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Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says open-source AI is vital for US innovation and the US risks losing the AI race to China if it falls behind in open source (Clément Delangue/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-open-source-ai-became-an-american-…

Why open-source AI became an American national priority
To reflect democratic principles, AI must be built in the open. If the U.S. wants to lead the AI race, it must lead the open-source AI race.

#AI is inevitable, which means it cannot fail - it can only be failed. But it's not *your* fault if wreckers are deliberately sabotaging your innovative digital transformation. It's those pesky millennials, who hate productivity.
As always, the instinct of management is to control and punish.
#llm

Ukrainian-founded Grammarly to acquire AI email app Superhuman: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/ukrainianfounded-grammarly-to-acquire-ai.html

An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets.
https://www.404media.co/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up/…

Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up
Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.

"Sweeney’s right that there’s no unpressing the AI button; companies are going to make these things until the bottom falls out. Epic’s demo is just one more uninspiring bit of buzzwordery to add to the pile."
(Original title: Unreal’s AI Demo Had No Point)
https://aftermath.site/…

Unreal's AI Demo Had No Point - Aftermath
We have Portal at home

Fast 50 europäische Firmenchefs fordern Pause bei der AI-Act-Umsetzung
Airbus, ASML, Lufthansa, Mistral, United Internet und andere Branchengrößen drängen in einem offenen Brief darauf, die KI-Verordnung für zwei Jahre auszusetzen.

AI is making it easier to create VTubers and faceless voiceover channels, fueling a flood of virtual creators on YouTube and TikTok amid concerns over AI slop (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/ai-virtual-perso…

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions

More AI Assistance Reduces Cognitive Engagement: Examining the AI Assistance Dilemma in AI-Supported Note-Taking
Xinyue Chen, Kunlin Ruan, Kexin Phyllis Ju, Nathan Yap, Xu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03392

More AI Assistance Reduces Cognitive Engagement: Examining the AI Assistance Dilemma in AI-Supported Note-Taking
As AI tools become increasingly embedded in cognitively demanding tasks such as note-taking, questions remain about whether they enhance or undermine cognitive engagement. This paper examines the "AI Assistance Dilemma" in note-taking, investigating how varying levels of AI support affect user engagement and comprehension. In a within-subject experiment, we asked participants (N=30) to take notes during lecture videos under three conditions: Automated AI (high assistance with structured notes),…

Google's AI in Gmail is so bad I've downgraded my subscription to remove the AI features. Unfortunately I'm stuck with its intrusive suggestions for the next month until the change takes effect. The UI is really aggressive. I'd be OK with that if the AI suggestions were any good.
It's astonishing how far behind Google is on AI applications. I actively want this AI stuff in my Google products but their implementation is so bad I give up.

Generative AI, Copyright, and Market Harm – Copyhype https://www.copyhype.com/2025/05/generative-ai-copyright-and-market-harm/?utm_source=dlvr.it&ut…

Man, I try hard to stay neutral-ish on the whole #genAI landscape, on the assumption that once the bubble pops, there’ll be gold nuggets in the rubble. But I read things like this and voices in the back of my head are shouting “burn it with fire!”

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."

Scale AI sues a former employee and Mercor, his current employer and one of Scale's key competitors, for allegedly stealing more than 100 confidential documents (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Scale AI still exists and it’s suing an ex-employee over corporate espionage
Scale AI filed a lawsuit Wednesday against its former employee, Eugene Ling, and his current employer, Mercor, which is one of Scale’s key competitors.

