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Q&A with labor researcher Molly Kinder on her recent, widely discussed "Messy Middle" essay on AI-driven disruption of knowledge jobs and how to address it (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/how-to-help-knowledge-workers-w…

How to help knowledge workers who lose their jobs to AI
Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she's leaving her job to create solution for AI's "messy middle." PLUS: Claude Fable arrives

Institutional Data. Open Knowledge. AI. How can we create better bridges between them and work together to solve some of our big issues around data and access to knowledge in the age of AI?
The coming AI-BRIDGES Symposium in London (May 28-29) looks at these questions.
If you care about Open Knowledge, Institutional Data and AI, join us!
Registration open till May 21st. It's free, but seats are limited. Link to full program and registration here:

Wenn Google deine Marke nicht als Entity kennt, bist du im Knowledge Graph unsichtbar. 🧩Und damit auch in Brand-SERPs, AI Overviews und LLM-Antworten.
Der schnellste Weg, eine Entity zu etablieren: Wikidata-Eintrag, konsistente sameAs-Verweise im Schema Markup, und Erwähnungen auf Seiten, die Google bereits als Entities führt.
Kein Backlink-Building. Entity-Building. Das ist der Unterschied, der 2026 zählt.

Institutional Data. Open Knowledge. AI. How can we create better bridges between them and work together to solve some of our big issues around data and access to knowledge in the age of AI?
The coming AI-BRIDGES Symposium in London (May 28-29) looks at these questions.
If you care about Open Knowledge, Institutional Data and AI, join us!
Registration open till May 21st. It's free, but seats are limited. Link to full program and registration here:

Source: Qualcomm is in talks to buy AI chip designer Tenstorrent for $8B to $10B; Tenstorrent discussed raising $800M at a ~$3.2B valuation last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/qualcomm-talks-buy-tenstorrent-ex…

Qualcomm in Talks to Buy Tenstorrent to Expand AI Chip Capabilities
Qualcomm has been in talks to buy Tenstorrent, a startup that designs chips for AI, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The two companies have discussed a price between at least $8 billion and $10 billion, the person said, which would be a significant premium to Tenstorrent’ ...

GEO ist zu 80-90% einfach SEO. 🤷
Entitäten, Knowledge Graph, Retrieval, semantisches Schreiben – das gibt es seit Jahren. Ich arbeite seit 3 Jahren mit diesem Stack. Brand-SEO und semantische Texte zahlen direkt auf LLM-Sichtbarkeit ein.
Wer Entity-SEO beherrscht, hat GEO größtenteils erledigt. Neues Label für altes Handwerk.
#GEO

Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive…

Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool
Anthropic is preparing its next flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, according to a person with knowledge of the products. Those new products could be released as soon as this week, the person said. News of the upcoming AI design tool sent the share prices of Adobe, Wix and Figma down more than 2% in the house following

Sources: Google is negotiating a deal with the US DOD that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing its previous stance (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google and Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal as Company Rebuilds Military Ties
Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy Google’s Gemini AI models in classified settings, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. If the two parties come to an agreement, it would expand Google’s ...

Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-closes-…

DeepSeek Closes Record $7 Billion-Plus Funding with Unusual Deal Structure
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has closed its first funding round that raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.4billion) under an unusual deal structure, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The funding round, which values the large-language model developer at more than $50 ...

Sources: 50 researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex…

The SpaceXAI Exodus: More Than 50 Recent Exits as Meta, Thinking Machines Hire Staff
Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI’s Grok models have left the AI lab since SpaceX acquired it in February, through layoffs, firings and voluntary departures, according to several people with knowledge of the moves. These departures come on top of ...