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Regulators Propose Oversight, Firms Expand Headcount, and Markets Question Returns

TL;DRNew academic research proposes a macro-prudential framework for frontier AI, mirroring post-2008 banking regulations. Meanwhile, firm-level data from 21,000 U.S. companies shows that AI investment is currently driving workforce expansion rather than automation-led layoffs. Markets remain skeptical, with economists warning of a painful repricing as promised productivity gains fail to materialize. Simultaneously, Chinese firms are increasingly pivoting to domestic silicon to bypass US-led export restrictions.

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The Next Phase of Enterprise AI Is About Decisions, Not Experiments — The Information Partner Content # The Next Phase of Enterprise AI Is About Decisions, Not Experiments By The Information Partnerships [email protected] Profile and archive At this year’s Milken Institute Global Conference, the discussions around enterprise AI had shifted. The question among executives was no longer if AI would pay off, but how. Many talked less about proving ROI and more about positioning their companies to capture it. That tension—between AI’s capabilities and organizations’ capacity to keep up—was evident everywhere, from panel discussions to a private dinner co-hosted by Aily Labs founder and CEO Bianca Anghelina and The Information’s Cory Weinberg. ## The offshoring analogy that won’t quit Private equity firms announced a wave of joint ventures with frontier AI labs just as Milken opened—a

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Arxiv· Today

Strategic Information Disclosure in Algorithmic Pricing

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Ethan Mollick· Yesterday

Anthropic and OpenAI will increasingly be able to serve weaker versions of their frontier AI (Haiku, Instant) at very low cost, both because they have scale and because they are achieving research gains on efficiency really quickly.

Anthropic and OpenAI will increasingly be able to serve weaker versions of their frontier AI (Haiku, Instant) at very low cost, both because they have scale and because they are achieving research gains on efficiency really quickly. And because they own the full range of intelligence, this suggests that they might provide "organizations of models" delivering lower cost/higher performance than any 3rd party could (Fable delegates down to Haiku, Haiku delegates up to Fable, all optimized around an intelligence/cost ratio you pick). Given that the underlying models will keep improving (as will coordination), this would be a way for the Labs to undercut even open weights models. Some companies will still want to use open weights, but the cost/performance curve may not favor it as much as people are assuming it will.

AI Startups & Venture3 articles

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Supermarket News· Yesterday

AI-Native Startups Reach Billion-Dollar Valuations Faster - Supermarket News

AWS Startups has released an independent global study revealing how AI-native startups are rewriting the rules of company building.

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TICE News· Yesterday

Half of 2026 Is Over. What Will the Next Six Months Bring for Indian Startups?

The assumption that another funding ... years of venture capital exuberance. While the broader startup funding market remained cautious, artificial intelligence emerged as one of the most powerful investment and entrepreneurial themes of the first half of 2026. The momentum demonstrates how quickly AI has moved ...

Los Angeles Times· Yesterday

AI job disruption has come for Ireland's technology sector - Los Angeles Times

Meta is culling about 20% of its Irish workforce, double the planned global average at the company, as part of a wave of job cuts in the country's tech sector.

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AI-Driven Job Cuts at Meta and TikTok in Ireland Signal Deeper Threat to Country's Tax Base

Recent job cuts at major tech firms in Ireland are raising concerns about the stability of the country's tax revenue.

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Claims Journal· Yesterday

AI’s Impact: Tech and Finance Sectors Losing 28,000 Jobs Monthly

Whether artificial intelligence will cause mass workforce cuts over time remains up for debate, but it is starting to leave an imprint on US employment

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International Business Times· Yesterday

Workers Face a 'Darwinian Moment'—Billionaire Palo Alto CEO Says 'Evolve or Get Cut' | IBTimes UK

AI is transforming workforces. Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora emphasizes adapting, retraining, and prioritizing skills over layoffs. Learn why 90% of employees lack AI skills and how to bridge the gap.

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Gizmodo· Yesterday

Samsung’s AI Windfall Is Splitting Its Own Workforce in Two

Workers in the company’s consumer tech division are protesting massive bonuses the chip division is set to collect this year.

