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More than 200 economists, including 16 Nobel laureates and the chief economists of OpenAI and Anthropic, have signed an open letter comparing AI's disruption to the Industrial Revolution, but faster. They call for action now, before layoffs and an obsolete social safety net collide head-on.
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After the death of Senator Lindsey Graham, rumors about Mitch McConnell's health forced his team to release a photo as proof of life. It didn't work: part of the public deemed it AI-generated and turned to chatbots to 'verify' it, with results that only fueled the doubt.
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Apple has sued OpenAI over alleged theft of trade secrets, and within days the story collapsed into a schoolyard exchange of "scam" insults between Musk and Altman. Our take: separate the real legal question from the ego theater, because only one of them matters.
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Anthropic alleges Alibaba's Qwen lab ran 28.8 million queries through ~25,000 fake accounts to distill Claude's coding skills. The accusation is unproven and geopolitically loaded — but the uncomfortable truth it reveals is that per-account rate limiting failed for six weeks straight.
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A bipartisan bill in the U.S. Congress seeks to appoint a federal AI coordinator to accelerate pediatric cancer research and force the interoperability of clinical data. The intent is laudable and the political consensus is real, but the fine print —$100 million a year and no new regulatory power— says a lot about just how hard this problem really is.
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Anthropic embeds a Chromium browser inside Claude Code so the agent can interact with live websites, not just static screenshots. It's a modest technical move that reveals something bigger: the battle to control the 'plumbing' of agentic AI in software development.
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A university project in Oakland replaced whiteboards and paper at a machining plant in Santa Clara with an app featuring automatic translation into five languages. The most striking figure —an estimated $180,000 in annual savings— matters less than who was able to build it, and how fast.
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Two recent U.S. rulings confirm that exaggerating AI capabilities to investors fits squarely within old-fashioned securities fraud, with no need for specific rules. The case links Monolithic Power Systems and Omnicare to growing legal scrutiny of AI marketing.
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A survey of 600 HR leaders reveals that nearly 90% would handle their AI-related layoffs differently: a third lost critical skills and more than a third have already rehired for half of the eliminated roles. The problem isn't that AI is useless, but how it was decided who to cut.
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Nate, who benchmarks AI models for a living, confesses something he finds uncomfortable in that role: last night he opened ChatGPT 5.6 Sol even though he considers Fable 5 the smartest model.
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Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in a federal court in Northern California, accusing the artificial intelligence lab of trade secret theft.
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Omar Yaghi, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is leaving his post at the University of California, Berkeley to lead a new artificial intelligence institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, as the Chinese university itself announced.
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Meta has backtracked on an artificial intelligence feature in Instagram that had sparked a strong backlash among users and talent agencies. The tool, launched this very week as part of a package of new AI features, is no longer available, the company itself has confirmed.
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The AI news tracker picked up a corporate earnings release that has nothing to do with artificial general intelligence: here 'AGI' is the ticker for Ag Growth International, an agricultural equipment company. We flag it for the sake of editorial honesty, not as a relevant finding.
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An opinion poll by a Canadian local newspaper on whether elementary schoolchildren should use generative AI in school received only three votes, and all three were a resounding 'no.' The sample is minuscule, but the reflection it offers —families' instinctive wariness toward AI for children— is real and worth reading carefully.
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OSFI, Canada's financial regulator, has published six practices to curb the risks of generative and agentic AI at banks and insurers. And according to an email revealed by Reuters, it went so far as to explicitly cite Anthropic's Claude Mythos when warning about cyber risks: the scrutiny now has a model's name.
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A PNAS study on mice and their whiskers finds that the primary sensory cortex takes part in the decision, not just receives it, thanks to feedback signals from frontal regions. The feedforward architecture that today's neural networks copied —CNNs and transformers included— may be leaving on the table the efficiency the brain achieves on 20 watts.
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Turnitin detected AI in more than half of university submissions in Australia between October 2025 and April 2026, and Anthropic ranks the country as the world leader in per capita use of Claude. The figure is alarming, but the relevant question isn't how much AI is in a text, it's what learning is left behind it.
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VERAXA Biotech (Nasdaq: VRXA) is leaning on Ardigen's bioinformatics to prioritize target combinations in its BiTAC(R) bispecific antibody platform, aiming to reduce the toxicity that sinks many oncology drugs in the clinic. It's a limited and reasonable use of AI in biotech, though the wrapper —a microcap investor-relations release— calls for keeping your feet on the ground.
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Two Tuck (Dartmouth) professors propose using AI to detect when a company's messaging to investors, employees and customers stops adding up to a coherent story, using BlackRock's discursive shift on ESG as a case study. Their thesis: AI is useful for diagnosing, not for deciding the message.
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An Illinois teacher, accused of secretly recording students aged 12 to 14 and using AI to create sexually explicit images, could be fired this week. The case, still at the indictment stage, exposes how easily AI today generates child abuse material from real photos.
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Jeremy Allaire, co-founder of Circle, publishes an essay in which AI makes thinking and working cheaper, and blockchain makes transacting cheaper: agents with their own wallet would negotiate, sign and pay in stablecoins without going through a human department. It's a thesis, not a roadmap — and the person signing it also sells the money that would underpin it.
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Governor JB Pritzker signed a law barring school administrators from using AI to evaluate teachers, and teachers from using it to meet their performance goals. It's one of the first legal red lines on which decisions an algorithm cannot make in school.
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Cloudflare is opening a gateway for websites to charge AI crawlers and agents for each access, and AWS adds its WAF with Coinbase. It's the first serious attempt to turn automated traffic into a microtransaction market, with a deadline already set: September 15.
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'Side hustle' tutorials promise easy money generating children's cartoons with AI in minutes. What they leave out: COPPA cuts advertising by up to 80%, YouTube has already shut down channels with 4.7 billion views, and pediatricians document real harm to child development.
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The editorial in this edition of Turing Post starts from recent news: more than 200 economists, AI researchers and tech leaders —among them at least 16 Nobel laureates and figures from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google— have signed a declaration titled "We Must Act Now."
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This email from McKinsey & Company, signed by Basel Kayyali and Florian Niedermann, global leaders of McKinsey Technology, promotes a piece from its "New from McKinsey & Company" series focused on Miro, the collaborative digital whiteboard platform.
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This edition of The Algorithm (MIT Technology Review) revolves around new mechanistic interpretability research published by Anthropic, the company behind Claude and, according to the email, the world's most valuable AI company, with a valuation nearing one trillion dollars…
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This TheSequence Knowledge article opens by revisiting the famous 2015 distillation paper (Hinton et al. on "dark knowledge"), but not to talk about its temperature trick or that notion of dark knowledge, rather to point to something deeper: the conceptual world that paper took for granted.
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Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the artificial intelligence company of stealing trade secrets as part of an effort to build its own hardware device.
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Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ed Markey has introduced what he calls an "AI accountability agenda," a set of about a dozen bills aimed at curbing the harmful effects of artificial intelligence in the United States.
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SK Hynix, the South Korean memory chip maker, has pulled off the largest stock market debut by a foreign company in Wall Street history. The company announced it raised $26.5 billion (40 trillion South Korean won) in its U.S. IPO, surpassing the $25 billion…