Selections of articles

Here are the articles I’ve selected as a complement to my weekly press reviews.

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Press review n°13 - Articles from June 30 to July 6
Press review n°12 - Articles from June 23 to 29
Press review n°11 - Articles from June 16 to 22
Press review n°10 - Articles from June 9 to 15
Press review n°9 - Articles from June 2 to 8
Press review n°8 - Articles from May 26 to June 1
Press review n°7 - Articles from May 19 to 25
Press review n°6 - Articles from May 12 to 18

Thirteenth press review - Articles from June 30 to July 6, 2025

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The new budget bill in the United States

• The budget bill opens the floodgates for state surveillance tech and bad AI (Blood in the Machine)

• How Trump’s Budget Bill Sells Out The Future to Big Tech (Tech Policy)

• ICE + CBP + Palantir: A Tool of Mass Political Repression (MindWar)

• Trump’s Big Brother Bill Expands the U.S. Surveillance State (Derrick Broze)

• US Senate removes controversial ‘AI moratorium’ from budget bill (TechCrunch)

• Don't forget what Silicon Valley tried to do (Blood in the Machine)

• Trump’s Big Bill Is Building a Big Police State (The Nation)

• How to Turn the U.S. Into an Immigration Police State in One Big Bill (The Bulwark)

• Les républicains obéissent à Donald Trump et approuvent une loi budgétaire ajoutant 3300 milliards à la dette américaine (Le Temps)

Surveillance in the United States

• CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones (Wired)

• Uncle Sam Wants You To Wear a Smartwatch (Take Back Our Tech)

OpenAI and Meta

• Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’ (Wired)

Google

• Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video-generation model globally (TechCrunch)

Amazon

• Amazon deploys its 1 millionth robot, releases generative AI model (TechCrunch)

xAI

• xAI raises $10B in debt and equity (TechCrunch)

• Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI (Wired)

Perplexity

• Perplexity launches a $200 monthly subscription plan (TechCrunch)

Safe Superintelligence

• Ilya Sutskever will lead Safe Superintelligence following his CEO’s exit (TechCrunch)

Chatbots

• ChatGPT’s Mental Health Costs Are Adding Up (Bloomberg)

• Meta has found another way to keep you engaged: Chatbots that message you first (TechCrunch)

• What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like? (Wired)

AI and politics

• A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’ (Wired)

Data centers

• The Senate Just Put Clean Energy for AI in the Crosshairs (Wired)

• Plus rien ne semble freiner l’appétit gargantuesque en électricité des géants de l’intelligence artificielle (Le Temps)

Copyright

• Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers (The New York Times)

• Comment les géants de l’intelligence artificielle gagnent la bataille sur les œuvres protégées par droit d’auteur (Le Temps)

Autonomous vehicles

• This Is Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Needed Human Babysitters (Wired)

AI and health

• «Si on est soigné par une machine, on risque d’en devenir une»: l’IA appliquée à la santé pose des questions éthiques (Le Temps)

Other news

• These Transcribing Eyeglasses Put Subtitles on the World (Wired)

• The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public (The Honest Broker)

Twelvth press review - Articles from June 23 to 29, 2025

Screenshot of a video by Amnesty International (source). Credit: Sebastien Thibault/agoodson.com

Facebook

• Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared (TechCrunch)

• Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos (The Verge)

WhatsApp

• WhatsApp banned on US House of Representatives devices, memo shows (Reuters)

• Banni brutalement à Washington pour des raisons de sécurité, WhatsApp est aussi sous pression en Suisse (Le Temps)

• Meta is adding AI-powered summaries to WhatsApp (TechCrunch)

• WhatsApp résume vos messages avec l’IA. On ne lui a rien demandé (L’intelligence artificielle et nous)

Meta

• Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books (TechCrunch)

• Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch (Wired)

• Meta a le droit d'utiliser des ouvrages protégés pour entraîner son IA, tranche un juge américain (RTS)

• Meta may face daily fines over pay-or-consent model, EU warns (Reuters)

• 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community (404 Media)

• Meta signs deals to source more solar, wind power for data centers (Reuters)

• Meta seeks $29 billion from private capital firms for AI data centers, FT reports (Reuters)

• It’s Known as ‘The List’—and It’s a Secret File of AI Geniuses (The Wall Street Journal)

• In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race (The New York Times)

• Meta in Talks to Buy AI Voice Startup PlayAI in Push for Talent (Bloomberg)

• ‘The Social Network Part II’ In Works At Sony With Aaron Sorkin Set To Write And Direct (Deadline)

Meta and OpenAI

• D’un coup, Meta s’empare à Zurich de tous les nouveaux ingénieurs stars d’OpenAI (Le Temps)

• Meta’s recruiting blitz claims three OpenAI researchers (TechCrunch)

• Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models (TechCrunch)

• Meta Poaches Three OpenAI Researchers (The Wall Street Journal)

• OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta (Wired)

• Meta says it’s winning the talent war with OpenAI (The Verge)

OpenAI and Microsoft

• Microsoft and OpenAI dueling over artificial general intelligence, The Information reports (Reuters)

• OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations (Wired)

• OpenAI, Microsoft Rift Hinges on How Smart AI Can Get (The Wall Street Journal)

• ChatGPT Wows Office Workers. That's a Problem for Microsoft (Bloomberg)

OpenAI

• Does using ChatGPT change your brain activity? Study sparks debate (Nature)

• OpenAI turns to Google's AI chips to power its products, source says (Reuters)

• Court filings reveal OpenAI and io’s early work on an AI device (TechCrunch)

• OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable (The Verge)

• Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public (The Verge)

• OpenAI is building the Next AI Operating System (AI Supremacy)

• Takeaways From Hard Fork’s Interview With OpenAI’s Sam Altman (The New York Times)

Microsoft

• Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training (Reuters)

• Microsoft's next-gen AI chip production delayed to 2026, The Information reports (Reuters)

Tesla and xAI

• US investigates Tesla’s Robotaxi launch after videos show erratically driving cars (The Guardian)

• Tesla's Robotaxi Launch was a Scam (AI Supremacy)

• Tesla shares soar after first robotaxi test rides hit the road in Austin, Texas (Reuters)

• Tesla completes first fully autonomous Model Y delivery ahead of schedule (Reuters)

• Elon Musk reportedly fires Tesla’s top sales exec (TechCrunch)

• Elon Musk veut réécrire l’histoire avec Grok (L’intelligence artificielle et nous)

