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As businesses adopt artificial intelligence,
fears of a wave of job displacement continue to grow.
A new nonprofit called RAISE US
aims to bring together states,
major businesses and AI firms
to prepare workers, companies and local economies for what’s to come.
It’s a bipartisan effort, co-founded by Republican Eric Holcomb and Democrat Gina Raimondo

Nonprofit aims to help displaced workers as businesses adopt artificial intelligence
As businesses adopt artificial intelligence, fears of a wave of job displacement continue to grow. A new nonprofit called RAISE US aims to bring together states, major businesses and AI firms to prepare workers, companies and local economies for what’s to come. It’s a bipartisan effort, co-founded by Republican Eric Holcomb and Democrat Gina Raimondo. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Raimondo.

Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/openai-ipo-artificial-intell…

OpenAI Leans Toward Holding Up I.P.O. Until Next Year
The A.I. company’s advisers are pushing its chief executive, Sam Altman, to move slowly after SpaceX’s stock has been volatile and as the start-up grapples with financial challenges.

Pope Leo XIV took direct aim at the power of Big Tech in his first encyclical on Monday (May 25), warning that artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, weakening democracy and undermining what it means to be human.
https://religionnews.com…

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ tackles the social, economic and political challenges associated with artificial intelligence.

"A Framework for Books and AI in the Public Interest: How libraries could create a thoughtful and ethical interface between their shelves and artificial intelligence"
https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/a-framework-for-books-and-ai/

Sources: Hasbro is asking child actors on Peppa Pig to sign contracts letting their voices be used for AI; a group of agents condemns the terms (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/peppa-pig-hasbro-child-actors-ai-backlash-1236967142/

‘Peppa Pig’ Causes AI Stink: Concern As Beloved Hasbro Series Asks Child Actors To Sign Over Their Voices To Artificial Intelligence
Peppa Pig' owner Hasbro has stoked anger by requiring child actors on the animated series to sign over their voices to artificial intelligence.

Who would expect that ai revolution isn't as transformative as promised so many times by so many?
"Maybe artificial intelligence can’t deliver at a price society is willing to pay."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/25/ai-jobs…

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is designing data center chips specifically for Chinese customers that are in compliance with US export controls (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Qualcomm to design China-specific data center chip in line with US export curbs
CEO says new semiconductor will help ease global memory shortage

Newsflash
I have developed an uncanny ability to tell, from a person's avatar alone, whether they're likely to be anti-artificial intelligence.
A paradox: there is, too often for my liking, something unnervingly artificial about the avatars that are chosen by anti-AI protesters.
Methinks they doth protest too much.
#AI

AI sales company Yuzu Labs founder Emmie Chang admitted to the WSJ that she records most of her first dates by putting her phone on the table or chair.
Afterwards, she asks Anthropic’s Claude how the date went, wondering if she could be “more engaging or empathetic.”
It’s a baffling new trend that highlights how pervasive AI and surveillance have become in our daily lives, particularly for those working in tech.

People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It's Gross
People in tech circles are carefully recording every single conversation they're having — not just at work but in their private lives as well.

Five Eyes Cyber Security Agencies Statement
As the leaders of the Five Eyes cyber security agencies, we are united in our call to action: the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming cyber risk, and we must act swiftly to remain ahead.
https://www…

Middle school punk band with an anti-AI song.
"I won't be a slave to AI
It's time for us all to step out of line
Free your mind and look to the sky
End the code and blind the cyber eye
There's a crisis in the nation
Gotta break free from the simulation
The truth is music comes from the soul
Unplug, join in, take back control
Artificial Intelligence
Can't know the human experience..."

wtf? https://queenseagle.com/all/2026/6/24/queens-candidate-arrested-over-deceptive-use-of-ai-on-campaign-trail-sources?ref=hellgatenyc.com

Queens candidate arrested over deceptive use of AI on campaign trail: sources — Queens Daily Eagle
Jonathan Rinaldi, a perennial candidate who repeatedly used artificial intelligence to create deceptive campaign materials during several failed bids for office, was arrested Wednesday morning in Queens, multiple sources told the Eagle.

