News from Where’s Your Ed At
Revenge of The Business Idiot
May 26, 2026
LLMs are dangerous for many, many reasons, but the under-discussed one is how well they play to a certain kind of executive imbecile. Generative AI is — to quote Mo Bitar — really good at doing an impression of work, much like most managers and c-suite executives, and even if it’s completely incapable of doing something, it’ll absolutely say it can and tell you you’re amazing for suggesting it.
And that’s why Business Idiots love it.
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Vatican News
Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power
May 25, 2026
“Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together.” The opening words of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, summarize its underlying reasons and purpose.
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News from The Deepview
Workers are lying about their AI skills
May 25, 2026
A study published this week from GCheck found that, faced with anxiety about how automation could impact job security, 63% of 1,500 workers surveyed reported that they exaggerate their AI skills to appear more up-to-date. That number shot up to 80% among Gen Z workers as the tech threatens early-career and entry-level roles more drastically. …Nearly 70% of workers reported that they believe AI will automate part of their responsibilities. And these concerns may not be unfounded: 40% observed that AI tools are already, in part, doing their jobs.
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News fromThruthout
Critics Warn Utah Megadata Center Could Devastate Great Salt Lake. The proposed “hyperscale” campus would strain water, energy, and local ecology.
May 23, 2026
It could also create a massive heat island capable of devastating the area’s ecology, said Robert Davies, a physics professor at Utah State University. Davies estimated that the finished project would cover about as many square miles as Washington, D.C., making it the largest data center on the planet, and that it could produce enough heat to spike nighttime temperatures by as much as 28 degrees Fahrenheit in the high-desert valley.
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News from Vanity Fair
AI Companies Infiltrate Cannes—But Creatives Say Resistance Still Remains
May 23, 2026
Fjord won the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2026, but it wasn’t the movies that elicited the most heated debates at the festival this year—it was AI. Not a single day went by in the South of France without the controversial new tech coming up. Sometimes, it was in front of everyone, during a press conference with a celebrity giving their two cents. Other times, the conversations were happening behind closed doors at exclusive invite-only private events or panels.
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News from The New Yorker
Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, Really, We All Lost. The cases of Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried at least offered a pleasant sense of comeuppance. But in Musk v. Altman, to root against Tweedledum was effectively to root for Tweedledee.
May 20, 2026
….In theory, the trial was about the good-faith control of artificial intelligence. In 2015, Elon Musk and Sam Altman founded OpenAI together as a nonprofit. Its mission—“to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity”—was explicitly intended to counter Google’s potential dominance….
The basic question of the case, which is also the basic question of Altman’s career, is whether the transmogrification of OpenAI from a safety-minded nonprofit into a ravenous corporate behemoth was cynical in intention or merely in outcome.
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News from Lifehacker
These Google Search Alternatives Actually Let You Control Your AI Experience. If you’re tired of AI in your results, these search engines can help
May 20, 2026
…during I/O 2026, Google announced “a new era for AI Search.” … I’m not interested in “continuing the conversation” with Google’s AI: I want to find relevant websites to read and explore. As such, I went looking for Google Search alternatives that either don’t use AI, or let you disable all AI features entirely. Here are five of your best options.
- Kagi is a favorite among tech fans…
- Startpage’s shtick is all about user privacy.
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News fromTechCrunch
The SpaceX IPO filing is filled with AI bets, Starship dreams, and Elon Musk at the center
May 20, 2026
SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk 24 years ago, has finally made its IPO filing public. And once the company goes public, Musk will be at its center as CEO, CTO, and chairman of the board.
The hefty filing, posted after markets closed Wednesday, shows a company that has developed far beyond its initial pursuit of reusable rockets — although its long-term mission to create a multiplanetary species remains intact. SpaceX is now a technology conglomerate working on satellites and AI and has become one of the world’s most valuable private companies.
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News from STAT
How AI helped treat a newborn’s ultra rare disease. ‘It was almost like a light switch.’ An AI tool, Biomedical Data Translator, helped doctors at Mayo Clinic find a treatment for Jorie Kraus
May 19, 2026
In the first, tenuous weeks of her life, Jorie Kraus and her parents faced her possible death repeatedly. Muscles throughout her tiny body simply didn’t work properly. Her heart. Her legs. Her larynx. Even the involuntary action of breathing was labored, and constantly faltering.
In those panicked days, through a haze of terrible news and incomprehensible instructions, something incredible happened: A long-shot attempt to discover the root cause of her problems identified a widely available, yet previously unknown, treatment.
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News from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Why the racist AI slop industry is booming
May 19, 2026
Scroll through any Facebook feed in Britain and…you’re likely to come across an account with a union jack profile picture and a vague, generic name like Britain Today.
These accounts – and there are hundreds, possibly thousands of them – present themselves as the work of British patriots. In one typical, AI-generated video, a middle-aged man claims his local cafe “has stopped serving pork, bacon and sausages just to avoid offending people”.
Another post from the same account includes a sepia-tinted set of images of Victorian London, mourning a time when the city “was English, first-world and beautiful”. Alongside this type of reactionary nostalgia, it’s not unusual to see memes that call Islam a “cancer”…
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News from Engadget
YouTube’s AI deepfake detection tool is now available to all creators 18 and older
May 16, 2026
In the coming weeks, YouTube is giving all creators 18 and over access to a tool that can detect whether their likeness has been copied and used in AI videos uploaded to the website. Team YouTube made the announcement on the platform’s community page, explaining that their “goal is to provide [users] with more peace of mind by giving [them] easy access to request the removal of unauthorized content.” While the likeness detection tool is technically only available to creators, spokesperson Jack
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News from Gizmodo
Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers. A new report calls the impact significant and “irreversible.
May 15, 2026
America’s largest power grid is under enormous strain from AI data centers. And a new report details how wholesale electricity prices have jumped nearly 76% in an area where tens of millions of Americans live…..
Power prices there averaged $136.53 per megawatt-hour in the first three months of 2026, according to a massive new report from Monitoring Analytics. That’s up from $77.78 per megawatt-hour in the first three months of 2026. The report isn’t shy about where we should put the blame: “Data center load growth is the primary reason for recent and expected capacity market conditions, including total forecast load growth, the tight supply and demand balance, and high prices.”
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