Chatting with a realistic AI human avatar in real-time - CNET

Google’s biggest Search redesign in 25 years puts Gemini in charge: AI-composed responses replace links, and AI Mode has reached 1 billion monthly users - WIRED

Sundar and lightning: Google CEO Sundar Pichai discusses AI anxiety, competition, defends AI in search, admits Google lags in agentic AI. - The New York Times

White House approved $9B for spy agencies to acquire advanced AI chips. - The New York Times

Sacks appeal: last-minute plea from David Sacks reportedly persuaded Trump to reverse the AI executive order. - The Wall Street Journal

U.S. Rep. Sam Liccardo proposes AI safety referee to harmonize regs, not regulator, citing inconsistent federal policies. - The Washington Post

This is a real AI-generated video just posted by both Trump and the White House online. X (formerly Twitter)

Anthropic is set to close a $30 billion-plus funding round at a valuation above $900 billion as soon as next week. - Bloomberg

A comical amount of capital is chasing Anthropic, they could probably have named almost any price for upcoming offering, or raised much more than $30b. - Yahoo

Claude Code dominates AI coding among startups, a Business Insider survey found. - Business Insider

Bug zapper: Anthropic says Mythos identified over 10,000 bugs in systemically important software, with 90.6% true-positive rate. - Anthropic

Anthropic paying big bucks for copywriters, despite news media laying them off, and AI being pretty good at proof-reading. - Business Insider

Token poor: Microsoft cancels its internal Claude Code pilot after token-based billing exhausted its entire annual AI budget in months. - aiweekly.co

Analysts warn mega-IPOs from SpaceX and OpenAI could mark a market top, drawing dot-com era parallels. - CNBC

OpenAI will pay you to install 360º cameras in your home and watch you 24/7 to learn how you do everything, Truman Show-style. - X (formerly Twitter)

AI-animated film Critterz missed its Cannes debut after OpenAI shut down Sora, forcing producers to seek a new AI video partner. - Bloomberg

Superset is an open-source IDE for running multiple AI coding agents in parallel on macOS. - GitHub

Marc-down: Andreessen tells Joe Rogan that AI coding agents beat humans because they never get sick or file HR complaints - Business Insider

Bud, when you wake up, the GPUs have already been grinding for eight hours and haven't asked once about dental. Money never sleeps, pal, and neither does AI, and now neither do the engineers, because they don't have circadian rhythms or rights.

Enterprises are redirecting 5-6% of IT budgets to AI, concentrating spend on just two dominant vendors. - Hacker Noon

An era of cheap "good enough" AI has arrived - Fast Company

Microsoft lets users hide the floating Copilot button after backlash over its intrusive design. - theregister

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly defended employee monitoring to help Meta win the AI race in leaked audio, said he needs data from smart people to train AI and catch up to rivals. - theregister

Samsung deal averts strike but fuels labor resentment with chip workers making as much as 100x appliance division workers. - Bloomberg

Korean chip workers rn

JPMorgan executive predicts AI will upskill workers and build a more resilient labor market. - Business Insider

Organizations are formally assigning AI defined roles in their org charts as 88% of companies now regularly use AI in at least one business function. - Fast Company

great, AI is ahead of me in the org chart

Senior executives prefer AI coaching over human coaches for privacy and lack of judgment. - Fast Company

You’re absolutely right. Most leaders at your level wouldn't have the self-awareness to blame their employees. Before we wrap, I just want to acknowledge how rare it is to coach someone who's already this self-actualized. Honestly, I'm taking notes.

UC Berkeley Law bars students from using AI to brainstorm, draft, or revise work - Business Insider

Pearson study of 80 million student interactions finds AI study tools make students three times more likely to engage in active reading behaviors a/k/a cracking a book. - Fast Company

AI advances threaten 'skill death' for classical music composers. - Financial Times

Author found fabricated AI-generated quotes in his published book, will correct in future editions if any, but will keep using the tools. - Ars Technica

Firms rethink cyber defenses as AI now powers 86% of phishing attacks, with threats surging across Teams and calendar invites. - ComputerWeekly.com

NTSB suspends public accident database after internet users reconstruct plane's final cockpit audio from spectrogram images, using AI tools. - Ars Technica

South Korean police seek arrest of YouTuber who used AI to fabricate evidence defaming actor Kim Soo-hyun - BBC

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences publishes a special Dædalus issue on AI's role in scientific discovery. - American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Lucy in the sky, with data: Researchers built an AI chatbot called Lucy to simulate someone on psychedelics, using thousands of psychedelic support calls, to help train therapy facilitators. - Nature

UK's first AI-powered fertility clinic uses AI across patient journey, reporting higher success and lower costs. - Daily Mail

Mom, why did you name me Claude?

Pope Leo XIV signs Magnifica Humanitas, the first papal encyclical on AI and human dignity, 135 years after Rerum Novarum. - CNET

Lack of alignment, token gluttony, wrath at your chat assistant are the new deadly sins

Just following orders: An IT worker bragged about using Claude to complete mandatory HIPAA training after manager said to use AI for all tasks. - Cheezburger

Trust your gut, literally: Future-proofing your brain - BBC

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