The Register: Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds. “Don’t tell the folks over at the r/BusinessTantrums subreddit, but it looks like companies opting to use what a group of researchers call automated review monitoring systems (ARMS) are substantially less likely to let staff respond publicly to negative reviews, and are also far more likely to make actual […]

Techdirt: 37,000 Fake AI Comments Mysteriously Oppose Washington State’s Effort To Tax The Rich. ” Washington State has been exploring the RADICAL SOCIALIST ANTIFA EXTREMIST idea of having the state’s rich actually pay their taxes. That’s not been received particularly well by the extraction class, which has been making empty promises about leaving the state. Recently the state opened up […]

CNBC: Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled. “New U.S laws designed for online child safety are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates that often use AI technology, and causing major headaches for social media companies attempting to strike a balance for users between legal compliance and privacy.”

Ars Technica: Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI. “Google Maps is one of the company’s core products, which means it hasn’t escaped the shift to Gemini. There will be more opportunities to converse with a robot in Google Maps starting today, but there’s also a new navigation experience on the way. The revamped navigation isn’t as explicitly […]

Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota lawmakers seek to regulate artificial intelligence. “Minnesota senators on Monday considered five measures to regulate AI, including a bill (SF 1857) stating that companies that create AI chatbots — like ChatGPT — ensure minors do not access them, and a bill (SF 1886) requiring that companies disclose when a person is communicating with AI.”

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PsyPost: Therapists test an AI dating simulator to help chronically single men practice romantic skills. “Over a three-month period, participants who completed a guided dating simulation reported notable drops in feelings of loneliness, as well as decreases in general mental and sexual distress. These results, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, suggest that digital companions could […]

Western University: From training to scoring, Western researchers investigate how Olympians and Paralympians use AI. “While Olympians and Paralympians are banned from using ‘computer-aided’ or ‘robotic’ devices to boost their on-stage performance, AI has crept into other territories, from training grounds to judging. And in the world’s biggest celebration of human strength and skill – […]

The Register: AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey’s chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours . “Researchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey’s internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot in just two hours. It’s yet another indicator that agentic AI is becoming a more effective tool for conducting cyberattacks, […]

The Guardian: Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work. “Lisa, a supply chain engineer who has worked at Amazon for over a decade, says that AI tools at work have been helpful to her only in about one in every three attempts. And even then, she often finds issues and has to consult with colleagues to verify and correct their results, which takes up more […]

TechCrunch: Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods. “Google researchers used Gemini — Google’s large language model — to sort through 5 million news articles from around the world, isolating reports of 2.6 million different floods, and turning those reports into a geo-tagged time series dubbed ‘Groundsource.'”

Decrypt: Grammarly Disables AI ‘Expert Review’ After Backlash From Authors and Journalists. “Popular writing assistant platform Grammarly said on Wednesday that it has disabled its Expert Review AI feature following online backlash and criticism that the tool used the identities and mannerisms of various writers and editors without permission.”

ZDNet: I tried GPT-5.4, and most answers were really good – but a few had me concerned. “Every answer I got back from GPT-5.4 Thinking was quite good in its own right. But in half my tests, the AI didn’t answer the question it was asked. You can get it to give you good responses, but you have to fairly relentlessly correct the AI to keep it on point. That gets old.”

Public Power Review: Bringing Back New Deal Local Labor History with AI. “I’ve gone through the work of producing a digital archive of Chattanooga’s Labor World newspaper for the years 1929 to 1940. Labor World was published by the Chattanooga Trades and Labor Council, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, from 1915 to 1984. The archive is organized into PDF files by volume, […]

Gizmodo: Coming Soon, From the People Behind ICE Detention Camps: Data Center Company Towns. “Painting a picture straight out of a Taylor Sheridan series, the Bloomberg piece details the rise of the ‘man camps’ built to facilitate the construction of data centers. Amenity-filled pop-up villages in remote areas used to serve as a carrot for oil industry contractors. The model has since expanded […]

Chronogram: Lakota-Led AI Research at Bard College Explores Ethics Through Indigenous Knowledge. “At Bard’s Wíhaŋble S’a Center, artist and scholar Suzanne Kite is rethinking artificial intelligence through Lakota knowledge—combining hide tanning, beadwork, dream research, and land-based practice to imagine a more ethical relationship with technology.”

CalMatters: California colleges spend millions on faulty AI systems: ‘The chatbot is outdated’. “California community college districts are spending millions of dollars on artificial intelligence-powered chatbots intended to help students navigate admissions, financial aid and campus services. However, they struggle to consistently provide clear and accurate answers, leaving students […]

New York Times: ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved for Official Use in the Senate This link goes to a gift article. “The chief information officer for the Senate sergeant-at-arms, who oversees the chamber’s computers as well as security, said in a one-page memo reviewed by The New York Times that aides could use Google’s Gemini chat, OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, which is already […]

CNBC: Amazon wins court order to block Perplexity’s AI shopping agent. “Amazon sued Perplexity in November, alleging the startup took steps to ‘conceal’ its AI agents so they could continue to scrape the online retailer’s website without its approval. Perplexity called the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, a ‘bully tactic.'”

NiemanLab: A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts”. “I’ll stress again that none of these people gave their permission to have their names used by this feature. In fact, that’s something Grammarly itself, in the style of noted legal scholar and digital copyright expert Pamela Samuelson, flagged when I ran an early draft of this story through it.”