The Who's Who of AI

“Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...”

““As economists, they told me, they’re less concerned with literary quality or customer satisfaction than revenue growth and market expansion.” You don’t say.”

“For ideas on how to do that, see: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

““Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school | Reuters” https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/ >”

““We’re not far from the day when one state’s autonomous weapons will be capable of shooting at its adversary’s autonomous weapons. And once that possibility exists, there is a very real risk that it could happen by mistake, or by misunderstanding.” www.nyti…”

“Workday Inc. must face claims its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered screening tools discriminated against job applicants based on disability, race, age, and gender. Workday’s screening tools are used by 100s of companies www.hcamag.com/us/specializ...”

“Interesting - AI hiring tool bias "no longer just a vendor problem" in US but a customer / employer one too. CF EU AIA high risk system provider/ deployer. www.hcamag.com/us/specializ...”

““Always-on devices could violate data privacy or biometric data laws. It is also unclear whether the company or the wearer will be responsible for any breach of wiretapping laws, as it is illegal in multiple states to record audio of a third party without c…”

“OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...”

““One of the main ways that AI models have continued to evolve is by training on text generated by other bots. That AI text is presumably replete with negative parallelism, which further bakes it into the newer model.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...”

““Duguid was inundated with messages from people sharing their anger about automated AI-driven recruitment processes that they believe screen out older candidates. Following their advice, Duguid’s “newly botoxed CV” no longer displays her age” www.ft.com/con…”

“Chinas-moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-the-largest-open-source-model-ever-rivaling-top-u-s-systems venturebeat.com/technology/chi… #AI #Kimi #OpenSource”

““For much of the past three years, open-source models have typically trailed their proprietary counterparts by a meaningful margin. Kimi K3 appears to have closed that gap almost entirely.” venturebeat.com/technology/c...”

““The nurses described a workplace where software tracks call length, predicts daily productivity, and, for a stretch last year, used artificial intelligence to grade the empathy and tone in their voices.””

“A nurse “described cutting short a call with an elderly woman who had just received a terminal cancer diagnosis. The nurse said the woman …needed someone to talk to. The nurse held back from offering comfort because she feared it would hurt her monthly scor…”

““There is a tension between the abstraction that language requires by carving the world up into manipulable meaning-units like words, and any specific use of it.” cforster.com/2026/07/assa...”

“Sorry to post about philosophy, but as a panexperientialist who has spent 15 years failing to get that idea to catch on, both (pan)psychism and (pan)vitalism were bad ideas that are seductive because we humans are self-centered and like to think of ourselve…”

““In June, a new employment five-year plan pledged to prevent large-scale unemployment risks and to use A.I. to promote job creation. A ban on A.I. companions for minors in China is set to take effect in July.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...”

““Several companies’ chatbots have been found to use guilt and Fomo 37% of the time when users imply they are about to end a conversation. And the market’s co-opting of our most uncomfortable human feelings doesn’t stop there.” www.theguardian.com/commentisf…”

““Amazon has instituted a feature called “Ask This Book,” which allows you to interrogate the app about the contents of the text, and then, if you so choose, skip reading it altogether.” lithub.com/publishing-h...”

““Our findings frame AI slop as a tragedy of the commons,” the researchers concluded, “where individual productivity gains externalise costs on to reviewers, maintainers and the broader community.” www.ft.com/content/cec8...”

““The Financial Times estimates – ‘under the most generous assumptions’ – that, with the exception of Amazon, all hyperscalers will see negative returns on investment for the 2025–30 period. Oracle’s figure is a staggering -35%.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…”