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Derzeit bewegt sich viel von Google hin zu Chatbots oder KI-Suchmaschinen.
Wer sich da als SEO nicht abhängen lassen will, sollte sich mal RankScale anschauen. Kommt aus Österreich und analysiert fast jede KI. Super Tool!
https://rankscale.ai/

Rankscale.ai | AI Rank Tracker & Visibility Monitoring Tool
Track your AI rankings & monitor visibility on Perplexity, ChatGPT & more. Rankscale is the AI Rank Tracker built for next-gen search optimization. Track your AI search rankings daily and see how your visibility evolves. Analyze AI result citations and brand sentiments. Uncover, survey, and outpace competitors. Audit your website to see how AI understands it. Identify gaps and content optimization potential.

The Meta AI app now shows a warning prompt before users share content to the public feed, after reports of users accidentally sharing chats with personal info (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-pu

Meta AI adds an extra step to prevent embarrassing overshares
Meta has added a new warning before you can post to Meta AI's public feed. It comes after BI reported that people appeared to be posting accidentally.

Good to see, opensource, european AI models like Magistral from Mistral.
#AI #magistral

Magistral | Mistral AI
Stands to reason.

Exploiting AI for Attacks: On the Interplay between Adversarial AI and Offensive AI
Saskia Laura Schr\"oer, Luca Pajola, Alberto Castagnaro, Giovanni Apruzzese, Mauro Conti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12519

Exploiting AI for Attacks: On the Interplay between Adversarial AI and Offensive AI
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, it has transitioned from a research-focused discipline to a widely adopted technology, enabling intelligent solutions across various sectors. In security, AI's role in strengthening organizational resilience has been studied for over two decades. While much attention has focused on AI's constructive applications, the increasing maturity and integration of AI have also exposed its darker potentials. This article explores two emerging AI-relate…

Interesting study on perceptions about AI in the general US public and among US AI experts (both from academia and companies).
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-arti…

How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.

May 2025 recap | The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, hosted by PCSS, brought together developers and experts from across Europe to explore generative #AI tools, risks, secure coding practices.
Highlights:
🔹#GenAI Buzz-Free Programming with LLMs – training by Maciej Łabędzki…

Responsible AI in Practice: Shaping a Safer Future for AI-Powered Software Development | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Poznań, 20–22 May 2025 — The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, held at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), brought together top-tier developers and experts from across Europe for a deep-dive into generative AI tools, risks, and secure coding practices. At the core of the event was the acclaimed training

In the digital age, misinformation spreads rapidly, making it increasingly difficult to ensure the integrity of information. AI presents new opportunities to support fact-checking and news classification. Join Giovanna Monti and Lucian Precup as they share insights from their work developing an AI-driven platform integrating search capabilities, an intelligent assistant and a RAG system.
Learn more:

Lessons Learned from FPF “Deploying AI Systems” Workshop
https://fpf.org/blog/lessons-learned-from-fpf-deploying-ai-systems-workshop/
@…

My dad knew about bugs.
He taught us to be curious about the mundane, to be adaptable and resilient, to be confident in the might of the small.
On this Father's Day, I think I may have located the first of his academic articles from 1962. 🤍
https://www.sciencedirect.com…

Nach Meta-Einsteig: Google zieht sich offenbar bei Scale AI als Kunde zurück
Diese Woche stieg der Meta-Konzern mit 49 Prozent bei Scale AI ein. Das hat anscheinend auch Auswirkungen auf die restliche Scale-Kundschaft.

Subjective Experience in AI Systems: What Do AI Researchers and the Public Believe?
Noemi Dreksler, Lucius Caviola, David Chalmers, Carter Allen, Alex Rand, Joshua Lewis, Philip Waggoner, Kate Mays, Jeff Sebo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11945

Subjective Experience in AI Systems: What Do AI Researchers and the Public Believe?
We surveyed 582 AI researchers who have published in leading AI venues and 838 nationally representative US participants about their views on the potential development of AI systems with subjective experience and how such systems should be treated and governed. When asked to estimate the chances that such systems will exist on specific dates, the median responses were 1% (AI researchers) and 5% (public) by 2024, 25% and 30% by 2034, and 70% and 60% by 2100, respectively. The median member of th…

