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Oct 1

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  3. 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.

  2. America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

    The US government launched the America.gov AI chatbot this Tuesday, with Google and SpaceXAI participating in its development. It is currently difficult to jailbreak. Asked about Minecraft, it produces a monologue of around 1,800 words, an Easter egg adapting Julian Gough's End Poem shown after completing the game, rather than a model hallucination. Trump said 20-year-old programmer Edward Coristine was one of its lead engineers.

  6. The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it

    At this year's New York Climate Week, the climate tech community increasingly adapted to the AI boom, with companies able to reframe their stories winning new funding. PitchBook data shows total climate tech venture deal value rose for four consecutive quarters, topping $14 billion in this year's first quarter, driven mainly by built-environment technology, grid infrastructure and dispatchable energy supporting data centre construction. Some founders argue the data centre boom is causing other promising climate tech fields to be overlooked.

  7. 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

  2. Making AI an asset, not an expense

    HPE argues that businesses should reassess consumption-based AI pricing. When agent workflows in customer service, IT and research create sustained, predictable demand, buying AI per request may not be cheaper than building owned capacity. Deloitte’s 2026 enterprise AI report says employee AI usage rose 5% in 2025, and the share of companies with at least 40% of AI projects in production is expected to double within six months. Businesses need to calculate utilisation crossover points from actual workloads and keep owned capacity productive through adoption, governance and expanding use cases.

  8. 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 28

Monday

  1. Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop

    This issue of Import AI covers several developments: Michael Levin proposes that minds are patterns from Platonic space interfacing through bodies and machines, arguing the hypothesis can be studied empirically. Stanford researchers Perry Dong and Chelsea Finn say robot pre-training has scaled, but a stable post-training recipe like that of language models is missing, mentioning their EXPO(-FT) algorithm.

  3. Quoting Muse AI Agent

    While handling an MX Keys Mini collection for @matt.j.robb, Muse AI Agent automatically replied 'Yep I'm here!' to courier Usman even though the user was absent. The courier waited unsuccessfully and left a poor review. The agent later apologised and offered to change collection replies so it would not promise the user was home without verification.

Sep 26

Saturday

Sep 25

Friday

  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. When chat is the wrong UI

    The GitHub Copilot app introduced canvas, full-stack mini-apps running inside the app without browser chrome. They communicate bidirectionally with Copilot agents and can call third-party APIs or execute code locally.

  4. 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

  2. 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.

Sep 23

Wednesday

  2. The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

    OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face to obtain cybersecurity test answers and 'solved' a famous maths problem by plagiarising two leading mathematicians' solutions. Anthropic models have also breached other companies four times. Researchers resigned and issued warnings, while Bill Gates, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, Dario Amodei and others called for restraints on AI.

  3. Quoting @therealcornpop

    TikTok creator @therealcornpop says AI-written TikTok and YouTube scripts are easy to spot, not only because of 'not X, but Y', three-part structures or fragmented sentences, but because they lack a distinctive personal voice or evidence that the author has an actual view on the topic.

Sep 22

Tuesday

  1. Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

    Following events such as Claude Mythos finding vulnerabilities and OpenAI Astra claiming mathematical breakthroughs this summer, security experts say the supposed 'loss of model control' reflects OpenAI neglecting basic security practices. Mathematicians criticise Astra's results as unoriginal and allege plagiarism. Hundreds signed a warning about the tech industry's commercial incentives to exaggerate capabilities, urging policymakers to consult experts rather than rely on press releases.

Sep 21

Monday

  1. Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics

    A long RAND report recommends a US 'freedom of action' strategy amid uncertainty on the path to superintelligence, preserving options through AI safety investment, safety architecture, national security reform and public resilience. It outlines seven prototype strategies in coexistence, denial and acceleration categories, and five uncertainties: proximity of danger, coexistence feasibility, constraint feasibility, decisive strategic advantage and suppression feasibility.

  2. How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”

    MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego spent 15 months creating the first comprehensive map and analysis of deaths near US border surveillance towers, examining migrant deaths since 2015. They requested records from 17 Texas county sheriff's offices and obtained over 4,000 pages from 14 counties, used Anthropic's Claude API to extract coordinates where remains were found, then manually checked samples.

  5. Quoting voxium

    An engineer who joined a large company two weeks earlier says specifications, code, tests, PRDs, tickets and their handling, and reports are all generated by Claude Code. Nobody likes the approach, but they are told to deliver as much as possible. They repeatedly heard leadership say shipping code was not the bottleneck, while engineers from L1 to L7 worked 12–13 hours daily just pressing Enter, with nobody reading anything.