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Hindustan Times· Yesterday

Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario | Business News

As public opinion of AI has shifted into the negative, warnings of mass employment reductions have also diminished. | Business News

AI Ethics & Safety5 articles

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Arxiv· Today

Internal Pluralism and the Limits of Pairwise Comparisons

arXiv:2607.02672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Local pairwise comparisons are a standard tool for learning how people want decision rules to work, e.g., in participatory design or alignment. However, their use builds in two strong assumptions: that local comparisons are sufficient evidence about how a person wants an automated decision rule to behave, and that people can always answer those comparisons decisively. We investigate how these assumptions may be compromised under internal pluralism: the idea that an individual evaluates decision rules according to multiple authoritative priorities about how the rule should behave. We provide a formal model of such pluralistic preferences over decision rules, which then lets us identify two distinct failures of forced local pairwise comparison data. First, priorities such as proportionality, egalitarianism, and equal treatment are inherently global: what they imply in one case can depend on what happens elsewhere, so local comparisons may fail to capture them. Second, even when priorities are representable locally, tension between strongly-held priorities can generate internal conflict, producing potentially costly behavioral distortions when comparisons are forced. We then use our model to investigate the alternative -- allowing people to report indecision -- and our findings suggest that doing so can considerably reduce the number of queries needed to learn preferences accurately. We conclude by describing how our model points toward preference-learning methods that elicit these priorities directly, yielding more faithful and interpretable accounts of what people value.

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Arxiv· Today

Oyster-II: Reinforcement Learning for Constructive Safety Alignment in Large Language Models

arXiv:2607.02914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse applications, yet ensuring their simultaneous safety, helpfulness, and trustworthiness remains a persistent challenge. Conventional refusal-oriented alignment strategies mitigate harmful content generation but systematically fail to serve legitimate user needs, often withholding information that could safely and constructively address the underlying intent of sensitive queries. Building upon the constructive safety paradigm pioneered by Oyster-I, which moves beyond blanket refusal toward thoughtful, response-oriented safety alignment, we identify two critical limitations of its Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)-based scheme: insufficient safety generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and a phenomenon we term safety chain-of-thought (CoT) over-generalization, wherein safety-oriented reasoning patterns are excessively applied to benign queries, degrading helpfulness and user experience. To address these limitations, we propose Oyster-II, a reinforcement learning (RL)-based constructive safety alignment framework that adopts a Zero-RL paradigm combined with a multi-stage reinforcement learning strategy.Evaluated across extensive benchmarks, Oyster-II comprehensively surpasses both Qwen3-14B and its predecessor Oyster-I on safety dimensions, achieving cross-scale performance comparable to Qwen3-Max and Qwen3.5-397B.

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Arxiv· Today

A Scalable Approach to Evaluating Moral Sensitivity in LLMs

arXiv:2607.02972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Moral sensitivity is the ability to identify the morally relevant features of a decision situation and use them as the basis for action. It is the foundation of broader moral competence: any other moral reasoning capabilities will be irrelevant if an agent lacks sensitivity to the relevant facts. In this paper, we offer a new evaluation of LLM moral sensitivity and in doing so, we address and resolve a central problem in AI alignment research: how to scale behavioural evaluations beyond expensive and sometimes metaethically dubious comparisons with a human baseline, without adopting an LLM judge that must be assumed to have the very capability that you are attempting to evaluate. Our central question is this: can LLMs successfully identify the morally relevant features of noisy cases, in which various kinds of morally irrelevant information have been introduced to distract the respondent? To explore this, we introduce \textbf{MORPH-1K (MOral Robustness under Perturbed Hypotheticals)}, a procedurally-generated 1,000-case benchmark spanning 50 moral foundation-pole combinations across four social domains. MORPH-1K is paired with a suite of textual noise elements, along with a method for validating that the distractors do not change the morally salient content of the case. We apply MORPH-1K to eight contemporary LLMs, and show that while morally irrelevant perturbations often changed the number of features listed, the semantic content of those features remained stable across all noise conditions, with similarity scores above our calibrated floor threshold. More broadly, our invariance framework extends to evaluative domains where ground truth is difficult to specify but relevant and irrelevant features can be separated by design.

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Guardian· Today

arXiv:2607.04838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) in legal decision-making has been primarily explained through individual differences in personality traits and general technology attitudes. However, contextual features of legal disputes themselves may systematically influence preferences for AI versus human adjudicators. Across two studies with Japanese participants (N = 1,384 and N = 596), we examined whether psychological characteristics of dispute content shape acceptability judgments for algorithmic adjudication. Study 1 employed exploratory factor analysis on acceptability ratings across 46 legal dispute vignettes, revealing a two-dimensional structure distinguishing interpersonal-relational disputes (where human adjudicators were strongly preferred) from institutional-procedural disputes (where AI acceptance was comparatively higher). Study 2 replicated this structure in an independent sample and demonstrated that experimentally manipulated contextual features - emotional involvement and prototypicality - systematically modulated acceptability judgments, with effects varying by dispositional trust, AI-specific attitudes, and gender. AI-specific expectations emerged as the strongest predictor (eta2 = 0.252), and a three-way interaction among emotional involvement, gender, and prototypicality indicated that contextual effects are moderated by individual characteristics. These findings suggest that the psychological features of dispute content constitute an overlooked dimension in AI acceptance research, extending beyond technology acceptance models to fundamental questions about how individuals construe social problems and allocate adjudicative authority.

