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You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work; plus, Vladimir Putin said Elon Musk is ‘truly a genius'
A University of Kentucky administrator recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace. Also, Putin said that he and Musk are in "close contact" about Rassvet, Russia's Starlink-like satellite connectivity project. And
As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps; plus, Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps. Also, Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with Op
Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. and by that he doesn't just mean assembly, but every individual component, some of which are exclusively made in China today. Learn more about your ad
How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
‘Cyberselfish’ author takes aim at techno-libertarianism as her book returns from the dead; plus, Grok released the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
Last year, “Nerd Reich” author Gil Durán declared (https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com/post/3lzm3e6izn327) that it was time to revive the career of Paulina Borsook, who he said “saw it all very clearly and tried to warn us 25 years ago.”
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing; plus, Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs. Also, a newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to hel
Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work; plus, Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose
Uber previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work, but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide. Also, Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service. Learn m
Anthropic pitches AI safety bill; plus, Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge. Also, before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take
People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher, redesign the home screen, disable tracking features, and more. Learn more about yo
Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’; plus Anthropic is committing to a ‘public benefit fund’
"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film. Also, Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund. And the filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI empl
Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access; plus, AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different; plus, Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads
Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology. Also, Flock's CEO's comments come amid mounting scrutiny of
Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home; plus, Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud. Also, Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neura
Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice. Also, in a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI. Lear
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture. Learn more about your ad choi
India rejects Elon Musk’s claim of discrimination over Starlink launch; plus, ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises
Starlink is still awaiting security clearance before it can seek spectrum and begin commercial services in India. Also, ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging
How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’; plus, how AI decision models could change content moderation
A Threads user wrote: "I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads. Also, on Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model ma
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU; plus, Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says. Also, the company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-m
Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’; plus, Amazon responds to data center backlash
A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant. Also, the CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicio
Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president; plus, Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro. Also, Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples. Learn more about yo
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach; BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is cheaper
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach. Also, the new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossi
OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents; plus, the AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Also, just like the rest of the U.S, data centers and AI are
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge; plus, Meta opens early access, and Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge. Also, anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list. And Blue Cross Blue Shield says h
Muse Charm is tapping into a trend; Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack
Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories. Also, the OpenAI hacking incident is the first k
Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it
The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence; plus, Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content. Also, Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping; plus, Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle
Johnson’s view comes as some of the world’s biggest tech companies are trying to push AI deeper into shopping, betting that agents can automate more of how we find and buy items. Also, Meta is giving plastic recycling a boost in a new deal
OpenAI forms math advisory group; Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch; plus, the Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research. Also, Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history'; plus, Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers. Also, King Charles hos
