’s brain-tech drive · 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: September 1st,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to News Lit Daily,
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  expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to
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  supercharge your
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  SPEAKER_00: mornings.
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  In today's edition,
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  Cloudflare's CEO wants to save the web from AI's oligarchs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's why his plan isn't crazy.
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  Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is pushing a pay-per-crawl system
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  to make AI firms
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  SPEAKER_00: compensate publishers,
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  SPEAKER_00: arguing that chatbots threaten the web's economic model.
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  SPEAKER_00: With its reach, Cloudflare could force Google and others to negotiate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scan-your-face laws for the web are having unexpected consequences.
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  New UK age verification rules requiring IDs or face scans have
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  driven users away
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  SPEAKER_00: from compliance sites toward those ignoring the law,
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  SPEAKER_00: raising privacy,
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  SPEAKER_00: cost,
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  SPEAKER_00: and enforcement challenges while similar measures spread in the US.
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  SPEAKER_00: China is building a brain-computer interface industry.
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  China has released a roadmap to accelerate brain-computer
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  interface development,
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  SPEAKER_00: aiming for breakthroughs by 2027 and a competitive industry by 2030,
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  SPEAKER_00: with applications spanning healthcare,
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  SPEAKER_00: consumer devices,
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  SPEAKER_00: and industrial safety.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cutting-edge AI was supposed to get cheaper.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's more expensive than ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Despite early predictions of falling costs,
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  training and running advanced AI systems is becoming
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  increasingly expensive,
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  straining startups and consolidating the field around the
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  largest tech companies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mercedes-AMG reveals futuristic tech behind record-breaking journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mercedes-AMG's Concept GTXX circled the globe in just over seven days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Powered by axial flux motors,
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  SPEAKER_00: direct-cooled batteries,
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  SPEAKER_00: and advanced aerodynamics,
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  SPEAKER_00: technologies now set to influence upcoming AMG production models.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.