🌊 Sam Altman’s Plan to Regulate AI
A decade after Elon Musk warned that AI needs proactive regulation, the United States still lacks any federal AI framework. Recent NBC polling shows 57% of voters believe AI’s risks, especially job loss, outweigh its benefits, while only 26% view the technology favorably. In response, the AI industry has assembled roughly $300 million to support anti‑regulation candidates in the upcoming congressional elections. Meanwhile, OpenAI unveiled a 13‑page "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age" guide proposing safeguards, job‑preservation measures, and a human‑first approach to AI governance.
Friday: Three Morning Takes
Allbirds, the sustainable‑sneaker brand, announced a $50 million purchase of GPUs to launch an AI‑infrastructure service called NewBird AI, renting compute power to emerging AI firms. At the same time, the Washington Post reported the steepest one‑year decline in computer‑science major...
The Inevitability of Combining the Digital and Physical Worlds
Apple’s Vision Pro is being piloted in microsurgical eye procedures, letting surgeons work hands‑free while viewing digital overlays. In a recent interview, Apple’s Greg Joswiak described AI as a marathon and positioned spatial computing as an early‑innings, inevitable technology. The...
Your Favourite Commenter Might Not Be Writing Their Own Comments
A five‑week investigation of the Slow AI Substack newsletter scraped 4,929 comments from 139 posts and profiled 595 commenters. By analyzing comment‑to‑post ratios, conducting live Turing tests, and deploying canary traps, the author identified five accounts that use virtual assistants—human...
60 Claude Marketing Prompts That Actually Work
The post shares a curated list of 60 Claude AI marketing prompts designed to accelerate content creation across the full funnel. It groups prompts by use‑case—case studies, DM outreach, webinars, email sequences, lead magnets, ad copy, LinkedIn, offer positioning, brand...
Lawyers to Survive AI
Sir Geoffrey Vos, the second‑most senior judge in England and Wales, warned that AI‑driven tools will soon give clients free access to statutes and precedents, reshaping the lawyer‑client relationship. He argued lawyers will remain essential, but their role will shift...
Stop Using AI as a Brainstorming Tool
The post argues that asking AI tools like ChatGPT to "think outside the box" is a misuse, because large language models generate the most probable text rather than genuine novelty. It explains that true creativity stems from juxtapositional thinking—holding two...
6 Practical Tips to Use Opus 4.7 in Claude Code More Efficiently
Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, extending its reach across Claude products and the API. The new model delivers stronger performance in coding, agentic workflows, vision, and complex multi‑step tasks. For developers using Claude Code, raw capability gains...
LLNL Combines Machine Learning and 3D Printing for Shockwave Control Experiments
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Imperial College London and collaborators have used a machine‑learning optimization algorithm together with polymer 3D printing to create a void‑filled target that suppresses the Richtmyer‑Meshkov instability during shock‑wave experiments. The AI‑designed void geometry reshapes the incoming...
Deconstructing the Mythos Myth
In 2019 OpenAI chose not to release its 1.5‑billion‑parameter GPT‑2 model, citing fears it could generate deceptive, biased or abusive content at scale. Instead the lab offered a less powerful version to researchers while publishing extensive technical details. The decision...
Canada Opens Applications for AI Supercomputing Infrastructure Program
Canada has opened the AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program, a competitive call for proposals to design, build, and operate a large‑scale AI‑optimized supercomputer. The initiative is funded by historic investments announced in the 2024 and 2025 federal budgets and forms...
Claude Usage Rose by over 40% Amid Increased Attention Last Month, but Remains Far Behind ChatGPT
Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, saw US usage jump over 40% in March, climbing from 2.96% to a peak of 4.38% before settling at 4.27% in early April. The surge translates to several million new weekly users, according to the poll’s...
True Positive Weekly #157
The latest True Positive Weekly roundup spotlights Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report, a BBC piece on a monkey selfie as a guard against AI‑generated misinformation, and Google’s Gemini now pulling personal photos to craft bespoke AI images. It also highlights...
Inventors Have Looked to Perfect ‘Robot Umpires’ for Better Part of a Century
Major League Baseball officially launched an automated ball‑strike (ABS) system this season, ending a century‑long quest for robot umpires that began with a 1938 patent. The technology gives each team two challenges per game, letting players contest calls by tapping...
AI Is Bringing Added Complexity for HPC Sites. How Are They Handling It?
AI workloads have transformed CINECA’s supercomputing environment, adding layers of software, storage and orchestration beyond traditional HPC. Since 2023 the Italian consortium expanded from a single Slurm‑based stack on Lustre to include Kubernetes, OpenStack, S3 object stores and AI‑focused frameworks...