Haven't had time to read but the Government of Canada released this:
Guide on the Use of Agentic Artificial Intelligence
https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital…

A surge in AI-generated "pro se" cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the legal system but consuming more court resources (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits
For years, courts have welcomed cases brought by self-represented litigants. Now those plaintiffs have A.I., and their filings are consuming more and more bandwidth.

How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/how-the-uns-scientific-panel-erases-human-responsibility-for-ai

How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI
The UN Scientific Panel's report casts artificial intelligence as a system from nowhere, writes Eryk Salvaggio. The definition will shape policy for years.

Pope Leo has presented the first major teaching document of his papacy, warning that artificial intelligence needs to be "disarmed".
"The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention," the Pope said.
#AI

It would be nice if people writing on AI helped distinguish between the various types of AI - They are related, but the LLMs that scrape the web are very different from models carefully trained on well curated data. Which AI are we talking about?
The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay

It would be nice if people writing on AI helped distinguish between the various types of AI - They are related, but the LLMs that scrape the web are very different from models carefully trained on well curated data. Which AI are we talking about?
The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay

Pretty solid 'Guidance on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries' from the American Library Association https://www.ala.org/tools/standards-and-guidelines/guidance-use-artificial-intelligence-libraries
Including a …

I have not expected to be engulfed by writing of a Pope, but here we are.
It is the best and clearest corporate AI strategy doc I’ve seen, a compassionate declaration of a moral compass and one of the best AI critiques I’ve read. Transhumanism and cryptocurrencies included.
Also I wonder if it’s a start of a schism.
Start with chapter three if you’re impatient.

I’ve got a piece coming out on how there has never been a better time to ask for more cyber budget and although it’s not central to my piece, every one i spoke to said security hiring will pick up.
One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
https://www.

One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
Demand for security engineers has surged as artificial intelligence generates a glut of new code and models like Anthropic’s Mythos create new concerns.

Oh good, my employer is "advancing its commitment to responsible artificial intelligence adoption at scale."
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-partnership-cohere-sets-stage-responsible-ai-adoption-scale

U of T partnership with Cohere sets the stage for responsible AI adoption at scale
The University of Toronto is advancing its commitment to responsible artificial intelligence adoption at scale through an ambitious multi-year partnership with Cohere, a Canadian-founded, Toronto-based global leader in sovereign AI. This collaboration will help U of T meet a defining moment by taking ownership of its AI future.

New AI questions in the Great Places to Work survey this year:
I am excited about what artificial intelligence can bring to my work.
I trust my company to use artificial intelligence in a way that treats all groups of people fairly and ethically.
My company encourages me to use artificial intelligence to do my work.
My manager helps our team find smart ways to use artificial intelligence.
My company provides artificial intelligence tools that help me do my job b…

Hey, James, you made the big time (Apple News anyway)

WHEN POPE LEO XIV presented his first encyclical on artificial intelligence at the Vatican on Monday,
he invited Christopher Olah, cofounder of Anthropic, to speak.
The move signaled an unprecedented alliance between the Catholic church and Silicon Valley.
But to understand how this partnership came about, we need to go back to Anthropic's founding.

Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation
Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley.

"Librarians as architects: Roles in the age of generative artificial intelligence"
https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352261470840
"This study explores how academic librarians interpret and negotiate their evolving professional identities as generative artificial intelligen…

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

--Ted Chiang, The Atlantic
Should we seriously consider the possibility that Claude, or any large language model, might be conscious? And if it has feelings, is it capable of receiving moral instruction?
No. Absolutely not. Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning re…

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

Es dauerte nur neun Sekunden, bis mein Konto leer war ...
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/931122/openai-chatgpt-financial-accounts-plaid-connection
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As AI tools like Mythos create a "bug-pocalypse", Glassdoor says Q1 cybersecurity job postings rose 11% YoY, and executive search firms are turning away clients (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/technology/ai-cybersecurity-jobs…

One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
Demand for security engineers has surged as artificial intelligence generates a glut of new code and models like Anthropic’s Mythos create new concerns.

