Tootfinder

AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/eleu

EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text | TechCrunch
EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it's claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding Canadian city councils with climate misinformation, and already having some 'success'.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/investigations/weaponized-ai-chatbot-…

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation
Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to resonate with municipal officials’ duty to represent local interests. The chatbot drops the cost of misinformation to "close to zero."

It seems that chatting with AIs can either cause or trigger psychotic episodes
Please be careful. My suggestion, if you're using AI frequently, would be to tell someone you trust that you're using AI frequently, ask them to keep an eye on you, and even allow them to access your chat log.

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

Courage to all who keep getting up everyday and try to make some part of what we're living a little better.
Whether it's teaching, talking, writing, upholding ethics in our daily work - thank you.
There's a reason that education, research, and academia are targeted in such times.
A luta continua.
#AcademicChatter

We need to develop good practices for bots and crawlers that are acceptable for all parties involved. Otherwise AI will suffocate the open web.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/keeping-web-under-weight-ai-crawlers

Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers
If you run a site on the open web, chances are you've noticed a big increase in traffic over the past few months, whether or not your site has been getting more viewers, and you're not alone. Operators everywhere have observed a drastic increase in automated traffic—bots—and in most cases attribute...

A post from the archive 📫:
Overly confident AI
#musings

Goed dat Amsterdam heeft geëxperimenteerd met AI en daarna daarmee gestopt is.
https://www.trouw.nl/verdieping/amsterdam-wilde-met-ai-de-bijstand-eerlijker-en-efficienter-maken-het-liep-anders~b2890374/

Amsterdam wilde met AI de bijstand eerlijker en efficiënter maken. Het liep anders
Al vaker ging de overheid de mist in met algoritmes bedoeld om uitkeringsfraude te bestrijden. De gemeente Amsterdam wilde het allemaal anders doen, maar kwam erachter: een ethisch algoritme is een illusie.

Decidr AI
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/06/how-sam-altman-got-fired-from-openai-in-2023-not-being-an-ai-doom-crank-and-lying-a-lot/
✨😶🔫🤖👀✍️👏👏

How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)
Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI in 2023 by the nonprofit board. After considerable internal turmoil and external pressure from his venture capitalist mates and from Microsoft, he was reinstated. K…

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Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

from my link log —
Why do AI company logos look like arseholes?
https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
saved 2025-04-11

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.

Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/ted-cruz-bill-states-that-regulate-ai-will-be-cut-out-of-42b-broadband-fund/

Really brilliant post !
https://alex.party/posts/2025-05-05-the-future-of-web-development-is-ai-get-on-or-get-left-behind/

Dagens AI-skola
https://www.tv4.se/artikel/5mYCRDmiZqONJAA2ImY3jP/unga-vaeljer-ai-tjaenster-foere-google-snabbt-och-enkelt-svar

One way I see LLMs harming workers is workers being assigned impossible tasks on the assumption that "AI can do it" then holding them to account when it can't. Human takes the fall, AI takes the win.

"The Challenges of Parsing Kotlin Part 1: Newline Handling"
https://gitar.ai/blog/parsing-kotlin

Ai ai. Kyllä silmä lepää aina tällaisissa maisemissa. Otin ratikan numero 5 Grazin keskustasta sen pohjoiselle päättärille, ja jatkoin bussilla 53 sen päättärille. Olen ihan maaseudulla, ja koska tämä on Itävalta, aina löytyy kivoja kävelyreittejä maastoon ja ylös kukkuloille. Vuoriksi kai näitä ei vielä voi sanoa. Niittyjen läpi saa kävellä traktoripolkuja pitkin, kunhan tietysti sulkee portit perässään ettei lehmät pääse karkaamaan.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

I shared insights from research on AI's impact on undergrad creators by my collaborators Greg Nelson and Troy Schotter in an interview with Devin Daigneault for FoxABC Maine about the upcoming #MaineAIconf Friday 13 June.

