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Newton Golf Company (NASDAQ: NWTG) is delivering innovative products to the dynamic market as a surge in women’s golf participation is reshaping the industry. The company recently released a lighter shaft option, designed to deliver premium performance for golfers of all levels, from weekend enthusiasts to tour professionals. “Newton Golf’s introduction of its lighter shaft further aligns with shifting market dynamics. The new option is engineered to weigh less than previous versions while maintaining precision, stability and distance — qualities valued by golfers across all demographics,” reads a recent article. “Newton Golf has built its reputation on innovation, focusing on advanced shaft technologies that address fundamental aspects of the golf swing… As women continue to drive golf’s growth and redefine its culture and commerce, having manufacturers such as Newton Golf focus on thoughtful gear advancement is key. The new lighter shaft represents not only technological progress but also an industry adapting to the sport’s new face — and all the golfers who comprise it.”

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About Newton Golf Company Inc.

Newton Golf harnesses the power of physics to revolutionize golf equipment design. Formerly known as Sacks Parente, the company’s rebranding reflects its commitment to innovation inspired by Sir Isaac Newton, the father of physics. By applying Newtonian principles to every aspect of its design process, Newton Golf creates precision-engineered golf clubs that deliver unmatched stability, control, and performance. The company’s mission is to empower golfers with scientifically advanced equipment that maximizes consistency and accuracy, ensuring every swing is backed by the laws of physics.

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When Garmin announced the Garmin Venu X1, it was hard not to think it was being squared up against the Apple Watch Ultra 2.

While Garmin had already launched watches like the Fenix E (a cheaper version of the Garmin Fenix 8) that sat in and around the price of Apple’s most feature-rich smartwatch, the Venu X1 is more clearly being positioned as an Ultra rival due to its shape and feature set. It’s one of the best Garmin watches to date.

In the ever-shifting sands of technology, this week served up a buffet of intriguing developments. Grab your virtual forks, folks, because we’re diving into everything from Apple’s newest software offerings to Meta’s ambitious AI plans. And trust me, it’s a ride worth taking.

Apple’s Latest Betas: A Sneak Peek into iOS 26

First off, let’s talk about Apple. If you’ve been itching to see what’s cooking in Cupertino, the Engadget Podcast has you covered. The hosts have been exploring the developer betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, and they’re spilling the tea on everything from the new Genmoji representations to the intriguing “Liquid Glass” feature.

Key Takeaways:

• Genmoji: Finally, a way to express your inner avocado toast enthusiast without saying a word!
• Live Translation: Imagine wandering through Paris, and your phone magically translates everything you see. Is that a modern-day miracle or what?
• Apple Intelligence: The hosts are also buzzing about how Apple is leveraging AI, hinting at a more personalized user experience.

If you’re a fan of Apple’s ecosystem, this update is bound to spark some excitement for the upcoming year.

Meta’s New AI Superintelligence Chief

Meanwhile, over at Meta, it looks like things are heating up in the AI department. They’ve just appointed Shengjia Zhao as the chief scientist of their AI superintelligence unit. Zhao comes with a hefty resume from OpenAI, and his arrival signals that Meta is not just dipping its toes into the AI pool but diving headfirst into the deep end.

Why This Matters:

• Leadership Matters: The right leadership can make or break a project, especially in a field as complex as AI.
• Big Ambitions: With Zhao at the helm, it’s clear Meta has some serious ambitions around AI, potentially reshaping how we interact with technology.

Running into the Future with AI Coaches

In the world of fitness tech, it seems that both the Apple Watch and Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 are vying for your attention as AI-powered running coaches. A recent comparison showed that while both devices are packed with features, one might have the edge when it comes to guiding your morning jog.

Highlights:

• Apple vs. Samsung: It’s like the Avengers of wearables, but instead of fighting aliens, they’re fighting your urge to skip leg day.
• AI Coaching: Both watches offer tailored workouts, but which one keeps you more motivated? Spoiler alert: the answer is subjective and might depend on your personal preference (and your affinity for Apple’s ecosystem).