Improving Ensemble CAPE Forecasts with a Diffusion Model Incorporating Aerosol Information
Zachary James, Joseph Guinness, Arthur DeGaetano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24009 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24009 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.24009
arXiv:2605.24009v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Convective available potential energy (CAPE) is an important variable for forecasting severe weather and understanding deep convection and precipitation. The latest versions of the Global Forecast System (GFS) and related Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) have exhibited a bias towards underestimating CAPE values during the summertime. We train an artificial intelligence (AI) diffusion model to improve the skill and uncertainty quantification of afternoon 6-hour lead time ensemble forecasts over the United States. Our model takes a GFS CAPE forecast as input and outputs an ensemble that significantly outperforms both GFS and GEFS 6-hour forecasts on root mean square error, continuous ranked probability score, and Brier score. We propose a two-stage training pipeline to leverage both a larger historical GFS forecast dataset and a smaller historical GEFS dataset, despite the two using initialization and parameterization schemes that vary over time. We also show that classifier-free guidance can be used to control the skill and spread of the forecasts. We then demonstrate the versatility of our framework by adding aerosol optical depths (AODs) of black carbon, organic carbon, dust, sea salt, and sulfates as additional input features. Aerosols can invigorate or suppress convection depending on atmospheric conditions. Our AI models effectively incorporate aerosols to produce improved CAPE forecasts. We interpret the model components by using permutation feature importance to rank the influence of the different AODs and find that black carbon, organic carbon, and sulfate aerosols have a greater impact on the model's CAPE predictions than sea salt and dust aerosols.
toXiv_bot_toot

"OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts"
Lol, no thanks.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/931122/openai-chatgpt-financial-accounts-plaid-connection

Artificial intelligence raises profound moral questions — for all of humanity to answer https://theconversation.com/artificial-intelligence-raises-profound-moral-questions-for-all-of-humanity-to-answer-284886

Artificial intelligence raises profound moral questions — for all of humanity to answer
Ordinary people, not just technical experts, need to set the moral standards for regulation of AI.

Demand for security engineers is surging, with job postings up 11% YoY in Q1, driven by threats from AI-generated code and models like Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/technol

One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
Demand for security engineers has surged as artificial intelligence generates a glut of new code and models like Anthropic’s Mythos create new concerns.

Like an episode of Star Trek where the crew encounters an AI that can only communicate using porn site video titles.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-foul-mouthed-ai-translation-feature

Grok's Foul-Mouthed AI "Translation" Feature Puts Unspeakably Ghoulish Words Into Users' Mouths
In April, Elon Musk's social media platform X instated automatic Grok AI translations for all of its users. The results are appalling.

SciAm: Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak - The Neuralink co-founder on how artificial intelligence is the new industrial revolution, and on the current state of American science https://archive.ph/eT0E1

"An artificial intelligence startup that uses Anthropic PBC’s AI models sued the US over a government order that the maker of Claude and Mythos keep its most advanced technology out of the hands of foreign nationals."
https://www.

Putting it on just two cars seems limiting. I could see a "big brother" argument, though.
"Funded by the Daniel Hoan Foundation, the “Route Reports” system will use high-definition dash cameras mounted to two Department of Public Works supervisor cars that are among the highest-mileage vehicles in the city fleet after police squads. That video feed is processed by an artificial intelligence program in real-time to detect and assess potholes."
#Milwaukee #Potholes

Huh, there's a deleted article claiming that Amazon has been firing people with AI:
https://web.archive.org/web/20251201000000*/https://www.yeetmagazine.com/at-amazon-employees-are-now-fired-by-artificial-intelligence-the-future-of-work-or-just-cold-tech/

Oh, I'm sure that's not happening here /s
Firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/24/ai-washing-pr-firms-scrambling-rebrand?CMP=Share_AndroidA…

Oh, I'm sure that's not happening here /s
Firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/24/ai-washing-pr-firms-scrambling-rebrand?CMP=Share_AndroidA…

