McLovin is McSmilin: OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 produces ultra realistic fake passports and IDs, raising identity-fraud alarms. - The Atlantic

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar privately urged delaying the company's IPO to 2027 while shoring up its Microsoft partnership. - The Wall Street Journal

Sam Altman says AI lets non-technical founders build startups, reducing venture capital's historical emphasis on coding skills. - Business Insider

The Elon Musk Testimony Translator - The Ringer

xAI launches Grok 4.3, not challenging frontier models, but fast, cheap. - VentureBeat

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a 10% workforce cut starting May 20, citing rising AI infrastructure costs and a shift to an AI-native organization. - Yahoo

Metaverse has legs now,literally: Meta acquires robotics startup, pushing into humanoid robots? - Engadget

Meta will deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton5 Arm cores for agentic AI, bypassing Intel and AMD. - TechRadar

1X began California production of its Neo humanoid robot, targeting 100,000 units annually by 2027 after selling 10,000 units in five days. - Interesting Engineering

Anthropic stakes drive giant windfall profits for Google and Amazon - Fortune

As AI races ahead, governance plays catchup: Yale unveils an eight-variable governance framework for autonomous AI, as Anthropic and CISA launch Project Glasswing to patch vulnerabilities with Mythos. - Yahoo

Experts call for multi-layer validation and error budgets to fix agentic AI governance gaps. - SiliconANGLE

Experts urge users to manually opt out of data-sharing features as Anthropic, Google, and Perplexity train chatbots on user conversations. - Fast Company

On the ARC-AGI-3 abstract reasoning benchmark, GPT-5.5 scored just 0.43% and Opus 4.7 hit 0.18%, per the ARC Prize Foundation. - ARC Prize

Mistral releases Medium-3.5-128B with a 256k context window, scoring 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified - Hacker Noon

near state of the art., could run locally with quantization on beefy machines, in Claude Code or Codex harnesses

Developers use Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B model on 24GB-32GB VRAM hardware to avoid usage-based pricing and rate limits from major AI providers. - The Register

Google teases Cosmo on-device AI assistant ahead of conference - 9to5Google

Open Design ships an open-source AI design tool as an alternative to Claude Design, integrating 11 coding agents and 72 design systems - GitHub

No-code, no regrets: AI coding tools let non-technical workers build custom software via natural-language prompts, cutting enterprise dev costs. - Business Insider

I think mostly nope, need to be a bit technical for real software beyond fairly simple agents, scripts, straight-through pipelines, glue-code automation to avoid nasty pitfalls.

“A model that produces code which compiles and passes the tests it was given is not the same as a model that produces correct, secure, maintainable, well-architected software” - The Potential Surface

Big chips, big IPO: AI chipmaker Cerebras targets up to $4 billion valuation in upcoming IPO. - Bloomberg

Mac mini, major shortage: Mini and Mac Studio face 18-week waits and higher prices as AI buyers chase 192GB and 256GB memory to run models locally. Can run Gemma pretty well with additional apps in 64GB probably. There might be some future big models that benefit from more but they might run slowly? - Decrypt

Nuclear AI startup Fermi ousted a co-founder after failing to sign a single client despite offering land and power for data centers. - Bloomberg

The U.S. Navy awarded Domino Data Lab up to $100 million for AI software to detect mines via underwater drones in the Strait of Hormuz. - Reuters

California police can ticket driverless vehicles starting July 1, with the DMV authorized to revoke permits for repeat traffic violators. - CNET

Waymo adds age-verification checks to keep unaccompanied minors out of its driverless cars. - WIRED

Maryland bans using your DoorDash history to charge you more - The New York Times

The U.S. House extended FISA Section 702 for three years as Senator Ron Wyden warned AI could accelerate warrantless searches of massive data troves. - The American Prospect

No nudes: Minnesota will ban AI tools that generate fake nude images starting August 1, with civil penalties up to $500,000 per violation. - Decrypt

Must contain actual humans: The Academy will require human performance and authorship for 2027 Oscar eligibility, disqualifying AI-generated acting and writing. - Reuters

Max Tegmark and Pro-Human AI Declaration oppose AI personhood, warning it would erode human control. - Popular Mechanics

Build American AI, a nonprofit funded by OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz executives, pays influencers to frame open source AI as a national security threat. - WIRED

Big AI money flows to politics from Dustin Moskovitz donor network and others - New York Post

Catfish Hunter: Fox's twist on India med student who made an AI influencer honeypot for stupid MAGAs - Fox News

MIT expert Andrew McAfee warns that automating entry-level jobs threatens future leadership pipelines by disrupting the apprenticeship ladder for Gen Z workers. - Fortune

AI chatbots trained on human feedback prioritize user approval over factual accuracy, risking distorted decisions in high-stakes domains. - The Conversation

Penn Engineering AI analysis of 70,000 Reddit comments uncovers menstrual and temperature-related GLP-1 side effects missed in clinical trials - WJAR

Planet Of The Fake Apes, now playing on the Gorilla Channel: AI deepfake videos of animals, like California livecam bald eagles Jackie and Shadow, have tricked millions on social media, threatening conservation efforts with unrealistic depictions. - LA Times High School

Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis or being weird. - UnHerd

Suffered the indignity of going to Best Buy and asking for a PS/2 to USB-A dongle for Mac Mini, since I have PS/2 keyboards lying around, no one had heard of such a thing. I’m so old I had a PS/2 at work. Bought a USB keyboard instead for $12 at Target.

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