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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

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 …

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.

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.

The #unemployment rate for “new entrants,” or those trying to break into the workforce, in the U.S., hit a nine-year high in 2025.
A whopping 13.4% of them can’t seem to find a job, the highest percentage in decades.
Aside from recession fears and the slowing pace of entry-level job postings, #artificial

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…

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

There, I fixed the study title:
“[White Guy] Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462
PDF:
https://…

AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderation. This dual adoption raises a critical question: do LLMs systematically favor content that resembles their own outputs? Prior research in computer science has identified self-preference bias -- the tendency of LLMs to favor their own generated content -- but its real-world implications have not be…

imsi-dataset contains pseudonymised mobile-network observation records derived from IMSI-catcher-style telemetry. It is intended for research on mobile-network measurements, cellular security, anomaly detection, roaming patterns, and privacy-preserving analysis of telecom metadata.
#imsi #dataset

adulau/imsi-dataset · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Zum Abschluss der #bibliocon26 -Session "Nachhaltig mit Verantwortung" empfiehlt Claudia Lux "Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus" von Rainer Mühlhoff: https://www.

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

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

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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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…

"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

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/

'The Digital Biodiversity Revolution' report by Kew Gardens: 'There is real hope that a comprehensive, virtual, accessible and inclusive global repository of specimen data is within reach, and that coupling this fundamental resource with the power of artificial intelligence (AI) could truly transform humanity’s ability to address the current environmental crises.'

State of the World's Plants & Fungi | Kew
We publish reports that give our assessment of the current knowledge on the world's plants and fungi.

"Carbon storage could curb more than 90% of AI data center emissions, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Carbon storage could curb more than 90% of AI data center emissions, study finds
As artificial intelligence accelerates demand for computing power across the U.S., a new study co-authored by Hon Chung Lau, adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University and founder of Low Carbon Energies LLC, has found that carbon capture and storage could play a major role in limiting the climate impact of data centers.

#CFP: Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial Intelligence | Religion Call for Papers @… #acrel

#CFP: Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial Intelligence
Call for Contributors: Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial Intelligence

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

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.

As Meta races to recenter itself around artificial intelligence,
the tech giant is mandating that more than 7,000 workers must move to new teams,
and it’s radically changing some employees’ jobs.
The Guardian has also learned that some of these reassigned employees will shift to two new teams:
one building AI cloud infrastructure
and another that’s building an internal AI agent codenamed Hatch.
Late last week, Meta employees received a notice that enginee…

📝 #CFP: Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial Intelligence | Religion Call for Papers @relcfp #acrel https://relcfp.com/2026/06/11/thanatol…

#CFP: Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial Intelligence
Call for Contributors: Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial Intelligence

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 …

RE: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/all-about-artificial-intelligence-c4ob1hesz/-/a-f0tPDJEXTKKruVpPvQBc1A:a:1737388686-/0
The fuck is this headline. SMDH

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.

The Old Fears, Faster
The fears about artificial intelligence are the fears about the internet, rerun at twice the speed. When the public internet arrived in the mid-1990s, four anxieties traveled with it....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/12/the-old-fears-faster/

The Old Fears, Faster | David Boles, Blogs
The fears about artificial intelligence are the fears about the internet, rerun at twice the speed. When the public internet arrived in the mid-1990s, four anxieties traveled with it. One concerned…

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.

The New(ish) Architecture of Consumer Health and Artificial Intelligence
https://fpf.org/blog/the-newish-architecture-of-consumer-health-and-artificial-intelligence/
@…

The illusion of #AI #consciousness: Lessons from human unconscious processing https://www.…

The illusion of AI consciousness: Lessons from human unconscious processing
Complex, goal-directed and even emotionally responsive behavior can unfold without awareness, providing a useful lens for interpreting artificial systems.

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.

Elon Musk's OpenAI loss is set to speed up the AI juggernaut amid rising opposition; the case offered a rare glimpse into tech's workings, ending with a whimper (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/technology/elon-musk-openai-trial.html…

After Elon Musk’s Court Loss Comes the Long Hot A.I. Summer
Even as protests increase, the collapse of Mr. Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman will speed up the artificial intelligence juggernaut.