The Dark Side of Social Media

On a less cheerful note, a recent survey highlighted that Facebook ranks worst for online harassment, especially among environmental activists. According to The Verge, over 90% of land and environmental defenders reported experiencing some form of online abuse. This statistic raises serious questions about the responsibilities of social media platforms in fostering safe online environments.

The Bottom Line:

• Harassment is Real: It’s not just a bad day at the office; it’s a systemic issue that needs tackling.
• Meta’s Challenge: With their focus on building the metaverse, addressing harassment should be at the forefront of their priorities.

The Tech Metaphor: A Garden in Full Bloom

Think of today’s tech landscape as a sprawling garden. Some plants (like Apple’s new software and Meta’s AI ambitions) are blooming with potential, while others (like the weeds of online harassment) threaten to choke the life out of the flowers. It’s a delicate balance that requires careful tending.

And speaking of balance, can I get an amen for all the techies out there? Here’s a joke to lighten the mood: Why did the programmer go broke? Because he used up all his cache!

In Conclusion: A Future Full of Potential

As we look toward the horizon, it’s clear that the tech world is bustling with innovation but also fraught with challenges. Balancing advancements with ethical responsibilities will be the key to ensuring that our digital garden flourishes. The question is, are we ready to cultivate it wisely?

So, what are your thoughts? Are you excited about Apple’s new features or curious to see what Meta’s AI unit will bring? Drop a comment below, and let’s chat!

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President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order after speaking during an AI summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Wednesday, July 23, in Washington.

Tech companies looking to sell their artificial intelligence technology to the federal government must now contend with a new regulatory hurdle: proving their chatbots aren’t “woke.”

President Donald Trump’s sweeping new plan to counter China in achieving “global dominance” in AI promises to cut regulations and cement American values into the AI tools increasingly used at work and home.

But one of Trump’s three AI executive orders signed Wednesday — the one “preventing woke AI in the federal government” — marks the first time the U.S. government has explicitly tried to shape the ideological behavior of AI.

Several leading providers of the AI language models targeted by the order — products like Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot — have so far been silent on Trump’s anti-woke directive, which still faces a study period before it gets into official procurement rules.

While the tech industry has largely welcomed Trump’s broader AI plans, the anti-woke order forces the industry to leap into a culture war battle — or try their best to quietly avoid it.

“It will have massive influence in the industry right now,” especially as tech companies are already capitulating to other Trump administration directives, said civil rights advocate Alejandra Montoya-Boyer, senior director of The Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights and Technology.

The move also pushes the tech industry to abandon years of work to combat the pervasive forms of racial and gender bias that studies and real-world examples have shown to be baked into AI systems.

“First off, there’s no such thing as woke AI,” Montoya-Boyer said. “There’s AI technology that discriminates and then there’s AI technology that actually works for all people.”

Molding the behaviors of AI large language models is challenging because of the way they’re built and the inherent randomness of what they produce. They’ve been trained on most of what’s on the internet, reflecting the biases of all the people who’ve posted commentary, edited a Wikipedia entry or shared images online.

“This will be extremely difficult for tech companies to comply with,” said former Biden administration official Jim Secreto, who was deputy chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, an architect of many of President Joe Biden’s AI industry initiatives. “Large language models reflect the data they’re trained on, including all the contradictions and biases in human language.”

Tech workers also have a say in how they’re designed, from the global workforce of annotators who check their responses to the Silicon Valley engineers who craft the instructions for how they interact with people.

Trump’s order targets those “top-down” efforts at tech companies to incorporate what it calls the “destructive” ideology of diversity, equity and inclusion into AI models, including “concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism.”

The directive has invited comparison to China’s heavier-handed efforts to ensure that generative AI tools reflect the core values of the ruling Communist Party. Secreto said the order resembles China’s playbook in “using the power of the state to stamp out what it sees as disfavored viewpoints.”