"Capital has been here before with chintz—by which I mean real chintz, an artisanal craft from India. “Chintz” is originally a Hindi word, and if you’re like most people, you’ve probably got the term all wrong."
Informative, sweet, a great read. Re #aislop #ai

Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/13/knowunity-raises-eur…

Knowunity raises €27M to scale its personalized AI tutor globally
The Berlin-based learning platform Knowunity, has raised €27 million in a Series B round to expand its personalised AI study companion globally. The new funding brings Knowunity’s total raised to €45 million and will be used to further develop its global AI learning companion. Built by and for students, Knowunity was founded in 2020 by Benedict Kurz (CEO), along with Gregor Weber (CPO), Lucas Hild (CTO), and Yannik Prigl (Backend). All were just 17 years old and still in school at the ti…

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Refuel.ai has been acquired by Together.ai. All of us - our team, our technology, and our mission - are joining Together to help build the future of open source and enterprise AI.
https://www.refuel.ai/blog-posts/we-are-joining-to…

We’re Joining Together.ai

"#AI #Literacy and Evidence Based Practice in #Libraries"

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster
It sounds like the start of a 21st-century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea. That’s basically what it feels like right now on the new stand-alone Meta AI app, where swathes of people are publishing their ostensibly private conversations with the chatbot. […]
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The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

Questions about the meaning of #artificialintelligence and its implications for human dignity and well-being highlighted a major conference at YDS last month, titled, “A.I. and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically After ChatGPT.” Full story by Timothy Cahill '16 M.A.R.

I’d say lemmings off a cliff but it’s unfair to lemmings who don’t actually commit suicide by jumping off cliffs, much less by first building the cliff themselves. https://mastodon.social/@bruces/114691439094389816

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/4]:
Improving Large Language Models with Concept-Aware Fine-Tuning
https://

These arguments by @… resonate with my own reasons for not using LLMs in my work, and I appreciate these being written up in a clear manner: https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/

TikTok rolls out new AI ad features, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to create AI-generated video, as part of its Symphony ad suite (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.
https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
saved 2025-01-16

GitHub - ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.
A list of AI agents and robots to block. Contribute to ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt development by creating an account on GitHub.

J'ai lu le très bon billet d' @… sur #Kloset, moteur de stockage de backup de #Plakar

6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan https://theconversation.com/6-ways-ai-can-partner-with-us-in-creative-inquiry-inspired-by-media-theorist-marsha…

6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan
By engaging consciously with technology, students learn to use AI critically and creatively — without surrendering their agency.

Apache Flink is uniquely positioned to serve as the backbone for AI agents, equipping them with the powerful new tool of stream processing. Join Steffen Hoellinger at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how Flink jobs can be transformed into “Agents”—autonomous, goal-driven entities that dynamically interact with data streams, trigger actions, and adapt their behaviour based on real-time insights.
Learn more:

Very early research (prepaper, not validated etc.) but interesting concept to read about,
"Self-Adapting Language Models "
https://jyopari.github.io/posts/seal?…

Exploring the Potential of Metacognitive Support Agents for Human-AI Co-Creation
Frederic Gmeiner, Kaitao Luo, Ye Wang, Kenneth Holstein, Nikolas Martelaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12879

Exploring the Potential of Metacognitive Support Agents for Human-AI Co-Creation
Despite the potential of generative AI (GenAI) design tools to enhance design processes, professionals often struggle to integrate AI into their workflows. Fundamental cognitive challenges include the need to specify all design criteria as distinct parameters upfront (intent formulation) and designers' reduced cognitive involvement in the design process due to cognitive offloading, which can lead to insufficient problem exploration, underspecification, and limited ability to evaluate outcomes. …

CodeMirage: A Multi-Lingual Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated and Paraphrased Source Code from Production-Level LLMs
Hanxi Guo, Siyuan Cheng, Kaiyuan Zhang, Guangyu Shen, Xiangyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11059