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omanobserver.om· Yesterday

Don't get misled about AI, stop freaking out - Oman Observer

Don't get misled about AI, stop freaking out - Oman Observer Monday, July 06, 2026 | Muharram 20, 1448 H broken clouds OMAN 26°C / 26°C EDITOR IN CHIEF- ABDULLAH BIN SALIM AL SHUEILI LOGIN | Log in /Sign up With Facebook With Google OR With Email By creating an account, you agree to our Term of Service and acknowledge our Privacy Policy # Don't get misled about AI, stop freaking out Published: 6:44 PM, Jul 06, 2026 SHARE The possibility that artificial intelligence will steal all our jobs has been hyped by industry leaders. It has roused politicians to sound the alarm. It now ranks at or near the top of the public’s concerns about the new technology. And right on cue, earlier this month, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, began marketing an autonomous AI system to handle companies’ sales, customer service, scheduling and all sorts of other key functions that currently requ

Technology & Infrastructure

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AI's energy appetite is reshaping the electric grid - TheStreet

That shift is creating a secondary investment cycle in energy infrastructure that is reshaping which companies and regions matter most to AI’s next phase. Training and deploying frontier AI models burns through electricity at a scale that was barely imaginable a decade ago. The largest data center campuses consume as much power as small cities, and the demand is accelerating faster than grid ...

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AP7AM· Yesterday

Larry Fink: AI's biggest challenge is power, says BlackRock CEO

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns that inadequate electricity infrastructure is the primary obstacle to AI development. He urges massive investment in the US power grid to ensure technological innovation and..

AI Hardware3 articles

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Guardian· Yesterday

China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands

Race to develop ‘embodied AI’ focuses on creating dextrous hands to transform humanoid robots from gimmicks into useful products Human hands – nimble, nerve-filled appendages that are the most flexible part of the human skeleton – are exceptionally complex. Many tasks that most people can do largely without thinking, from tying a pair of shoelaces to buttoning up a shirt, in fact require a complex set of neurological instructions and precise choreography. In thousands of years of human history, no machine has been able to truly replicate human’s greatest tool. But now, as artificial intelligence (AI) races forwards, some companies think they are close to surpassing this final but most difficult hurdle in robotics. Most of them are in China. Continue reading...

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DIGITIMES· Today

TSMC's AI bottleneck spills demand across the semiconductor supply chain

Nvidia and other artificial intelligence chipmakers are still facing shortages as TSMC's advanced-node and CoWoS packaging capacity remains tight, pushing demand into foundries, back-end assembly, testing, and overseas fabs. The strain is creating spillover opportunities across the broader ...

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timesofai.com· Yesterday

China's Chip Beats Nvidia A100 by 478x, on One Task

China's Chip Beats Nvidia A100 by 478x, on One Task × SEARCH Over the past year, China has rolled out competitive AI models and built up their domestic semiconductor industry. The latest development of a Chinese chip reportedly delivering up to 478 times better performance than Nvidia’s A100 GPU on a specialized computing task adds another milestone to that trajectory. That eye catching number only applies to a specific scientific workload, not general AI tasks. Still, there is more to it than just a benchmark. The real story here is how quickly China’s AI tech is evolving, not just with hardware, but with software and research too. No, this does not mean China has surpassed the world’s AI leaders. But it is proof that they are closing those critical technological gaps much faster than a lot of people expected. ## How China’s AI Ecosystem Advanced Upto This Speed The progress did n