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🛡️ DAY 1 at GÉANT #SecurityDays | “Trust is Everything”
An inspiring start in Prague with 150 participants! Alf Moens opened on the shifting #cybersecurity landscape shaped by #AI & geopolitics.…

Application of multimodal AI to aid scene perception for the visually impaired https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/12/6442

Zuckerberg’s new Meta AI app gets personal in a very creepy way
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/05/meta-ai-privacy/
(Or :

“Pivot to AI itself got hit by an AI scraper bot over the weekend! Thankfully the scoundrels who vibe-code these things are idiots.”
➡️ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/…

Fighting the AI scraper bots at Pivot to AI and RationalWiki
We’ve covered the AI scraper bots before. These just hit web pages over and over, at high speed, to scrape new training data for LLMs. They’re an absolute plague across the whole World Wide Web and…

Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden due to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use (Lila Shapiro/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html…

Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)
With dozens of new studios and rapidly evolving tech, generative AI video is more embedded in Hollywood movies and TV than we may realize.

The Hidden Cost of AI Coding #Ai,

The Hidden Cost of AI Coding
AI coding tools boost productivity but may sacrifice the flow state and deep satisfaction developers experience when writing code by hand. What are we losing?

Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/03/treefera-secure…

Treefera secures $20M Series B for AI-driven supply chain resilience solutions
Supply chain resilience startup Treeferachas secured $20 million in its Series B funding round, led by Notion Capital with participation from other investors.  In the face of growing economic uncertainty, a stringent regulatory landscape, and increasing environmental risk, Treefera’s platform utilises satellite imagery, drone imagery, and adaptive AI in order to provide real-time, tailored insights into supply chains.  This is especially significant within the first mile of supply chains,…

Please, tell me again how anarchism is chaos.
If this whole sorry episode of human history shows us one thing, it’s not that “we don’t need leaders” but that the very concept of “leaders” is incompatible with the future of our species. Advanced civilisation cannot survive under these primitive hierarchies that concentrate inordinate amounts of power in the hands of a relative handful of individuals. Look at the sorry state of these danger clowns.
Either we find ways to devolve po…

Robert Reich (@rbreich@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Musk vs. Trump https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-ab9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I’m unreasonably fucking pissed.
An r/me_irlgbt moderator banned me, and is now accusing me of being an A.I. … … … because I use fucking emdashes and ellipses.
#typography #AI #nightmaretimeline

Remember when we compared the energy consumption of bitcoin to a country? And that was a bad thing remember, so we didn’t buy any nor program with it.
> According to his research, worldwide AI energy demand is now set to surpass demand from bitcoin mining by the end of this year.
https://www.…

Social media isn't the problem.
"Engagement maximizing" algorithms deciding what you see is the problem.
This has been true for 20 years now, and we still haven't addressed the real problem.
We've been subject to the "paperclip maximizer" AI threat for 20 years, and most people still don't realize it. The few that do have been bribed to not realize it.
(Preaching to the choir on Mastodon, I imagine, but still...)

The future is dumb.

Coming back from holidays in Scotland (😍) I wonder what is the best way to organize photographs in albums, edit them, maybe comment them and share them online with chosen people?
(in a private and controlled way, no AI training of any kind)
#PhotoSharing #PhotoSoftware

Cryptee | Encrypted Secure Photo Storage & Encrypted Documents Editor
Cryptee is an encrypted secure photo storage service, and an encrypted documents editor to write personal docs, notes, journals, store files and more.

Interesting: The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework, a standard, comprehensive, and detailed framework meant to inform the development and writing of GenAI disclosure for education and research'. Based on CRediT statements for different roles in research publications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01904

The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework: An Introduction
As the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools have grown in higher education and research, there have been increasing calls for transparency and granularity around the use and attribution of the use of these tools. Thus far, this need has been met via the recommended inclusion of a note, with little to no guidance on what the note itself should include. This has been identified as a problem to the use of AI in academic and research contexts. This article introduces The Artificial Intel…

Brazil’s ANPD Preliminary Study on Generative AI highlights the dual nature of data protection law: balancing rights with technological innovation
https://fpf.org/blog/brazils-anpd-prel

Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly ‘scraping’ user comments to train chatbot Claude
https://apnews.com/article/reddit-sues-ai-company-anthropic-claude-chatbot-f5ea042beb253a3f05a091e70531692d

Reddit sues Anthropic, accusing the AI company of illegally scraping data from its site
Social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit’s content despite being asked not to do so. Anthropic didn’t immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.