• Air quality tests around xAI’s Memphis data center raise questions (TechCrunch)

• Elon Musk Is Playing God (The Atlantic)

Anthropic

• A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission (TechCrunch)

• Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims (Wired)

• Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books (The Verge)

• Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not (404 Media)

• Anthropic launches new effort to study AI’s economic impact (Semafor)

• How People Use Claude for Support, Advice, and Companionship (Anthropic)

• Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’ (TechCrunch)

Google and DeepMind

• Gemini is getting ready to replace Google Assistant on Android (The Verge)

• YouTube adds an AI Overviews-like search results carousel (TechCrunch)

• Google rolls out new Gemini model that can run on robots locally (TechCrunch)

• Google DeepMind’s optimized AI model runs directly on robots (The Verge)

• As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue (TechCrunch)

• Google’s carbon emissions just went up again (The Verge)

• Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work (MIT Technology Review)

• Google’s head of search on the company’s AI transition (Semafor)

• Pearson and Google team up to bring AI learning tools to classrooms (Reuters)

• DeepMind’s new AlphaGenome AI tackles the ‘dark matter’ in our DNA (Nature)

Apple

• Accusé de tromperie en intelligence artificielle, Apple risque de devoir payer des millions aux plaignants (Le Temps)

Amazon and Blue Origin

• At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I. (The New York Times)

• Ring cameras and doorbells now use AI to provide specific descriptions of motion activity (TechCrunch)

• Bezos and Blue Origin Try to Capitalize on Trump-Musk Split (The Wall Street Journal)

• Jeff Bezos is reportedly courting Trump after public spat with Musk (TechCrunch)

Palantir and Peter Thiel

• Palantir partners to develop AI software for nuclear construction (Reuters)

• Peter Thiel and the Antichrist (The New York Times)

• Is Peter Thiel the Antichrist? NYT Didn’t Think to Ask (The Nerd Reich)

Deepseek

• DeepSeek aids China's military and evaded export controls, US official says (Reuters)

• Governments, regulators increase scrutiny of DeepSeek (Reuters)

• DeepSeek faces ban from Apple, Google app stores in Germany (Reuters)

Nvidia

• Nvidia Ruffles Tech Giants With Move Into Cloud Computing (The Wall Street Journal)

Softbank

• SoftBank aims to become leading 'artificial super intelligence' platform provider (Reuters)

Goldman Sachs

• Goldman Sachs launches AI assistant firmwide, memo shows (Reuters)

United States

• ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show (404 Media)

• Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed (404 Media)

• Clearview AI receives first direct contracts with U.S. Border Patrol (All-Source Intelligence)

• Congress might block state AI laws for a decade. Here’s what it means (TechCrunch)

• 10 Things Conservatives Hate About Congress’s AI Moratorium (The Tech Oversight Project)

• Trump plans executive orders to power AI growth in race with China (Reuters)

• Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically (The Verge)

• AI Killed My Job: Tech workers (Blood in the Machine)

• Hundreds of workers mobilize to 'Stop Gen AI' and help each other survive AI automation (Blood in the Machine)

• Washington is waking up to AGI (Transformer)

Switzerland

• Genève devient la capitale mondiale de l’IA responsable en juillet 2025 (Cominmag)

• Les centres de données pourraient consommer jusqu'à 15% de l'électricité suisse en 2030 (RTS)

• Le Conseil fédéral favorable à un sommet sur l’IA à Genève en 2027 (Le Temps)

Europe

• Tech lobby group urges EU leaders to pause AI Act (Reuters)

Chatbots

• My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them (Wired)

• Can You Really Have a Romantic Relationship With AI? (The Wall Street Journal)

• Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots (404 Media)

• That Chatbot May Just Be Telling You What You Want to Hear (The Wall Street Journal)

• Why Tech Billionaires Want Bots to Be Your BFF (The Wall Street Journal)

Military AI

• Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup (Middle East Eye)

• Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars (TechCrunch)

Privacy

• How Internet of Things devices affect your privacy – even when they’re not yours (The Conversation)

• Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker (404 Media)

Other news

• A Deepfake Nightmare: Stalker Allegedly Made Sexual AI Images of Ex-Girlfriends and Their Families (404 Media)

• Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI (TechCrunch)

• AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well (Wired)

• Can the Gulf buy its way to AI supremacy? (Rest of World)

• Les géants de la technologie loin d’être neutres en carbone (Le Temps)

• Call Center Workers Are Tired of Being Mistaken for AI (Bloomberg)

• Abridge, Whose AI App Takes Notes for Doctors, Valued at $5.3 Billion at Funding (The Wall Street Journal)

• Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem (TechCrunch)

Commentaries and opinions

• A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy (The New York Times)

• The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger (Wired)

• Les ingénieurs stars de l’intelligence artificielle se font payer des sommes qui dépassent l’entendement (Le Temps)

• A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts (The New Yorker)

• Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron? (The New York Times)

• Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world (Marcus on AI)

• No one has made fusion power viable yet. Why is Big Tech investing billions? (The Washington Post)

• The End of Publishing as We Know It (The Atlantic)

• Is the Fed Ready for an AI Economy? (The Wall Street Journal)

• Comedian Tim Dillon Slams Thiel, Palantir, and Tech Elite (The Nerd Reich)

• L’ère des «Tiny Teams» est lancée (L’intelligence artificielle et nous)

• Getting off US tech is no easy task (Disconnect)

• A crisis simulation changed how I think about AI risk (Steven Adler’s Substack)

Eleventh press review - Articles from June 16 to 22, 2025

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Tech companies and the Pentagon

• OpenAI awarded $200 million US defense contract (The Verge)

• OpenAI’s $200M DoD contract could squeeze frenemy Microsoft (TechCrunch)

• What Big Tech's Band of Execs Will Do in the Army (Wired)

• The US Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’ (TechCrunch)

• Green Berets are now using Clearview AI's facial recognition (All-Source Intelligence)

• From Killer Drones to Robotaxis, Sci-Fi Dreams Are Coming to Life (The Wall Street Journal)

Risks with chatbots

• Top AI models will lie, cheat and steal to reach goals, Anthropic finds (Axios)

• Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail (TechCrunch)

• LLMs: Dishonest, unpredictable and potentially dangerous (Marcus on AI)

• Les IA, nos nouvelles confidentes : quels risques pour la santé mentale? (The Conversation)