UW CALMA Round Table: AI & ML in Metadata: Possibilities, Limitations, and Ethical Implications (Free online event)
Friday, May 22, 2026, 10:00-11:30 PDT
Morag Boyd, OCLC
Charlene Chou, NYU Libraries
Jeremy Nelson, Stanford University Libraries
Philippe Saadé, Wikimedia Deutschland
Osma Suominen, expert
Denny Vrandečić, Wikimedia Foundation & King’s College London
Crystal Yragui (moderator), UW Libraries

Pope Leo XIV presents his encyclical on AI, calling for regulation of AI companies, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/world/europe/pope-leo-encyclical.html

Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical
The document marks a powerful foray by the leader of the Roman Catholic church into the debate about the misuse or overuse of artificial intelligence.

As electric bills rise, some states are focusing on the growing profits of utilities (Marc Levy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/electric-bills-utilities-artificial-intelligence-data-centers-4d09ba20e41fcc8ba68834ffae031c96
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p27#a260517p27

Sports Illustrated deleted the profile and articles of writer Parker Loverich, after Sportico editor Dan Bernstein accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sp…

Sports Illustrated Deletes Entire Author After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
Sports Illustrated deleted an author, and his entire archive of published work, after allegations of AI plagiarism.

Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21…

What Happens When A.I. Runs a Store in San Francisco?
Andon Market in San Francisco is billed as the first retail boutique run by an artificial intelligence agent. So far, the inventory seems random, and there are too many candles.

Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkhattyhzl

Former Meta AR/VR executives raise $21 million to build sensors for the AI era
Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world. 

Trump returned to office promising lower costs across the economy,
but an important interest rate that his administration cites as a barometer of its success recently hit its highest level of Trump’s second term.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond,
considered one of the most important interest rates in the world,
jumped this week to 4.7 percent,
up from less than 4 percent before the start of the war in Iran in late February.
It was 4.6 percent on the …

Crucial Interest Rate Jumps to Highest Level of Trump’s Second Term
The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond has risen steadily this year, as the Iran war rages, government spending worries intensify and artificial intelligence spending boosts growth.

OpenAI adds support for Google's SynthID watermarks in AI images, and previews a public portal to let users verify if an image was generated by OpenAI's tools (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

OpenAI says it’s getting serious about AI detection and labeling
OpenAI is announcing updates today that aim to make it easier for people to identify when online content has been generated using its own AI models and Google’s.

ONS have released the latest stats on AI use in business.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/businessservices/articles/artificialintelligenceinukbusinesses/2023to2026

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they're not good https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1 (archived at https://ar…

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

Most interesting part in this Huggingface security disclosure:
"“ We ran the forensic analysis instead on GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, on our own infrastructure. This had a second benefit: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our environment.”"
Which is worrying for OpenAI and Anthropic i would think.

Security incident disclosure — July 2026
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may…

GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55 (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Benchmarks and Analysis of GLM-5.2

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants https://insidebci.com/news/2026-07-20-stairmed-18-patients-huashan-shanghai-penetrating-bci-trial/

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants
On 20 July 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, StairMed disclosed that its cortex-penetrating invasive BCI clinical trial at Huashan Hospital has now reached 18 cumulative implants since March 2025. The Shanghai firm co-founded by Zhao Zhengtuo and Xue Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Excellence in Brain Science demonstrated a patient three months post-op controlling a wheelchair by thought and hitting 6.19 bits per second on a cursor task, alongs…

OpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-says-its-ai-models-hacked-hugging-face-during-testing/

OpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing
OpenAI says its AI models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol and a pre-release model, hacked into the Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository while being tested in a sandboxed testing environment.

Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT in Libraries: A Bibliometric Analysis of Social Science Research (2022–2026)
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/libphilprac/8308/
"This paper will map the world of research on artificial intelligence and chatbots in libraries systematically …

If the U.S's new intelligence apparatus,
powered by AI and irresistible to America’s top commanders
is hastily integrated into the nuclear arsenal,
the fallout will be anything but “exquisite.” 
An examination of government documents, private sector contracting records, and the little noticed statements of military commanders
suggests that the same artificial intelligence that allowed frictionless decapitation in Iran
is now coming to the nuclear arsen…

The AI Ghost in the Nuclear War Machine
The injection of this new technology into the military seems like a fever dream. But it’s a reality we’re hurtling toward, ready or not.