AI Infrastructure & Compute10 articles

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Arxiv· Today

The Hidden Water Geography of U.S. Hyperscale Data Centers in the AI Era

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Bloomberg· Today

arXiv:2607.03298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models for Earth systems have so far been trained primarily on physical climate and weather data, with limited representation of the human systems that both drive and respond to environmental change. The lack of a unified global training resource that combines climate, land, ocean, cryosphere, infrastructure, hazards, and socioeconomic data on a common grid hinders progress toward truly multimodal Earth system foundation models. We present WorldTensor, a harmonised global dataset that aligns hundreds of environmental and socioeconomic variables to a standardised 0.25$^\circ$ spatial grid and annual temporal framework. WorldTensor integrates reanalysis products, remote sensing, emissions inventories, land use reconstructions, hydrological observations, infrastructure and hazard datasets, and socioeconomic indicators within a single representation designed for machine learning workflows. To build the dataset, we regridded inputs across heterogeneous native resolutions and projections, rasterised point and vector datasets into spatially meaningful gridded fields, and reconciled temporal coverages ranging from daily observations to sparse multiyear socioeconomic snapshots. All outputs are distributed as NetCDF files with standardised coordinates, variable metadata, and a common CF metadata convention. WorldTensor provides a reproducible resource for training and evaluating foundation models that learn coupled dynamics across environmental and human systems at planetary scale.

AI gets a real science bench

Anthropic launched Claude Science, a research workbench that integrates with scientific databases and supports lab infrastructure, alongside new research grants.

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Arxiv· Today

Silicon Sampling via Cross-Survey Transfer

arXiv:2607.03091v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Silicon sampling-using large language models (LLMs) to simulate human survey respondents-has emerged as a promising approach for augmenting traditional survey research. However, most evaluations rely on distributional comparisons rather than individual-level prediction, which risks conflating pattern matching with coherent respondent-level prediction. We propose cross-survey transfer, a more rigorous evaluation framework in which an LLM is given a respondent's answers to one set of questions and must predict their answers to entirely different questions from the same survey. Using data from the Taiwan Election and Democratization Study (TEDS) 2024, three open-weight LLMs (27B-120B parameters), and supervised machine learning baselines, we find that: (1) zero-shot LLMs achieve 52% accuracy on genuinely unseen items, closing to within 6 percentage points (pp) of a supervised random forest trained on same-population data; (2) a stable construct predictability hierarchy emerges, from 67% for partisan attitudes to 23% for sovereignty; and (3) variance collapse and safety alignment effects-two commonly cited LLM limitations-turn out to be more nuanced than previously reported, with variance collapse affecting supervised models as well and alignment effects varying dramatically across model families. These findings clarify both the promise and boundaries of silicon sampling.

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Arxiv· Today

Automated Data Readiness for Scientific AI

arXiv:2607.02771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leadership computing facilities steward large-scale scientific datasets that routinely require substantial transformation before serving as AI training data. However, no existing framework fully unifies automated transformation, readiness assessment, provenance tracking, and agent-native deployment. We present REDI, an open-source framework that addresses this gap through a unified five-stage pipeline (ingest, preprocess, transform, structure, and output) with per-stage instrumentation for reproducibility and deployment as an agent-callable skill; companion tool SetGo automates FAIR compliance and catalog publication. Evaluated across climate, proteomics, materials science, and nuclear fusion, REDI transforms all datasets from raw to AI-ready, with outputs validated against domain-expert references, and preliminary results show near-ideal parallel scaling to 100 nodes on Frontier for the climate case. Provenance-instrumented profiling reveals file I/O as the dominant pipeline cost, with format selection a first-order optimization lever. These results establish REDI as a cross-domain platform providing automated data readiness for scientific AI, transforming data preparation bottlenecks into reproducible, reusable community assets.

AI Security & Cybersecurity3 articles

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Forbes· Yesterday

Council Post: Compliance Automation: The Link Between AI Innovation And Security

As development velocity increases, organizations cannot rely on manual compliance processes designed for a slower era.

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InfotechLead· Today

AI-Driven Cyberattacks Double Critical Vulnerabilities as Check Point Urges Enterprises to Prioritize Exposure Management - InfotechLead

Alongside Check Point, companies ... risks. Check Point says its platform currently protects more than 100,000 organizations worldwide through a cybersecurity architecture built on Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Threat Exposure Management and AI ...

