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Source: Garmin reveals high-end smartwatches for explorers with deep pockets

Summary
Garmin has released two new smartwatches: the Epix Pro series and the Fenix 7 Pro series, which both offer advanced fitness features and upgraded mapping systems. The Epix Pro offers a bright AMOLED display and a built-in flashlight, while the Fenix 7 Pro boasts solar charging and a powerful LED flashlight. Prices for the Epix Pro start at $900 and the Fenix 7 Pro starts at $800.

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💪 The Epix Pro series includes “dozens” of new activities, including horseback riding and racquet sports, with fitness trackers offering endurance scores and hill scores for advanced metrics.

🗺️ Both the Epix Pro and Fenix 7 Pro have upgraded mapping systems with weather overlays and improvements to topographic maps.

🌞 The Fenix 7 Pro has solar charging and a powerful LED flashlight, as well as a red safety light to provide greater awareness when training in the dark.

❤️ The Fenix 7 Pro boasts new optical sensors and sport-specific algorithms that track your pulse rate across a diverse array of activities, but does not include an ECG app.

Source: The Morning After: Industry leaders say AI presents ‘risk of extinction’ on par with nuclear war

Summary
High-profile industry leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind Head Demis Hassabis, have said that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority. The group of leaders has signed a one-sentence statement released by the Center for AI Safety, calling on the world to reduce societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence.

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💥 The risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war, according to high-profile industry leaders.

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