No spinout zone: OpenAI board rejected Altman's pre-IPO plan to spin out robotics and consumer hardware units - The Wall Street Journal

Dial M for Model: OpenAI fast-tracks AI agent phone with dual NPUs and custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 for H1 2027 mass production. - X (formerly Twitter)

Inbox Zero Accountability: Sam Altman uses OpenClaw AI agent to automate morning message responses. - Business Insider

OpenAI president Brockman grilled over his $30 billion stake and duty to humanity. - SiliconANGLE

Greg Brockman testifies pedantically in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, 2017 journals revealing his greed and opportunism. - The Verge

Judge bars Musk's sole expert witness, AI researcher Stuart Russell, from testifying on AGI risks. - TechCrunch

Elon Musk warns of 'Terminator situation' as worst-case AI outcome in OpenAI lawsuit testimony. - TechRadar

Anthropic limits Mythos AI access to 40 firms despite discovering thousands of vulnerabilities, as AI cyberattacks surge 89% per CrowdStrike. - Rest of World

UK's NHS orders technology leaders to privatize all public GitHub repositories by May 11 over risks from AI models like Anthropic's Mythos. - The Register

EU in talks with Anthropic to stress-test banks for AI model risks. - Bloomberg

Google Chrome automatically downloads and installs a 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model on users' devices without asking for permission. - That Privacy Guy!

Google DeepMind UK workers voted to unionize in April amid Google's US Pentagon AI deal. - the Guardian

White House weighs a working group to review new AI models before public release. - Engadget

Former Trump and Biden AI advisers urge bipartisan export controls and safety audits to address AI security risks - ctech

China's PLA is developing AI-powered quadruped robotic wolf packs for scouting and troop support in a potential Taiwan conflict, per FDD report. - Fox News

Iranian drone strikes damaged AWS and Oracle data centers in the Gulf, disrupting US AI hub plans - naked capitalism

Cerebras prices IPO at $115-$125 per share, targeting $26.6 billion valuation on OpenAI partnership - TechCrunch

Sierra raises $950M from Tiger Global and GV at $15B-plus valuation to build enterprise AI customer agents. - TechCrunch

Roze-Colored Future: SoftBank plans a $100 billion Roze AI robotics spinoff, bundling investments for a public listing in 7-19 months. - The Daily Upside

The GPT Tax: AI data center demand will add hidden costs to Northeast US power bills - Bloomberg

Watch the commission of Box Elder County, Utah, (pop. 65k) walk out of their meeting today and move to Zoom because so many citizens showed up to protest the Kevin O'Leary data center -- the one that could use 2x as much energy as the entire state currently consumes. - YouTube

AI inference workloads can overwhelm AWS EBS, spiking agentic latency 50x, says cloud storage provider - The Register

Microsoft takes Agent 365 out of preview as shadow AI becomes an enterprise threat - VentureBeat

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs - The Register

AI agents consume many more tokens than prompts, making costs wildly unpredictable, University of Michigan study finds. - ZDNET

A guide to prompt injection attacks that hijack AI agents via hidden instructions in business data, and malware defenses. - Hacker Noon

Long context windows do not replace RAG but force rethinking of context engineering for enterprise AI. - Hacker Noon

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues at Milken Institute that AI is creating an enormous number of jobs, pushing back on unemployment fears. - TechCrunch

Yann LeCun says CEOs hyping AI job losses do a disservice to high school students amid U.S. youth unemployment at 6.4%, calls it 'extremely destructive'. - Yahoo Tech

Amazon, UPS, and Microsoft announce workforce reductions or hiring freezes tied to AI, with 40% of WEF-surveyed firms expecting cuts. - TechRadar

Microsoft's Work Trend Index finds 65% of AI users fear falling behind, with only 26% seeing aligned leadership. - CNET

David Sacks says AI drove 75% of Q1 US GDP growth, warns pausing it would stall the economy⎘ - Yahoo

ByteDance's Seedance AI churned out 50,000 microdramas on Douyin in March, displacing Chinese directors and actors in a $3B+ market. - Futurism

Georgetown CSET study finds AI-generated code contains 2.74 times more vulnerabilities than hand-written code. - Hacker Noon

Ship fast, debug forever: AI coding boosts throughput but drops main-branch success to 70.8% and adds 250+ debugging hours yearly, DORA finds. - B-List

10 Lessons for Agentic Coding - Drew Breunig

Waymo delivers 500,000 weekly rides with 3,000 vehicles across 11 US cities as co-CEO sees a path to personal cars. - Yahoo

Jack Clark: AI is about to become self-improving. Is the singularity at hand? - The Potential Surface

AI leaders including Hinton, Musk, and Amodei warn of 10-25% human extinction risk as big tech logs $213B in quarterly profits. - ABC Australia

hmmh, I can make a billion dollars but with 25% human extinction risk, should I do that trade?

A blueprint for improving democracy with AI, by enhancing truthfulness and reducing polarization via fact-checking while policymakers build identity-verified AI deliberation platforms, and use AI for more responsive government. - MIT Technology Review

OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in Schools - 404 Media

What will it take to get AI out of schools? - The New Yorker

South Korea's Talking Buddy chatbot saved a 77-year-old by detecting an acute hernia and alerting social workers - The New York Times

In a demonstration of crypto/AI/social media synergy, X user tricks Grok and Bankrbot into sending $200K using Morse code - Cryptopolitan

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