Tech leaders including Altman and Musk advocate merging human consciousness with AI to enable cosmic expansion, a worldview critics call a quasi-religion. - the Guardian

Is Anthropic "Vatican-washing"? - the Guardian

On All-In Podcast, Bill Gurley and panel ask whether Anthropic leaders are excited about building a species superior to humans, a digital super-god, with Jason Calacanis cosplaying as the Pope. - YouTube

UN launches AI Governance for Humanity Lab in Valencia to advance international AI policy cooperation. - United Nations

AI investment is shifting rapidly between stack layers, from Nvidia GPUs to memory chips and power infrastructure, as bottlenecks move. - The Wall Street Journal

Kevin O'Leary's proposed 7.5-gigawatt Stratos data center in Utah received initial county approval despite concerns over land and water use. - Fast Company

Stratosfear: Kevin O'Leary and Trump administration officials blame Chinese propaganda for anti-datacenter opposition, citing scant evidence. - Tom's Hardware

sure, blame Xi for not wanting a project twice the size of Manhattan to make deepfake videos

Voulez-vous GPU avec moi: SoftBank plans up to €75 billion investment in French AI data centers. - Bloomberg

Put tokens on a diet: ools from Netflix and others compress prompts to tighten inefficient prompts and reduce token wastage - theregister

Waymo pulled its cars from freeways after a police chase scared passengers - Futurism

As robotaxi operations attempt to scale, rising number of incidents are generating backlash. - The Wall Street Journal

Rivian says AI assistants will make Apple CarPlay obsolete as it builds its own AI-defined vehicle software. - Digital Trends

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Nvidia's N1X AI PC chip could ship 10 million units but a broader upgrade cycle requires better on-device Windows AI support. - Benzinga

ARMed and dangerous: Nvidia shipped its first Vera CPUs with 88 ARM-based cores to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Oracle, targeting a $200 billion CPU market. - Yahoo

Not real, not spec-tacular: Apple delays AI s`mart glasses launch to late 2027 and pushes new Vision Air headset to 2028 or 2029. - 9to5Mac

AI-generated economic value, called "dark output," may be largely invisible to GDP and national statistics, dwarfing prior measurement problems. - SemiAnalysis

Total addressable market is the galaxy: SpaceX and Cerebras IPO filings use inflated AI market projections to justify trillion-dollar valuations. - The Wall Street Journal

Mullahs of malware: How Iran is using AI for cyber attacks and propaganda - Financial Times

It’s a Shor thing: Experts urge enterprises to upgrade to 256-bit encryption now as quantum computers approach the power to break current cryptography. - ZDNET

CEO gets death threats after eliminating 30% of jobs, telling bank conference that paying $100 for human labor when AI costs $2 is "stupid" - HCA Magazine

$2 humans are getting restless

Claude Code and OpenAI Codex daily install growth has plateaued at roughly 120,000 and 60,000 respectively. - Yahoo

Only 16% of US workers have received formal employer AI training despite 28% using AI tools multiple times per week, Nexthink survey finds. - TechRadar

training = good luck, don’t crash prod or exfiltrate all our data

Australian e-commerce retailer The Iconic used AI-generated models to advertise clothing, prompting questions about transparency and product accuracy. - the Guardian

Shein on you crazy diamond: AI-generated fake personas on TikTok and Instagram target the Black community to sell drop-shipped Shein products through affinity methods and empathy-based manipulation. - The Verge

AI detection is still BS snake oil - The Atlantic

Superpower Health uses AI to offer low-cost blood biomarker testing, but accuracy and trust concerns persist. - BGR

AI is causing a crisis of human agency - The Atlantic

5 Stages of AI: Clinicians propose 'AI Replacement Dysfunction' to name the grief-like existential crisis emerging among tech workers as AI can do most of their jobs. - jackmaguire.org

Seance as a service: AI "deathbot" services that simulate deceased individuals are gaining traction as a new spiritual application of the technology. - Bloomberg

Total recall: ChatGPT's April 2025 memory update, when it started frequently referring to things it knows about you, was linked to AI psychosis cases, lawsuits, and delusional spirals in some users. - Futurism

How do I tell my partner his reliance on A.I. is damaging our relationship? - The New York Times

Robo-zebras? NBA commissioner Adam Silver says the league is exploring AI to assist referees and reduce officiating controversy. - Digital Trends

High school that uses a lot of AI considered…pretty normal and not super gimmicky - The New York Times

El Tigre creator Jorge Gutierrez withdrew from Amazon's AI animation program one day after Guillermo del Toro's implicit criticism on social media. - Kotaku

Hard Drive, Soft Cancel: Bill Gates is being quiet-canceled despite crisis PR, scheduled to testify about Epstein ties - The Wall Street Journal

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