OpenAIxit: OpenAI lost a dozen senior executives in 2026, including former COO Brad Lightcap, applications CEO Fidji Simo, and CRO Denise Dresser. - Business Insider
Gemini Elementary: Google enabled Gemini AI access for K-12 students across its Classroom app, previously limited to users 18 and older. - The New York Times
Over 70% of Alphabet's and roughly 65% of Amazon's recent net income came from AI investment stakes, not core operations. - The New York Times
Nvidia reworks its OpenAI Ohio data center financing to initially guarantee about $120 billion instead of $250 billion. - The Wall Street Journal
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B open weights under Apache 2.0, a dense multimodal model with 262K native context extendable to 1 million tokens. - X (formerly Twitter)
Curious how this will rate against Gemma and Glimmer.
Grok bottom: Wyoming woman's federal lawsuit alleges her stepfather used Grok to turn her childhood photo into child sexual abuse material. - The Washington Post
Agents of mass destruction: Chained AI targeting systems used in Ukraine, Gaza and Iran are error-prone and often lead to civilian casualties - ai-killchain.airwars.org
UK weighs mandatory DNA-synthesis screening and AI oversight to curb AI-assisted bioweapon risks - TechRepublic
I got taken in after being sent to a comprehensive clone of Walmart via SlickDeals. Tried logging in, was like, that's weird, I thought I had an account on here. I gave them my account and password and eventually full details :( . Zombie Walmart of the damned…no money lost but wow, be careful out there.
the days of running an open Flask REST server internally are over, need to integrate everything into identity. Likewise need to tighten up permissions, label all your files that contain PII and sensitive data, or agents will run amok.
New Mexico's rejection of a gas pipeline route pushed back Oracle's $165 billion Project Jupiter data center by nearly six months. - TNW | Artificial-intelligence
AI-driven productivity gains for oil and gas production could raise global carbon emissions by up to 1.8 billion tons yearly. - The Wall Street Journal
Police Scotland says datacentre developers need 'robust security measures' to prevent protester attacks on planned AI facilities. - the Guardian
Jill Lepore on how opposition to data centres is reshaping politics — and what history tells us about regulating new technologies - Financial Times
EY is launching an AI Value Realization Office to centralize AI spending governance and measure returns across departments. - Business Insider
Corporate reputation research finds 65% of US adults believe companies use AI as an excuse to cut jobs and boost profits. - Fast CompanyAI-referred shoppers generated 41% more revenue per visit than other channels in June, with Ulta and Etsy racing to retain them. - Yahoo
Reddit and weep: Brands courting Reddit to influence AI search outputs are clashing with the platform's moderators, who police inauthentic promotional content. - The Wall Street Journal
AI agent improvements increasingly come not from adopting igher-scoring foundation models but from surrounding engineering, retrieval, memory, verification, and tool orchestration. - Hacker Noon
Rocky Linux founder Gregory Kurtzer launched OpenWALDO, a project to make AI training data sources, licenses, and origins fully transparent. - Open Channels FM Podcast Network
Sen. Mark Warner's AI AGENT Act seeks to establish accountability standards for verifying who authorized an AI agent's actions. - The Conversation
LG and Nvidia will build a bipedal humanoid robot, targeting a CES 2027 reveal with Nvidia's Jetson Thor chip and Isaac GR00T model - Digital Trends
nothing like selective calls for rigor from people who love race science, hate vaccines, say Covid was engineered to target specific ethnic groups. hate DEI for minorities but love DEI and privileges for nutty rich white males.
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