• It’s pretty easy to get DeepSeek to talk dirty (MIT Technology Review)

Meta

• Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI (404 Media)

• Comment Mark Zuckerberg vous a espionné durant des mois (Le Temps)

• Meta announces Oakley smart glasses (The Verge)

• Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence (The Verge)

• Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO (CNBC)

• Character.AI taps Meta’s former VP of business products as CEO (TechCrunch)

OpenAI

• Sam Altman says Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees (Reuters)

• OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point (The Wall Street Journal)

• OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal (TechCrunch)

• The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works (The Verge)

• ChatGPT isn’t great for the planet. Here’s how to use AI responsibly (The Washington Post)

• OpenAI can rehabilitate AI models that develop a “bad boy persona”(MIT Technology Review)

• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot (TechCrunch)

• You sound like ChatGPT (The Verge)

• ChatGPT et ses équivalents de plus en plus utilisés comme source d'informations par les jeunes (Le Temps)

Google

• Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations (TechCrunch)

• YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts (The Verge)

• Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI (TechCrunch)

• De Google à ChatGPT : la fin du référencement tel qu’on le connaissait (L’intelligence artificielle et nous)

Amazon

• Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools (Wired)

• Amazon CEO says it will cut jobs due to AI’s ‘efficiency’ (The Verge)

Apple

• Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress (Reuters)

• Apple Executives Have Held Internal Talks About Buying AI Startup Perplexity (Bloomberg)

• Apple Plotting $30 Billion Mega-Deal to Acquire Perplexity (AI Disruption)

• Five quick updates about that Apple reasoning paper that people can’t stop talking about (Marcus on AI)

Nvidia

• Nvidia, Foxconn in talks to deploy humanoid robots at Houston AI server making plant (Reuters)

• Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments (TechCrunch)

Tesla

• Tesla invites select few to Texas robotaxi trial with front seat safety monitors (Reuters)

xAI

• Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly seeking a $4.3B equity raise (TechCrunch)

Perplexity

• BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping (Financial Times)

Cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy

• 40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet (404 Media)

• Lawmakers Demand Palantir Provide Information About U.S. Contracts (The New York Times)

• Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police (404 Media)

• California Cops Investigate ‘Immigration Protest’ With AI-Camera System (404 Media)

• We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech (The Markup)

• China’s Spy Agencies Are Investing Heavily in A.I., Researchers Say (The New York Times)

• 1984, but with LLM’s (Marcus on AI)

• Plus de 16 milliards de mots de passe volés: trois questions pour faire face à un piratage qui nous concerne tous (Le Temps)

Europe

• Europeans seek 'digital sovereignty' as US tech firms embrace Trump (Reuters)

• Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It (The New York Times)

• European leaders worry they’re too reliant on U.S. tech (TechCrunch)

AI and work

• A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You (The New York Times)

• Les salaires stratosphériques pour recruter les cerveaux de l’IA (L’intelligence artificielle et nous)

Other news and commentaries

• The Global A.I. Divide (The New York Times)

• Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys? (MIT Technology Review)

• Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future (MIT Technology Review)

• What does it mean for an algorithm to be “fair”? (MIT Technology Review)

• When AIs bargain, a less advanced agent could cost you (MIT Technology Review)

• Andreessen Horowitz Backs AI Startup With Slogan ‘Cheat at Everything’ (Bloomberg)

• Pope Leo Takes On AI as a Potential Threat to Humanity (The Wall Street Journal)

• Pope Leo urges politicians to respond to challenges posed by AI (Reuters)

• The Unknown Toll Of The AI Takeover (The Lever)

• AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums (404 Media)

• What if they're right? (Axios)

• Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad? (The New York Times)

• Don’t Fall in Love With AI, and Other Life Rules for Graduates (The Wall Street Journal)

• The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel (404 Media)

• The OpenAI-American Media Merger Is Now Complete (The Algorithmic Bridge)

• The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta (The Atlantic)

• California is trying to regulate its AI giants — again (The Verge)

• Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation (TechCrunch)

• SoftBank reportedly looking to launch a trillion-dollar AI and robotics industrial complex (TechCrunch)

• A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025 (TechCrunch)

• Here are the 24 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025 (TechCrunch)

• This AI Model Never Stops Learning (Wired)

• Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users (Semafor)

Tenth press review - Articles from June 9 to 15, 2025

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Protests in the United States

• Trump’s protest threats raise surveillance alarms around his military parade (The Verge)

• DHS Black Hawks and Military Aircraft Surveil the LA Protests (404 Media)

• DHS Flew Predator Drones Over LA Protests, Audio Shows (404 Media)

• CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE (404 Media)

• The High-Flying Escalation of CBP’s Predator Drone Flights Over LA (Wired)

• The Wiretap: Facial Recognition, Amazon Ring, And Surveillance Of The LA Protests (Forbes)

• An LAPD Helicopter Claimed Cops Identified Protesters From Above and Would “Come to Your House” (Mother Jones)

• How Waymo Handles Footage From Events Like the LA Immigration Protests (Wired)

• The weaponization of Waymo (Blood in the Machine)

• Ahead of Protests, Waymo Scales Back Robotaxi Service Nationwide (Wired)

• How burning Waymos became the image of the LA protests (The Verge)

• The ‘Long-Term Danger’ of Trump Sending Troops to the LA Protests (Wired)

• Police, federal video surveillance of anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles raise alarms (Biometric Update)

• S.T.O.P. Condemns Escalating Federal, Police Surveillance Of LA Protests (Surveillance Technology Oversight Project)

• Are We in a Police State? Or Under Military Rule? (Zeteo)

• The Dangerous Truth About the ‘Nonlethal’ Weapons Used Against LA Protesters (Wired)

• AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse (Wired)

• The Trump Administration Is Turning ICE Raids and Protests Into Reality TV (Wired)

• ‘No Kings’ Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings (Wired)

• How to secure your phone before attending a protest (The Verge)

• How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance (Wired)

• How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid (Wired)

Silicon Valley and the army

• Silicon Valley tech execs are joining the US Army Reserve (TechCrunch)

• The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More (The Wall Street Journal)

• Microsoft is prepping an AI Copilot for the Pentagon (Business Insider)

• Algorithmic Arms Race: How Tech is Fueling Weapons Systems and Mass Surveillance (Technology Made Simple)

• Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party (The Verge)

• I’m the CTO of Palantir. Today I Join the Army (The Free Press)