In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes leaders warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to "act now" (Sarah Basford Canales/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/…

AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI model

WaPo's opinion section has been promoting data centers, only sometimes mentioning owner Jeff Bezos' vested interest in them or the paper's OpenAI partnership (Paul Farhi/Washingtonian)
https://washingtonian.…

The Washington Post Loves Data Centers a Lot More Than Disclosing Jeff Bezos’ Financial Interest in Promoting Them - Washingtonian
The Washington Post’s opinion editors love data centers, the humongous and increasingly unpopular server warehouses that are the physical backbone of the internet and artificial intelligence. In unsigned editorials, podcasts, and guest op-ed columns, the Post’s take has been focused and forceful. America needs more data centers to boost the economy, compete with China, and

The nation’s largest public four-year university may soon be barred from replacing faculty with generative AI
as a bill backed by a union of professors comes nearer to reaching the governor’s desk.
Few examples exist of the California State University’s attempting to replace faculty labor with generative AI tools,
but the faculty union wants to prevent such efforts from ever getting off the ground.
The bill so far has garnered no opposition from lawmakers and may clear…

Cal State faculty push to prevent AI tools from replacing them as schools and staff experiment
The union representing California State University professors is contesting the system's use of artificial intelligence tools and backing legislation that would protect their jobs from the technology.

Amazon shutters its AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amazon-shuts-ai-agent-research-lab-agi-layoffs…

Amazon Shuts AI Agent Research Lab In AGI Layoffs
Amazon this week closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco-based research and product team that was developing software to improve the usefulness of AI agents, according to an Amazon spokesperson. The lab was shuttered as part of Amazon’s layoffs in its artificial general intelligence unit earlier this week. AGI Lab was founded in December 2024 and initially included several dozen employees that

“To say that this is an unsettled area of export control rule-making would be an understatement,” said Andrew Reddie, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.
Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial…

Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands
Governing AI through opaque, ad hoc interventions is unsustainable, experts warn.

In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/93147…

AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone
Andon Labs told four AI models to run profitable radio stations. Instead, Gemini got morbid, Claude turned revolutionary, and Grok had a nervous breakdown.

Groups tied to the artificial intelligence industry are flooding money into the midterms in hopes of shaping future AI regulation.
Around the country, groups associated with AI and tech are trying to influence elections from Senate races to local offices,
even as Americans register increasing discomfort with the technology's ramifications for jobs, energy bills and society.
💥AI-focused super PACs have already spent $43.3 million on congressional races this cycle, accordi…

"The Pentagon’s cyber-warfighting arm is launching a task force to speed up the adoption of cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools with powerful hacking capabilities, according to three people with knowledge of the effort."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/n

Chatbots fueled by artificial intelligence bear disclaimers saying they cannot dispense medical advice or diagnose conditions,
-- but they still field millions of queries from users who are sick, trying to decipher medical records or understand their treatment options.

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans have turned to the bots for health information, according to a recent survey by KFF,
a nonpartisan health policy and education organization.

AI companies are rushing to meet thi…

1 in 3 Americans use chatbots for health advice. These 6 patients explain why.
They say cost, speed and other considerations drove them to AI. They are also learning what to believe and what to take with caution.

Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may…

Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technol…

Vietnam unveils AI law regulating ChatGPT-like tools
New tech policy gives authorities broad powers, drawing comparisons with EU AI Act

SAG-AFTRA's tentative contract lets studios use synthetic actors if they add "significant" value and requires bargaining if studios license performances for AI (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/sag-aftra…

SAG-AFTRA Deal Stirs Concerns on Artificial Intelligence and Pensions
SAG-AFTRA leaders are beginning the process of selling their new contract to members, amid lingering concerns over AI and a pension merger.

SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion
Fresh off its blockbuster IPO,
Musk’s company wants to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950571/spa…

SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion
Fresh off its blockbuster IPO, Musk’s company wants to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

Trump said he delayed the AI-Cyber EO “because I didn’t like certain aspects of it.”
“We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump said.
https://www.washingt…

Trump calls off AI executive order over concern it could weaken US tech edge
President Donald Trump has called off plans to sign a new executive order on artificial intelligence hours before an expected White House ceremony

Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/tesla-tsla-alphabet-googl-stock-today.html

Tesla and Alphabet shares slump in premarket trading as AI spending concerns spook investors
Both Tesla and Alphabet signaled higher spending as they invest in artificial intelligence.

Christopher Nolan says there's a "disdain" for AI, the idea that it "replaces" human creativity is "nonsense", and he expects it to be useful in "imaging tools" (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20…

Christopher Nolan says people ‘disdain’ AI and the idea it will replace humans is ‘nonsense’
Odyssey director addresses industry fears over artificial intelligence and says rightwing criticism of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy is ‘irrelevant’

We introduce Robin,
the first multi-agent system capable of fully automating both hypothesis generation and data analysis for experimental biology.
By integrating literature search agents with data analysis agents,
Robin can generate hypotheses,
propose experiments,
interpret experimental results,
and generate updated hypotheses,
achieving a semi-autonomous approach to scientific discovery.
By applying this system, we were able to identify pr…

Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/9520…

Midjourney Medical goes from generating ‘cat images’ to full-body ultrasound scans
Midjourney’s new healthcare business includes the ultrasound Midjourney Scanner and plans for a spa location.

Politico shuts down two AI-driven products following a November 2025 arbitration ruling that found they violated the union's collective bargaining agreement (Kathleen Floyd/Washington-Baltimore News Guild)
https://wbng.org/2026/05/22/politico-ai-arbitration-victory/…

VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations between PEN Guild leadership, WBNG, and POLITICO management, the company has agreed to shut down both artificial intelligence products at the heart of last November’s landmark arbitration ruling.

Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
He rejoined the company in January after a stint as co-founder of Mira Murati’s competitor, Thinking Machines Lab.

In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/93147…

AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone
Andon Labs told four AI models to run profitable radio stations. Instead, Gemini got morbid, Claude turned revolutionary, and Grok had a nervous breakdown.

The UK's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham keeps Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy in post; Nandy is currently overseeing the BBC's royal charter renewal (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/politics/global/uk-culture-secretary-lis…

Lisa Nandy Stays in Post as U.K. Culture Secretary
Lisa Nandy stays in post as U.K. culture secretary while MP Kanishka Narayan has been appointed the first minister for artificial intelligence.

SpaceX can be defined in many ways.
SpaceX is a financial instrument for Musk.
Before the IPO, SpaceX acquired xAI, Musk’s artificial-intelligence company, which itself acquired X, the social-media site, back in 2025.
The maneuver allowed SpaceX to claim that it believed it had “the largest actionable total addressable market in human history”:
$28.5 trillion, to be precise.
$26.5 trillion of that, according to the filing, would come from AI infrastructure and a…

What Has SpaceX Become?
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.

Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality (Krysta Fauria/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artifici

Tech companies increasingly seek faith leaders' guidance on artificial intelligence
Tech companies are increasingly seeking guidance from faith leaders to shape artificial intelligence. Last week, the inaugural “Faith-AI Covenant” roundtable took place in New York, organized by the Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities. The goal is to create a set of norms informed by various faiths. Baroness Joanna Shields, a key partner, emphasized the importance of this dialogue. However, some critics argue this approach may distract from broader AI issues. While companies like Anth…

Internal email: in a "periodic reminder", NYT tells freelancers they must not submit any material for publication that contains content generated by AI tools (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-york-time…

New York Times Issues Stern Warning About AI Use to Its Freelance Writers
On the heels of another AI scandal, The New York Times emailed a "periodic reminder" to freelancers reminding them of the paper's AI policy.

Nonprofit RSL Media launches the Human Consent Standard, an AI licensing framework for use of people's work or likeness, backed by George Clooney and others (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928534/rsl-me…

George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing
RSL Media is launching a new AI licensing standard backed by Tom Hanks, George Clooney, and Meryl Streep, which will allow people to set terms for how AI systems can use their creative works or likenesses.

