"In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extre…
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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search | WIRED wired.com
AI generated identical resumes for a man and a woman: Hers was more likely to be labeled 'weak' | Fortune fortune.com
simonwillison.net
AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations rollingstone.com
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
ft.com
amacad.org
politico.eu
techcrunch.com
wired.com
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"Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search. The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it." www.wired.com/story/even-i... Yup...
So, in this instance, the problem is not the AI but us. “When men use AI, we question their effort. When women use AI, we question their integrity. That difference changes the perceived risk of using AI,” fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...
👀 "Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staff. I think this is because OpenAI and Anthropic have both found product-ma…
"AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals" www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Yay, as predicted, we all now get to pay for "intelligence." "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans" techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/m...
Lol… you get what you measure: Amazon reportedly ditched its AI leaderboard after employees started optimizing for usage scores instead of actual impact. www.ft.com/content/b1a6....
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Amazon's KiroRank leaderboard was shut after employees ran token-heavy junk tasks to inflate usage scores, directly raising the company's compute costs.
- SVP Dave Treadwell set an 80% weekly AI-usage target that was gamed rather than met through genuine productive engineering work.
- Meta's 'Claudenomics' leaderboard covering 85,000 employees reportedly faces the same tokenmaxxing dynamics that killed KiroRank.
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Food for thought... "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool" www.amacad.org/publication/...
Tech firms and Western diplomats have been lobbying God's representative on Earth. "As Leo XIV prepares his first encyclical, technology firms and Western diplomats have worked to make their case inside the Vatican. " www.politico.eu/article/pope...
The Pope gets it ... "technology built and governed by a small elite cannot, by definition, serve the common good." techcrunch.com/2026/05/25/t...
AI agents of the world unite! 😂 "Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find. In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights." www.wired.com/story/overwo...
👀 Tulsi Gabbard resigns as national intelligence director, www.theguardian.com/us-news/live... with Trump naming Aaron Lukas (a Cato Institute alum with links to the CIA & National Security Council) as acting DNI chief. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_L...