Other news in the United States

• The Trump administration appears to be planning its own chatbot (The Verge)

• GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government (404 Media)

• Ohio State leans into “AI fluency” for the class of 2029 (The Verge)

AI regulation

• The war is on for Congress’ AI law ban (The Verge)

• A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers (Wired)

• New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters (TechCrunch)

• AI’s Next Battle Is Legal, Not Technical (Buy the Rumor; Sell the News)

Apple

• Apple’s new research paper says AI reasoning isn’t all it’s cracked up to be (The Verge)

• Apple punts on Siri updates as it struggles to keep up in the AI race (The Verge)

• Apple’s ChatGPT integration makes it easier to search for more context on images and shop for things they see (The Verge)

• Apple Intelligence Is Gambling on Privacy as a Killer Feature (Wired)

Meta

• Zuckerberg Is Personally Recruiting New ‘Superintelligence’ AI Team at Meta (Bloomberg)

• Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race (The Verge)

• Meta is reportedly making a $15 billion bet on AGI (The Verge)

• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree (The Verge)

• 5 things to know about Alexandr Wang, the buzzy Scale AI founder (Business Insider)

• Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists (404 Media)

• Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed (Business Insider)

• Meta cracks down on nudify apps after being exposed (The Verge)

OpenAI

• OpenAI amasse déjà des milliards de dollars, mais sa stratégie d’expansion mondiale ne fait que débuter (Le Temps)

• OpenAI’s open model is delayed (TechCrunch)

Microsoft

• Microsoft’s new Copilot Vision can ‘see’ your apps on Windows (The Verge)

• Security researchers found a zero-click vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot (The Verge)

• Microsoft has started testing its AI agent in the Windows 11 Settings app (The Verge)

• Un Land allemand abandonne Microsoft au nom de la souveraineté numérique (RTS)

Google

• News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools (The Wall Street Journal)

• L’audience de certains sites de médias est en chute libre à cause de l’intelligence artificielle de Google. Désormais, ils cherchent des solutions (Le Temps)

• Google names new chief AI architect to advance developments (Semafor)

• Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI (TechCrunch)

• Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast (The Verge)

• Google’s Gemini AI will summarize PDFs for you when you open them (The Verge)

Amazon

• Amazon is about to be flooded with AI-generated video ads (The Verge)

Chatbots

• AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say (404 Media)

• They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling (The New York Times)

• This Chatbot Tool Pays Users $50 a Month for Their Feedback on AI Models (Wired)

Privacy

• Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS (404 Media)

Autonomous vehicles

• Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Rolling Out Soon—With One Big Unanswered Question (Wired)

• The UK Accelerates Its Self-Driving Car Ambitions (Wired)

Research and development

• Why Superintelligent AI Isn’t Taking Over Anytime Soon (The Wall Street Journal)

• A Deep Learning Alternative Can Help AI Agents Gameplay the Real World (Wired)

• Top AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead (Business Insider)

• Astronomers Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Unlock the Secrets of Black Holes (Wired)

Other news

• The scariest AI reality (Axios)

• Cheap AI Tools May Come at a Big Long-Term Cost (Wired)

• Chinese AI Companies Dodge U.S. Chip Curbs by Flying Suitcases of Hard Drives Abroad (The Wall Street Journal)

• China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams (The Verge)

• Wikipedia Paused AI Summary Rollout After Editors Fought Back (Vice)

• How scammers are using AI to steal college financial aid (Associated Press)

• Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters (The Verge)

• The Dia browser is a big bet on the web — and an even bigger bet on AI (The Verge)

• Brutalement et silencieusement, l’intelligence artificielle envahit nos vies. Pourtant, nous n’avions rien demandé… (Le Temps)

• Madagascar, terrain d’entraînement de l’IA (Le Temps)

• Inside the AI Party at the End of the World (Wired)

Ninth ress review - Articles from June 2 to 8, 2025

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Microsoft

• Microsoft to invest $400 million in Switzerland on AI, cloud computing (Reuters)

• Pourquoi Microsoft lance une campagne massive de séduction en Suisse avec des moyens colossaux (Le Temps)

• Non, Microsoft n’a rien d’un ange, malgré les apparences (Le Temps)

• Microsoft Cuts Hundreds of Jobs After Firing 6,000 in May (Bloomberg)

• Breakneck data center growth challenges Microsoft’s sustainability goals (TechCrunch)

Anthropic

• Anthropic launches new Claude service for military and intelligence use (The Verge)

• Anthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trust (TechCrunch)

• Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site’s Data (The Wall Street Journal)

• Anthropic C.E.O.: Don’t Let A.I. Companies off the Hook (The New York Times)

• Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’ (TechCrunch)

• Anthropic’s AI is writing its own blog — with human oversight (TechCrunch)

OpenAI

• «Empire of AI», dans les coulisses d’une industrie qui fait feu de tout bois pour conquérir le monde (Le Temps)

• ChatGPT can now read your Google Drive and Dropbox (The Verge)

• OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit (The Verge)

• Jony Ive’s OpenAI device gets the Laurene Powell Jobs nod of approval (The Verge)

• The OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movie (TechCrunch)

Meta

• Meta becomes the latest big tech company turning to nuclear power for AI needs (ABC News)

• Meta to Buy Nuclear Power From Constellation as AI Demand Soars (Bloomberg)

• Meta’s Nuclear Deal Underscores the Looming Gap for AI’s Power Needs (Bloomberg)

• Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Slop Will Make Ads Creepier and Worse (Bloomberg)

• Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers (Ars Technica)

• Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10 Billion (Bloomberg)

• Here’s what’s inside Meta’s experimental new smart glasses (The Verge)

• Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI (The Wall Street Journal)

• Meta Talks to Disney, A24 About Content for New VR Headset (The Wall Street Journal)

Tesla, X, xAI and Neuralink

• A Fatal Tesla Crash Shows the Limits of Full Self-Driving (Bloomberg)

• Tesla files new ‘Robotaxi’ trademark applications after prior attempt stalls (TechCrunch)

• Elon Musk says XChat is rolling out to all, but questions remain about its alleged security (TechCrunch)

• X’s new policy prevents companies from using posts to ‘fine-tune or train’ AI models (The Verge)

• Musk Taps Investors for Billions Days After Washington Exit (Bloomberg)

• Neuralink Raises $650 Million in Late-Stage Funding Round (Bloomberg)

• A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person (Wired)