CodeMirage: A Multi-Lingual Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated and Paraphrased Source Code from Production-Level LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) have become integral to modern software development, producing vast amounts of AI-generated source code. While these models boost programming productivity, their misuse introduces critical risks, including code plagiarism, license violations, and the propagation of insecure programs. As a result, robust detection of AI-generated code is essential. To support the development of such detectors, a comprehensive benchmark that reflects real-world conditions is crucial. …

Towards Employing FPGA and ASIP Acceleration to Enable Onboard AI/ML in Space Applications
Vasileios Leon, George Lentaris, Dimitrios Soudris, Simon Vellas, Mathieu Bernou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12970

Towards Employing FPGA and ASIP Acceleration to Enable Onboard AI/ML in Space Applications
The success of AI/ML in terrestrial applications and the commercialization of space are now paving the way for the advent of AI/ML in satellites. However, the limited processing power of classical onboard processors drives the community towards extending the use of FPGAs in space with both rad-hard and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf devices. The increased performance of FPGAs can be complemented with VPU or TPU ASIP co-processors to further facilitate high-level AI development and in-flight reconfigu…

I see @… has a similar reaction about a study that says something we want to hear.
Re that second remark, “The *point* of AI is to make cognitive abilities irrelevant,” well, that’s the thing that’s up for debate right now. Making cognitive abilities (and thus labor, and people) irrelevant is very much the marketing pitch of the hype bubble. That pitch is about cost cutting, and about fear and intimidation — an intoxicating, investor-frothing mixture of fantasy and terror.
It’s not the only vision of AI, however.
https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/114693869134389025

Sources: Meta's talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-agreed-pay…

Meta Agreed to Pay up for Scale AI but Then Wanted More for Its Money
The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal. Zuckerberg wanted Wang to join Meta and was willing to pay billions of dollars to ...

Google DeepMind Just Changed Hurricane Forecasting Forever With New AI Model (VentureBeat, 11 June 2025)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-deepmind-just-changed-hurricane-forecasting-forever-with-new-ai-model/

Google DeepMind just changed hurricane forecasting forever with new AI model
Google DeepMind launches Weather Lab platform for AI hurricane forecasting, showing improved accuracy in early tests with U.S. National Hurricane Center partnership.

‼️ Neues #Risiko für unbewusste #Datenlecks bei Meta AI:
Natürlich eher relevant, wenn Ihr eine #Katze seid und nach einer Methode fragt, die

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

According to my favorite AI JD Vance is Vance Boelter. That explains why we have never seen them together at the same time and place.
(My favorite AI is my cat, Diderot.)

"For the first time, we architected every part of the rack as a unified system," Su explained, highlighting Helios as "really a rack that functions like a single, massive compute engine."
http://m.timesofindia.com/articleshow/121834703.cms
Why does th…

AMD unveils next-gen AI chips as it takes on Nvidia: 'For the first time, we...' CEO Lisa Su says - The Times of India
Tech News : AMD has revealed its Instinct MI400 series AI chips, designed for rack-scale systems and set to compete with Nvidia's Blackwell. CEO Lisa Su highlight

I think the government is stretching the understood meaning of "upskilling" in making people use AI, given the underlying promise of the AI industry.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tech-giants-join-government-to…

Tech giants join government to kick off plans to boost British worker AI skills
Leading tech firms have partnered with government to deliver AI skills training to 7.5 million UK workers.

"Smart glasses offering a combination of sensory substitution based 'raw' vision and AI-based scene description and OCR appears to be technically and economically the most feasible and sustainable way toward meeting expectations, needs and interests of many blind people." https://www.artificialvision…

Is it just me, or do LLMs have a strong tendency to try and guess what you want to hear and then tell you exactly that, regardless of factual accuracy?
#AI #ML #LLM

Nutzer von Meta AI veröffentlichen ihre Anfragen – offenbar unbewusst
In Metas KI-App können Nutzer auf Wunsch ihre Prompts veröffentlichen. Manche Beispiele werfen die Frage auf, ob das immer ganz bewusst passiert.

Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a New Registry Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?
Ramesh Raskar, Pradyumna Chari, Jared James Grogan, Mahesh Lambe, Robert Lincourt, Raghu Bala, Abhishek Singh, Ayush Chopra, Rajesh Ranjan, Shailja Gupta, Dimitris Stripelis, Maria Gorskikh, Sichao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12003

Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a New Registry Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?
The emerging Internet of AI Agents challenges existing web infrastructure designed for human-scale, reactive interactions. Unlike traditional web resources, autonomous AI agents initiate actions, maintain persistent state, spawn sub-agents, and negotiate directly with peers: demanding millisecond-level discovery, instant credential revocation, and cryptographic behavioral proofs that exceed current DNS/PKI capabilities. This paper analyzes whether to upgrade existing infrastructure or implement…

Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerber…

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI is one of the most depressing places online
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

AI is changing the world rapidly, and we are still only at the beginning.
So the fact that #ElonMusk is trying to teach his #AI to parrot conspiracy theories is a scandal.
The fact that he doesn't seem to be able to is wonderful news.

life comes at you fast

"Judge Michael Wilner imposed $31,000 in sanctions against the law firms involved, saying 'no reasonably competent attorney should out-source research and writing' to AI" #aiethics
https://www.

Wenns Internet im Handy ist, ists Gehirn im Arsch.
https://www.heise.de/news/Nutzer-von-Meta-AI-veroeffentlichen-ihre-Anfragen-offenbar-unbewusst-10446841.html

[Thread] A new US paper shows the best frontier LLM models achieve 0% on hard real-life Programming Contest problems, domains where expert humans still excel (Rohan Paul/@rohanpaul_ai)
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1934751145400111572

Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) on X
This is really BAD news of LLM's coding skill. ☹️ The best Frontier LLM models achieve 0% on hard real-life Programming Contest problems, domains where expert humans still excel. LiveCodeBench Pro, a benchmark composed of problems from Codeforces, ICPC, and IOI (“International

Black-Box Edge AI Model Selection with Conformal Latency and Accuracy Guarantees
Anders E. Kal{\o}r, Tomoaki Ohtsuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11391 https…

Black-Box Edge AI Model Selection with Conformal Latency and Accuracy Guarantees
Edge artificial intelligence (AI) will be a central part of 6G, with powerful edge servers supporting devices in performing machine learning (ML) inference. However, it is challenging to deliver the latency and accuracy guarantees required by 6G applications, such as automated driving and robotics. This stems from the black-box nature of ML models, the complexities of the tasks, and the interplay between transmitted data quality, chosen inference model, and the random wireless channel. This pap…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[3/4]:
Towards Personalized Conversational Sales Agents: Contextual User Profiling for Strategic Action

Reddit unveils two ad tools with "community intelligence": Reddit Insights and Conversation Summary Add-on, which lets brands show positive user posts under ads (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/reddit-ai-community-intelligence…

Exclusive: Reddit releases new "Community Intelligence" ad tools
The new insights tool and ad format draws from Reddit's 22 billion posts.

Military AI Cyber Agents (MAICAs) Constitute a Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure
Timothy Dubber, Seth Lazar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12094 https:/…

Military AI Cyber Agents (MAICAs) Constitute a Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure
This paper argues that autonomous AI cyber-weapons - Military-AI Cyber Agents (MAICAs) - create a credible pathway to catastrophic risk. It sets out the technical feasibility of MAICAs, explains why geopolitics and the nature of cyberspace make MAICAs a catastrophic risk, and proposes political, defensive-AI and analogue-resilience measures to blunt the threat.

The Rise of AI Companions: How Human-Chatbot Relationships Influence Well-Being
Yutong Zhang, Dora Zhao, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Robert Kraut, Diyi Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12605

The Rise of AI Companions: How Human-Chatbot Relationships Influence Well-Being
As large language models (LLMs)-enhanced chatbots grow increasingly expressive and socially responsive, many users are beginning to form companionship-like bonds with them, particularly with simulated AI partners designed to mimic emotionally attuned interlocutors. These emerging AI companions raise critical questions: Can such systems fulfill social needs typically met by human relationships? How do they shape psychological well-being? And what new risks arise as users develop emotional ties t…

