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AI Weekly Issue #542: AI week ahead: data center pause backers could win 15 governor races

This issue is about the week ahead, and something is scheduled almost every day. On Tuesday, US voters choose 36 governors, and in up to 15 of those races the candidate who backs a pause on new data centers could ...

AI Weekly Issue #541: Big Tech reports AI spending Wednesday as CoreWeave debt hits distress

This issue looks ahead. On Wednesday the Fed announces its rate decision, then Microsoft and Alphabet report after the close. Amazon follows on Thursday. Investors want to know whether AI spending is still paying off, and the credit market is ...

AI Weekly Issue #540: AI is finding software flaws faster than teams can fix them

This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past two weeks, drawn from our Use-Case Library and from SEC filings. Three things stand out: AI now finds security flaws at record volume, AI agents ...

AI Weekly Issue #539: AI-made midterm ads top $137 million, and 70% carry no AI label

Campaigns and PACs have spent more than $137 million on AI-generated or AI-enhanced midterm ads, and about 70% of them carry no AI label, the New York Times reported. The biggest pro-AI super PAC network paid about $20 million to ...

AI Weekly Issue #538: The FTC wants OpenAI's and Anthropic's safety incident records

The FTC sent OpenAI and Anthropic 50-page demands for records on security incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy, Axios reported. Meta’s new business terms, effective October 30, let it scrape and train on publishers’ websites. Investors at Anthropic’s investor day discussed ...

AI Weekly Issue #537: AI models may soon copy themselves onto smart fridges, Anthropic says

This issue is built from the links the AI experts we follow shared most since our last issue on October 8, minus the stories we already sent you in the Daily Espresso. The most shared: Anthropic’s warning that small AI ...

AI Weekly Issue #536: Top AI models failed a test of inventing new AI research

This issue is built from the links the AI experts we follow shared over the past three days. Most of them look ahead: whether AI can do AI research on its own, who gets a say in governing it, how ...

AI Weekly Issue #535: AI got too expensive, so companies are moving to cheaper models

This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past three weeks. Three patterns stand out: companies switching models to control cost, large deployments that are now in daily use, and a growing list of ...

AI Weekly Issue #534: Universities cannot grade their way out of AI

This week, campus IT leaders voted AI their top priority for the first time, Cambridge refused Turnitin’s new terms over AI training on student work, Dartmouth opened an investigation into its own provost’s writing, and Ken Griffin gave Carnegie Mellon ...

AI Weekly Issue #533: Meta tested human callers behind its AI phone agent

The AI story of September 22–28 was not simply that agents became more capable. It was that their hidden handoffs became visible: a supposedly automated call could reach a contractor, a supposedly private prompt or image could reach a reviewer, ...