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@ericjgeller.com

Good lord, this is bleak. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots - The New York Times nytimes.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • The 2026 U.S. midterms may be the first American elections in which voters use AI chatbots in meaningful numbers, per NYT reporting.
  • Voters are turning to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini as nonpartisan researchers, in some cases photographing ballots and asking outright who to vote for.
  • Experts warn the answers can carry factual errors and reportedly favor candidates who are more vocal in the local press and on social media.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social

So apparently KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. www.ft.com/content/b382...

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social

So apparently KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. www.ft.com/content/b382...

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@alisabokulich.bsky.social

"The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results. Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams... [A]t Google's scale, it means millions of wrong answers every hour"

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
  • Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
  • Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.
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@lemmk.bsky.social

Another #AI speed record: From “greatest tool ever” to “we created a monster” in the blink of, uh,a couple trillion very expensive tokens. www.ft.com/content/1d37...

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@lemmk.bsky.social

Can’t we ask Claude? 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/b...

A.I. Is Reshaping the Economy. Good Luck Measuring How. - The New York Times nytimes.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Ben Casselman argues no one can yet say what generative AI is doing to the U.S. economy right now, only what it might do later.
  • Yale Budget Lab's occupational churn tracker finds no clear connection yet between AI usage and changes in employment or unemployment.
  • Ramp and Revelio Labs data show companies investing most heavily in AI are adding workers faster, not shedding them, contradicting the displacement story.
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@techcrunch.com

The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end.

'What a joke': GitHub Copilot's new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Copilot's operational costs were nearly doubling week-over-week since January 2026, forcing the billing change as a financial emergency rather than any planned product strategy.
  • Anthropic Opus 4.7's multiplier jumped from 7.5x to 27x for annual subscribers, eliminating any cost advantage of annual over monthly plans for heavy model users.
  • The official community thread drew 904 downvotes against 22 upvotes and 435 comments, a historically lopsided reaction by GitHub forum standards.
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@techcrunch.com

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America to be able to turn it off. | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • The Trump administration blocked Anthropic from exporting its newest Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models on national security grounds after Amazon flagged guardrail bypasses.
  • French President Macron and Indian PM Modi told the G7 that allies cannot run critical infrastructure on AI Washington can switch off overnight.
  • G7 leaders discussed a 'trusted partners' scheme to keep Anthropic and OpenAI access open for vetted non-US governments and companies.
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@techcrunch.com

Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.

Omen AI's plan to optimize data centers is all wet | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Omen AI closed a $31 million Series A led by Nava Ventures, lifting total funding to $40 million since the company was founded in 2024.
  • Its spectrometer sits in liquid-cooled chip loops and watches for bacterial growth, copper and chromium from component wear, and silicon from seal degradation.
  • Roughly a dozen data center customers use the device today, including AMD-based AI compute cloud provider TensorWave.
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