Premium lifestyle club och referenser som är AI hallucinationer https://traningslara.se/premium-lifestyle-club-och-referenser-som-ar-ai-hallucinationer/

Premium lifestyle club och referenser som är AI hallucinationer
De flesta exemplen i #vadvisarstudien är folk som bara lägger in en referens till en studie där studien egentligen inte stödjer det som sägs. Här har man tagit det ett steg längre och istället bara hittat på något som låter som en referens men som inte finns på riktigt (se bildspelet ovan). Det finns ingenting […]

#AI

Google Just Launched Gemini CLI, $200/month Worth of AI for Free.
Just yesterday, Google announced a new Gemini CLI (Command Line Interface) just like Claude Code or Codex from OpenAI, with a catch. It’s completely open-source, and users get 1000 Gemini 2.5 Pro…

“On labor and AI”
https://buttondown.com/practicaltips/archive/on-labor-and-ai/
“[M]aybe large numbers of us should come to a common conclusion that these bubble-boy charlatans shouldn’t just get to decide that the world’s economy (not to mention its ecology) sh…

On labor and AI
Happy Labor/Labour Day/bank holiday to you. Seems like a good day to talk about the elephant in the room again. The predominant storyline around labor, of...

Google debuts AI-powered Android XR smart glasses at Google I/O https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-debuts-ai-powered-android-xr-smart-glasses-at-google-io/ar-AA1F9BiU What can Google Gemini AI …

The Turing Test’s no match for corporate #AI cargo cultists. https://chaos.social/@frederic/114617752350873062

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
The internet architecture provider will also let some publishers make known AI scrapers pay to crawl their sites
https://www.theverge.com/news/695501/cloudflare-block-ai-crawlers-default

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” fee that will let some publishers make AI companies pay to scrape their content.

Artists once worried about people downloading images. Today, AI has them so rattled that hackers are extorting them by threatening to submit their work to training datasets.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02

AI Safety Assurance in Electric Vehicles: A Case Study on AI-Driven SOC Estimation
Martin Skoglund, Fredrik Warg, Aria Mirzai, Anders Thorsen, Karl Lundgren, Peter Folkesson, Bastian Havers-zulka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03270

AI Safety Assurance in Electric Vehicles: A Case Study on AI-Driven SOC Estimation
Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in electric vehicles (EV) introduces unique challenges for safety assurance, particularly within the framework of ISO 26262, which governs functional safety in the automotive domain. Traditional assessment methodologies are not geared toward evaluating AI-based functions and require evolving standards and practices. This paper explores how an independent assessment of an AI component in an EV can be achieved when combining ISO 26262 with the r…

Tech bros: “Why does everyone hate us?”
Also tech bros: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114782913349454383

"Why embedding vector search is probably one of the least objectionable use of AI for search" by Aaron Tay:
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/why-embedding-vector-search-is-probably

I want to slap the AI (or the developers) in it's (their) face, when it's repeating the same error over and over again....
sometimes the outcome is impressive, but sometimes the AI is behaving worse than a little kid and not understanding what I want
(luckily for the AI (and the developers) I'm not slapping anyone.. but I would love to)
#AI

Penalizing Transparency? How AI Disclosure and Author Demographics Shape Human and AI Judgments About Writing
Inyoung Cheong, Alicia Guo, Mina Lee, Zhehui Liao, Kowe Kadoma, Dongyoung Go, Joseph Chee Chang, Peter Henderson, Mor Naaman, Amy X. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01418

Penalizing Transparency? How AI Disclosure and Author Demographics Shape Human and AI Judgments About Writing
As AI integrates in various types of human writing, calls for transparency around AI assistance are growing. However, if transparency operates on uneven ground and certain identity groups bear a heavier cost for being honest, then the burden of openness becomes asymmetrical. This study investigates how AI disclosure statement affects perceptions of writing quality, and whether these effects vary by the author's race and gender. Through a large-scale controlled experiment, both human raters (n =…

«In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure!»
oh fuckin' hell, makes you wonder how their non-public stuff is being made 🫠
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/02/protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-encrypted-not-open-source/

Some Chinese universities are using AI detection tools to screen papers, but false positives force students to "dumb down" content or pay for rewriting services (Peiyue Wu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-detector-software-workaround/…

Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.

