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Tyler Cowen's Friday assorted links post on May 29, 2026, covers topics including economies of scale in homebuilding, Peter Thiel's involvement in Argentina, and a New York Times interview with Paul McCartney. The collec…
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Tyler Cowen's Friday assorted links post on May 29, 2026, covers topics including economies of scale in homebuilding, Peter Thiel's involvement in Argentina, and a New York Times interview with Paul McCartney. The collec…
Box founder Aaron Levie warned that executives pushing AI to replace workers often lack understanding of those jobs, calling it "AI psychosis." ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 202…
Illinois lawmakers passed Senate Bill 315, making the state the first in the U.S. to require independent third-party safety audits of frontier artificial intelligence companies. The law, which passed the House 110-0 and …
Four Brentwood employee associations have called on the City Council to launch an independent third-party review of gender-based discrimination complaints against City Manager G. Harold Duffey, citing "serious concern" a…
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was arrested in Texas on Friday after being charged by Minnesota prosecutors with shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and lying about it during a Department of Homeland Securi…
MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan urged Coimbatore industries to explore opportunities in electronics and artificial intelligence. The statement encourages local firms to leverage those sectors to strengthen the city's industr…
Google Cloud published guidance for public-sector CISOs on building AI-ready security programs, recommending a hybrid approach that combines custom internal workflows with commercial AI capabilities. The guidance from Go…
OpenAI released governance frameworks designed to give enterprise leaders a structured blueprint for scaling safe and compliant AI deployments globally. The frameworks package guidance to help organizations implement gov…
The China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, a state-backed entity known as the "Big Fund," is in talks to lead Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's first external funding round at an approximate $45 billion valuation…
The U.S. Capitol Police Intelligence Services Bureau issued an intelligence note in April warning that public opposition to AI data centers could threaten lawmakers, while simultaneously admitting it is investigating zer…
Zig President Andrew Kelley has banned all AI-assisted code contributions to the open-source programming language, calling them "invariably garbage" and "negative value" that waste reviewer time. The policy, which prohib…
San Jose City Councilmember Bien Doan, who represents District 7, has submitted his responses to the Bay Area News Group primary questionnaire ahead of the June election. Doan highlighted his work on homelessness spendin…
Slalom Consulting advises federal agencies to reconsider Snowflake as a cloud data platform, citing the Trump administration's cost-cutting priorities and new acquisition rules that favor commercial solutions over govern…
Data centers powering the AI boom have become the most polarizing buildings in America, with 70% of people opposing construction in their community and at least 20 proposed projects canceled due to local backlash in earl…
The QEMU open-source emulator project is considering relaxing its ban on AI-generated code contributions, according to a proposal from a Red Hat engineer who argues the risk-benefit balance has shifted. The potential pol…
BusPatrol, a company that installed AI cameras on tens of thousands of school buses to catch drivers illegally passing stop arms, is now testing technology to turn those cameras into license plate readers that track ever…
OpenAI is offering its life sciences AI model GPT-Rosalind for free through the new Rosalind Biodefense program to help governments and researchers prepare for future pandemics. Early partners include Lawrence Livermore …
AI-generated songs with near-identical names, lyrics, and melodies have flooded streaming platforms, amassing millions of streams on Spotify and TikTok and hitting No. 1 on iTunes in Germany and Austria. The tracks appea…
Honeybadger has implemented a strict AI use policy for its blog, requiring all writing to be original work from the author. The policy permits limited use of AI tools for research, spelling and grammar checks, and code g…
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed an executive order Friday establishing statewide guidelines for large data centers, addressing water use, air quality, energy generation, wildlife protection and transparency. The order follo…