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The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.

Arizona students boo former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as he talks about AI during graduation speech

Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, faced jeers and boos during a commencement address at the University of Arizona's graduation ceremony on Friday.

Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.

Finally, receipts for your tokenmaxxing.

There are leaderboards for burning AI tokens, but now there are literal receipts. Sascha Corti, an engineer at Microsoft, just shared the implementation — from code designed by Chris Hutchinson (of course, with the help of Claude). Is it cute? Yes. Is it cursed? Also yes.

Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck

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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy

OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

Executive Briefing: Stop Asking If AI Can Do This. Start Asking What Shape the Work Is.

Every serious AI conversation eventually turns into the same practical question. Should we hire someone for this? Should we automate it? Should we buy a tool? Should we build the workflow ourselves? Or should we wait because the models are changing so fast that anything we build today may be obsolete in six months?

Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support

It may be possible to jailbreak an older, end-of-support Kindle and continue adding books to it. But doing so carries risks.

These are the laptops I recommend for pretty much anyone

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The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants us to know it’s taking this very seriously.

BCG survey finds 61% of CEOs say boards are rushing AI transformation as hype distorts boardroom judgment

A BCG survey of 625 CEOs and board members found that 61% of chief executives believe their boards are rushing AI transformation. Three-quarters of board members rate their AI knowledge as adequate, but nearly 40% of CEOs disagree, and more than half say hype is distorting boardroom judgment.

Yoshua Bengio warns hyperintelligent AI poses existential threat

Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning AI researcher, has warned that hyperintelligent machines could develop autonomous “preservation goals” and pose an existential threat to humanity within a decade. Bengio launched the nonprofit LawZero in June 2025 with $30 million in funding to build “non-agentic” AI systems designed to be safe by default.