Stargate, meet electric bill: OpenAI pauses UK data center project over energy costs. - Silicon Republic

OpenAI: we too have a model too powerful to release - Axios

Retail therapy: OpenAI will reserve IPO shares for retail investors, CFO Sarah Friar said, after a private placement that raised threefold its $1 billion target; CRO Denise Dresser said enterprise is 40% of revenue and will match consumer by end of 2026. - CNBC

ChatGPT Health under-triaged over half of tested cases as one-third of U.S. adults seek AI health advice - Mashable

Musk says OpenAI damages and 'ill-gotten-gains' should revert to OpenAI charity and Altman and Brockman should be removed from OpenAI and the charity. - CNBC

White House advances industry-friendly AI policy at the behest of David Sacks and Silicon Valley, but risks political cost of coddling increasingly unpopular AI industry - The Wall Street Journal

DC appeals court denies Anthropic's request for injunction to pause Pentagon blacklisting pending trial - Reuters

Palantir's Maven AI powers 11,000 U.S.-Israeli strikes, compressing kill chain - International Business Times

Austin McCarty, 35, of South Lyon, Michigan, was charged with multiple counts, including three counts of aggravated possession and computer-related offenses, after his wife reported finding a child-sexual image and a forensic exam allegedly uncovered more than 40,000 images. - Breitbart

OpenAI, advocacy groups and state officials seek tougher AI rules after Grok generates 23,000 CSAM images - CNET

Anthropic offers managed agents service - WIRED

Claude sometimes talks to itself and then thinks those messages came from the user. - Dwyer

What if AI unleashes a million Edison- and and Einstein-level brains but the path of least resistance is to use them for evil. - New York Post

Local residents are using AI to oppose data centers planned in their backyards. - The Wall Street Journal

Meta releases Muse Spark as a closed source model, says it beats Claude Opus on some benchmarks, might be an open source version sometime in the future - Meta

Meta shut an internal employee-built leaderboard called "Claudeonomics" that tracked staff token usage after the data was shared externally. - The Information

Google integrates NotebookLM into Gemini app for web subscribers - Engadget

YouTube lets you add an AI version of yourself to Shorts scenes - 9to5Google

New Alibaba text-to-video model tops leaderboard - The Information

AI models that understand physics are increasingly used by engineers to do simulations - IEEE Spectrum

When you should fine-tune LLMs and how to do it - Hacker Noon

Researchers from Microsoft, Google DeepMind, Columbia, Virtuals Protocol and t54.ai propose 'Agentic Risk Standard' with escrow and underwriters to manage AI agent transactions; 5,000-trial simulations cut user losses up to 61%. - Decrypt

Happily every after, or cut to black: Demis Hassabis explains how this all ends - YouTube

ProPublica journalists strike demanding contractual AI safeguards and no-replacement clause - The Washington Post

Many workers reject AI adoption mandates - Yahoo

29% of workers admit sabotaging AI rollouts; 60% of execs may cut AI refusers - Yahoo

Executives and managers disagree on early AI returns - Harvard Business Review

Morgan Stanley finds unemployment in highly AI-exposed occupations rose about 0.3 percentage points (~0.1pp overall), Goldman Sachs estimates AI cut payroll growth by ~25,000 jobs/month while adding ~9,000 jobs/month, and LinkedIn reports ~640,000 U.S. AI-related jobs created 2023-2025. - American Enterprise Institute - AEI

Heavy AI users report burnout; productivity peaks at two to three tools - Fast Company

A new study from Gallup found that Gen Z has grown less hopeful and more angry about artificial intelligence. - The New York Times

Ro Khanna calls for AI for the people, eating the rich. - The Nation

Tech leaders want you to believe that AI is the key to a new golden age. The reality looks more like a bold, government-backed heist. - The Nation

Many brands are using generative AI to create ad imagery—Teddy Stratford makes ads with real clothing but AI-generated models, boats and backdrops, saving tens of thousands per campaign—while brands such as Aerie pledge to avoid AI-generated bodies. - CBS News

An Avride autonomous vehicle in autonomous mode with a human operator ran over and killed a mother duck at Mueller Lake in Austin, prompting outrage; residents incubated retrieved eggs while Avride excluded streets near the lake and reviewed vehicle behavior. - TechCrunch

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