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"Sue Bird was my vet."

In an interview with @ElaheIzadi at the Global Women’s Summit, WNBA champion and Olympic medalist @breannastewart discussed the women who have inspired her and the importance of lifting up the next generation of players.

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In a @postlive interview, @GovSherrillNJ addressed the attempts to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Sherill added that Democrats should connect their efforts to hold the Trump administration accountable to affordability. “I would suggest that, in large part, the corruption that you attack has to be related to costs,” Sherrill said.

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In a conversation with @washingtonpost Executive Editor Matt Murray, @AriEmanuel talked candidly about the fears over AI, the need for government guardrails and his views of Sam Altman.

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What’s more effective - texting or calling? “When I'm calling somebody, I don't only just call them. I FaceTime them because I want to see the person,” @AriEmanuel said in a @washingtonpost interview with Executive Editor @murraymatt.

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Does Elon Musk have too much power? Hear what @AriEmanuel told Matt Murray in an interview with @washingtonpost Executive Editor Matt Murray.

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Film critic Ann Hornaday wrote hundreds of @washingtonpost reviews over more than two decades. She also interviewed numerous actors and directors for Washington Post Live. Here’s an exchange between Ann and Meryl Streep following the release of “The Post,” Steven Spielberg’s film about the paper's handling of the Pentagon Papers. Ann died Oct. 18 at her home in Baltimore.

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Saronic CEO @MavrookasD discussed how the U.S. can stay ahead of China’s naval expansion. “How do you completely de-man ships and boats and give the Navy capability with zero people? That's how you actually move the needle,” Mavrookas told @jameshohmann of @PostOpinions.

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"How can we bring along people to see that they can be a part of the robotic revolution?"
In a conversation with @IgnatiusPost at the AI Edge Summit, @Geckorobotics CEO Jake Loosararian (@jakeloosy) discussed how AI is giving industrial workers in Pittsburgh and Appalachia tools to outpace traditional manufacturing.

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At the AI Edge Summit, @BrookingsInst President Cecilia Elena Rouse argued that society has a choice on whether AI replaces or complements people in the labor market. "If you look at the introduction of Excel, you would have expected that to displace accountants. But what it did is lower the cost of getting help," Rouse told Juliet @Eilperin.

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Newsmakers. Insights. Robots. The AI Edge Summit had it all!

Catch up on full sessions here: https://t.co/I6lnQY9Sz9

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In a conversation for the Building America series, @GlobalFoundries executive chairman Tom Caulfield unpacked the power of quantum computing. Areas where classic computing would take "decades," quantum computing "could do it in hours, maybe a day," Caulfield told futures editor Zachary @Goldfarb.

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In a @PostLive conversation, Brian Stone of the @nsfgov talked about the inflection point in quantum computing. "Quantum computing is going to be another element of our computing structure," Stone told @Cat_Zakrzewski of @washingtonpost.

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In a @postlive conversation, @CocoRobotics CEO @zachrash discussed the rise of physical AI in urban logistics. "It didn't feel like the future of our cities was going to be just adding your neighbor in a 2003, 4,000-pound gas car delivering food ... There was an opportunity to build something purpose-built for that task," Rash told @ElaheIzadi at the AI Edge Summit.

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@Reflection_ai has revealed its much-awaited open-weight artificial intelligence model. At the recent AI Edge Summit, CEO @MishaLaskin explained the role of open models in a maturing AI ecosystem. "Ownership is powered by open models," Laskin told @Cat_Zakrzewski of @washingtonpost.

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At the AI Edge Summit, @RepMcClellan (D-Virginia) shared her perspective on AI security vulnerabilities in the wake of the Hugging Face incident. "If a human being had done what those AI agents had done, it's a felony. But our laws don't account for an AI agent doing it. So, who's responsible?" McClellan told deputy @postopinions editor @jameshohmann.

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@Geckorobotics co-founder and CEO Jake Loosararian (@jakeloosy) says his mission is to train robots to inspect and maintain the "built world." In a conversation with @IgnatiusPost of @postopinions at the AI Edge Summit, Loosararian said building the company in Pittsburgh "represents the future of what a city that's not on the coast could be."

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At @PostLive's AI Edge Summit, @BrookingsInst President Cecilia Elena Rouse told Juliet @Eilperin societies may need to rethink structures from unemployment to health insurance if AI causes large-scale job displacement.

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Scoop? Last week Reflection CEO Misha Laskin spoke with me about his plans to launch an open-weight model soon, arguing it was necessary for national security. You can watch here https://t.co/2mIiCXeuH0