Designed to be the perfect person—always available, never critical—AI companions are hooking people deeper than social media ever could. They make the attention economy look like a relic.

a Saudi tech diplomat — Deemah Al-Yahya — is busy promoting a nascent alliance as a potential refuge from geopolitical tensions: Riyadh-based Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), an ...

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Under the Framework for AI Diffusion, 17 EU countries were designated ... no idea why we ended up in Tier 2,” said one European diplomat, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive talks.

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