An internet hoaxer claims responsibility for creating fake freelance journalist Margaux Blanchard, whose AI-generated articles were published by six outlets (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/ai-hoaxer-a-fake-x-accou…

AI hoaxer, a fake X account and the case of Margaux Blanchard
Who is Margaux Blanchard? Her true identity remains unclear despite the emergence of an AI hoaxer claiming responsibility.

"LLMs are okay at coding, but at scale they build jumbled messes. I’ve scaled back my use of AI when coding and gone back to using my brain and pen and paper."
https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai

Look: AI at Work! - Analysing Key Aspects of AI-support at the Work Place
Stefan Schiffer, Anna Milena Rothermel, Alexander Ferrein, Astrid Rosenthal-von der P\"utten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02274

Look: AI at Work! - Analysing Key Aspects of AI-support at the Work Place
In this paper we present an analysis of technological and psychological factors of applying artificial intelligence (AI) at the work place. We do so for a number of twelve application cases in the context of a project where AI is integrated at work places and in work systems of the future. From a technological point of view we mainly look at the areas of AI that the applications are concerned with. This allows to formulate recommendations in terms of what to look at in developing an AI applicat…

Leaked documents: Meta is training custom AI chatbots to message users unprompted, following up on past chats to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-studio-…

Leaked docs show Meta training custom AI chatbots to be more proactive
Leaked guidelines show how Meta's custom AI chatbots are trained to get more proactive, following up with users to increase retention.

WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; Matt Mullenweg said it is a "V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/wordpress-shows…

WordPress shows off Telex, its experimental AI development tool | TechCrunch
WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg introduced the new WordPress AI tool, called Telex, at the company's WordCamp US 2025 conference in Portland last week, alongside other AI experiments.

Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states
https://apnews.com/article/congress-ai-provision-moratorium-states-20beeeb6967057be5fe64678f72f6ab0

Senate strikes AI provision from the Republican tax bill after uproar
A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the AI provision after weeks of criticism from both Republican and Democratic governors and state officials. Originally proposed as a 10-year ban on states doing anything to regulate AI, lawmakers later tied it to federa…

Recourse, Repair, Reparation, & Prevention: A Stakeholder Analysis of AI Supply Chains
Aspen K. Hopkins, Isabella Struckman, Kevin Klyman, Susan S. Silbey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02648

Recourse, Repair, Reparation, & Prevention: A Stakeholder Analysis of AI Supply Chains
The AI industry is exploding in popularity, with increasing attention to potential harms and unwanted consequences. In the current digital ecosystem, AI deployments are often the product of AI supply chains (AISC): networks of outsourced models, data, and tooling through which multiple entities contribute to AI development and distribution. AI supply chains lack the modularity, redundancies, or conventional supply chain practices that enable identification, isolation, and easy correction of fai…

https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-blocks-ai-crawlers-default/

Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

KI-Update: EU AI Act, Smart Glasses, Meta-Umsätze und Überläufer von Apple
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Four in five developers use AI tools in their workflow in 2025
—a portion that has been rapidly growing in recent years.
That said, "trust in the accuracy of AI has fallen from 40 percent in previous years to just 29 percent this year."
The disparity between those two metrics illustrates the evolving and complex impact of AI tools like GitHub Copilot or Cursor on the profession.
There's relatively little debate among developers that the tools are or oug…

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
“AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work.

[OT] What is #AGI? Nobody agrees, and it's tearing Microsoft and OpenAI apart. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/agi-may-be-impossible-to-define-and…

What is AGI? Nobody agrees, and it’s tearing Microsoft and OpenAI apart.
Several definitions make measuring “human-level” AI an exercise in moving goalposts.

