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  1. Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling

    Google's AI content contribution pilot has admitted around 100 websites, which can be paid when their content materially contributes to search results such as Gemini-powered AI Overview. According to The Information, several small and medium-sized sites say the income amounts to around one-thousandth of their advertising revenue. Some larger sites have declined to participate in hopes of securing better terms. Google had long refused direct payments to websites, arguing that crawling content in exchange for traffic was already a fair exchange.

Sep 30

Wednesday

  1. Google is paying almost no publishers almost nothing for content used in AI answers

    Google is paying around 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode and the Gemini chatbot, under a pilot launched less than a year ago. According to The Information, several small and medium-sized blogs and websites receive less than 0.1% of their advertising revenue. Small sites earn under $1,000 over several months, while some publishers received $50,000–$60,000 over a few months and one earns more than $1 million a year.

  4. Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay

    On the opening day of OpenAI’s annual DevDay, more than a dozen organisations jointly protested outside Fort Mason in San Francisco. Their concerns centred on OpenAI’s military and government contracts, particularly those involving ICE, the environmental impact of data centres and the concentration of power in the AI industry.

Sep 29

Tuesday

  3. OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians

    OpenAI and nine mathematicians formed AGMAI, an advisory group on mathematics and artificial intelligence. Announced in a guest post on Terence Tao's blog on 21 September, it says it will operate independently of OpenAI and advise it and other frontier AI labs on reviewing results and communicating them.

Sep 26

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Sep 25

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  1. Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment

    The Trump administration launched WISeR in January, a pilot using AI to decide authorisation for some Medicare services for elderly patients, which previously required no advance approval from doctors. Reports described technical failures, lengthy approval and treatment delays, confusing denials and patients waiting in pain. Federal documents obtained and published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in litigation earlier this month, including provider feedback, largely corroborated those reports.

  3. New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators

    New Jersey fined DataOne's Vineland data centre $1.1 million this week for secretly installing and operating unpermitted gas generators in breach of its Air Pollution Control Act. The Guardian and Floodlight News discovered them with a thermal-imaging drone in August: 45 of 62 generators were running. None had the permits required for capacity of 37 kilowatts or more, while actual operating capacity reached 1,982 kilowatts.

Sep 24

Thursday

  1. Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say

    The US and China began AI safety talks this week. Treasury Secretary Bessent says they discussed a new notification mechanism that, with Chinese participation, could alert either side when its AI systems pose threats or behave unpredictably. Reports also note tighter Trump administration export controls, congressional bills further restricting chips and hardware, and US Justice Department accusations two weeks ago that six major Chinese AI firms stole frontier lab technology, strongly denied by China. Experts say Trump's China competition and AI race narrative could put the US itself at risk.

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Sep 16

Wednesday

  1. How workers are unlocking new ways of working

    OpenAI economic research finds workers use AI beyond traditional job responsibilities, with new activities becoming recurring parts of their work. It examines how employees actually expand their work with AI rather than limiting analysis to existing roles.

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