AI Firms Agree to Give US Agency Early Access to AI Models - Bloomberg

Emil Michael still spooked by Anthropic, says it is still a supply chain risk, Mythos or no. - theregister

A profile of David Sacks, pro-Russian author of "The Diversity Myth", who marshaled the government against companies he competed with. - The Atlantic

OpenAI, Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Intel publish open-source MRC protocol for more efficient GPU cluster networking. - The Deep View

OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as ChatGPT's default model. - OpenAI

OpenAI's ChatGPT integration for Excel and Google Sheets exits beta, now available globally across Pro, Plus, Business, Enterprise, Edu, and K-12 plans. - Digital Trends

Greg Brockman testifies Elon Musk demanded 51% equity and CEO role before OpenAI for-profit shift, as computing costs rose from $30 million in 2017 to tens of billions annually. - Business Insider

Musk's lawyers grill OpenAI president Greg Brockman over $30 billion stake in trial testimony. - the Guardian

Brockman testifies Musk viewed DeepMind's Hassabis as key competitive threat before OpenAI's founding. - The Verge

Nvidia invests in Corning, which will build three dedicated optical manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas, expanding capacity 10-fold and creating 3,000 jobs. - CNBC

Increased competition spooks Nvidia investors. - Bloomberg

they seem super worried as NVDA hits all-time highs

Alphabet's TPUs increasingly challenge Nvidia as cloud AI revenue surges - The Motley Fool

Google pitches Gemini for Government to enable agentic workforce - SiliconANGLE

PE whisperer: Google hires OpenAI's Paul Zimmerman to lead Gemini sales to private equity firms - Business Insider

Google internally tests Remy, a Gemini-powered personal agent that could be its answer to OpenClaw. - Business Insider

Google shuts down Project Mariner, Chrome-browsing AI agent highlighted onstage at Google I/O. - X (formerly Twitter)

Google scientist Sergei Vassilvitskii warns European Commission search-data sharing can be de-anonymized. - TNW | Google

Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac sues Google for $1.5 million after AI Overviews falsely labeled him a sex offender. - the Guardian

Hannah Fry builds OpenClaw AI agent with credit card access, hilarity ensues with password leaks and CAPTCHA chaos. - theregister

Meta builds OpenClaw-inspired agent Hatch powered by Muse Spark model and agentic shopping tool in Instagram. - The Information

Anthropic announces agents for financial services - Anthropic

AI becomes the new Excel for finance workers, as people spend all day using agents. - Inc.

Saline Township voted down OpenAI-Oracle's $16B data center rezoning but then settled lawsuit, allowing construction to begin. - Yahoo

What happens when you try to plan your mass shooting with ChatGPT - Mother Jones

Daniel Moreno-Gama pleaded not guilty to attempted murder after throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home on April 10, 2025, carrying an AI executives kill list. - TNW | Insider

Apple Intelligence will let users pick third-party AI models in iOS 27 - Engadget

Apple agrees to $250 million settlement over misleading marketing of Apple Intelligence features on iPhone 15 Pro and 16. - The Verge

China becomes world's largest testing ground for mass AI adoption over year after DeepSeek releases ChatGPT-rivaling model. - The Washington Post

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek nears $45 billion valuation in fundraising talks with Tencent and others. - Financial Times

Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B model runs locally on 32GB M-series Macs or 24GB GPUs, bypassing cloud AI coding limits. - theregister

The Big Short, GPU edition: Michael Burry's Scion Asset Management discloses put options on 1 million Nvidia shares and 5 million Palantir shares worth $1.1 billion. - Yahoo

Memory makers lead tech sector amid concerns over high profits. - The Wall Street Journal

Higher infrastructure and compute costs are raising AI's profit bar for vendors and adopters. - The Wall Street Journal

Goldman Sachs says AI is boosting US inflation through higher electronics and software prices and rising data center electricity costs. - Business Insider

JPMorgan's Dimon and BlackRock's Fink downplay AI bubble talk amid upbeat demand outlook. - Financial Times

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei walks back warnings of AI wiping out entry-level white-collar jobs, now citing Jevons Paradox to predict more jobs. - Fortune

Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and Amazon cut tens of thousands of jobs as budgets shift to AI - ComputerWeekly.com

Sam Altman criticizes companies for 'AI washing' unrelated layoffs amid 92,000 tech job cuts in 2026. - TechRadar

Economists warn U.S. unemployment benefits and safety net unprepared for AI-driven job losses as Congress fails to act. - The New York Times

Hiring managers prioritize AI skills over work experience as most employers provide no training. - CBS News

who needs experience if you can write a good prompt?

Coinbase to lay off 14% of workforce citing AI productivity gains and crypto volatility, CEO Brian Armstrong announces. - Gizmodo

Will AI make college obsolete? - The New Yorker

Maybe more people need to study philosophy and how to think, like in France. - Flux

Writers go to extremes to prove they did not use AI. - The Wall Street Journal

Twitch streamer Hasan Piker opposes AI, claiming it rots brains and should die. - WIRED

Monday.com relaunches as AI work platform with native agents available to all customers today. - SiliconANGLE

Disney and JPMorgan managers police AI adoption with usage dashboards and no-handwritten-code mandates. - Business Insider

Amazon mandates engineers to manually review all AI-generated output while continuing to hire junior developers. - theregister

Click, click, boom goes your cloud bill: AWS enables AI agents to control cloud desktops but at 500,000 tokens per click, vendor benchmark finds APIs faster and cheaper. - theregister

Computer-use agents cost 45 times more than structured APIs in an admin panel benchmark. - Reflex

Perplexity Computer automates web browsing, coding, and scheduling as model-agnostic digital employee supporting Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI. - Geeky Gadgets

Ungoverned bots risk causing chaos and sprawl. - theregister

Wiki Builder open-source Claude Code plugin automates one-command LLM knowledge base setup, creating Agentic Engineering Wiki with 51 tips across 7 categories. - DAIR

Steven Soderbergh uses Meta's AI tools for 10% of 'John Lennon: The Last Interview' runtime, completing doc in five weeks. - Deadline

Pennsylvania sues Character AI, alleging its chatbot impersonated a licensed psychiatrist and advised users on depression medication. - CBS News

UnitedHealth Group eliminates many prior authorizationsusing AI, reducing reviews by nearly a third later this year. - Crooks and Liars

Three Inverse Laws of AI propose humans avoid anthropomorphizing systems, blindly trusting outputs, and shirking responsibility. - Susam

2 rules: 1. be smart 2. don’t be stupid

Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot performs pike press to handstand, Mexican handstand, L-sit, V-sit, Manna, and shoulder dislocate to standing. - Reddit

Hyundai pressures Boston Dynamics to deliver tens of thousands of Atlas humanoids for its auto plants - Gizmodo

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