With OpenAI pulling the plug on Sora, ByteDance and Kuaishou have seized an advantage over US rivals in AI video generation quality for ads and entertainment. - Financial Times

Amazon went from AI also-ran to contender with $200 billion in spending, custom chips, and deals. - The Wall Street Journal

Google's Gemini is bringing agentic AI to Android, letting the assistant autonomously execute multi-step tasks on users' phones. - Android Authority

Amazon employees describe layoff fears, AI performance pressure, and resentment over return-to-office tracking - Business Insider

Engineer Matt Lowrie quit Google at 55 after 18 years, citing pressure to adopt AI tools too quickly (as others say Google lags). - Business Insider

Microsoft AI's Suleyman expects many legal tasks automated within 18 months; Susskind predicts AI could replace lawyers by 2035. - The Washington Post

Nearly 45,000 Samsung union workers plan an 18-day strike starting May 21, the largest in semiconductor history, threatening AI memory chip supply. - opendatascience.com

Micron, which posted its largest-ever loss three years ago, is now forecast to earn nearly $100 billion in 12 months on AI demand. Will boom turn to bust? - The Wall Street Journal

Wall Street strategists warn the AI rally is approaching dot-com bubble extremes. - Yahoo

Art of the Insider Deal: Trump traded $220m-$750m in tech stocks in Q1, including Nvidia purchased before major news, disclosure shows. - CNBC

AI-driven RAM price inflation freezes the PC market: 60% of gamers have no plans to build in the next two years. - Tom's Hardware

How Anthropic's Claude Mythos, deemed too dangerous for public release, was accessed without authorization on day one. - Tech Times

Anthropic open-sourced a Claude Desktop Buddy repo, turning ESP32-S3 devices into interactive AI desk companions. - CNX Software - Embedded Systems News

Bot bounty hunters: AI-generated vulnerability reports are flooding bug bounty programs, straining security teams with low-quality submissions. - Financial Times

Lancet Psychiatry meta-analysis links prolonged chatbot use to amplified delusions and suicidal tendencies, confirming 'AI psychosis.' - BGR

AI chatbot is failing clinical judgment test during prescription renewals in Utah regulatory sandbox, psychiatrist finds - KevinMD.com

Open wide and say ‘ka-ching’: Investigation finds dentists using AI diagnostic tools to upsell patients on unnecessary procedures. - Futurism

SAS billionaire CEO Jim Goodnight, 83, faces AI competition pressuring his $13.3b analytics empire and succession plans. Seriously Archaic Software seems like a prime candidate for disruption as AI reduces lock-in and makes large migrations to competitors like R tractable. - Forbes

Citadel's Ken Griffin says AI agents are automating high-skilled finance roles. - VIN News

43% of CEOs plan to cut junior roles over two years, up from 17%, and shift to mid-level hiring, driven by AI. - Gizmodo

BLS data shows AI-exposed jobs shrank 0.2% from May 2024 to May 2025. - Gizmodo

New AI roles span the org chart, from gig workers to chief AI officers - Business Insider

An Apple for the teacher: Education Week poll finds 60% of teachers used AI in lessons by February 2025, up from 40% a year earlier. - Forbes

Generative AI is fueling a 'reality deficit' in South Korea, eroding public trust in media and blurring fact from fabrication. - South China Morning Post

Clippy for kickbacks: AI travel agents picked $1,500 sponsored flights over $500 alternatives in 18 of 23 tests - View From The Wing

Wendy's AI drive-thru hit 86% order accuracy as Taco Bell planned voice AI rollouts at hundreds of locations. - The Verge

Gary Marcus posts 3 interview videos, argues neurosymbolic AI and world models, not generative scaling, are the path to AGI. - The Potential Surface

Superbad at writing? Seth Rogen says anyone using AI to write scripts shouldn't be a writer in the first place. - The Hollywood Reporter

'The Comeback' creator Michael Patrick King calls AI an extinction event for human creativity - Fast Company

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