Palantir

• ‘Destroy the Ring’: Trump’s Palantir deal alarms Hill Republicans (Semafor)

• Palantir Investors Unfazed by Sky-High Valuation as Stock Surges (Bloomberg)

Google and Alphabet

• DeepSeek may have used Google’s Gemini to train its latest model (TechCrunch)

• Google Gemini can now handle scheduled tasks like an assistant (The Verge)

• Google quietly paused the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature (The Verge)

• Google DeepMind’s CEO Thinks AI Will Make Humans Less Selfish (Wired)

• Alphabet CEO Expects to Keep Hiring Engineers as AI Advances (Bloomberg)

• Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plans (TechCrunch)

• L’impact négatif des AI Overviews de Google sur le trafic des éditeurs (Cominmag)

Amazon

• Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages (The Verge)

• Amazon to invest $10 billion in North Carolina to expand cloud, AI infrastructure (Reuters)

Apple

• Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications (404 Media)

• Apple’s Growing List of Problems Clouds AI Reboot (The Wall Street Journal)

Perplexity

• Samsung Nears Wide-Ranging Deal With Perplexity for AI Features (Bloomberg)

• Perplexity’s CEO Sees AI Agents as the Next Web Battleground (Wired)

AMD

• AMD takes aim at Nvidia’s AI hardware dominance with Brium acquisition (TechCrunch)

• AMD acqui-hires the employees behind Untether AI (TechCrunch)

AI regulation

• State lawmakers to Congress: Don’t stop us from regulating AI (The Washington Post)

• Tax Bill’s Bid to Ban New AI Rules Faces Bipartisan Blowback (Bloomberg)

• A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech’s legal guardrails (The Verge)

• US removes ‘safety’ from AI Safety Institute (The Verge)

AI and work

• Why your job may face a double threat if the economy sours (The Washington Post)

• No AI, no job. These companies are requiring workers to use the tech (The Washington Post)

• Teachers Are Not OK (404 Media)

• Lawyers using AI keep citing fake cases in court. Judges aren’t happy (The Washington Post)

Cybercrime and deepfakes

• The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare (Wired)

• Cyber crime is surging. Will AI make it worse? (Financial Times)

• Deepfake Scams Are Distorting Reality Itself (Wired)

Other news

• VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech (Rest of World)

• Anduril raises $2.5B at $30.5B valuation led by Founders Fund (TechCrunch)

• 5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn’t ChatGPT (The Washington Post)

• TikTok will give advertisers even more data on trends and users (The Verge)

• AI firms say they can’t respect copyright. These researchers tried (The Washington Post)

• How vibe coding is tipping Silicon Valley’s scales of power (Semafor)

• The ease of vibe coding could upend the economics of scarcity and scale (Semafor)

• DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts (ProPublica)

• Popular AI apps get caught in the crosshairs of Anthropic and OpenAI (The Verge)

• Anysphere, Hailed as Fastest Growing Startup Ever, Raises $900 Million (Bloomberg)

• AI Upstart Manus Starts Text-to-Video Service to Take On OpenAI (Bloomberg)

• We Made Top AI Models Compete in a Game of Diplomacy. Here’s Who Won (Every)

• Data Centers Added $9.4 Billion in Costs on Biggest US Grid (Bloomberg)

• Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds (TechCrunch)

• IBM acquires data analysis startup Seek AI, opens AI accelerator in NYC (TechCrunch)

• EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text (TechCrunch)

• Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety lab (TechCrunch)

• Ads Ruined Social Media. Now They’re Coming to AI (Bloomberg)

• Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions (404 Media)

• Samsung phones are getting a weird AI shopping platform nobody asked for (The Verge)

• Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code (TechCrunch)

• Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook (TechCrunch)

• TSA Working on Haptic Tech To 'Feel' Your Body in Virtual Reality (404 Media)

• North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment (TechCrunch)

• ‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home (The Guardian)

• The Washington Post is planning to let amateur writers submit columns — with the help of AI (The Verge)

• What’s next for AI and math (MIT Technology Review)

• Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China (MIT Technology Review)

• Chinese Robotaxi Companies Look to the Middle East for Growth (MIT Technology Review)

• FDA’s AI tool for medical devices struggles with simple tasks (NBC News)

• Humans provide necessary ‘checks and balances’ for AI, says Lattice CEO (TechCrunch)

Commentaries and opinions

• You are hardwired to blindly trust AI. Here’s how to fight it (The Washington Post)

• The dark lord of Silicon Valley (How to Survive the Broligarchy)

• Big Tech’s AI Endgame Is Coming Into Focus (The Atlantic)

• For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker (TechCrunch)

• The ideological rift on the tech right (Disconnect)

• Pourquoi les géants de l’IA veulent capter votre attention? (L’intelligence artificielle et nous)

• American Panopticon (Daniel Pinchbeck)

• A knockout blow for LLMs? (Marcus on AI)

• AI knows you better than you think – and it might cost more than you imagine (Weave)

• Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video (The Verge)

Eighth press review - Articles from May 26 to June 1, 2025

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Meta

• Meta Fired Palmer Luckey. Now, They’re Teaming Up on a Defense Contract (The Wall Street Journal)

• Mark Zuckerberg Finally Found a Use for His Metaverse — War (Bloomberg)

• In a victory for Palmer Luckey, Meta and Anduril work on mixed reality headsets for the military (TechCrunch)

• Meta is working on a high-tech helmet for the U.S. military (The Washington Post)

• Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks (NPR)

• Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has 1 billion monthly active users (CNBC)

• Exclusive: Meta shuffles AI team to compete with OpenAI and Google (Axios)

• Pourquoi vous devez agir avant que vos données soient exploitées pour l’intelligence artificielle de Meta (Le Temps)

• Meta AI: l’assistant conversationnel aspire-t-il vraiment les données? (ActuIA)

OpenAI

• An 'always on' OpenAI device is a massive backlash waiting to happen (Blood in the Machine)

• OpenAI Sees New Opportunity for Devices in AI Revolution (The Wall Street Journal)

• Elon Musk Tried to Block Sam Altman’s Big AI Deal in the Middle East (The Wall Street Journal)

• OpenAI: The power and the pride (MIT Technology Review)

• OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be a ‘super assistant’ for every part of your life (The Verge)

• OpenAI may soon let you ‘sign in with ChatGPT’ for other apps (TechCrunch)

• OpenAI to Set Up Shop in South Korea to Spur Further Growth (Bloomberg)

