Welcome to Sunday on review. This week we dived on Google silently removed its promise not to build AI weapons for tracking; how Elon Musk and DOGE facilitated the biggest violation of US government data; Researchers who were able to re -create a premium “reasoning” model for $ 50; And more! Let's get in here.
Elon Musk and Doge representative has been granted “Full Accessing” to the US Treasury Payment Systemused to spread dollars trillion with Americans each year. Senator Ron Wyden warns that Musk's access to the system brings a “National security risk. “This is Musk's latest reported efforts to filter out the internal works of the federal government. In response, US democratic representative Mark Pocan Proposed a bill called the Elon Musk Act, which means eliminating theft of our country by alleviating unethical state kleptocracy.
One of Meta's earliest employees is suing the company for Sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and revenge. Kelly Stonelake, who spent 15 years in the company, said Meta failed to act after she reported sexual harassment and attacks; Retaliated against him after he dropped a video game product as a racist and potentially harmful to minors; and regularly passed for promotions in favor of men on his team.
Google has removed a promise To not build AI for weapons or tracking From its website this week. In an update on the page of its public AI principles, the company deleted a section titled “Applications we will not pursue.” The company pointed to the TechCrunch in a blog post on “Responsible AI,” which records that Google should cooperate with governments and organizations “to create AI that protects people, promotes global growth, and supports national security . ”
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News
Tiktok met Wall Street: DUB is a trading app dedicated to choosing people in stocks. The app allows users to follow the approaches of merchants, fence funds, and even high -profile politicians. Read more
The War to 🥄: According to a New York Times report, the general service of the US general service removed the spoon of the emoji from the videococonferencing work platform after workers embraced Emoji to protest the “Fork In The Road” offer of the Trump Administration . Read more
Chatgpt for “Deep Research”: Openai announces a new AI “agent” designed to help people conduct deep, complex research using chatgpt. Instead of getting a quick answer or summary, the operation draws information from many sources. Read more
The EU prohibits the risk there: EU regulators may prohibit the use of AI systems that they consider to be “unacceptable -acceptable risk” or damage. Companies can be in the hook of up to $ 36 million, or 7% of their annual income from the previous fiscal year, whichever is bigger. Read more
Basic Decreases on Work Day: The Enterprise HR platform laid 1,750 employees this week, affecting almost 8.5% of its total head count. Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach told employees that the company needs a new approach and plans to hire AI talent. Read more
A NEW AI Productivity App: What if your apps for records, schedule management, and to-dos are somewhere? The hero, an all-in-one productivity app with an AI assistant, aims to do that-and do the competition. Read more
A $ 50 “Reasoning” model: Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington have trained a “reasoning” model for under $ 50 in cloud compute credits. The model, known as S1, plays similar to models such as Openai's O1 and Deepseek's R1 in mathematical and coding tests. Read more
An Adult App for EU IOS users: A native pornography app for iOS will come to the EU by approved Alternative App Store Alttore PAL, thanks to the Digital Markets Act. The hot tub offers iOS users a way to search and play videos from different adult websites. Read more
Cruise cuts: The cruise places about 50% of its workers, including top executives such as CEO Marc Whitten, while preparing to close the operations. What is the remains of the autonomous vehicle company will move under General Motors. Read more
X is chasing more advertisers: It came after the so -called “boycott” on the platform. The amended complaint includes Nestlé, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate, Lego, Pinterest, Tyson Foods, and Shells. Read more
Assessment
We are experiencing the greatest violation of US government data: Elon Musk's Doge controls large swathes of private information by Americans held by the US government despite questions about their security clearances, their cybersecurity skills, and the legality of Musk activities . As Zack Whittaker wrote, if the Doge's staff were bad actors didn't get the point part. Subterfuge, spies, or ignorance works can produce the same outcome: exposure or loss of sensitive datasets of the country. Read more