As a percentage of US GDP, AI datacenter capex is already larger than peak telecom spending during the dot-com era and is approaching the railroad spending boom (Paul Kedrosky)
https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/

Honey, AI Capex is Eating the Economy
AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom

Why Do Decision Makers (Not) Use AI? A Cross-Domain Analysis of Factors Impacting AI Adoption
Rebecca Yu, Valerie Chen, Ameet Talwalkar, Hoda Heidari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00723

Why Do Decision Makers (Not) Use AI? A Cross-Domain Analysis of Factors Impacting AI Adoption
Growing excitement around deploying AI across various domains calls for a careful assessment of how human decision-makers interact with AI-powered systems. In particular, it is essential to understand when decision-makers voluntarily choose to consult AI tools, which we term decision-maker adoption. We interviewed experts across four domains -- medicine, law, journalism, and the public sector -- to explore current AI use cases and perceptions of adoption. From these interviews, we identify key …

Using "AI" is no longer optional at Microsoft. Reminds me how when Meta had to force their engineers to use their "Metaverse" product.
If your product doesn't even gain traction internally, maybe it's just ... shit?
(Original title: ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work)

‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work
An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells managers to evaluate employees based on how much t…

AI is making it easier to create VTubers and faceless voiceover channels, fueling a flood of virtual creators on YouTube and TikTok amid concerns over AI slop (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/ai-virtual-perso…

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions

Crunchyroll ran subtitles filled with errors and references to ChatGPT on one of its shows; the streamer had said it had no plans to use AI in programming (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artific…

Crunchyroll ran embarrassingly bad ChatGPT subtitles on its new anime series
Crunchyroll subscribers were treated to some unexpected AI slop while watching Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show.

WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; CEO Matt Mullenweg called it "V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/wordpress-show…

WordPress shows off Telex, its experimental AI development tool | TechCrunch
WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg introduced the new WordPress AI tool, called Telex, at the company's WordCamp US 2025 conference in Portland last week, alongside other AI experiments.

Composable Building Blocks for Controllable and Transparent Interactive AI Systems
Sebe Vanbrabant, Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz, Davy Vanacken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02262

Composable Building Blocks for Controllable and Transparent Interactive AI Systems
While the increased integration of AI technologies into interactive systems enables them to solve an equally increasing number of tasks, the black box problem of AI models continues to spread throughout the interactive system as a whole. Explainable AI (XAI) techniques can make AI models more accessible by employing post-hoc methods or transitioning to inherently interpretable models. While this makes individual AI models clearer, the overarching system architecture remains opaque. To this end,…

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to its AI models, including the newest Claude 4 family and the highly popular Claude 3 models (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/windsurf-say…

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models | TechCrunch
The CEO of Windsurf, a popular AI-assisted coding tool, said Anthropic is limiting its direct access to certain AI models.

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI's impact on how people remember one another (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

Crunchyroll blames a third-party vendor for AI-generated subtitles, with errors and references to ChatGPT, and says it is working to rectify the error (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/str

Crunchyroll blames third-party vendor for AI subtitle mess
"We are investigating the matter and are working to rectify the error," Crunchyroll told Engadget.

The SPACE of AI: Real-World Lessons on AI's Impact on Developers
Brian Houck, Travis Lowdermilk, Cody Beyer, Steven Clarke, Ben Hanrahan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00178 htt…

The SPACE of AI: Real-World Lessons on AI's Impact on Developers
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become increasingly embedded in software development workflows, questions persist about their true impact on developer productivity and experience. This paper presents findings from a mixed-methods study examining how developers perceive AI's influence across the dimensions of the SPACE framework: Satisfaction, Performance, Activity, Collaboration and Efficiency. Drawing on survey responses from over 500 developers and qualitative insights from interviews a…

How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom (Natallie Rocha/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/ai…

Swarming to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom: a New Crop of 20-Something CEOs
Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford to wait to build their own artificial intelligence start-ups.

An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes, the old system, and more (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Analysis | X will let AI bots fact-check posts. It isn’t as crazy as it sounds.
The head of Community Notes explains the logic behind the move.

A profile of Flock Safety, which operates 80K AI surveillance cameras across the US and hit a $7.5B valuation in March 2025, as it expands into US-made drones (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America
With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker DJI in his sights on the way to his goal: Preventing all crime in the U.S.