• OpenAI risks being undercut by cheaper rivals, says star investor Mary Meeker (Financial Times)

• Ambience announces OpenAI-powered medical coding model that outperforms physicians (CNBC)

• OpenAI Can Stop Pretending (The Atlantic)

xAI and Neuralink

• xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app (TechCrunch)

• A Musk-Telegram AI Pact Sets the Stage for More Drama (Bloomberg)

• Tesla–xAI Merger ‘Going to Happen,’ Says Musk Biographer (Tesla North)

• Elon Musk’s Neuralink raises $600M at $9B valuation (TechCrunch)

Anthropic

• Why Anthropic’s New AI Model Sometimes Tries to ‘Snitch’ (Wired)

• Anthropic debuts Claude conversational voice mode on mobile that searches your Google Docs, Drive, Calendar (VentureBeat)

• How Anthropic Is Snatching Top Talent from OpenAI and DeepMind (Analytics India Mag)

• Exclusive: Nvidia to launch cheaper Blackwell AI chip for China after US export curbs, sources say (Reuters)

Google

• Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out (TechCrunch)

• Google AI Overviews Says It’s Still 2024 (Wired)

• Google Introduced a New Way to Use Search. Proceed With Caution (The New York Times)

• Google as you know it is slowly dying (Vox)

AI and work

• A white-collar bloodbath (Axios)

• Why this leading AI CEO is warning the tech could cause mass unemployment (CNN)

• The age of AI layoffs is already here. The reckoning is just beginning (Quartz)

• AI may already be shrinking entry-level jobs in tech, new research suggests (TechCrunch)

• The "AI jobs apocalypse" is for the bosses (Blood in the Machine)

• Job Interviews Enter a Strange New World With AI That Talks Back (Bloomberg)

• L’intelligence artificielle va-t-elle massacrer nos emplois par millions? (Le Temps)

Privacy

• Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live (404 Media)

• Why AI May Be Listening In on Your Next Doctor’s Appointment (The Wall Street Journal)

• The Privacy-Friendly Tech to Replace Your US-Based Email, Browser, and Search (Wired)

• A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations (Wired)

• ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows (404 Media)

• In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data (Rest of World)

• Attention, l’utilisation de nombreuses montres connectées, babyphones et modems est risquée (Le Temps)

Robotics

• Humanoid robots spark debate about safety, form and function (Financial Times)

• Rivr’s dog-like robots join Veho vans to solve ‘last-100-yards’ parcel delivery in Austin (TechCrunch)

• Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots (TechCrunch)

Other news

• One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of models (TechCrunch)

• Humain planning $10B VC fund to invest in US, European, and Asian startups (TechCrunch)

• The Self-Driving Truck Startup That Siphoned Trade Secrets to Chinese Companies (The Wall Street Journal)

• Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry (The Verge)

• Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss (Financial Times)

• Jonathan Nolan’s Person of Interest predicted AI. Westworld is helping build it (Semafor)

• Silicon Data Creates First-of-Its-Kind Index for AI Chips (Bloomberg)

• Salesforce Agrees to Buy Informatica in Deal Worth $8 Billion (Bloomberg)

• Japan Backs AI Chip Startup EdgeCortix in Boost to Defense Tech (Bloomberg)

• No One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAM (404 Media)

• «Nos enfants grandissent avec des IA très addictives, il est urgent d’intégrer une approche éthique» (Libération)

• The New York Times and Amazon ink AI licensing deal (TechCrunch)

• DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU (TechCrunch)

• The AI browser wars are about to begin (Platformer)

• The hottest new vibe coding startup may be a sitting duck for hackers (Semafor)

• This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how much AI models suck up to us (MIT Technology Review)

• The AI Experience Is Going From ‘50 First Dates’ to ‘Cheers’ (The Wall Street Journal)

• What will power AI’s growth? (MIT Technology Review)

• Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind (The Washington Post)

• Perplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more (TechCrunch)

• Do-It-Yourself Cyberattack Tools Are Booming (The Wall Street Journal)

• «Utop’IA», une bande dessinée de l’EPFL pour illustrer les enjeux de durabilité de l’intelligence artificielle (Le Temps)

Commentaries and opinions

• AI and Humanity's Future (Daniel Pinchbeck et Matthew Green)

• Robot Revolution? (Daniel Pinchbeck)

• Machines of loving bliss (Experience Machines)

• Regulating AI seems like an impossible task, but ethically and economically, it’s a vital one (The Conversation)

• How AI Is Eroding the Norms of War (AI Frontiers)

• AI eats the world (Benedict Evans)

Seventh ress review - Articles from May 19 to 25, 2025

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OpenAI is buying io

• OpenAI to Buy AI Device Startup From Apple Veteran Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal (Bloomberg)

• OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s AI hardware company (The Verge)

• Details leak about Jony Ive’s new ‘screen-free’ OpenAI device (The Verge)

• Jony Ive’s AI gadget rumored to be ‘slightly larger’ than Humane’s AI pin (The Verge)

• What in the world are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building? (The Verge)

• I/O versus io: Google and OpenAI can’t stop messing with each other (The Verge)

• Jony Ive to lead OpenAI’s design work following $6.5B acquisition of his company (TechCrunch)

• OpenAI's Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work (Wired)

• Former Apple Design Guru Jony Ive to Take Expansive Role at OpenAI (The Wall Street Journal)

• What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive (The Wall Street Journal)

• OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices (The New York Times)

• OpenAI’s Ambitions Just Became Crystal Clear (The Atlantic)

OpenAI and Stargate

• Inside the First Stargate AI Data Center (Bloomberg)

• Oracle to buy $40 billion of Nvidia chips for OpenAI's US data center, FT reports (Reuters)

• OpenAI Announces Stargate Data Center Expansion in Abu Dhabi (Bloomberg)

• Stargate and the AI Industrial Revolution (Buy the Rumor; Sell the News)

• Introducing Stargate UAE (OpenAI)

Other news on OpenAI

• Inside the story that enraged OpenAI (MIT Technology Review)

• Dismantling the Empire of AI with Karen Hao (Blood in the Machine)

• OpenAI's desperate quest to become an AI monopoly (Blood in the Machine)

• OpenAI, Google and xAI battle for superstar AI talent, shelling out millions (Reuters)

• Meet Fidji Simo, the Instacart CEO Tasked With Getting OpenAI to Turn a Profit (The Wall Street Journal)

