My main newsletter, Complex Machinery, includes a section called "In Other News..."  It's where I list one-liners about interesting articles that didn't fit into any segments.

You can think of this list as a version of In Other News, but with a wider remit than Complex Machinery's "risk, AI, and related topics."

Above the fold

1. OpenAI hires its first "Head of Preparedness." Frankly, the $550k paycheck seems rather low compared to the value it might bring. (Bloomberg)
2. A series of 1980s burglaries doubles as a lesson in the dangers of data leaks. (The Atavist Magazine)
3. One London TikToker (allegedly) cops to generating hate-clicks for money by riding people's anti-immigration anger. (London Centric)
4. Reflecting on the lead-up to the Challenger disaster, forty years later. (Washington Post)
5. EU regulators call out TikTok's addictive design. (New York Times, The Guardian)
6. Do you want ads in your car? Too bad. They're coming anyway. (Sherwood News)
7. A driver in Iceland has been clocked at going 25 over the speed limit. Oh wait, no, that should be "going 25 times the speed of sound." (RÚV)

The rest of the best

• Use of genAI in France is unevenly distributed – stronger in younger age groups, yet still weaker than Europe overall. (Les Echos 🇫🇷)
• We already knew that chatbots are poor substitutes for doctors. Now the results of a research study underscore that point. (404 Media)
• People are fighting back against the rise of genAI slop on social media. (BBC News)
• Amazon offered a peek into its robot-fueled warehouse. (The Guardian)
• Yet another attorney has gotten busted for using genAI. And it's led to additional problems for their client. (Ars Technica)
• The major genAI companies throw another $600b into the fire. (Financial Times, The Register, Les Echos 🇫🇷)
• Noting where AI is, and is not, having an impact in the workplace. (WSJ)
• Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 gets better at finding software vulnerabilities. (Der Spiegel 🇩🇪, Anthropic blog)
• Analysts find that losses are particularly high on online gambling platform prediction market Kalshi. (Bloomberg)
• Those "autonomous" Waymo taxis still get some human help. From across the globe. (Futurism)

Did I miss anything?

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