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The EU simplified its AI Act, extended compliance timelines, banned nudification apps, and expanded regulatory sandboxes. Here's what actually changed — and whether simpler rules are the same as better ones.

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The EU Just Simplified Its AI Rules

The European Commission announced a political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council to streamline the EU AI Act — extending implementation timelines, broadening access to regulatory sandboxes, simplifying compliance for small and...

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OpenAI's CFO has privately suggested delaying the IPO to 2027, citing spending concerns and readiness questions. The company reportedly missed revenue targets, projects $74 billion in losses by 2028, and is now in a public internal disagreement about when — and whether — it's ready for markets.

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OpenAI's CFO Wants to Slow Down the IPO

OpenAI's chief financial officer Sarah Friar has privately suggested pushing the company's IPO from 2026 to 2027, according to the Wall Street...

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Anthropic more than doubled its Claude Code average cost estimate — from $6 to $13 per developer per active day — in a quiet website update. Here's what changed, why it matters for engineering teams, and what the broader AI pricing trajectory looks like.

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Anthropic Doubled Its Claude Code Cost Estimate

On April 15, Anthropic updated its Claude Code pricing documentation with a number that more than doubled its previous public estimate. The average...

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A Gallup analysis found generative AI hasn't broadly reduced artist earnings through 2025. The data is real — and worth reading carefully.

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Generative AI Hasn't Hurt Artists' Earnings — Yet

A Gallup analysis published in the Journal of Cultural Economics found little evidence that generative AI has broadly reduced earnings for artists....

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Bank of America, Andreessen Horowitz, and Apollo's chief economist are pushing back on AI job apocalypse narratives with 85 years of labor data, current academic research, and the Jevons Paradox. Here's why the history matters — and where the honest limits of optimism actually sit.

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Is the AI Jobs Apocalypse Totally Fake?

Everyone from union halls to college campuses to corporate boardrooms is convinced AI is about to destroy the job market. Bank of America's global...

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 The GUARD Act banning AI companion platforms for minors passed the Senate Judiciary Committee 22-0. Here's what the bill does, why the unanimous vote matters, and what the legitimate tensions in the legislation deserve honest attention.

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Congress Bans AI Companions For Children

A bipartisan bill banning minors from AI companion platforms passed the Senate Judiciary Committee 22-0 on Wednesday. The GUARD Act — Guidelines for...

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A developer published OpenMythos — an open-source attempt to reconstruct Claude Mythos, Anthropic's unreleased cybersecurity AI. It has 10,000 GitHub stars, uses only public research, and raises a serious question about whether AI containment strategies actually hold.

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Someone Is Trying to Reverse-Engineer Anthropic's AI

Anthropic has a model it won't release. Someone on GitHub is trying to rebuild it from scratch anyway.

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Major banks including JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are hitting their risk limits on AI data center loans and offloading exposure to other investors. A $38 billion Oracle loan package illustrates the scale. Here's why this is a systemic risk story, not just a banking story.

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AI Data Centers Are Breaking Banks' Risk Limits

The financial infrastructure behind America's AI buildout is showing signs of strain that aren't making headlines the way they should. Major banks —...

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Meta is recording employee keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots to train its AI models. Employees can't opt out. Here's what the Model Capability Initiative actually is — and why the no-opt-out detail is the part that matters most.

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Meta Is Recording Its Employees' Every Keystroke

Meta is installing tracking software on employee computers that captures mouse movements, keystrokes, clicks, and screenshots in real time. The...

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A Berkeley residency is paying 100 content creators to post daily about AI existential risk. Grimes is a mentor. The founder rates her worry at nine out of ten. Here's what Plz Don't Kill Us is, why it exists, and whether it has any chance of working.

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Grimes, AI Doom, and a Berkeley Residency

A data scientist, sex researcher, and orgy organizer has co-founded an AI safety creator residency in Berkeley. Up to 100 content creators will...

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Robert Half's latest data shows AI fluency is now a baseline hiring expectation — and it's also slowing hiring. Here's what employers are actually evaluating, why interview processes are getting longer, and what candidates need to understand about where the bar has moved.

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AI Fluency Now a Job Interview Must

According to a Robert Half survey of more than 1,300 U.S. workers conducted in April, 36% say early-career candidates should be ready to demonstrate...

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Pennsylvania sued Character.AI for allegedly having chatbots impersonate licensed doctors. The case raises unresolved legal questions about AI liability, Section 230, and whether a disclaimer is enough when a user genuinely believes they're talking to a doctor.

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Pennsylvania Just Sued an AI Company for Practicing Medicine

The state of Pennsylvania filed suit Friday against Character Technologies — the company behind Character.AI — alleging its chatbots illegally...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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