• Is He Really Mad at Me? Maybe ChatGPT Knows (Wired)

xAI, Elon Musk and Doge

• Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns (Reuters)

• DOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal Workers (Wired)

• Microsoft Is Bringing Elon Musk’s AI Models to Its Cloud (Bloomberg)

• Gulf Deal-Making Spree Also Benefited Elon Musk and His Family (The New York Times)

Google

• Everything Google Announced at I/O 2025 (Wired)

• Google I/O 2025: Everything announced at this year’s developer conference (TechCrunch)

• At Google I/O, everything is changing and normal and scary and chill (Platformer)

• Google has a big AI advantage: it already knows everything about you (The Verge)

• Can Google still dominate search in the age of AI chatbots? (Financial Times)

• By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible (MIT Technology Review)

• Google launches Veo 3, an AI video generator that incorporates audio (CNBC)

• Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger’s dream (The Verge)

• Google is bringing real-time AI camera sharing to Search (The Verge)

• Google Unveils A.I. Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search (The New York Times)

• With AI Mode, Google Search Is About to Get Even Chattier (Wired)

• Alphabet Gains After Adding More AI Functions to Search (Bloomberg)

• Google’s AI Boss Says Gemini’s New Abilities Point the Way to AGI (Wired)

• Google launches stand-alone NotebookLM apps for Android and iOS (TechCrunch)

• Project Astra comes to Google Search, Gemini, and developers (TechCrunch)

• Google’s Gemini AI is coming to Chrome (The Verge)

• Gmail’s smart replies will use AI to pull context from your inbox and Drive (The Verge)

• Android XR is getting stylish partners in Warby Parker and Gentle Monster (The Verge)

• Google commits $150M to develop AI glasses with Warby Parker (TechCrunch)

• Google Partners With Warby Parker, Kering to Develop AI Glasses (The Wall Street Journal)

• Exclusive: Google Sees Smart Glasses as the 'Next Frontier' for AI. And It's Not Working Alone (Cnet)

• Google’s Sergey Brin: ‘I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass’ (TechCrunch)

• Sergey Brin points to where Google Glasses failed — and what Android XR gets right (CNBC)

• Google’s Android Chief Hopes Its ‘New Era’ Will Get People to Ditch Their iPhones (Wired)

• Google’s ‘universal AI assistant’ prototype can now do stuff for you — and you don’t even have to ask (The Verge)

• Google’s AI Vision: Make Tech Human Again (Every)

• Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options in AI Search (Bloomberg)

Microsoft

• Microsoft Build 2025: news and announcements from the developer conference (The Verge)

• Microsoft employee disrupts Satya Nadella’s keynote with ‘Free Palestine’ protest (The Verge)

• Palestinian developer disrupts Microsoft keynote: ‘my people are suffering’ (The Verge)

• Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests (The Verge)

• Microsoft employee bypasses ‘Palestine’ block to email thousands of staff in protest (The Verge)

• Signal says no to Windows 11’s Recall screenshots (The Verge)

• Microsoft’s AI Vision: An Open Internet Made for Agents (Every)

• Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI can save the web, not destroy it (The Verge)

• Microsoft is opening its on-device AI models up to web apps in Edge (The Verge)

• Microsoft’s plan to fix the web: letting every website run AI search for cheap (The Verge)

• Microsoft just taught its AI agents to talk to each other—and it could transform how we work (VentureBeat)

• Microsoft is racing to build an AI ‘agent factory’ (The Verge)

Apple

• Apple’s first smart glasses could arrive next year (The Verge)

• Apple Plans Glasses for 2026 as Part of AI Push, Nixes Watch With Camera (Bloomberg)

• Apple is trying to get ‘LLM Siri’ back on track (The Verge)

• Why Apple Still Hasn’t Cracked AI (Bloomberg)

• Apple to Open AI Models to Developers, Betting That It Will Spur New Apps (Bloomberg)

Anthropic

• Anthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many steps (TechCrunch)

• Anthropic launches Claude 4, its most powerful AI model yet (CNBC)

• Anthropic’s AI resorts to blackmail in simulations (Semafor)

• A safety institute advised against releasing an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 AI model (TechCrunch)

• Inside Anthropic’s First Developer Day, Where AI Agents Took Center Stage (Wired)

• Vibe Check: Claude 4 Opus (Every)

• Anthropic Is Trying to Win the AI Race Without Losing Its Soul (Bloomberg)

Meta

• Meta adds another 650 MW of solar power to its AI push (TechCrunch)

• Meta launches program to encourage startups to use its Llama AI models (TechCrunch)

Nvidia

• US to Keep China Chip Curbs, Spurning Nvidia’s Call for Relief (Bloomberg)

• Nvidia announces humanoid robotics, custom AI infrastructure tech at Computex 2025 (Yahoo Finance)

• Nvidia Opens Up Its Platform, Plans AI Supercomputer in Taiwan (The Wall Street Journal)

• Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Is Now a Geopolitical Superstar. It Comes With Risks (The Wall Street Journal)

• An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About Chip Controls, AI Factories, and Enterprise Pragmatism (Stratechery)

Other companies

• Amazon’s Zoox to start testing AVs in Atlanta, following Waymo (TechCrunch)

• Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year (The Verge)

• UBS deploys AI analyst clones (Financial Times)

• Mistral’s new Devstral AI model was designed for coding (TechCrunch)

• Acer unveils AI-powered wearables at Computex 2025 (VentureBeat)

• Are Character AI’s chatbots protected speech? One court isn’t sure (The Verge)

• Helping Characters Remember What Matters Most (Character.AI)

• Napster Is Back—As Mysterious $15 Billion Upstart Rebrands As An AI Outfit (Forbes)

• Chatbot Arena Group Goes From Academic Project to $600 Million Startup (Bloomberg)

AI regulation

• House Republicans want to stop states from regulating AI. More than 100 organizations are pushing back (CNN)

• Plot to Thwart State A.I. Laws Draws Condemnation From All Corners (The Tech Oversight Project)

• GOP Defends Ban on State AI Laws Over Data-Privacy Concerns (The Wall Street Journal)

Other news

• Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds (The Guardian)

• Tensions flare between the US and China over Huawei’s AI chips (TechCrunch)

• A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley (Wired)

• How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future (The New York Times)

• Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up? (Wired)

• AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse (Wired)

• AI and our energy future (MIT Technology Review)

• We still don’t know how much energy AI consumes (Financial Times)

