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Japan to Begin Clinical Trials for Artificial Blood This Year https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/japan-to-begin-clinical-trials-for-artificial-blood-this-year/

Japan to Begin Clinical Trials for Artificial Blood This Year
Whether high-income or low-income, every country has challenges meeting the necessity necessary amounts of stockpiled blood donations.

Investigation: California colleges and universities continue to renew Turnitin subscriptions despite the cost, faulty anti-plagiarism tech, and privacy issues (Tara García Mathewson/The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/06/2…

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/anthropic-tests-ai-running-a-real-business-with-bizarre-results/

Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results
Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities.

"AI-enhanced maps reveal hidden streams for restoration"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Environment

AI-enhanced maps reveal hidden streams for restoration
A dataset unveiled today more than doubles the documented stream miles in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, elevating the total from approximately 150,000 to nearly 350,000 miles. The Hyper-Resolution Hydrography Data used to generate the new stream maps stems from a collaboration between the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP), and the Chesapeake Conservancy (CC), including UMBC alumni at CBP and CC.

Anthropic tested Claude's ability to manage a physical "storefront" to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management (Ryan Daws/AI News)
https://www.artificialintelligence-news.co

Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results
Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities.

Well put, the “averaging effect of #AI.”
What’s the equivalent for writing? That’s what’s on my mind recently. Sure, keep your style. But do we need smth else? Add more styles, punctuation hacks, whatnot?
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Graphic artists in China push back on AI and its averaging effect
Copycats, unrealistic expectations, and budget cuts are AI’s gifts to graphic artists.

AI-generated images of fake, otherworldly-looking houseplants are proliferating online and misleading consumers, as AI slop extends to plant care advice (Nicole Froio/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intellige…

AI is ruining houseplant communities online
AI-generated images and chatbot misinformation plague plant collectors.

"Air quality tests around xAI’s Memphis data center raise questions"
#AirQuality #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Air quality tests around xAI's Memphis data center raise questions | TechCrunch
A legal group is questioning why a key pollutant was omitted from air quality tests near xAI's data center.

"Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Anthropic now lets Claude app users build, host, and share AI-powered apps directly in Claude via Artifacts, launching in beta on Free, Pro, and Max tiers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/693342/anthropic-claude-ai-apps-artifact

Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot
Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI chatbot that lets you build AI-powered apps right inside the app. It builds upon Anthropic’s Artifacts feature.