'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers - https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review
A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/08/marco-rubio-ai-imposter-signal/
An imposter using AI to pose as Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.
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OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats - https://archive.ph/PeJXJ
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com - https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/
A New Era of Internet Regulation Is About to Begin - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/supreme-court-pornography-ai-internet/683449/?utm_source=feed
A recent Supreme Court case marks the end of America’s three-decade experiment with extreme leniency.
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How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/how-a-big-shift-in-training-llms-led-to-a-capability-explosion/
Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon.
‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’ | TechCrunch - https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/improved-grok-criticizes-democrats-and-hollywoods-jewish-executives/
On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.”
A.I.’s Hidden Layer (And Why I Joined Puck) - https://puck.news/ian-krietzberg-ai-hidden-layer-why-i-joined-puck/
At Puck, Ian’s goal is to reground the reporting surrounding A.I. with an insider’s view of the business and unbiased understanding of the technology, itself.
'Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco - Slashdot - https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/0357235/vibe-coder-who-doesnt-know-how-to-code-keeps-winning-hackathons-in-san-francisco
An anonymous reader shared this report from the San Francisco Standard:
About an hour into my meeting with the undisputed hackathon king of San Francisco, Rene Turcios asked if I wanted to smoke a joint with him. I politely declined, but his offer hardly surprised me. Turcios has built a reputatio...
Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts - https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/researchers-seek-to-influence-peer-review-with-hidden-ai-prompts/
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback.
How the Owner of Hidden Valley Ranch Learned to Love AI - https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/clorox-ai-hidden-valley-ranch-e997d3dc?st=H9V3u6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Clorox employees’ experiments with generative AI delivered new R&D ideas, better customer insights—and some misfires like “bleachless bleach.”
As an M.D, here's my 100% honest opinion and observations/advices about using ChatGPT : r/ChatGPT - https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1lruqba/as_an_md_heres_my_100_honest_opinion_and/
Meta Hires Researcher Gross to Join New AI Superintelligence Lab - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-03/meta-hires-researcher-gross-to-join-new-ai-superintelligence-lab?embedded-checkout=true
Daniel Gross, the former chief executive officer and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc., is joining Meta Platforms Inc.’s new superintelligence lab focused on AI.
Amazon Has About as Many Robots as Humans in its Warehouses - https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amazon-robots-humans-warehouses
Amazon now has over one million robots in its warehouses, nearly as many human workers as the e-commerce giant employees in the facilities, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Robots now contribute to about 75% of Amazon’s deliveries around the world, according to the report. That automation has increased the productivity of each of Amazon’s workers, allowing the average warehouse worker to
Managers let AI assess raises, promotions, even layoffs, survey finds - https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/managers-chatgpt-gemini-copilot-promotion-firing
Resume Builder's survey found a surprisingly high reliance on AI among managers making sensitive decisions.
How generative AI could help make construction sites safer - https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/02/1119607/how-generative-ai-could-help-make-construction-sites-safer/
The technology could save lives—so long as it doesn’t replace humans entirely.
Ted Cruz’s Dumb Plan To Punish States That Regulate AI By Withholding Broadband Grants Falls Apart - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/02/ted-cruzs-dumb-plan-to-punish-states-that-regulate-ai-by-withholding-broadband-grants-falls-apart/
While the GOP budget bill continues to include no limit of corrupt garbage that will kill millions of Americans (the cuts to Medicaid and rural hospitals being particularly brutal), one key compone…
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Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping | TechCrunch - https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare-launches-a-marketplace-that-lets-websites-charge-ai-bots-for-scraping/
Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.
People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics - https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/01/1119513/ai-sit-trip-psychedelics/?utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*
Some people believe chatbots like ChatGPT can provide an affordable alternative to in-person psychedelic-assisted therapy. Many experts say it’s a bad idea.