The method is different, with China relying on direct regulation by auditing AI models, approving them before they are deployed and requiring them to filter out banned content such as the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 1989.

Trump’s order doesn’t call for any such filters, relying on tech companies to instead show that their technology is ideologically neutral by disclosing some of the internal policies that guide the chatbots.

“The Trump administration is taking a softer but still coercive route by using federal contracts as leverage,” Secreto said. “That creates strong pressure for companies to self-censor in order to stay in the government’s good graces and keep the money flowing.”

The order’s call for “truth-seeking” AI echoes the language of the president’s one-time ally and adviser Elon Musk, who has made it the mission of the Grok chatbot made by his company xAI.

But whether Grok or its rivals will be favored under the new policy remains to be seen.

Despite a “rhetorically pointed” introduction laying out the Trump administration’s problems with DEI, the actual language of the order’s directives shouldn’t be hard for tech companies to comply with, said Neil Chilson, a Republican former chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission.

“It doesn’t even prohibit an ideological agenda,” just that any intentional methods to guide the model be disclosed, said Chilson, head of AI policy at the nonprofit Abundance Institute. “Which is pretty light touch, frankly.”

Chilson disputes comparisons to China’s cruder modes of AI censorship.

“There is nothing in this order that says that companies have to produce or cannot produce certain types of output,” he said. “It says developers shall not intentionally encode partisan or ideological judgments.”

With their AI tools already widely used in the federal government, tech companies have reacted cautiously. OpenAI on Thursday said it is awaiting more detailed guidance but believes its work to make ChatGPT objective already makes the technology consistent with Trump’s directive.

Microsoft, a major supplier of online services to the government, declined to comment.

Musk’s xAI, through spokesperson Katie Miller, a former Trump official, pointed to a company comment praising Trump’s AI announcements but didn’t address the procurement order. xAI recently announced it was awarded a U.S. defense contract for up to $200 million, just days after Grok publicly posted a barrage of antisemitic commentary that praised Adolf Hitler.

Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Palantir didn’t respond to emailed requests for comment Thursday.

The ideas behind the order have bubbled up for more than a year on the podcasts and social media feeds of Trump’s top AI adviser David Sacks and other influential Silicon Valley venture capitalists, many of whom endorsed Trump’s presidential campaign last year. Their ire centered on Google’s February 2024 release of an AI image-generating tool that produced historically inaccurate images before the tech giant took down and fixed the product.

Google later explained that the errors — including generating portraits of Black, Asian and Native American men when asked to show American Founding Fathers — were the result of an overcompensation for technology that, left to its own devices, was prone to favoring lighter-skinned people because of pervasive bias in the systems.

Trump allies alleged that Google engineers were hard-coding their own social agenda into the product.

“It’s 100% intentional,” said prominent venture capitalist and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen on a podcast in December. “That’s how you get Black George Washington at Google. There’s override in the system that basically says, literally, ‘Everybody has to be Black.’ Boom. There’s squads, large sets of people, at these companies who determine these policies and write them down and encode them into these systems.”

Sacks credited a conservative strategist who has fought DEI initiatives at colleges and workplaces for helping to draft the order.

“When they asked me how to define ‘woke,’ I said there’s only one person to call: Chris Rufo. And now it’s law: the federal government will not be buying WokeAI,” Sacks wrote on X.

Rufo responded that he helped “identify DEI ideologies within the operating constitutions of these systems.”

But some who agreed that Biden went too far promoting DEI also worry that Trump’s new order sets a bad precedent for future government efforts to shape AI’s politics.

“The whole idea of achieving ideological neutrality with AI models is really just unworkable,” said Ryan Hauser of the Mercatus Center, a free-market think tank. “And what do we get? We get these frontier labs just changing their speech to meet the political requirements of the moment.”