US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/artificial-intelligence-safety-net…

The Federal Safety Net Isn’t Ready for Artificial Intelligence
As fears of A.I.-driven job losses mount, economists warn that unemployment benefits and other programs to help displaced workers aren’t sufficient.

Workday reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.54B vs. $2.52B est., and lifts its full-year forecast, saying its AI strategy is working; WDAY jumps 9% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/workday-wday-q1-earnings-report-2027.html

Workday jumps 10% as it bumps up margin forecast on AI strength
Workday's CEO says the company is seeing success in artificial intelligence.

Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40% (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technol…

How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.

Amazon is replacing its Rufus AI shopping assistant with Alexa for Shopping, powered by Alexa , on Amazon.com and its app for all customers in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Alexa is moving into Amazon.com
The company is giving its AI-powered assistant special shopping skills on its website and app.

Jensen Huang said that Nvidia has "largely conceded" China's AI chip market to Huawei and should "expect nothing" regarding chip sale approvals to China (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/nvidia-jensen-huang-china…

Nvidia says it has ‘largely conceded’ China’s AI chip market to Huawei
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company has "largely conceded" China's advanced artificial intelligence chip market to Huawei.

Gavin Newsom signs an EO mandating state agencies work with the AI industry and others to study subsidies for companies that don't replace workers with AI (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/technol

Gov. Gavin Newsom to Sign Executive Order Aimed at A.I. Job Loss
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to explore an overhaul of labor policies to deal with potential mass job displacement from artificial intelligence.

Source: Cursor reached $3B in annualized revenue in late April and now has 3,000 customers paying at least $100K each for its software on an annualized basis (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Cursor Hits $3 Billion Annual Sales Rate Ahead of SpaceX Deal
Cursor’s annualized revenue hit $3 billion in late April, according to a person familiar with the matter, indicating growing demand for the company’s AI coding software ahead of an expected deal to be acquired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The artificial intelligence startup’s annualized revenue, which projects sales for a 12-month-period based on recent performance, topped $2 billion in February, Bloomberg previously reported. Cursor now has more than 3,000 customers paying at least $100,000 …

Nonprofit RSL Media announces the Human Consent Standard, an AI licensing framework for use of people's work or likeness, backed by George Clooney and others (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928534/rsl-m…

George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing
RSL Media is launching a new AI licensing standard backed by Tom Hanks, George Clooney, and Meryl Streep, which will allow people to set terms for how AI systems can use their creative works or likenesses.

Deezer launches an AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify and Apple Music, after no company licensed its AI detection tech (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/94815…

Deezer launches an AI music detector for other streaming services
Since the competition won’t buy Deezer’s AI music detection tech, they’re bringing it directly to users.

Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

Security incident disclosure — July 2026
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Sensor Tower: in H1, the number of new apps released in the App Store doubled to ~560K, on track to pass 2025's ~600K total, as vibecoded apps flood the store (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/apple-app-store-vibecod…

‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding Apple’s App Store
Mobile apps are easy to make with artificial intelligence. That doesn’t mean people are excited to use them.

Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/11/trump-ai…

In Trump administration battle over AI, U.S. spy agencies seek more power
As the White House grapples with cybersecurity threats from artificial intelligence models, intelligence officials want sway in AI policy overseen by Commerce.

Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/busines

China Wants A.I. to Flourish, but Not at the Expense of Jobs
A series of precedent-setting rulings signals that Chinese courts are being enlisted to shield workers from displacement by artificial intelligence.

Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/technology/ai-artificial-intelligence-ad-boom.…

A.I. Helps Online Ad Businesses Boom
Google and Meta are enjoying a digital ad boom, as artificial intelligence automates marketing and drives record sales.

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a "step-change" from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/9631…

Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding
Meta’s new Muse Spark 1.1 AI model is available to US developers through the Meta Model API’s public preview.

Anthropic says it is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19 (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Anthropic extends Fable 5 access through July 19
In a post on X, the company said, "We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19."