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"‘Pitfalls of AI technology’: Rosenberg speaks out on financial scam using his likeness"
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2025/07/07/pitfalls-of-ai-technology-rosenberg-speaks-out-…

Eleven Theses on Technological Hype as Capital:
https://interregnum.ghost.io/eleven-theses-on-technological-hype-as-capital/

Eleven Theses on Technological Hype as Capital
Hype is a kind of currency in the tech world, and when so much of the market for innovation depends on speculation, all kinds of monsters appear. Vassilis Galanos theorises this hype as a form of capital.

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

Wie generative KI tödliche Baustellenunfälle vermeiden helfen kann
KI-Technologien erkennen gefährliche Situationen auf der Baustelle und könnten überlasteten Sicherheitsbeauftragten helfen – solange sie überprüft werden.

Profile of Dominick McGee, a right-wing X influencer who has amassed 1.5M followers and made $157K since 2023 by spending 11 hours daily posting about politics (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/technol

He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn’t Great.
An online creator went from a “nobody” to a conspiratorial sensation on X. What he gets in return is less clear.

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.

Forschungsinfrastruktur: BMFTR wählt Großprojekte für die Zukunft Deutschlands
Das Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt nennt neun Forschungsinfrastrukturen, die Deutschlands Innovationskraft stärken sollen.

The American Federation of Teachers, the US' second-largest teachers' union, plans to start an AI training hub with $23M from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/technology…

OpenAI and Microsoft Bankroll New A.I. Training for Teachers
The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from the A.I. start-up Anthropic, to create a national training center.

Boulder, CO-based quantum computing startup Infleqtion raised a $100M Series C and partnered with US government services contractor SAIC to pursue defense deals (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/quantum

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.