Automating erasure.
#AI

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs
Canva’s new Magic Layers AI feature has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs

If you have gotten the impression that I am an AI hater, you got me totally wrong. I preach caution, due diligence, and purposeful, planned usage.
What irks me is talking about AI as our supreme leader, throwing caution to the wind, and giving every AI agent and chatbot on the planet unrestricted, unfettered access to absolutely everything, YOLO-style. I am strongly opposed to this type of AI use; it's both irresponsible and dangerous. So I speak out against the hype that encourages this …

Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence
Introduction Much is being written and discussed about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Some are very positive, while some are very doomsday-like. […]

AI (artificial intelligence) rant:
When I was a kid, I read an old young adult novel of my dad’s from the 50’s or 60’s called DANNY DUNN AND THE HOMEWORK MACHINE. Three teens had access to a microcomputer the size of a child’s playhouse. They figured out the computer could
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Some thoughts from Claude about military use of AI in targeting.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYIHIM6ihVJ/?igsh=cmM1ZmdjaDl3bzJ5

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.

John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, 1985.

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.

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A couple weeks ago, Jonathan Mosen shared his thoughts on ‘AI’:
https://mosen.org/ai/
Last night, Léonie Watson did the same:
https://

Artificial Intelligence, History, and Blindness: Lessons and Musings
Why I’m Writing This There are certain taboo subjects one is encouraged to steer clear of during get-togethers in polite society. Religion is one. Politics, even before the highly polarized world o…

Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by Democrats on Thursday to
stop a Trump administration pilot program for Medicare
that uses artificial intelligence to approve or deny physician-ordered care. 
The vote on a resolution to invoke the Congressional Review Act (CRA)
and end the program
failed on party lines, 46 to 50.
CRA votes need a simple majority to pass. 
Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched an experiment t…

Mandating “Evidence-Based” Suicide Detection in Chatbots
https://fpf.org/blog/mandating-evidence-based-suicide-detection-in-chatbots/
@…

The Safety Net Isn't Ready for Artificial Intelligence (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/artificial-intelligence-safety-net.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.WXHh.HVoxYgHwyrcC&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p48#a260505p48

"Microsoft emissions rise by 25% amidst AI data centre expansion"
#Microsoft #Emissions #Technology #AI

Microsoft emissions rise by 25% amidst AI data centre expansion
Microsoft has reported that its total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions increased by 25% last year, driven primarily by the expansion of data centres and infrastructure required to support artificial intelligence (AI) services.

One of the world's top centers for brain science is taking a huge gamble on a tiny, transparent fish.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus near Washington, D.C., has announcedan effort to use artificial intelligence and an unusual fish called Danionella to understand how the brain controls complex behaviors like social interaction.
Janelia plans to triple the space dedicated to fish to 6,000 square feet, which will make room for thousands of new t…

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.

‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
https://www.tomsh…

‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data.

A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying them (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/technology/anthropic-trump-administration-fabl…

Anthropic Employees Accuse Trump Administration of Targeting Them
Workers at the artificial intelligence company have been puzzled and increasingly concerned by the administration’s move to limit their latest A.I. models.

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’

Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/comand-ai-raises-e32m-for-…

Comand AI raises €32M for its C2 software, adds Saab as a strategic backer
Europe is betting big on artificial intelligence playing a significant role in how defence will be planned and executed in

Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/meta-anthropic-ai-computing-power.html

Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.

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.

SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of public markets, which could help SpaceX narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through acquisitions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/busines

SpaceX’s Growing Warchest
Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been on a tear, giving the rockets and artificial intelligence company financial resources to box out competitors.

The environmental toll of the artificial intelligence boom continues to mount
as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers
and enormous amounts of water for cooling.
A new investigation by U.N. scientists warns that AI’s water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people,
while its power use will be triple that of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria combined
— countries with a total population of 650 million.
“Most people underst…

“New Form of Imperialism”: Renowned U.N. Scientist on AI Boom’s Huge Water, Carbon & Land Footprint
The environmental toll of the artificial intelligence boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new investigation by U.N. scientists warns that AI’s water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people, while its power use will be triple that of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria combined — countries with a total population of 650 million. “Most people understand AI as a digital technology, as…

Bernie Sanders proposes legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund financed via a one-time 50% stock tax on AI companies that reach $200M in annual AI sales (Joey Cappelletti/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/bernie-sanders-ai-publ…

Bernie Sanders unveils plan for public ownership of AI companies
Sen. Bernie Sanders is proposing a plan to give Americans ownership stakes in the country’s largest artificial intelligence companies. The legislation shown first to The Associated Press would impose a one-time 50% tax on the stock of major AI companies and place those shares into a sovereign wealth fund overseen by an independent commission. Sanders estimates the fund would be worth roughly $7 trillion and provide annual payments to Americans. While the idea of public ownership of AI compani…

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.

