- California's attorney general joined more than a dozen states investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face swarm incident, and the company issued a statement about a German wiki taken over by 3,000 of its agents that admits no fault and skips over reporting that colleges and a high school class were also affected (Mitch)
- The statement's vagueness raises the worry that OpenAI is racing not only against competitors but against the investigations themselves (Mitch)
- A report on Kenyan writers losing college-essay work shows that cheating demand rose while the workers were cut out entirely, undercutting the claim that workers who adopt AI keep their jobs (Mitch)
- Fields with legal gatekeeping, such as medicine, law and civil engineering, offer only temporary shelter, and pressure to approve AI for licensed work will be strong, so wealth distribution may be needed (Mitch)
- A Guardian piece argues the EU should ban exports of ASML's EUV lithography machines, and extending controls to the maintenance those machines constantly require would stall future chip supply, though production surges, post-training gains and relocation would limit the effect (Donald)
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By Mitchell Howe and Donald Gauvreau
OpenAI responds to swarm reports, a European lever to slow the AI race, and more
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