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.
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.
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.
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.