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Arxiv· Today

Cybercrime Victimization Among Young Adult Males Aged 18--20: A Post-Pandemic Analysis of Converging Risk Factors

arXiv:2607.02530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cybercrime victimization among young adult males aged 18--20 has become an increasingly urgent public safety concern in the post-pandemic digital environment. From 2022 to 2024, individuals aged 20--29 submitted 191,787 complaints to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), reporting combined losses of more than $1.28 billion. Although this population represents a substantial share of cybercrime victims, the 18--20 male sub-cohort remains insufficiently examined as a distinct demographic group within cybercrime victimization research. This study presents an original risk factor analysis and theoretical synthesis, representing the first integration of criminological, neurological, and behavioral evidence for this specific demographic sub-cohort. Drawing on FBI IC3 and FTC Consumer Sentinel Network data from 2022--2024 alongside European cybersecurity threat intelligence from ENISA, the study develops a unified risk profile centered on three intersecting vulnerability factors: a guardianship gap created by the transition into unsupervised digital independence, heightened behavioral exposure to online risk, and reduced impulse regulation associated with ongoing prefrontal cortex development. The findings show a 49.7% increase in reported losses among the 20--29 age group between 2023 and 2024 and identify financial sextortion, phishing, task scams, in-game currency fraud, and dark web grooming as major attack typologies exploiting this risk convergence. The study offers implications for targeted cybersecurity awareness campaigns, digital literacy education, and policy interventions designed for this high-risk demographic.

Adoption, Deployment & Impact

24 articles

AI integration is hindered by institutional bottlenecks and a skills chasm, necessitating governance to address algorithmic bias and shifting labor market dynamics.

AI Applications2 articles

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Arxiv· Today

Even as they adopt AI, companies are measuring employee performance with familiar metrics of success: productivity, goal completion, and efficiency. As such, employees who rely heavily on AI may appear highly productive, while those who slow down to verify assumptions, challenge outputs, or ...

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AlphaFold's Nobel Winner Just Joined Anthropic. And 6 More AI Wins.· Yesterday

A tutor that beats the classroom

A randomized trial published in Nature's Scientific Reports provides evidence that an AI tutor can outperform traditional in-class active learning.

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Let's Data Science· Yesterday

Companies Increase AI Spend, Adoption Outcomes Diverge | Let's Data Science

Ramp and Revelio Labs analyzed nearly **22,000 US firms** and found high-intensity AI adopters spent about **$34 per user per month** while posting more than **10% headcount growth** over 24 months, according to Business Insider and the firms' report. The result makes the story less about whether ...

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Saner.AI Blog· Yesterday

AI Productivity Statistics 2026: Adoption, Time Savings, and Real ROI Data

Every statistic below links directly to the primary source that produced the data — peer-reviewed journals, national research institutions, and original surveys — not secondary roundups. Three years into the generative AI era, the question has shifted from "will AI make us more productive?" ...

AI ROI & Business Case5 articles

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AlphaFold's Nobel Winner Just Joined Anthropic. And 6 More AI Wins.· Yesterday

Screening that catches more cancer

A multicenter study in Nature Cancer found that AI-supported mammography improves detection of clinically relevant cancers without increasing false positives.

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theinformation.com· Yesterday

Nature abhores a vacuum as they say. And the departure of ‘ AI and Crypto Czar’ David Sacks in recent days, left Secretary Lutnick at the AI helm, steering the US ship.

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OpenPR· Yesterday

WebX 2026 Unveils Expanded Global Speaker and Sponsor Line-up and Programme Highlights Ahead of July Conference

Newly confirmed speakers from leading financial institutions digital asset firms and global payment networks join discussions on stablecoins AI regulation and the future of digital finance in Tokyo Tokyo Japan Jul 06 2026 ZEX PR WIRE WebX 2026 Asia s ...

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msukhareva.substack.com· Today

AI Realist | Maria Sukhareva | Substack

AI Realist | Maria Sukhareva | Substack SubscribeSign in AI Realist Radar ## Learn to Optimise Your AI Stack - AI Realist Workshop Only 20 places available! READ THE LATEST Most Popular In Support of Yann LeCun: Defending Scientific Integrity in AI Leadership Nov 16, 2025 • Maria Sukhareva 91 18 20 GPT-5.2 and Meaningless Benchmarks Dec 12, 2025 • Maria Sukhareva 61 13 11 Why Prompt Engineering Should Not Be Taken Seriously Sep 25, 2025 • Maria Sukhareva 53 1 11 The Downfall of OpenAI And Who Will Follow Apr 2 • Maria Sukhareva 52 14 ### Recent posts The Industry of Lies, or What Leaders Need to Know About AI On unpredictable costs, failed PoCs, resistant employees, and the infrastructure that is not there Jun 21 • Maria Sukhareva 46 1 12 Your website, built with Fable 5: my step-by-step guide Do it before June 22 while it is still affordable. Jun 12 •

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