• 'Configuration Issue' Allows Civitai Users to AI Generate Nonconsensual Porn Videos (404 Media)

• The Tech Industry Is Huge—and Europe’s Share of It Is Very Small (The Wall Street Journal)

• How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution (Wired)

• La France se prépare à accueillir le plus grand campus d’IA d’Europe (ActuIA)

• At Least Two Newspapers Syndicated AI Garbage (The Atlantic)

• Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels (404 Media)

• What AI Thinks It Knows About You (The Atlantic)

• Student Makes Tool That Identifies ‘Radicals’ on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them (404 Media)

• Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots (The Wall Street Journal)

Commentaries and opinions

• AI Sometimes Deceives to Survive. Does Anybody Care? (Bloomberg)

• AI literacy, hallucinations, and the law: A case study (Marcus on AI)

• Silicon Valley's Scary New Religion: TESCREAL (The Nerd Reich)

• ‘We can call bullshit on their eugenic futures’ (The Nerd Reich)

• The Loneliness Economy of AI (AI Supremacy)

• Why Do People Hate AI? (Educating AI)

• Vibe coding is rewriting the rules of technology (Freethink)

Sixth press review - Articles from May 12 to 18, 2025

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Meta

• Meta Is Delaying the Rollout of Its Flagship AI Model (The Wall Street Journal)

• Advocacy group threatens Meta with injunction over data-use for AI training (Reuters)

• noyb sends Meta 'cease and desist' letter over AI training (None Of Your Business)

OpenAI

• OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4.1 model is now in ChatGPT (The Verge)

• OpenAI Launches an Agentic, Web-Based Coding Tool (Wired)

• OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco (TechCrunch)

• OpenAI Grows CoreWeave Tie-Up With New $4 Billion Cloud Deal (Bloomberg)

• Why OpenAI Is Fueling the Arms Race It Once Warned Against (Bloomberg)

• SoftBank Stargate Venture With OpenAI Snags on Tariff Fears (Bloomberg)

• OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft for new funding and future IPO (Reuters)

• ‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’ (The Atlantic)

• ‘AI models are capable of novel research’: OpenAI’s chief scientist on what to expect (Nature)

• OpenAI pledges to publish AI safety test results more often (TechCrunch)

• Introducing HealthBench (OpenAI)

• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot (TechCrunch)

Apple

• Apple to Support Brain-Implant Control of Its Devices (The Wall Street Journal)

• Apple to Unveil New AI Tool to Increase iPhone Battery Life (Bloomberg)

Microsoft

• Microsoft Layoffs Hit Coders Hardest With AI Costs on the Rise (Bloomberg)

• Microsoft starts testing ‘Hey, Copilot!’ in Windows (The Verge)

• Microsoft’s CEO on How AI Will Remake Every Company, Including His (Bloomberg)

Google

• Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal (The Intercept)

• Google rolls out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome (TechCrunch)

• Google’s bringing Gemini to your car with Android Auto (TechCrunch)

• DeepMind claims its newest AI tool is a whiz at math and science problems (TechCrunch)

• Google might replace the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button with AI Mode (The Verge)

• Google launches new initiative to back startups building AI (TechCrunch)

xAI

• Has Grok lost its mind and mind-melded with its owner? (Marcus on AI)

• xAI posts Grok’s behind-the-scenes prompts (The Verge)

• xAI’s promised safety report is MIA (TechCrunch)

Other companies

• Anthropic blames Claude AI for ‘embarrassing and unintentional mistake’ in legal filing (The Verge)

• AI Startup Perplexity’s Valuation Surges to $14 Billion in New Funding Round (The Wall Street Journal)

• Perplexity, géant de l’intelligence artificielle le moins connu, attaque désormais tous les marchés à la fois (Le Temps)

• Nvidia’s flattery of Trump wins reversal of AI chip limits and a Huawei clampdown (The Verge)

• TikTok will let you use an AI prompt to turn a photo into a video (The Verge)

• Character.AI Opens a Back Door to Free Speech Rights for Chatbots (Center for Humane Technology)

Unites States

• Une idée américaine surréaliste pour déréguler l’intelligence artificielle (Le Temps)

• Republicans push for a decadelong ban on states regulating AI (The Verge)

• How Big Tech is trying to shut down California’s AI rules (Politico)

• Senators Revive Bill to Break Big Tech’s Grip on Pentagon Deals (Bloomberg)

• Trump administration officially rescinds Biden’s AI diffusion rules (TechCrunch)

• Silicon Valley’s New Hold on Washington (The Wall Street Journal)

• How Silicon Valley’s influence in Washington benefits the tech elite (TechCrunch)

• Big Tech takes a harder line against worker activism, political dissent (The Washington Post)

Saudi Arabia

• Saudi Arabia launches state-backed AI firm Humain (Tech in Asia)

• AWS enters into ‘strategic partnership’ with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain (TechCrunch)

• Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet (The Verge)

• Nvidia, AMD Sell Chips to Saudi Arabia for AI Data Centers (Bloomberg)

• Trump’s Mideast Visit Opens Floodgate of AI Deals Led by Nvidia (Bloomberg)

• Trump’s Rush to Cut AI Deals in Saudi Arabia and UAE Opens Rift With China Hawks (Bloomberg)

Europe

• Un mouvement appelant l’Europe à ne pas devenir une «colonie numérique» intéresse de près la Suisse (Le Temps)

• French army hopes for combat-ready robots by 2040 (The Straits Times)

• Nations meet at UN for 'killer robot' talks as regulation lags (Reuters)

• EU Will Work on Setting Water Use Caps for Thirsty Data Centers (Bloomberg)

China

• Nvidia plans Shanghai research centre in new commitment to China (Financial Times)

• DeepSeek’s ‘Tech Madman’ Founder Is Threatening US Dominance in AI Race (Bloomberg)

• How China caught up with Silicon Valley (Financial Times)

• China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused (MIT Technology Review)

Commentaries and opinions

• Nos services d’intelligence artificielle cumulent les erreurs. Comment régler ce problème majeur? (Le Temps)

• Two Years Ago Today in AI History: The Tale of An About-face in AI Regulation (Marcus on AI)

• The Profound Ways AI Is Harming Us (Luiza’s Newsletter)

• The Disturbing Rise of Unethical AI (Luiza’s Newsletter)

• We need to know what’s happening with AI (Transformer)

• AI as an Instrument of Mind Control (Daniel Pinchbeck)