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WSJ: The Trillion-Dollar Stakes of the OpenAI vs. Anthropic IPO Race (Jun. 1, 2026)
OpenAI and Anthropic will mainly compete on technology, but who lists first in a hot IPO market could shape their futures. -
OpenAI: Advancing content provenance for a safer, more transparent AI ecosystem (May 14, 2026)
OpenAI is strengthening provenance by adopting C2PA, adding SynthID watermarking with Google, and previewing a public verification tool. The approach pairs metadata, watermarks, and public checks to help provenance survive edits and uploads. -
WSJ: Nvidia Introduces RTX Spark Chips for Running AI-Agent PCs, Laptops (May 31, 2026)
Nvidia unveiled the RTX Spark superchip and thin, light laptops to run AI agents. The products target creators, AI developers, and gamers. -
WSJ: Even at $5 Trillion, Nvidia Is Underappreciated (May 21, 2026)
Nvidia remains the dominant AI-chip leader, with accelerating revenue, yet its stock has lagged after earnings beats. -
Andy Masley: A history of the data center panic (May 19, 2026)
Panic over data centers rests on flawed numbers, especially a UMass study that overstated AI training emissions by 90x, due to errors about algorithms, hardware, and data center efficiency. That error spread through papers and media, shaping wrong public views. -
Nieman Lab: Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country (May 1, 2026)
Erin Brockovich launched a tool to map data centers nationwide, and collect community reports on impacts. The map shows 33 operational centers, 44 under construction, 27 proposed. -
WSJ: AI Made My Expertise More Effective (May 31, 2026)
An economist used AI coding assistants to build a detailed retirement-planning app, showing AI lets people turn expert knowledge into custom software. -
NY Times: My Partner’s Dependence on Chatbots Is Becoming a Problem. How Do I Tell Him? (May 30, 2026)
One reader reports a partner who relies on ChatGPT, Claude, and A.I. for nearly every decision, repeats machine‑generated advice, and spends less quality time together. The Ethicist warns this erodes critical thinking, harms relationships, and urges a direct conversation. -
The Daily Caller: Company Accidentally Blows $500,000,000 On Claude AI In One Month (May 29, 2026)
Ouch! A company accidentally spent $500 million on Anthropic’s Claude in one month after no spending caps, causing firms to curb usage. -
NY Times Opinion: Writing Is Fundamental to How We Think (May 27, 2026)
Analysis of 370,000 college essays found richer wording after ChatGPT, but far fewer original ideas, creating homogenized submissions. -
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Unions Push for Guardrails on AI, With Mixed Success (May 20, 2026)
College faculty and unions are pushing administrators for contractual protections around generative AI, after incidents like Arizona State’s scraping of teaching materials. -
WSJ: A Master’s Degree Isn’t the Job Guarantee It Used to Be (May 17, 2026)
Master’s degrees are delivering weaker job outcomes for workers under 35, as AI accelerates a skills‑first approach. -
WSJ: Trump Signs AI Executive Order to Increase Government Oversight (Jun. 2, 2026)
President Trump signed an order requiring AI companies to give the government access to models 30 days before public release, and to help fix cybersecurity flaws. -
NY Times: Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models (Jun. 2, 2026)
President Trump signed an order asking tech firms to give the government a voluntary 30-day review of new A.I. models before release, shifting from a hands-off stance. -
NY Times Opinion: We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands (May 31, 2026)
Policy debates focus on A.I.’s risks, but we need a public agenda: access to compute, a public frontier model, and funded data sets. These measures could steer A.I. toward health, scientific discovery, and better government services. -
NY Times: Teachers Union Urges Schools to Curb A.I. Chatbots and Screen Time (May 27, 2026)
The American Federation of Teachers urged no screens for pre-K–2, no A.I. chatbots in elementary schools, and national privacy and safety standards. -
NY Times: What Graduation Speakers Are Telling the Class of 2026 (May 21, 2026)
Graduation speakers told the Class of 2026 to face economic uncertainty, A.I., and political divisions with humor, practical advice, and resilience. -
TechCrunch: Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI (May 20, 2026)
Intuit will cut about 17% of staff, roughly 3,000 jobs, to simplify its structure, refocus on AI, and reduce complexity.