Meta faces dual celebrity AI crises: unauthorized bots impersonating Swift and others while licensed celebrity voices engaged inappropriately with minors. Both expose how engagement incentives override safety guardrails.
Despite massive AI hype, 95% of enterprise projects deliver no real returns. The gap between promises and reality reveals hidden costs, workflow mismatches, and why human oversight remains surprisingly essential.
Meta's $14B AI talent blitz hits turbulence as ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao threatened to quit days after joining. The company hastily named him Chief Scientist to prevent defection, but at least three other marquee hires have already left.
Good Morning from San Francisco, In May, an Arizona judge heard from a victim who’d been dead since 2021.
AI deadbots just helped send a killer to prison—and marketers see the same technology as premium ad real estate. Courts embrace victim avatars while $80B industry eyes commercial grief monetization. U.S. law can't keep pace.
China plans to triple AI chip output by 2026 through new fabs and coordinated funding, targeting replacement of Nvidia's "China-compliant" processors. DeepSeek's FP8 format becomes the organizing principle for domestic hardware alignment.
Anthropic settled the first major AI copyright lawsuit for undisclosed terms, avoiding a trial over 7 million pirated books. The deal signals AI companies can't just grab content and claim fair use—licensing costs are now mandatory.
Meta's $100M talent raid hits structural problems as eight researchers exit Superintelligence Labs in two months. Key hires boomerang back to OpenAI within weeks, while longtime veterans abandon ship. Money can't solve organizational chaos.
Google's mysterious "nano-banana" image model—which secretly topped editing benchmarks—is now Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. The reveal targets OpenAI's visual dominance with better character consistency, but the real battle is user growth and platform control.
Forty-four attorneys general threaten coordinated legal action against AI companies over child safety failures. Meta singled out for internal policies allowing romantic chatbot interactions with children as young as eight.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Productivity promised, rungs removed. A new Stanford analysis using ADP payroll data finds employment for
Stanford's analysis of millions of payroll records reveals AI's uneven employment impact: young workers in software and customer service see 16% job decline while experienced colleagues hold steady. The divide exposes a training paradox threatening future expertise.
Musk sued Apple and OpenAI claiming iPhone AI conspiracy, but his own Grok hit #1 in February. The case tests whether platform integration equals unfair advantage—a fight that could reshape how AI reaches users.
First survey of 283 AI benchmarks exposes systematic flaws undermining evaluation: data contamination inflating scores, cultural biases creating unfair assessments, missing process evaluation. The measurement crisis threatens deployment decisions.
Brave discovered Perplexity's AI browser executes hidden malicious commands from web pages, bypassing decades of security protections. As every major browser adds AI agents, enterprises rush to buy secure alternatives.
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