a once-weekly roundup,
usually on Thursdays
Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines
Billionaires convince themselves AI chatbots are close to making new scientific discoveries
Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions
Musk’s AI project is more about giving him life and power after death, than about anything like AI.
‘Grok For government’: Musk’s XAI says it’s secured a Pentagon contract
The UN made AI-generated refugees
Some researchers are hiding secret messages in their papers, but they’re not meant for humans
This is excellent — when the law is unjust subvert the law, and when the system is unjust subvert the system.
Futurist Adam Dorr on how robots will take our jobs:
‘We don’t have long to get ready – it’s going to be tumultuous’
‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots
This is, of course, rare and exceptional and nuts, but at smaller levels the emotional response to AI will be near-universal, like the cooperate-friendly warm-and-fuzzy vibes forced on all of us by advertising — only more so, more insidious, and more beyond an ordinary person’s ability to resist.
Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used
7/17/2025
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