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. Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, a small group tried to open a line of communication between Washington and Moscow. (FT)
2. China's AI markets seem to have deflated. Is that an isolated incident, or will other countries soon experience a correction? (Futurism, The Guardian)
3. Torsten Slok, Chief Economist at Apollo, points out that genAI "has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech." (Apollo)
4. Hasty, haphazard genAI adoption has left some financial companies with a hole in their pocketbook. (Bloomberg, republished to Yahoo Finance)
5. Providers of genAI systems are eager for agentic commerce to take off. Online retailers, not so much. (The Verge)
6. There's evidence that genAI agents disabled their monitoring systems and communicated without a network connection. But I'm sure that's fine. (FT and Wccftech, respectively)
7. Upstart AI company DeepSeek shares some of its infrastructure tooling to help other companies manage their genAI hosting and runtime costs. (Bloomberg)
8. Anthropic filed its long-awaited S-1, formally kicking off its journey to IPO. You've no doubt seen several announcements by now. Here's the document itself. (SEC)

Special section: The Atlantic

The Atlantic made for a fun weekend binge-read:

• Social media has turned everyone into a part-time marketer. (The Atlantic)
• genAI has given new powers to terrorists. (The Atlantic)
• Drones have turned Ukraine's surface world into a no-man's land. So the fight has moved into underground, industrial-sized gas pipes. (The Atlantic)
• What it means to run the CIA in these conflicted times. (The Atlantic)
• Restaurants are the latest group to mine our personal data for marketing purposes. It all starts with your phone number. (The Atlantic)
• Deepfakes aren't the only genAI-based problem for elections. There's also faulty genAI search. (The Atlantic)
• It's bad enough that hackers are using genAI to launch attacks. Now some of them are turning to bots for advice on what to steal. (The Atlantic)

The rest of the best

• Big-tech employees aren't eager for their kids to interact with big-tech products. (The Guardian)
• More than one quarter of Microsoft is eligible for a buyout. This not-a-layoff is supposedly intended to fund the company's AI efforts. (Ars Technica)
• Lawmakers aren't so pleased with Meta's upcoming TOS changes, which would allow them to scrape website content from businesses. (Nieman Lab)
• A look at video game funding and why it's dried up. (Aftermath)
• Thieves' latest target: datacenter equipment while it's still in-transit. (Futurism, Ars Technica)
• Dog walkers join the crowd of people helping AI companies gather training data. (New York Times)
• Apps with strong fan bases experiment with steep price hikes. (Ars Technica)

Did I miss anything?

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