Mythos-ile crisis: US control over cyber-capable AI models, led by Anthropic's Claude Mythos, looms over NATO's Ankara summit on 7-8 July. - TNW | Anthropic
not sure if adjusting glasses to see the question, or ‘my brain is this big’
Report of delayed Nvidia Kyber NVL144 AI server rack due to PCB issues sends Asian tech stocks lower. - Bloomberg
Tech CEOs including Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have softened warnings of AI-driven mass layoffs as public opinion of AI turns negative. - The Wall Street Journal
Sorry, A.I. Is Not Giving Us a Four-Day Workweek - The New York Times
Companies spending $34 a month per employee on AI grew headcount over 10% in two years, versus firms spending under $3 monthly. - Business Insider
on the one hand, they controlled for industry, on the other hand, Ramp data is not likely to be representative of the broader economy, and causality can run the other way, companies growing fast and making money spend more on AI. we should try to get more of this sort of data in the hands of economists, seems likely that Google, Apple, Visa have a better view into the economy than the Fed.
The costs of remaining at the frontier of AI are punishing, but the penalties for falling behind may be even worse - Financial Times
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch urges enterprises to adopt open-source models, warning closed AI providers gain outsized leverage over customers. - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence
Google is losing talent to OpenAI and Anthropic's richer AI pay packages, compounding years of layoffs and culture strain, 12 insiders say. - Business Insider
Gemini 3.5 Pro expected in a couple of weeks. - Geeky Gadgets
Parasocial distancing: China will require ByteDance and Alibaba to disable humanlike, custom AI chat agents before new emotional-interaction rules take effect July 15 - South China Morning Post
Chinese web novel platforms owned by ByteDance and Tencent are curbing AI-written stories, rejecting over 104,000 submissions in June alone. - Rest of World
January 6 organizer Amy Kremer is leading a nationwide July 18 protest against AI data centers, as most Americans say they don't want one nearby. - Business Insider
need to stay in practice storming stuf
Local jobs elusive as Nessie in huge Scottish data center. - the Guardian
Renewables promises also seen overstated - the Guardian
AI has made software cheaper to build but not cheaper to run, so build-versus-buy decisions should weigh lifetime TCO including long-term maintenance and support costs. - TNW | Contributors
Citi CEO Jane Fraser says banks are fighting two AI races — revenue growth and fraud defense — as capex forecasts hit $8.9 trillion. - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence
Coinbase's AI sent a false World Cup result alert before kickoff, drawing backlash and a CEO review. - CoinDesk
the future seems bad when a supposed brokerage sends out fake news alerts
New Claude models have JSON / tool-calling regression where they invent keys / tool parameters - Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
AI agentic harness complexity has grown, not shrunk, since 2023, with critics doubting predictions that models will absorb it within 12 months. - NextBigFuture.com
Chinese startups LinkerBot and Wuji Technology race to build dexterous robotic hands, a market that hit $7.4 billion last year - the Guardian
Some Waymo robotaxis stalled and were towed, while another drove through an exploding firework, during San Francisco's gridlocked July 4th; no injuries reported. - California Post
Dartmouth practice quiz platform raises math scores - explainx.ai
Paper: an AI tutor produced a 0.71-to-1.30 standard-deviation effect-size gain — a very large improvement — for students in a Dartmouth course study - Utrecht University IN-TEXTBOOKS
A UC Irvine study finds AI use cut math practice time up to 31% and test scores from 80% to 60%. - KQED
Facebook took no action on AI-generated far-right page "Life in Britain" despite being flagged over a month ago and 97% AI-detection confidence - The Independent
AI-generated content may make up 44% of some platform uploads but only 1-3% of streams - Fast Company
CAA's "Vault" facility lets actors scans bodies and faces to build AI likenesses for de-aging, dubbing, ads, and posthumous use. - Vanity Fair
Aspire Space and Leap 71 use AI-designed aerospike engines with ex-Soviet engineers to build a reusable rocket rivaling SpaceX. - Fast Company
Masa appeal: FT profiles Masa Son - Financial Times
mega-IPOs might spawn some big new mega-angels and mega-funds
Travis Kelce reacts to a viral AI-generated wedding photo of him, Taylor Swift, and Bert Kreischer. - Yahoo
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