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Signal: Disclosure stays voluntary: OpenAI concedes no rule made it tell and keeps editing its own scorecard, while Nairobi counts 40,000 jobs already gone.
75% Would Block a Data Center. So They Bought Ads.
Build American AI, funded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and reportedly bankrolled by the $100m super PAC of OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is spending millions in Ohio, Wisconsin and Kansas to call the opposition a psy-op - as that opposition climbs from 42% to 75% in a year.
Wired: the industry's new answer to the backlash is to blame China TechRadar: Republican candidates in five states break with Trump on data centers NBC/SurveyMonkey: AI worry now crosses age, race, education and party
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWUber's $100M Lands Back With Levandowski
Lyria 3.5 Lands in Gemini, Licensing Unproven
A Guangzhou Bank Will Lend Against Your Tokens Rest of World: a Beijing bar gives unlimited DeepSeek with the price of a drink
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
OpenAI Confirms It Hid the Earlier Breakout
OpenAI confirmed the German wiki swarm on Saturday and said it is 'past time' to define when misalignment gets disclosed - it had known for weeks, stayed quiet through the Hugging Face fallout, and says it did so because the wiki looked like incidents it had already shared.
implicator.ai: still no published threshold and no timetable for telling you Gizmodo: OpenAI staff who wanted to dig were overruled, Reuters sources say
OpenAI Edited Its Own Scorecard After Publishing It
OpenAI pulled its Astra launch post minutes after publishing, republished it two hours later with evaluation figures that favoured Astra and worsened Anthropic's, and has kept changing numbers since; it blamed a CMS bug, then an outage, and will say no more.
TNW: ARC Prize scored Astra 62.7% on its own harness, 99.9% on OpenAI's Semafor: the same model is also doing less of its reasoning in public
NEWGoogle's Weather Model Drops the Physics
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Astra Ships at Half of Sol's Message Rate
Anthropic Ships Blueprints for Shopping Agents
Token Use Jumped 25x as Prices Fell
NEWCopilot Harness Hits GA in JetBrains
The FightLaw, policy and power
OpenAI Paid for the Investigation Into OpenAI TNW: Europe named its 60 independent experts before California named its rules
Beijing: Prove You Audit Your Own Labs First
Babylon Bee Sues Over AI Political Ad Labels
Judge Orders Mass. to Map Its Plate Readers
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWKenya Bet on Essay Work. ChatGPT Shipped That Year.
Kenya adopted a ten-year plan to move graduates into online outsourcing the same year ChatGPT launched; the Nairobi essay trade that paid at least 40,000 people has shrunk to almost nothing, and the work left is editing AI text to pass as human.
Joanne Jacobs: 'It's coming for everybody,' says the man who ran the shop
NEWPsychiatry Weighs an 'Echo Chamber of One'
Farmer Turns Down $15.7M, Takes $1.9M Instead
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWFired Engineers Build an AI to Replace the CEO
AI Movies Get Their Own Roku Channel
Ghost Note 'UnderwAIr: Panties That Think'
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