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.

Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area’s already expensive market are
skyrocketing as employees at leading artificial intelligence companies come into gargantuan sums of money
thanks to a boom in initial public offerings.
With San Francisco’s OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as SpaceX, which operates a major facility in the Los Angeles area, eyeing debuts on the stock market,
the hot housing market may not abate soon.
If their initial public offering (IPO) is we…

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.

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…

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.

Dozens of Meta employees have sued the social media company over claims that it used artificial intelligence tools to tag workers for mass layoffs.
The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation
https://www.…

Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims
Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs

London-based Applied Computing, which is developing AI models for energy operations, raised $20M led by KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/07/16/applied-computing-lands-20m-to-expand-fo…

Applied Computing lands $20M to expand foundation AI for energy
Applied Computing, a British artificial intelligence company developing foundation models for energy operations, has raised $20 million in a funding round led by KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures.Headquartered in London, with offices in Bengaluru and Houston, Applied Computing develops AI technology designed specifically for the energy sector. Check out our earlier interview with Dan Jeavons, the president of Applied Computing.Its flagship platform, Orbital, combines physics-…

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.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is enacting the nation’s first state-level moratorium on large-scale data center construction
amid concerns over the impact of the facilities meant to support artificial intelligence.
The move, being implemented through an executive order Hochul will sign Tuesday,
pauses construction permits for up to one year so that state officials can create a regulatory plan addressing energy and environmental issues.
“As data center development threaten…

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.

On Monday, over 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel laureates,
released a joint statement pleading with government and industry to address the economic and social impacts of artificial intelligence,
based on the belief that AI will result in the displacement of vast stretches of the workforce.

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.

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."

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.

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.

AI image startup Black Forest Labs says Martin Scorsese became a partner and adviser last year and used its tech to storyboard during preproduction for a film (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…

Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I.
In a sign of Hollywood’s softening stance on artificial intelligence, the cinema icon is backing Black Forest Labs, an image and video generation start-up.

This year, the U.S. military’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its targeting has burst into the spotlight.
In February, the Wall Street Journal reported that the military used the Anthropic chatbot Claude in the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
In the same month, Anthropic objected to the Pentagon’s rejection of proposed safeguards in the company’s Department of Defense contract,
resulting in the Department designating Anthropic a supply chai…

Civilian Protection in the Age of Military AI
Members of the Senate are taking steps to regulate and restrict how the Department of Defense develops and uses AI in its operations.

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.

Optimistic talk about deepening the China-US bilateral relationship doesn’t mean that the promises made and deals announced are all real.
China watchers should be very skeptical about how much got tangibly agreed to this week.
Take Trump’s announcement that China had agreed to purchase 200 large Boeing planes.
News of that purchase saw the company’s stock slide
— a sign that the deal fell short of expectations.
On artificial intelligence, Treasury Secretary Sco…

View: How real are Trump’s China deals?
Optimistic talk about deepening the bilateral relationship only goes so far.

SpaceX IPO raised a total of $85.7B as underwriters exercised their overallotment of shares, after raising an initial $75B on June 11 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/15/spacex-ipo-spcx-greenshoe-overallotment.html

SpaceX IPO raises total of $85.7 billion as underwriters exercise 'greenshoe' overallotment option
Elon Musk's space and artificial intelligence company raised an initial $75 billion on Thursday.

Financial markets are rewarding companies that are well positioned to benefit from widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)
with higher returns,
according to a new Yale-led analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens,
one of the largest datasets of real-world AI consumption ever studied.
The difference in stock returns between companies with the most and least AI exposure is substantial
— about 0.64% per week,
a financial benefit the researchers call the…

Analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens reveals how the technology is transforming financial markets
A study of a massive dataset of real-world AI consumption shows on how AI is affecting businesses, workers, and financial markets.

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/technol

OpenAI Bought Company That Offered A.I. Tools for Cloning Voices
The acquisition, Weights.gg, was a sort of social network for creating and sharing artificial intelligence algorithms.