Technical Evaluation of a Disruptive Approach in Homomorphic AI
Eric Filiol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11954 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Technical Evaluation of a Disruptive Approach in Homomorphic AI
We present a technical evaluation of a new, disruptive cryptographic approach to data security, known as HbHAI (Hash-based Homomorphic Artificial Intelligence). HbHAI is based on a novel class of key-dependent hash functions that naturally preserve most similarity properties, most AI algorithms rely on. As a main claim, HbHAI makes now possible to analyze and process data in its cryptographically secure form while using existing native AI algorithms without modification, with unprecedented perf…

AI is just a tool, like a pencil. A pencil that can only write and draw what some faceless corporation somewhere allows you to write and draw.
#AI #theMastersTools

"Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task"
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872
"[…] While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four mont…

A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

"Understanding the Impacts of Generative AI
Use on Children" , research by Alan Turing Institute.
" ...nearly one in four children (22%) aged 8-12 are using the technology..."
https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/experts-ca…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[2/4]:
How Well Do Large Language Models Serve as End-to-End Secure Code Agents for Python?

Shopware setzt auf KI: Agentischer Handel
KI-Funktionen unter Shopware AI gebündelt: Bild- und Textverarbeitung bis KI-unterstütztes Shopmanagement.
https://www.heise.de/news/Shopware-set…

Chinese couriers carrying 80 TB of hot data into Kuala Lumpur to feed into an AI, in this early 80s William Gibson short story.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-ai-chip-curb-suitcases-7c47dab1

Survey: US employees who use AI at work at least a few times per year rises from 21% in 2023 to 40% in 2025, and 19% report frequently using AI, up from 11% (Ryan Pendell/Gallup)
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/691643/work-nearly-doubled-two-years.aspx

AI Use at Work Has Nearly Doubled in Two Years
White-collar workers and leaders are the primary users. Leaders can further drive AI adoption by clearly communicating why and how to use it.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[1/4]:
Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and Search with Generative Models for Game-Theoretic Oppone...

Slides by Mary Meeker about AI, as always way too much 😆 , but interesting to browse through.
#AI

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
Vivek Chavan, Arsen Cenaj, Shuyuan Shen, Ariane Bar, Srishti Binwani, Tommaso Del Becaro, Marius Funk, Lynn Greschner, Roberto Hung, Stina Klein, Romina Kleiner, Stefanie Krause, Sylwia Olbrych, Vishvapalsinhji Parmar, Jaleh Sarafraz, Daria Soroko, Daksitha Withanage Don, Chang Zhou, Hoang Thuy Duong Vu, Parastoo Semnani, Daniel Weinhardt, Elisabeth Andre, J\"org Kr\"uger, Xavier Fresquet

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
This paper explores the growing presence of emotionally responsive artificial intelligence through a critical and interdisciplinary lens. Bringing together the voices of early-career researchers from multiple fields, it explores how AI systems that simulate or interpret human emotions are reshaping our interactions in areas such as education, healthcare, mental health, caregiving, and digital life. The analysis is structured around four central themes: the ethical implications of emotional AI, …

Social Scientists on the Role of AI in Research
Tatiana Chakravorti, Xinyu Wang, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Sai Koneru, Kevin Munger, Sarah Rajtmajer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11255

Social Scientists on the Role of AI in Research
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into social science research practices raises significant technological, methodological, and ethical issues. We present a community-centric study drawing on 284 survey responses and 15 semi-structured interviews with social scientists, describing their familiarity with, perceptions of the usefulness of, and ethical concerns about the use of AI in their field. A crucial innovation in study design is to split our survey sample in half, providing the…

"Moral appraisals of generative #AI: How mindset framing shapes moral judgments, emotional appraisals and privacy behavior" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102940…

Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686474/kalshi-ai-generated-a…

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
Kalshi debuted an AI-generated ad during the NBA finals. The creator behind the ad said it only took two to three days to make using Google Veo 3.

Austin-based Autonomize AI, which develops AI agents for automating administrative workflows in healthcare and life sciences, raised a $28M Series A (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/06/12/autonomize-ai-raise…

Exclusive: Autonomize AI gets $28M for health agents
It's the latest sign of investor appetite for infrastructure-layer AI in health care.

Meta investiert 14,3 Milliarden US-Dollar für 49 Prozent von Scale AI
Scale-AI-CEO Alexandr Wang gründet ein neues KI-Team bei Meta berichtet künftig direkt an Mark Zuckerberg. Das kostet einiges.

