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. Food delivery companies under the JustEat umbrella (including Lieferando) put AI-generated, sometimes nonsense food images on menus. (NTV 🇩🇪, The Independent)
2. Scammers use tailored, long-running genAI campaigns to swindle book authors. (The Dial)
3. Execs at email provider Proton pushed a hard, pro-genAI approach on their staff. They then changed direction shortly after the story went public. (Both stories from 404 Media)
4. I recently wrote about why the everyday genAI harms are far more likely – and more dangerous – than any rogue-bot "extinction scenario." (Complex Machinery)
5. When fan fiction site AO3 suffered an outage, a vibe-coded clone stepped in to fill the void. This is a story about authors' rights. It's also a cautionary tale of powerful technology and low barriers to entry.
6. Most genAI bubble concerns center the major LLM companies. But so-called "neoclouds" – which provide the underlying tech compute infrastructure – also play a role in the precarious financial situation. And many of them are unknown to the general public. (BBC)
7. In Canada, genAI tools struggle to translate between French and English. (Radio Canada 🇫🇷)
8. Why do rich athletes keep doing ads for prediction market companies? It's all about monetizing their fan base. (Bloomberg)
9. Shortly after its provost steps down because of his use of genAI, Dartmouth University charges ahead on celebrating the technology. (Ars Technica)
10. According to a Gartner report, open-weight genAI models can do the work of their commercial rivals at a fraction of the cost. (The Register)

The rest of the best

1. The genAI wave's shaky financial deals now extend into Asian markets. (Bloomberg)
2. Companies keep deploying AI-based facial recognition systems. And those systems keep flagging the wrong people, leading to false accusations of shoplifting and other crimes. (Futurism)
3. A worker claims – and receives – a religious exemption against using genAI at work. (Tom's Hardware)
4. In light of the recent $6.3B hack against crypto exchange Binance, eyes turn to North Korean hacker groups. (The Guardian)
5. Those super-targeted campaign text messages are most likely powered by genAI. (New York Times)
6. Execs love agentic genAI "workers"; the humans in the office do not share this view. (The Guardian)
7. AI-based robots help senior citizens in South Korea. (Le Monde 🇫🇷)
8. Google's search functionality predates genAI by more than two decades, yet the company now says the tools are inseparable. It's forcing schools to choose between AI-based search and no search at all. (New York Times)
9. While corporate genAI rollouts haven't eliminated as many jobs as LLM companies claimed, they are eating away at the entry-level market. That may have a long term impact. (FT)
10. The FTC warns firms against data-driven, personalized pricing. (AP)

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