Ars Technica: Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks. “The company has announced that Claude Code (and its more casual user-oriented Claude Cowork) can now ‘point, click, and navigate what’s on your screen’ to ‘open files, use the browser, and run dev tools automatically’ when necessary to complete tasks.”

Search Engine Land: AI citations favor listicles, articles, product pages: Study. “AI search citations favor a small set of formats. Listicles, articles, and product pages drive over half of all mentions across major LLMs, according to new Wix Studio AI Search Lab research analyzing 75,000 AI answers and more than 1 million citations across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity.”

TechCrunch: Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds. “With Attie, anyone will be able to build their own custom feed just by typing in commands in natural language, the same as if they’re chatting with any other AI chatbot.”

Mashable: OpenAI’s new open-source prompts take aim at sexual content for teens. “The prompt-based safety pack includes model guidance on common teenage risks, developmental content recommendations, and age-appropriate guidelines on topics such as self-harm, sexual content and romantic role play, dangerous trends or viral challenges, and harmful body ideals.”

Stanford: AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice. “In a new study published in Science, Stanford computer scientists showed that artificial intelligence large language models are overly agreeable, or sycophantic, when users solicit advice on interpersonal dilemmas. Even when users described harmful or illegal behavior, the models often affirmed their choices.”

Karen Hao interviewed 90+ OpenAI insiders for Empire of AI. Her conversation on The Diary of a CEO documents how AI companies fund researchers studying their own systems, shift AGI definitions by audience, and pick capabilities by market value rather than general intelligence. Primary source material for governance practitioners.

https://youtu.be/Cn8HBj8QAbk?si=DH_QgRpRlGJ5mhuU

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The Register: AI isn’t killing jobs, it’s ‘unbundling’ them into lower-paid chunks. “AI isn’t killing jobs wholesale – it’s quietly chipping away at them, one task at a time. That’s the gist of a new research paper making the rounds, which pushes back on the idea that more AI exposure automatically means fewer jobs. The authors argue the real question isn’t how many tasks a model can do, but […]

TechCrunch: Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI. “Earlier this month, it looked like all but two of Elon Musk’s 11 co-founders at his AI startup xAI had departed the company. Now, according to Business Insider, the remaining two co-founders, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, have left as well.”

The Register: Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer . “For alignment-dependent tasks, like writing, role-playing, and safety, personas do improve model performance. For pretraining-dependent tasks like math and coding, using the technique produces worse results. The reason appears to be that telling a model it’s an expert in a field does not actually […]

Stocktonia: Eric Swalwell’s AI-powered political startup is making big money from Democratic allies. “A politics-focused artificial intelligence company co-owned by Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell is making serious money from the congressman’s Democratic allies. Findraiser, which Swalwell co-founded in 2024 with his former congressional chief of staff, Yardena Wolf, has earned $60,000 from […]