New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's decision (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/new-york-passes-a-bill-to-prevent-ai-fu…

New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters | TechCrunch
New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
Barbara Oakley, Michael Johnston, Ken-Zen Chen, Eulho Jung, Terrence J. Sejnowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11015

The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
In the age of generative AI and ubiquitous digital tools, human cognition faces a structural paradox: as external aids become more capable, internal memory systems risk atrophy. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this paper examines how heavy reliance on AI systems and discovery-based pedagogies may impair the consolidation of declarative and procedural memory -- systems essential for expertise, critical thinking, and long-term retention. We review how tools like ChatGPT and calc…

"Mitigating Bias and Advocating for Data Sovereignty: The Role of Metadata and Paradata in Ethical #AI-Driven Information Systems" https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2025.2515766

Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's "unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated" by therapy AI chatbots (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-comp…

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be breaking the law.

Levels of Autonomy for AI Agents
K. J. Kevin Feng, David W. McDonald, Amy X. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12469 https://arxiv.org…

Levels of Autonomy for AI Agents
Autonomy is a double-edged sword for AI agents, simultaneously unlocking transformative possibilities and serious risks. How can agent developers calibrate the appropriate levels of autonomy at which their agents should operate? We argue that an agent's level of autonomy can be treated as a deliberate design decision, separate from its capability and operational environment. In this work, we define five levels of escalating agent autonomy, characterized by the roles a user can take when interac…

"I Hadn't Thought About That": Creators of Human-like AI Weigh in on Ethics And Neurodivergence
Naba Rizvi, Taggert Smith, Tanvi Vidyala, Mya Bolds, Harper Strickland, Andrew Begel, Rua Williams, Imani Munyaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12098

"I Hadn't Thought About That": Creators of Human-like AI Weigh in on Ethics And Neurodivergence
Human-like AI agents such as robots and chatbots are becoming increasingly popular, but they present a variety of ethical concerns. The first concern is in how we define humanness, and how our definition impacts communities historically dehumanized by scientific research. Autistic people in particular have been dehumanized by being compared to robots, making it even more important to ensure this marginalization is not reproduced by AI that may promote neuronormative social behaviors. Second, th…

AI is just another productivity tool and the productivity gains will be limited; for lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives (Carl Benedikt Frey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866

AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle
Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed

Meta AI is a disaster.
#meta

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

Salt Lake City, which faces a staffing shortfall, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year (Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/06/14/slc-eyes-letting-ai-handle-some/…

Safe-Child-LLM: A Developmental Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Safety in Child-AI Interactions
Junfeng Jiao, Saleh Afroogh, Kevin Chen, Abhejay Murali, David Atkinson, Amit Dhurandhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13510

Safe-Child-LLM: A Developmental Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Safety in Child-AI Interactions
As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly power applications used by children and adolescents, ensuring safe and age-appropriate interactions has become an urgent ethical imperative. Despite progress in AI safety, current evaluations predominantly focus on adults, neglecting the unique vulnerabilities of minors engaging with generative AI. We introduce Safe-Child-LLM, a comprehensive benchmark and dataset for systematically assessing LLM safety across two developmental stages: children (7-12…

Enter: Graduated Realism: A Pedagogical Framework for AI-Powered Avatars in Virtual Reality Teacher Training
Judson Leroy Dean Haynes IV
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11890

Enter: Graduated Realism: A Pedagogical Framework for AI-Powered Avatars in Virtual Reality Teacher Training
Virtual Reality simulators offer a powerful tool for teacher training, yet the integration of AI-powered student avatars presents a critical challenge: determining the optimal level of avatar realism for effective pedagogy. This literature review examines the evolution of avatar realism in VR teacher training, synthesizes its theoretical implications, and proposes a new pedagogical framework to guide future design. Through a systematic review, this paper traces the progression from human-contro…

BT Group CEO Allison Kirkby says AI could deepen job cuts at the telco, whose plan to cut over 40,000 jobs by 2030 "did not reflect the full potential of AI" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c8d41424-f2d9-418e-8da2-55823f1c22ca