What was the anti-AI rant I read recently from a link here titled something like "I don't want to hear about AI anymore"? Thanks in advance. Also, Web Search sucks these days.

Angular Blog editor Minko Gechev shares what's new on Angular 20. Highlights include newly stabilized APIs, improved debugging tools, polishing the developer experience, and features to enhance generative AI development.
Also, the Angular team has launched an RFC to pick an official mascot for Angular. Isn't that great?
"Announcing Angular v20"

Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.

Interesting, "GPT-style models have a fixed memorization capacity of approximately 3.6 bits per parameter."
https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-much-information-do-llms-really-memorize-now-we-know-thanks-to-met…

How much information do LLMs really memorize? Now we know, thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornell
Using a clever solution, researchers find GPT-style models have a fixed memorization capacity of approximately 3.6 bits per parameter.

GP leaders have halted progress on a predictive AI model based citing concern about whether the correct procedures were followed. The pause is likely to frustrate those advocating for greater use of AI within healthcare.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/gps-f…

GPs force NHS England to hit pause on a ‘ground-breaking’ AI project
GP leaders have halted progress on a predictive AI model based citing concern about whether the correct procedures were followed. The pause is likely to ...

Hello ! Question geek.
Dans quelques semaines, l'instance astrodon.social va fermer. Triste qu'une instance dédiée aux sciences et Š l'astronomie ferme, mais c'est la vie...
Le souci, c'est que le compte de mon asso y est hébergé, il va donc falloir penser Š la migration. On va se poser sur sciences.re. Pour faire les choses bien, avez-vous un tuto migration Š conseiller ? Je n'ai jamais eu l'occasion de migrer, je voudrais éviter les gros fails... Me…

It is not AI that is driving tech layoffs. It’s the massive change in R&D writeoff rules that kicked in for TY2022, from the 2017 Trump tax bill.
The ability to “expense” R&D costs was in place for decades and arguably drove US innovation by making it cheap. Now R&D is amortized over 5 years for US work, 15 years for non-US work. The current reconciliation bill would bring back expensing of domestic R&D costs.

Why is Youtube suddenly bombarding me with brand new music releases, all with AI-gen cover art? I never played one but I won't be surprised if it's AI-gen music either.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10661 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

It's only fair when I think it's fair: How Gender Bias Alignment Undermines Distributive Fairness in Human-AI Collaboration
Human-AI collaboration is increasingly relevant in consequential areas where AI recommendations support human discretion. However, human-AI teams' effectiveness, capability, and fairness highly depend on human perceptions of AI. Positive fairness perceptions have been shown to foster trust and acceptance of AI recommendations. Yet, work on confirmation bias highlights that humans selectively adhere to AI recommendations that align with their expectations and beliefs -- despite not being necessa…

Hen: What you think of when someone says "AI".
Feather: What "AI" really can do...
#ai #artificialintelligence #hen

KI-Update kompakt: Meta, LawZero, KI-Musikgeneratoren, Builder.ai
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

offtopic AI spam could be generated by encyclopedias 👽

So Builder . ai Mechanical Turked things and Microsoft (and others) were none the wiser.
Due diligence: boring stuff that when you skip it with catch up with you fast.
“Builder . ai’s platform relied on around 700 engineers based in India who manually wrote code based on customer requests. Despite the company marketing it as AI-generated, most of the work was done by humans behind the scenes.”

London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation
London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation

Obvio, which uses AI-powered stop sign cameras to detect infractions, raised a $22M Series A led by Bain to expand beyond its first five cities in Maryland (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/obvios-stop-sign…

Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers | TechCrunch
American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs -- a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon. 

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Altman's iris-scanning orbs may have us in a privacy tizzy, but let's not forget that Zuck is hoping to recoup the $60B he lost on VR by gathering data in Meta's Ray-Bans—for AI, yes, but probably also to personalize ads you won't be able to look away from https://www.

