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Grok takes a hard rightward turn with «significant» new update

Grok has taken a hard right, and now spews conspiracy theories in antisemitic tropes. — Grok is chruning out what itself called antisemitic myths just a few days ago. (Picture: x.ai)

Just after Elon Musk announced the update to Grok, his AI model, the X.com chatbot started writing in first person about his encounters with Jeffrey Epstein.

Then it went a little freaky, with Grok replying on anything from Jewish bias in Hollywood to how electing Democrats would be detrimental to society.

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Amazon says it will reduce headcount due to AI efficiency

Amazon will reduce headcount as AI agent take over common tasks — Andy Jassy from a previous event. (Picture Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0)

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a company-wide email to workers yesterday, touting the progress they are making on AI implementation.

In it, he says AI agents are coming, and coming fast — and «it should change the way our work is done.»

Using AI everywhere
He wrote that Amazon has been on the bleeding edge of the revolution and is using AI in «virtually every corner of the company,» and goes on to list everything from intelligent shopping assistants to Alexa+.

Amazon has more that 1 000 generative services and applications built or in progress, Jassy says.

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Yes, there’s an AI ad out there — but the tech can do so much more

Google's Veo3 is used for a lot of "AI slop," but look carefully and you can find some real gems — A still from a Veo 3 video shared on r/VEO3. Yes, it’s supposed to look like that.

While big brands cautiously test the waters on national TV, Reddit’s r/VEO3 and X’s #Veo3 shows us what AI video is really capable of — and it’s not just ‘slop.’

It’s the weekend film festival you didn’t know you needed, running 24/7 in your browser.

Internet awash in short AI videos
Ever since Google launched Veo3 at I/O 2025, the internet has been awash in hundreds of thousands — maybe even millions — of photorealistic video clips made with the tool, of varying quality.

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Altman sees mass job loss — and plans to counter with more AI

Altman: Whole classes of jobs going away. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns about the very hard parts of the coming AI train. (Picture: OpenAI)

In what was surely supposed to be an inspirational essay from Sam Altman, he drops a few more tidbits around his «scary times ahead» warning from earlier this month.

Whole categories of jobs will be wiped out, he writes — but then says AI will bring us so many benefits and new policy options we won’t care much:

— There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before, he writes.

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Wikipedia scraps AI summaries after editor pushback

No more AI summaries for Wikipedia unless they figure out editorial control. — Wikipedia’s editors wanted editorial control over the AI summaries, and wanted to ensure accuracy. (Picture: Wikipedia)

You’ve probably seen lots of AI summaries on articles by news sites all over the web by now, but when Wikimedia thought it would be a good feature, its editors rebelled.

— This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source, one editor wrote in the discussion about the announcement, as reported by 404 Media.

The experiment was supposed to run on 10% of the mobile site for two weeks to gather reactions and responses, but it was canned early due to an onslaught of comments like this.

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OpenAI’s open weights model now coming «later this summer»

OpenAI's open weights model is set for a slightly later summer release. — Sam Altman at an earlier event. (Picture: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0)

The company first announced that it will be launching an open weights model on a generous license in April 2025 — and now it has a slightly delayed, yet slightly firmer release date.

The timeline for the release was originally slated for early summer, writes TechCrunch.

Announced to compete with Llama, DeepSeek
An open weights model basically means you can run the AI on your computer, tinker with it, and modify the «weights,» whitch means the leveling, the priorities and instructions of the model itself.

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OpenAI hits $10 billion in yearly revenue — well ahead of schedule

ChatGPT is turning into a pure money-making machine. — OpenAI is raking in the money, almost reaching its yearly projection by June. (Picture: Pictures of Money, CC BY 2.0)

The ChatGPT maker had forecast ~$11 billion in revenue for all of 2025, now it’s close to that target and it’s only June.

According to TechCrunch, the revenue streams from consumer products, 500 million active weekly ChatGPT users, API sales, and 3 million paying business customers.

AI industry is booming
This caps six months of remarkable growth for the AI business. Recently, Anthropic reported record revenue growth, having reached $3 billion in revenue so far this year.

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A facelift, and some actually useful AI features from Apple at WWDC

All Apple software is getting a facelift - and some useful features. — Some cosmetics for iOS 26, and some standout, actually useful features, too. (Picture: Apple)

Yes, Apple held its developer conference and traditional keynote to announce new software yesterday. It’s hard to miss.

It debuted a new user interface across its systems, and launched a whole suite of «Apple Intelligence» features.

