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That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks

UL's been around for more than 100 years; it started as a way for insurance companies to standardize fire and safety testing as electricity was the new technology spreading into homes. But now it's everywhere, and "safety" in tech doesn't just mean the hardware.

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human trust and acceptance may matter as much as technical breakthroughs in determining when robots become part of daily life

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Actual data showing that young children sometimes feel more comfortable being read to or reading to a robot than a human being. It's less stressful for them.

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FULL BREAKDOWN: Why Oracle's Stock is Exploding

Compute is still growing exponentially. But AI adoption curves often look like S-curves... there's going to be deceleration. So OpenAI shot up to basically a billion MAU, monthly active users... that curve is slowing down. There's just no way you can be like, yeah, actually, we're expecting 10 billion ChatGPT users next year because there aren't 10 billion people.