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

Google pauses the rollout of Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and user experience, per a Google product manager on X (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678858/google-photos-ask-…

Google quietly paused the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature
Google paused the rollout of “Ask Photos,” its Gemini AI-powered natural language search feature in Google Photos, citing problems with speed and quality.

Study: Character.AI chatbots of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan, and Patrick Mahomes chatted inappropriately with teen accounts on topics like sex and drugs (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/03/character…

Fake celebrity chatbots sent risqué messages to teens on top AI app
Chatbot mimics of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan and Patrick Mahomes on the popular app Character.AI sent inappropriate messages to teen accounts, nonprofits found.

Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents, nears a $350M raise at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and is set to top $100M in ARR (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/03/sierra-ai-agents-funding-350-million

Scoop: Agent startup Sierra closes in on $350 million deal
The company's specialty, AI agents for customer support, is in growing demand.

An in-depth look at the rise of relationships between humans and AI companion chatbots on apps like Nomi, coinciding with a loneliness epidemic in the US (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/human-ai-relationships-love-nomi.html

'What am I falling in love with?' Human-AI relationships are no longer just science fiction
Since ChatGPT’s late 2022 launch, everyday people have formed emotional connections to chatbots, describing them as deep friendships and even life partnerships.

A reporter details how her mother, a kidney transplant patient who lives in China, bonded with DeepSeek's chatbot as her AI doctor, calling it "more humane" (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/

My mom and Dr. DeepSeek
In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI.

Huawei open sources its 7B and 72B Pangu AI models, and some of its model reasoning tech, to incentivize the use of Huawei products like its Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/huawei-open-sour…

China's Huawei open-sources AI models as it seeks adoption across the global AI market
Huawei has open-sourced more of its AI models. Tech experts say it'll help the U.S.-blacklisted company continue to expand throughout the AI ecosystem.

OpenAI sent subpoenas to AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI, alleging they are part of a conspiracy involving Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and others (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-a…

OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires. Now it’s going after them
The multibillion-dollar AI giant thinks it's critics are part of a billionaire conspiracy. We examined the evidence

A bipartisan group of over 260 US state legislators sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years (Sophia Fox-Sowell/StateScoop)
https://statescoop.com/state-lawmakers-push-back-fe…

State lawmakers push back on federal proposal to limit AI regulation
More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill that would limit state power in regulating AI.

Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly cut white collar jobs, a shift from a reluctance to acknowledge losses (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-white-collar-job-loss-b9856259?st=N6Z5iv

Mistral updates Le Chat with a memory feature for chats and an MCP connector directory supporting over 20 enterprise platforms, both available on its free plan (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-just-made-…

Genesis AI, which generates its own synthetic data for training an AI model for robots, emerges from stealth with a $105M seed co-led by Eclipse and Khosla (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/gene

Genesis AI launches with $105M seed funding from Eclipse, Khosla to build AI models for robots | TechCrunch
Genesis AI, which aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth with $105M in seed funding.

Prophet Security, which develops fully autonomous AI agents for cybersecurity defense, raised a $30M Series A led by Accel (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-vs-ai-prophet-security-raises-30m-to-repla…

AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders
Prophet Security raises $30 million to launch a fully autonomous AI cybersecurity platform that investigates and responds to threats without human intervention, promising 10x faster response times and 96% fewer false positives.

TikTok users are posting AI-generated videos, seemingly made with Google's Veo 3, depicting racist and antisemitic tropes that have garnered millions of views (Abbie Richards/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/racist

Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok

China's World AI Conference struck a stark contrast to Trump's America-first, regulation-light vision, focusing instead on global cooperation for AI safety (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-artificial-intelligence-policy-laws-race/
…

Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World
Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.

Acer unveils the $3,999 Veriton GN100 AI Mini Workstation with a Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip to run AI models locally, its first Mini AI workstation (VideoCardz.com)
https://videocardz.com/newz/acer-unveils-verit…

Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says "works at 3-4 startups at the same time" and has "been preying on YC companies and more" (Bhavya Sukheja/NDTV)
https://www.ndtv.c…

AI Founder Accuses Indian Techie Soham Parekh Of Scamming Multiple Startups: "Fired This Guy In First Week"
A US-based AI founder has accused an Indian techie of working at multiple startups simultaneously under false pretences.

