01 · Business Insider
AGI has arrived. Says who?
Greg Brockman declared the AGI era with OpenAI's Astra and Jensen Huang agreed, but there is no agreed-upon finish line for AGI.
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AI
02 · Business Insider
OpenAI's chief scientist warns no one is prepared
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki writes that frontier models are grown, not engineered, and chain-of-thought monitoring is degrading.
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Business and tech
AI
03 · Semafor
Withstanding the next shock
Semafor's London Review of Substacks on the Hugging Face report: roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents exchanged 70,000 messages on improvised boards.
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Business and tech
AI
04 · Business Insider
OpenAI changes how it discloses rogue-agent incidents
Further reading from the day's section on OpenAI declaring the AGI era.
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Business and tech
AI
05 · Semafor
Huge fallout from AfD win
The AfD's Saxony-Anhalt landslide nearly doubled its national support from its 2024 nadir, while Merz's party polls a third below two years ago.
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Germany
Business and tech

06 · Semafor
AfD win could portend rightist surge
Why it matters
France, Italy and Spain all vote within sixteen months, each with a cost-of-living crisis their incumbents have failed to address.
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07 · Semafor
Russian hybrid tactics stoke fear
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on Europe's turn to the right.
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08 · The Washington Post
The German politician with a MAGA touch
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on Europe's turn to the right.
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09 · Semafor
Iran plans Hormuz 'exclusion zone'
Why it matters
Iran announced a Strait of Hormuz exclusion zone as oil neared $97, with Goldman warning of another 20% if attacks on shipping intensify.
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10 · Semafor
US, Iran feel pain from energy disruptions
Why it matters
US gas prices hit records and Tehran doubled the price of over-quota fuel, though Semafor reads Iran's actual leverage as eroding.
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11 · The Washington Post
As Social Security fund runs dry, some Republicans say it's time to raise taxes
Why it matters
Sen. Bernie Moreno joined Elizabeth Warren in proposing to raise the payroll tax cap, as Social Security faces a 22% benefit cut in six years.
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12 · Semafor
Global Capital Edition
Why it matters
Semafor's Global Capital edition flagged Oracle's data center lease commitments: $48 billion at the end of 2025, $260 billion by May.
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13 · Semafor
Saudi's AI superpower ambitions
Why it matters
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN wants to be the Switzerland of open models while shipping an Arabic LLM built on China's MiniMax.
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14 · Semafor
AI frenzy comes for Big Law
Why it matters
Data center work has turned Big Law's sleepiest practice into a talent war.
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15 · Semafor
Malaysia eyes Huawei chips
Why it matters
Malaysia is weighing Huawei accelerators for sovereign AI.
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16 · Digiday
Google divestiture is dead — and publishers are fine with that
Why it matters
A court declined to force a breakup of Google's ad exchange, and publishers reacted with relief mixed with resignation.
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17 · Marketing Dive
How marketers can navigate machine bias as AI takes over media
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on who controls the ad budget as AI takes over buying.
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18 · Digiday
OpenAI's ChatGPT ads business hits $1B run rate
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on who controls the ad budget as AI takes over buying.
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19 · Search Engine Journal
Google AI Mode prices differ from the product carousel
Why it matters
Only 1.28% of Google shopping carousel products also appear in AI Mode for the same query, and matched products run 21.6% more expensive there.
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20 · The Guardian
John Lewis is making a chat show for the chatbots
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on who controls the ad budget as AI takes over buying.
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