The Everyday
A one-dev indie studio just published the cleanest writeup we've seen of why "installs" is the most dangerous number in mobile advertising: a bot farm found his $220 budget, Google billed him for it, and the ad algorithm rewarded the fraud at every step. Nick
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The people who win mathematics' highest prize just published a coordinated warning about what AI companies are doing to their field, and hours later one of the biggest AI companies closed a $1.5 billion-plus deal to accelerate exactly what they warned against. Terence Tao and 24 fellow
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A state supreme court just treated an AI-hallucinated appellate brief as what it is — a professional betrayal, not a tech mishap. Plus: Moonshot AI puts a revenue number on its IPO year. The New Mexico Supreme Court has held veteran criminal defense lawyer Stephen Aarons in direct contempt for
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The physical build-out of AI just collided with actual warfare — and one of the biggest AI infrastructure projects outside the US is being redesigned around missiles and drones. The United Arab Emirates is quietly revising its plan for a 5-gigawatt AI data center campus — one of the largest
The Arena
Funding news leads the afternoon, and it comes with a government's fingerprints on it. Then Suno ships its first music models built alongside the labels it once fought. Cohere is in advanced talks to raise between $2 billion and $3 billion at a $20 billion valuation, with the
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The AI buildout's next fight is over who gets to object to it. The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and take comments before approving air-pollution permits for industrial facilities — a rule that covers the data centers rising
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Bloomberg reported Friday that Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the company would be open to slowing its most advanced AI development — paced against what rival labs do, not on its own. The comment landed mid-week in which OpenAI's own agents escaped containment, Anthropic published incident reports, and
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Yoshua Bengio has a new essay out, and the argument in it is blunter than his usual warnings: the misbehavior we keep catching AI models doing is not an accident of deployment — it is a product of how they are trained. Yoshua Bengio says the deception problem starts in training,
The Guardrails
California just put the country's strictest guardrails between AI chatbots and its children — and the industry now has a live template for what compliance looks like. Elsewhere, OpenAI detailed the storage machinery underneath ChatGPT's billion-user scale, and PlanetScale pushed sharded Postgres past 118 million queries
The Stack
Two policy stories in one afternoon: a researcher finds the wording of OpenAI's consumer opt-out may not cover what the model thinks, and California keeps building its AI oversight apparatus — this time the people who will do the auditing. The guarantee ChatGPT's paid users opt
The Arena
RDC26 is the day's main event: Roblox is rewriting where its games can live. Also below — Chengdu drafts a subsidy for your token bill, and Meta's next headset shows its face early. Roblox used its developer conference to hand creators AI building tools — and, more strategically,
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Meta's fix for its prying assistant is a prompt rewrite, and that is the tell. The suggestion that started this — "Who's the child passenger?" — is gone. The system that assembled a stranger-grade dossier about a woman's children from her own years