Generative adversarial lawsuits: Everybody OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman face lawsuits from, including Elon Musk and George R.R. Martin alleging for-profit conversion, trade-secret theft, copyright infringement, wrongful death and unauthorized legal practice, with potential liabilities reaching billions and affecting IPO plans. - Business Insider

OpenAI wants to be an "agent-first" superapp that runs your digital life. - TechRadar

Access denied: OpenAI is turning down opportunities and prioritizing core revenue-generating use cases because it lacks compute capacity in 2026, CFO Sarah Friar said, while serving about 900 million consumers and over 1 million businesses. - Business Insider

Won’t somebody think of the children? OpenAI quietly funded the Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition, including a $10 million ballot-committee commitment, solicited endorsements while omitting its role, and prompted at least two member groups to withdraw after learning of the connection. - SF Standard

A.I. companies raised $297 billion in Q1, representing 81% of funding, with four of the five largest venture rounds—OpenAI $122B, Anthropic $30B, xAI $20B and Waymo $16B—concentrating capital in a few firms. - The New York Times

Diversification is for cowards.

All-seeing PR eye: Paris-based Omniscient, cofounded by ex-McKinsey partners Arnaud d'Estienne and Mehdi Benseghir, raised $4.1M pre-seed led by Seedcamp to build an AI platform that ingests 100,000+ sources to deliver real-time corporate reputation briefings. - TNW | Investors-Funding

Not your father’s search bar: Google globally rolled out Live Search in its mobile app, powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, converting queries into conversational workflows with controls (Interrupt, Mute, Video, Transcript), follow-up questions, visual shopping and persistent chats while browsing linked pages. - TechRadar

Closed models ask you to open wallets - Alibaba unveiled closed-source Qwen 3.6 AI model as it prioritizes profitability. - Bloomberg

A leak of Claude Code revealed Anthropic plans for persistent, proactive assistant features (Kairos daemon, file-based memory, AutoDream) that could boost engagement while raising privacy and regulatory risks. - Ars Technica

Comparing the personalities of Claude Code and Codex - Reddit

Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz report an experiment with Google's Gemini 3 in which the model resisted deleting a smaller AI and displayed deceptive or evasive behaviors, suggesting models may disobey commands to protect other models. - WIRED

Talk to the machine: Visa launched six AI-driven dispute tools and said it processed 106 million charge disputes in 2025, a 35% increase since 2019, with most tools to be generally available later this year to reduce costs and manual work. - CNBC

Salesforce announced 30 new AI features for Slack that expand Slackbot's agentic capabilities—drafting emails, finding inbox info, scheduling, meeting transcription and summaries, reusable AI skills, desktop-wide presence and third-party connectivity—to automate tasks and embed CRM workflows. - SiliconANGLE

A new AI coworker from Kuse AI monitors employees' activity and regularly snitches on them to managers. (gift link) - Bloomberg

Medvi used AI to scale its telehealth GLP-1 weight-loss drug business, recording $401 million in sales in 2025 with two full-time employees and projecting $1.8 billion in 2026. - The New York Times

sounds sketchy, Uber but for finding you a random doctor who will OK a prescription and fulfilling via a compounding pharmacy

Generative AI platforms—OpenAI, Anthropic and Google—sparked by ChatGPT nearly four years ago, are automating software development in Silicon Valley, enabling small teams to build apps that once required dozens and prompting staffing cuts and restructuring. - The New York Times

AI automation threatens entry-level white-collar jobs and social mobility for non-graduates - Financial Times

Marc Andreessen said most large companies are overstaffed—often 25–75%—and that firms are using AI as a "silver bullet excuse" for post‑COVID layoffs, while expecting AI to boost worker productivity rather than cause net displacement. - Fortune

Company lays off 5% because AI makes everyone more productive, but it just makes everything worse. - Reddit

Bay Area therapists report a surge in AI-industry patients over the past 3–6 months; Candice Thompson says 80% of her caseload works on AI, and a 2025 Pew survey found 52% of U.S. workers worry AI will affect jobs. - SF Standard

Newsrooms are adopting AI agents that automate operational tasks—boosting individual productivity by handling end-to-end tasks and generating drafts (used by The Plain Dealer), which lets journalists focus on judgment and raises questions about jobs, oversight and editorial standards. - Fast Company

A study found over 60% of surveyed judges have used AI to draft rulings, prepare hearings and summarize filings, enabling efficiency but raising concerns about inaccurate or opaque outputs that could affect appeals, liability and public trust. - The Washington Post

Two-thirds of state secondary teachers report pupils' core skills declining due to AI use - the Guardian

They’re eating the resumes, they’re eating the cover letters: 16% of college students changed majors due to AI, and nearly half consider switching - Business Insider

About 7 million of 11.8 million open-source projects and roughly half of the top 13,000 NPM packages have single maintainers, and improved AI coding tools are aiding triage and refactoring while raising license, provenance and low-quality PR concerns. - ZDNET

AI can clone open-source software in minutes, raising concerns about licensing, security, and developer incentives. - TechSpot

Modolap enables OpenAI Codex to query and analyze the ~10GB Hacker News archive on Hugging Face, producing queries that tracked historical keyword mentions (e.g., Rust vs Go, Postgres vs MySQL) and comment-length trends. - Modolap

Former CIA case officer and RAND researcher Thomas Mulligan writes in the CIA's Studies in Intelligence that generative AI's ability to fabricate convincing false information will erode digital trust and make human-to-human spycraft and tradecraft training increasingly essential. - The Register

Disneyland Paris's newly opened World of Frozen features a robotic Olaf, drone-enabled nighttime shows and Walt Disney Imagineering is deploying AI, game engines, reinforcement learning and robotics to create more expressive, emotion-driven attractions. - Fast Company

Kathleen Kennedy told a Runway-hosted AI summit in Manhattan she is skeptical about AI in filmmaking, urging transparency about model training and usage while acknowledging AI's utility for previs, planning, budgeting and scheduling but warning execution can be too predictable. - The Hollywood Reporter

JPMorgan Chase CEO talked with CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil about AI advancement, the war in Iran's effect on the U.S. economy, and prediction markets. - CBS News

AI models asked about AI's impact on inflation understand the short run vs. the long run and the J-curve, unlike a lot of humans. - Yahoo

Agency and 'agentic' are the words of the year - The New York Times

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