Sources: Meta is in talks for a potential multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI, Meta's largest external AI investment; Scale AI was last valued at ~$14B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A new wave of publishers sign up for ProRata's revenue share program, bringing the total number of publishers to 500, including The Boston Globe and Vox Media (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/boston-globe-f…

Boston Globe, Future, Vox Media join ProRata’s generative AI licensing model
A fresh wave of publishers have signed up for ProRata’s revenue share program, and some are adding its AI search engine to their sites.

Supernuttig, dus ik heb me gelijk voor de nieuwsbrief ingeschreven.
https://mastodon.social/@Felienne/114647271618038360

Felienne Hermans (@Felienne@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Hoeveel studenten kan een docent aan? Waar blijft het Turing Recht? Bestaat AI geletterdheid wel? En wat is er gebeurd met de Quantified Self? Dat en meer in mijn nieuwsbrief van deze week! https://www.felienne.nl/het-nieuws-van-week-23/

Enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M, and launched an enterprise coding AI agent called Clark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/07/supe…

Superblocks CEO: How to find a unicorn idea by studying AI system prompts | TechCrunch
Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks, is convinced that the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding in almost plain sight: system prompts.

Hen: What you think of when someone says "AI".
Feather: What "AI" really can do...
#ai #artificialintelligence #hen

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Nice blog by Gary Marcus, for me personally this is not a blow, I don't see current AI as reasoning or thinking, it still will have enormous impact without these capabilities.
Also it's fascinating that models are able to solve some difficult math problems (that are not in their trainingset ) while they fail with seemingly simple other problems.

A knockout blow for LLMs?
LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb

Thread AI, which offers a composable infrastructure platform to help companies build AI workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Greycroft (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/thread-ai-startup-palantir-infrastructure-series-a/

Exclusive: Two Palantir alums raise $20 million for infrastructure startup Thread AI
Two Palantir alumni raised $20 million for AI infrastructure startup Thread AI.

If you think AI is more about human flourishing than advertising, just look at Zuckerberg's latest earnings call: "AI will make advertising a meaningfully larger share of global GDP than it is today"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-ai-

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

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The UK High Court warns lawyers of possible criminal charges for using AI-generated fake legal material, citing two recent cases with hallucinated content (Lizzie Dearden/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/world/europe/england-high-court-…

UK Court Warns Lawyers Can Be Prosecuted Over A.I. Tools That ‘Hallucinate’ Fake Material
A senior judge said on Friday that lawyers could be prosecuted for presenting material that had been “hallucinated” by artificial intelligence tools.

At a clandestine math conclave in Berkeley in May, a chatbot powered by o4-mini answered some of the hardest solvable problems much faster than a mathematician (Lyndie Chiou/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article…

Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI
The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs

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AMD says it has acquired the team behind AI inference chip developer Untether AI, a day after announcing it acquired AI software optimization startup Brium (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph

Exclusive: AMD Acquires Team Behind AI Chip Startup Untether AI
AMD confirmed on Thursday to CRN that it has acquired the employees behind AI chip startup Untether AI.

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Edinburgh-based Wordsmith, whose AI tools help legal teams automate contract and policy reviews, raised a $25M Series A led by Index Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/04/wordsmith-ai-raises-25m-build-legal-a…

Wordsmith AI raises $25M to build legal AI for in-house teams - SiliconANGLE
Wordsmith AI raises $25M to build legal AI for in-house teams - SiliconANGLE

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Chinese startups and tech giants are racing to create AI agents for both local and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/1117958/china-ai-a…

Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China
A stampede of contenders and copycats has followed the launch of the general AI agent, but China’s internet restrictions have so far made it easier to cater to overseas users.

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Microsoft plans to add a "safety" category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/02f39b33-fa6e-4bb7-b1f4-8171b50738af

Microsoft to rank ‘safety’ of AI models sold to cloud customers
Tech group’s corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI

President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/tru

Trump scraps Biden software security, AI, post-quantum encryption efforts in new executive order
The White House accused the Biden administration of trying to “sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.” 