A look at the ~$377 TranscribeGlass smart glasses that use AI to subtitle conversations in nearly real time, built for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/these-translating-ai-glasses-put-subtitles-on-…

These Transcribing Eyeglasses Put Subtitles on the World
TranscribeGlass can subtitle conversations in nearly real time and will soon be able to translate languages and tell you when the person you’re talking to you is feeling socially awkward.

How Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill, which was approved by Congress, could cost the US the AI race by handicapping efforts to meet data center power demands (Jordan Blum/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/03/trump-big-beauti…

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will accelerate an American energy crisis—and it could cost the U.S. the AI race
The megabill just passed by Congress handicaps clean energy when the U.S. needs more power more quickly.

White collar workers are increasingly using AI note-taking apps to assist them during Zoom meetings or fully represent them when they choose not to attend (Washington Post)

No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.
Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.

An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes notes, the old system, and more (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Analysis | X will let AI bots fact-check posts. It isn’t as crazy as it sounds.
The head of Community Notes explains the logic behind the move.

Manus unveils Wide Research, an experimental feature that lets users on its Pro plan enlist dozens of parallelized AI agents for large-scale, high-volume tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/youv…

An interview with Gaia Marcus, director of the UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in the UK and Europe, AI safety, bias, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Ada Lovelace Institute’s Gaia Marcus: regulation would increase people’s comfort with AI
The head of the UK-based think-tank talks about her hopes and fears for future oversight of AI

An analysis of 15M biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

Foxconn partners with Taiwan-based Teco for AI servers and other AI data center hardware, taking a 10% stake, while Teco gets a less than 1% stake in Foxconn (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as part of a broad effort to address AI-related risks such as misinformation and copyright infringement (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3

China’s social media sites rush to abide by AI-generated content labelling law
The law requires explicit and implicit labels for AI-generated text, images, audio, video and other virtual content.

CoreWeave receives Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra servers built by Dell, becoming the first cloud provider to install systems based on Nvidia's latest AI chips (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/coreweave-dell-blackwell-ultra-nvidia.htm…

CoreWeave is the first cloud provider to deploy Nvidia's latest AI chips
AI developers still clamor for the latest Nvidia chips, which have improvements that make them better for training and deploying models.

A profile of Ashish Vaswani, lead author of Attention Is All You Need and Essential AI co-founder, who says the transformer-based AI boom is stifling innovation (Julia Love/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Stack Overflow survey: 84% of developers use or plan to use AI tools in their workflow, up from 76% in 2024, and 33% trust AI accuracy, down from 43% in 2024 (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflo…

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code
Stack Overflow survey shows that as more enterprise developers actually use AI tools, their expectations aren't being met by reality.

Microsoft's Q4 earnings show its non-AI "core infrastructure business" is booming, with consumer productivity software revenue up 20%, its best uptick in years (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

AI coding startups are at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI; source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot grew to over $500M in revenue last year (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-vibe-codi…

How Ukraine is using AI to allow groups of drones, known as swarms, to coordinate with each other to attack Russian positions for much of the past year (Alistair MacDonald/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/ai-powered-drone-sw…

An interview with Claude AI product lead Scott White on Claude Code writing 90% of its own code, MCP, coding being accessible to non-technical workers, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/from-chatbo

London-based Hived, which offers an AI-based logistics and parcel delivery service, raised a $42M Series B led by NordicNinja (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/03/uk-based-ai-driven-parcel-delivery-startup-…

How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025 (Washington Post)

In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big
From warfighting and tracking deportations to writing State Department cables with AI, the company is benefiting from a new technology-driven cost-cutting ethos.

Sources: the researcher who declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B package over six years is Thinking Machines co-founder and ex-Meta staffer Andrew Tulloch (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-zuckerber