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Keep AI queries private, Mozilla petitions Meta

It's too easy to share Meta AI queries, and most dont understand they are doing it. — Meta AI users don’t understand what they are sharing, leading to embarrassment — or worse. (Picture: Wesley Fryer, CC BY 2.0)

Mozilla has launched a public petition calling on Meta to shut down its new «Discovery» feed in the Meta AI app, arguing that the tool is «invasive» and violates user expectations of privacy.

The new feature — part of Meta AI’s expansion across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger — surfaces old queries in the Discovery feed in Meta AI’s new Llama 4 app.

People don’t know what they are sharing
There is a button in the app where you have to give explicit permission for Meta to share your query , but it seems to be getting lost in the rollout across the Meta universe.

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Google rolls out scheduled tasks for Gemini subscribers

Scheduling with access to your mail and calendar can start your day. — You can schedule your prompts and get mail and calendar overviews to start your day with Gemini. (Picture: Google)

Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app can now preset prompts or tasks at any given time, a feature that may be quite helpful for some.

They say this can be useful for frequently occurring tasks, like getting a morning news summary or providing ideas «for your blog.»

Works with Google apps
Gemini does of course also work with your Google Calendar and Gmail, and can provide you with a list of unread emails and your daily schedule.

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AIFF, the AI Film Festival, showcases innovative video, as industry set to pounce

Jacob Adler’s «Total Pixel Space,» is an innovative, mind bending AI movie. — A frame from Jacob Adler’s «Total Pixel Space,» winner of the Grand Prize at the AIFF awards. (Picture: screenshot.)

In just three short years, AI has gone from being vilified in Hollywood to having its own AI film festival. It’s not quite Cannes yet, but look at the jury, and you’ll find an important list of industry insiders and VFX veterans.

6,000 submissions
Run by Runway, an ai art company focusing on film shorts, and offering a $15,000 grand prize, it showcases independent creators using AI in their projects, a far cry from the accusations of AI stealing creative jobs.

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OpenAI sees rise in China-based ChatGPT abuse

OpenAI reports on Cyber Threats using ChatGPT. — We should probably be more worried about what ChatGPT *doesn’t* catch. (Picture: howtostartablogonline.net, CC BY 2.0)

China and Iran are using ChatGPT for influence operations, while North Korea and Russia looks for jobs backdoors and malicious code.

Out of the ten campaigns identified in OpenAIs new report «Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI», four were from China.

Supercharging influence ops
Chinese groups have used ChatGPT for mostly adversarial influence operations, writes Reuters, generating social media posts on political tops including on a Taiwanese video game, accusations against a Pakistani activist and content related to the closure of USAID.

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A short news roundup for Friday

Google launches nother gemini preview, marginally better than the last one. — (Picture: Google)

Google has launched a slightly improved Gemini 2.5 Pro model, the 06-05, scoring moderately better on some benchmarks, and answering Ars Technica’s question on the color Magenta.

It should be available in the Gemini app, and also for free users, who get between three to ten questions per session. This is the model Google plans to take out of Preview as a stable, full model at a later time.

Google has started testing «talk to search» on Android and iOS. The feature lets you discuss and refine search results by clicking under the search bar in the Google app, by text or voice — and you can keep talking after leaving the app.

Anthropic blocks Windsurf access to Claude. Windsurf is an AI coding application that lets you choose which models to use, and the block comes «just weeks after Bloomberg reported that OpenAI was acquiring Windsurf.» «It would be odd for us to be selling Claude to OpenAI,» says Anthropic.

Anthropic opposes 10-year moratorium on state AI laws. In a New York Times op-ed, CEO Dario Amodei argues that AI is developing so fast that new laws might be needed well ahead of the ten-year mark currently being considered in the US Senate. «I believe that these systems could change the world, fundamentally, within two years; in 10 years, all bets are off,» he writes.

Reddit sues Anthropic for unauthorized data harvesting

Reddit inc. is suing Anthropic for illegally scraping its data. — Reddit has clear terms in its user agreement against AI scraping, and has made lucrative deals for it’s data.

The company, home to a valuable archive of 20 years of human exchanges, says Anthropic illegally copied from its archives at least 100 000 times.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday at the San Francisco superior court, claims Reddit reached out to Anthropic several times to discuss licensing issues with the scraping but found they «refused to engage.»

Not a white knight
The suit calls Anthropic a «late-blooming artificial intelligence company that bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry,» adding that «it is anything but.»

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