Beijing-based Kuaishou's stock climbs after the company said it expects its video-generation service Kling AI to hit $100M in annual revenue by February 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/04/uk-based-sk

UK-based Skyral raises $20M Series A to expand modelling and simulation tech globally
British modelling and simulation startup Skyral has secured $20 million in Series A funding, led by NOIA Capital in partnership with Accrete Capital, as it looks to expand the global reach of its AI-enabled digital twin technology across sectors including defence, national security, healthcare, and infrastructure. Founded in June 2023 and headquartered in the UK, Skyral is developing a next-generation platform that combines digital twin modelling with artificial intelligence to simulate comple…

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VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24 deals; Lavingia says "mistakes were made" (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contra…

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.

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How AI-assisted "vibe hacking", which often relies on jailbroken versions of mainstream AI models, is leading to a cybersecurity "arms race" (Matthew Gault/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-ai-hacker-agents/

The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare
In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.

#gesichertrechtsextrem / extreme Visagen rechts* endlich unvollständig: https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/114444349183303214

Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden due to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use (Lila Shapiro/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html…

Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)
With dozens of new studios and rapidly evolving tech, generative AI video is more embedded in Hollywood movies and TV than we may realize.

#gesichertrechtsextrem / extreme Visagen rechts* endlich unvollständig: https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/114444349183303214

Voxel, whose AI-powered logistics safety software integrates into existing security cameras to detect and predict workplace hazards, raised a $44M Series B (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2025/06/03/lo…

Exclusive: Logistics safety startup Voxel raises $44M Series B
It gives San Franscisco-based Voxel three years of runway to reach breakeven or accelerate growth and raise again, its CEO says.

Sources: Mistral AI has closed or is closing a handful of commercial contracts, each worth $100M over three to five years, as it expands its own infrastructure (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/65f79839-d637-48a7-a0f2-3fab8952b315

Europe’s Mistral benefits from search for artificial intelligence alternatives
Start-up has embarked on expansion of its own infrastructure and secured significant contracts

An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video
The head of the AI video generation platform on copyright and the future of filmmaking.

Simetrik, which uses AI to automate account reconciliation, raised a $30M Series B extension led by a Goldman Sachs Alternatives unit, taking the round to $85M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technol…

Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Embed ChatGPT Into College Students’ Lives
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.

A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa before rollout (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-plan

Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Apple’s struggles to update Siri lead to investor concerns over AI strategy
iPhone-maker hit by technological challenges that have led to delays to the full rollout of its ‘Apple Intelligence’ features

Amazon is creating an AI team within its Lab126 hardware R&D unit that will help develop an agentic AI framework for use in its robotics operations (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/amazons-rd-lab-forms-new-agentic-ai-group.html…

Amazon's R&D lab forms new agentic AI group
The new group will help develop an agentic AI "framework" for use in its robotics operations, an application often referred to as "physical AI."

Google rolls out "scheduled actions" in the Gemini app, allowing AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers to ask the AI assistant to perform tasks at specific times (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/681762/google-gemini-schedul…

Google Gemini can now handle scheduled tasks like an assistant
Google is rolling out a new “scheduled actions” feature in Gemini that lets subscribers ask Gemini to carry out tasks at certain times.

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Google's NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks and AI podcasts publicly; viewers can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678915/google-notebooklm-share-public-link

Google’s NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
Google’s AI-powered note-taking app, NotebookLM, will now let others view your notebooks with public links.

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

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

Anthropic unveils a new set of Claude Gov models tailored for US national security customers and designed to be applied to planning, analysis, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anthropic-u…

Anthropic unveils custom AI models for U.S. national security customers | TechCrunch
Anthropic says that it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers.

Shield Technology Partners, which provides an AI-enabled managed IT service platform, launches with over $100M from Thrive Holdings and ZBS Partners (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thrive-capital-is-bettin…

What to expect at WWDC 2025: iOS 26 and other software branding changes, redesigned software interfaces, productivity enhancements, minor AI changes, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Elad Gil, backer of Perplexity, Character.AI, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe, invested in Enam Co., which aims to transform businesses with AI via PE roll-ups (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-a…

Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups | TechCrunch
Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice. By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT, Gil had already