BT chief eyes deeper job cuts as AI becomes more powerful
Allison Kirkby says telecoms group could be ‘even smaller’ by 2030

TikTok rolls out new AI ad features, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to create AI-generated video, as part of its Symphony ad suite (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

PostHog, which offers dev tools to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features, raised a $70M Series D led by Stripe at a $920M valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/startup-posthog-tweet-funding-round-stripe/

Meet PostHog, A Startup That Just Raised A $70M Series D Led By Stripe From A Single Tweet
PostHog, which aims to help developers build “successful products,” quietly announced last week that it had raised $70 million in a Series D funding round at a $920 million valuation led by digital payments giant Stripe.

In March, New York added a checkbox to its WARN system for companies to show if "technological innovation or automation", like AI, was a reason for mass layoffs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Dealogic: tech deals accounted for $421B of the $1.67T in global deals announced in the first five months of 2025, with 75% of tech M&A involving AI software (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/unglamoro

Google is working with the US National Hurricane Center to test an AI model that forecasts cyclones and launches Weather Lab to share its AI weather models (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685820/google-ai-forecast-ty…

Google has a new AI model and website for forecasting tropical storms
Google launched an interactive website called WeatherLab and unveiled a new AI-based model for forecasting tropical storms that it’s testing with the National Hurricane Center.

A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI (Samantha Stokes/Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/new

The 10 most exciting AI agent startups at Y Combinator's Demo Day for its first-ever spring cohort
Christmas came early for Y Combinator

A White House memo says David Sacks and Craft Ventures are divesting holdings in AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/13/david-sacks-xai-meta-ai

David Sacks selling stakes in xAI, Meta and other AI companies
Sacks entered the Trump administration with a slew of investments that could have created conflicts of interest.

Google says it is testing Audio Overviews for certain Search queries, available for Labs users in English in the US (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686904/google-audio-overviews-ai-podcast-search

Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast
Google is rolling out a test that puts Audio Overviews directly in your search results. The feature lets you generate AI podcast-style discussions based on certain queries.

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes the 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC (Sean Michael Kerner/Network World)
https://www.networkworld.com/ar…

Ultra Ethernet Consortium publishes 1.0 specification, readies Ethernet for HPC, AI
The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.

Sources: Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to CEO, replacing Alexandr Wang, who is set to join Meta after its investment in Scale AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Scale AI Picks New CEO as Alexandr Wang Set to Join Meta After Investment
Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its next chief executive officer following a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta Platforms Inc., according to two people familiar with the matter.

Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686474/kalshi-ai-generated-a…

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
Kalshi debuted an AI-generated ad during the NBA finals. The creator behind the ad said it only took two to three days to make using Google Veo 3.

The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-dis…

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

In an Oxford study, LLMs correctly identified medical conditions 94.9% of the time when given test scenarios directly, vs. 34.5% when prompted by human subjects (Nick Mokey/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/just-add-hu

Just add humans: Oxford medical study underscores the missing link in chatbot testing
Patients using chatbots to assess their own medical conditions may end up with worse outcomes than conventional methods, according to a new Oxford study.

Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-perc…

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.

Meta adds AI video editing tools to the Edits app and Meta AI, letting users edit up to 10 seconds of a video with 50 preset prompts, free for a "limited time" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685581/meta-video-editing-ai-pre…

Meta’s new AI video tool can put you in a desert (or at least try to)
Meta is rolling out new AI video editing tools that lets you change the theme of your video, change the background, or even transform what you’re wearing.

Horizon3.ai, whose AI-based penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $100M Series D led by NEA (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/202…

Exclusive: Horizon3.ai raises $100M Series D
The company is using AI to improve cybersecurity.

How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-ai-chip-cur

AMD unveils its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads, claiming up to 4x AI compute performance and 35x inference gains over the prior-gen MI300X (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.to…

AMD announces MI350X and MI355X AI GPUs, claims up to 4X generational performance gain, 35X faster inference
More power consumption equals lower TCO.

Meta announces a $14.3B investment in Scale AI and hires CEO Alexandr Wang to help oversee its AI efforts; source: Scale AI's post-money valuation is $29B (Bloomberg)