Their friends are making $100 million. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up.
Venture capitalist Jenny Xiao noticed a change in her Bay Area social circles as the artificial intelligence boom swelled in recent years.

“When I met these people back five years ago, they lived in the shittiest apartments and they were cheap AI researchers,” she said.
“Now every other weekend someone’s in Hawaii [or] vacationing in Switzerland.”

Xiao is among those in tech preparing…

Their friends are making $100 million. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up.
As SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI go public at historic valuations and new millionaires and billionaires are minted, other tech workers worry about their futures.

OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

ChatGPT’s ‘Trusted Contact’ will alert loved ones of safety concerns
OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns.

Over the past year or two, companies have started using so-called artificial intelligence agents as bona fide “employees,”
even including them in their organizational charts.
Emma Wiles, a Boston University professor who studies how A.I. affects workers, stumbled onto this phenomenon in October,
at a conference where two human resources executives said that treating A.I. agents like real employees was a way to increase productivity and to put their companies on the cutting …

A.I. ‘Employees’ Might Disrupt Work in Unexpected Ways
Scholars say the “unknown unknowns” of using artificial intelligence in the workplace may be undermining the technology’s advertised benefits.

OpenAI has struck a partnership with Kalshi to show World Cup prediction market data in ChatGPT search results, its first deal with a prediction market (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/technology/kalshi-openai-chatgpt-worl…

OpenAI Is Showing Kalshi’s World Cup Odds in ChatGPT
The partnership, a first of its kind for the artificial intelligence company, will use the prediction market’s data to power some search results about the soccer tournament.

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.

Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/925338/openai-mu…

Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words
Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model.

AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it positions its Chai models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceuticals (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/business/dea…

Chai Discovery, an A.I. Drug Start-Up, Raises $400 Million
The fund-raising values the company at $3.8 billion and underscores investor interest in using artificial intelligence to tackle problems like drug discovery.

A look at debates over AI consciousness; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, without denying how impressive LLMs can be (Ted Chiang/The Atlantic)

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

Musk v. Altman: in closing arguments, Musk's attorney doubled down on claims of Altman's untrustworthiness, while OpenAI's lawyer said Musk has no evidence (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/musk-sam-altman-ope…

Closing arguments begin in Musk-OpenAI trial that could shape AI’s future
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI began closing arguments Thursday in the landmark trial whose outcome could shape the future of artificial intelligence. Musk, the world’s richest man, was a co-founder of OpenAI, the company that launched in 2015 and went on to create ChatGPT. After Musk invested $38 million in its first years, his lawsuit filed in 2024 accused OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his top deputy of shifting into a moneymaking mode behind his back.

FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a "direct data feed" to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval timelines (Frank Konkel/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelli

FDA to pilot real-time clinical drug trials through cloud and AI
The first-of-its-kind pilot could lead to speedier regulatory approval of medical drugs and devices and potentially reduce “20, 30, 40% of overall clinical trial time,” according to FDA Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Jeremy Walsh.

A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever (Andrew Fedorov/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

The Effective Altruism Comeback
Out of the spotlight, effective altruists have been preparing for a coming flood: AI tech employees who will soon donate billions and upend the current philanthropic ecosystem.

Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities to let workers assign tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/942…

Amazon develops a warehouse robot that workers can speak to
The company insists its robot investments are designed to support, not replace, warehouse workers.

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become "one of the top four labs in the world", and "the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI" (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intellige…

Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight
At Microsoft’s annual Build conference, it announced a slew of expanded AI initiatives, billing itself as a major competitor in AI for the first time in a while.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware)
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‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data.

Archaeologists and researchers at Pompeii used AI for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Giada Zampano/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/italy-pompe

Digital reconstruction unveils face of ancient Pompeii man using AI
Archaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The portrait shows an older man who died trying to flee the city. Researchers believe he perished during a heavy fall of volcanic debris. The reconstruction was developed by the Pompeii Archaeological Park and the University of Padua. The man was found holding a terracotta mortar, likely used to shield his head. He also carried an oil lamp, a sma…

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised $650M from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a $4B valuation to pursue "recursive self-improvement" (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technol…

Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I.
Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.

Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has "now dropped to zero" and that US export policy "has already largely backfired" (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
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Jensen says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'
US export restrictions bite.

OpenAI teases a device it is launching in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder on July 15, saying "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/959…

OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex
OpenAI is teaming up with Work Louder on a new device for its AI-powered coding tool, Codex.