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Anthropic's Dario Amodei says he never called for an open-weight AI ban
Amodei rebuts industry criticism after Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Google and OpenAI signed a letter urging Washington not to restrict open models.
Moonshot's Kimi K3 forces OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to rethink closed AI
China's open-weight strategy is pulling US developers toward cheaper Chinese models — and 25 tech companies want Washington to keep hands off.
Google AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago
Similarweb data shows Google is turning search from a gateway into a destination, with AI Mode visits more than doubling to 279 million.
Cytiva flags the data bottleneck stalling AI drug discovery
AI can design candidates from scratch, but training data gaps and lab automation limits keep the first AI-designed drug 2 to 3 years from FDA approval.
Cisco's Outshift pitches an 'Internet of Cognition' to fix multi-agent AI failures
Open-source multi-agent systems fail between 41% and 87% of the time; Outshift says a coordination layer raises success to 93%.
Intel says agentic AI is a systems problem, not an inference one
After thousands of workload experiments, Intel argues enterprises should size agent fleets by vCPU density and track P95 latency, not CPU averages.
Librarians launch 'Avoiding AI' workshops as users push back on forced adoption
Bangor and Philadelphia sessions draw 70-plus attendees each — six times normal turnout — as patrons ask how to disable Apple Intelligence and Gemini.
Meta scores AI optimism ad with David Bowie song about human extinction
The spot pitches AI as a force for connection while playing 'Five Years,' Bowie's ballad about Earth's imminent death.
Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 close the gap on OpenAI and Anthropic
Six of OpenRouter's top 10 tools are already Chinese. The latest releases from Moonshot and Alibaba shouldn't be shocking anyone.
Kimi's release splits Trump's AI advisors into open-source war
Moonshot's free Kimi model rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, and Trump's current and former AI advisors are trading insults over what to do about it.
LLMs stereotype job candidates 65% more than humans in Princeton hiring study
OpenAI's o3 scored 1.83 on a segregation scale where 2 is total sorting — and reasoning models were the worst offenders.
1010Benja's Suno-made track 'Semiramis' Dream' rewrites the AI music debate
The rapper ran vocals and beats through Suno a few hundred times to build the track — and refuses to hide the AI credit.
Christopher Nolan calls AI a Trojan horse the public already sees through
The Odyssey director says young viewers' 'AI slop' backlash is healthy skepticism, not technophobia.
Index Ventures co-founder Neil Rimer warns AI wealth will be redistributed
The Index Ventures co-founder says AI's windfall will get shared voluntarily or forcibly, as Giving Pledge signups collapse to four families in 2024.
Fountain 0 releases AI-made Odysseus: The Fall to ride Nolan's Odyssey
Director Ash Koosha built the feature for a mid-five-figure budget using Kling and Google Nano Banana, timed to Nolan's $250M release.
Verge editor who tried 200 to-do apps says AI productivity hype is overblown
David Pierce argues the AI-or-die pitch is wrong, calls the tech 'just software,' and says capture still beats every system.
Open-weight models overtake frontier labs in developer downloads
Chinese open models took 41% of Hugging Face downloads this spring, and the top six models on OpenRouter are all open — Claude Opus 4.7 sits seventh.
Recovered ELIZA source code reframes the origin story of the chatbot
A new book pulls the 1966 program's code from the MIT Archives, revealing multiple ELIZAs and a template for today's AI intimacy problem.
George Hotz argues user-aligned AI should help with anything — even murder
The Comma AI founder rejects the AI Futures Project's 14-year slowdown plan and compares locally aligned AI to a gun.
Altman calls Musk's space data centers a short-term sales pitch
The OpenAI CEO's weekend jab lines up with what space-compute engineers have been saying: orbital AI inference is a 2030s business, not a near-term one.
Instagram's Mosseri: don't filter AI content, just build a separate feed
Instagram will keep labeling AI posts but won't let users hide them, even as detection gets harder and Muse Spark tagging raises abuse concerns.
Refik Anadol's Dataland opens in LA as first 'museum of AI arts'
The downtown gallery drew 10,000+ visitors in two weeks with a biometric-driven rainforest built on 5 petabytes of self-collected data.
Brown econ class average falls from 96 to 48 after professor forces in-person final
Roberto Serrano suspected ChatGPT use on take-home exams. When he moved the final in-person, 27 of 86 students dropped or vanished.
Former DeepMind policy chief Verity Harding warns AI arms race framing is a trap
Harding argues the US-China race narrative concentrates power in a few labs and pushes smaller nations into vassal-state positions.
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