Anthropic's IPO filing will warn investors that AI backlash is a risk, as a new poll finds 75% of voters oppose local data centers - BeInCrypto

The Republican Party privately warned AI firms that data center opposition could cost the GOP the Ohio Senate race - TechRadar

Grand juries are refusing to indict people who destroy Flock license-plate cameras amid mounting public anger over AI surveillance and data centers - Inquirer.com

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says data centers 'dug their own grave' and deserve the backlash, after the state already halted 1,800 AI projects - Business Insider

Local officials nationwide face death threats and gunfire over data center votes and permits, as more than 500 towns now restrict new builds - Tom's Hardware

Trillion-dollar ctrl-C ctrl-V: A judge ruled Anthropic's book-based AI training was fair use but fined it $1.5 billion for pirating copies; Ross Intelligence lost a similar suit - TechCrunch

Tragedy of the Corpus: Writers and small/large media outlets must be paid, or we will have an information-poor culture and AI will have nothing to train on. - The New York Times

Streamer Warren Pandiscia sues Twitch and Amazon in a proposed class action, alleging they trained AI on his broadcasts without consent - Engadget

New York Times begins testing AI-generated search summaries on its site, drawing criticism from its union over editorial standards - Semafor

Commentator Brian Roemmele argues public discussions are shifting into private AI chats, thinning the writing left to train future AI models (until someone monetizes those chats) - X (formerly Twitter)

Ford tough: The US Army tested a self-driving Ford F-250 with a shotgun turret that autonomously detects and shoots down drones 10 to 100 meters away - Tom's Hardware

The Drone Identity: Ukraine says Russia used Nvidia Jetson Orin computing modules, bought on resale markets, in fully autonomous AI-guided attack drones. - The New York Times

Hugging Riches: Hugging Face, which is like GitHub for open weights models, is exploring a sale at a $13 billion valuation, nearly triple its 2023 fundraising price - TNW | Business

Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion, more than 50% higher than its last round - TNW | Business

XPeng's robotics unit raised over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation, the largest private funding round in China's embodied AI sector - Reuters

Alibaba raises $10.2 billion in Hong Kong's largest-ever share placement, directing proceeds toward AI chips, infrastructure and models - Reuters

Nvidia's earnings call this week will signal whether the AI boom continues amid growing market and political pushback. - The Wall Street Journal

An AI ‘debt bomb’ crisis? No. This isn’t Enron 2.0 - the Guardian

Taiwan indicts nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for illegally exporting AI servers to China - Engadget

Micron warns AI's memory wall is worsening as compute scales 3x every two years while HBM bandwidth grows only 2x - Wccftech

AI vendors increasingly turn to custom silicon such as Cerebras's new CS-4 system over Nvidia GPUs, with AWS and AMD as launch partners - theregister

I spent all your money, and that’s on me: AI AGENT Act requires agents to log actions for users, but doesn't stop one from buying something it was told not to purchase - Fortune

AWS invests $1 billion in forward-deployed engineers as Rillet's CEO reports 5,000% more related job postings, signaling AI agents still need heavy oversight - TechRadar

57% of IT leaders expect to remove humans from AI oversight within a year, and 79% already treat AI agents as their own users - TechRadar

Companies are abandoning AI projects because fragmented, non-standardized data across CRMs, spreadsheets, and PDFs prevents the technology from delivering proportional value - TechRadar

Most companies bolt on AI security after the fact instead of controlling AI actions at the moment decisions are made - TechRadar

Survey found 88% of firms suffered an AI agent security incident, prompting calls for a formal four-role governance chain to fix accountability gaps - SiliconANGLE

China loves AI but the proletariat is getting nervous: Beijing programmer was laid off along with about 160 colleagues as Chinese firms rapidly adopt AI, deepening youth unemployment fears - Yahoo

Stanford's Erik Brynjolfsson doubts a widespread AI job apocalypse, though he expects entry-level roles to be hit hardest - The Washington Post

Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Z undo: Forrester says 55% of employers regret AI layoffs and expects half to be quietly reversed, often at lower pay - TNW | Artificial-intelligence

Companies are pivoting AI messaging toward upskilling over cost-cutting as 53% of Americans fear AI could cost a household member their job - CNBC

Ken Fisher argues AI job cuts mostly reflect pandemic-era overhiring corrections, not genuine AI-driven displacement, as markets already price in known risks - New York Post

Circular dead internet theory: AI-polished resumes are flooding employers’ AIs with near-identical applications, pushing recruiters back toward live tests and referrals - Bloomberg

Michael Frank argues the US should promote open AI models and compute access, warning China's open ecosystem could win over allies otherwise - Watts Up With That?

Ellen P. Goodman, a professor at Rutgers Law School and co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law, asks what it would take to actually democratize AI at each layer of the stack, starting with compute—the layer Zuckerberg's latest manifesto skips. - Tech Policy Press

Conspiracy theory: Anthropic is sandbagging us and keeping their best stuff for themselves. - CMart

Starting in Opus 5 it generates a lot of words, always starts with a bizarro preliminary hand-wavy generalization about what it’s about to do and finishes with some justification for what it just did. y tho? If you get paid by the word you generate a lot of words.

Students used AI to create fake nude and lingerie images of teachers, fueling harassment that experts say may violate federal law - WIRED

A gay dating app's cofounder resigns after a report found the platform used fake AI-generated influencer accounts to lure men into signing up - Futurism

AI scammers mine obituary details to craft fraudulent calls, costing one widow $7,000 amid a 59% surge in elder fraud losses - Yahoo

Google and Apple are adding tools to prove phone photos are real, but they're off by default and can't stop staged or misleading shots - The Conversation

Into the Slop-verse: Marvel denies using AI art in the "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" concept book after fans spotted a distorted taxi in one image - Gizmodo

Steam players gave Vapor World: Over the Mind negative reviews after AI-generated cutscenes replaced hand-made animation; the studio pledged to remove them - PC Gamer

As platforms crack down on AI-generated slop, one critic argues the label unfairly punishes artists using accessible tools - The Observer

Holy slop: 83% of religious books on Amazon are likely AI-written, a new study finds, with witchcraft titles topping the list - Decrypt

I can’t get enough of robots crashing into walls - X (formerly Twitter)

Two Chinese robots broke Usain Bolt's 100m record at Beijing's Humanoid Robot Games, and X-Humanoid also topped the high jump - Yahoo

race should require the robot to slow down in control and do a victory lap or be disqualified.

Humanoid robot playing table tennis at a beginner level - Reddit

Baby got batch: Toddlers learn language from tens of millions of words while large language models train on trillions of tokens, and nobody knows why - MIT Technology Review

Researchers decoded silent reading from noninvasive EEG using nearly 50 hours of data per person, with accuracy still climbing as training data grew - arXiv.org

Rising costs for top-tier AI coding models are ending an era of automatic efficiency gains, pushing some developers toward cheaper models like GLM - Drew Breunig

An engineer spent $266 across four AI models to root an old Fire tablet; Claude refused tasks that rival models completed - DeepFabric

Unbearable wearables: Big tech is betting on wearables as AI's next entry point, but critics call the approach cringe stalkerware - Financial Times

Phonak's new EON hearing aids run two AI systems on one low-power chip, cutting power use 37% - TNW | Health-tech

Straight outta context: Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine say AI is a tool like drum machines, dismissing fears that it threatens creativity in music production - Deadline

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