1 Chatbots are getting facts about the LA riots wrong
AI systems can’t be relied upon at the best of times, let alone with fast-moving news. (Wired $)
+ What’s Trump’s goal here, exactly? (NY Mag $)
2 Gavin Newsom is becoming a meme
The California governor’s Trump clapbacks are winning him a legion of online fans. (WP $)
+ He’s accused the President of “pulling a military dragnet” across the city. (The Guardian)
+ Newsom has warned that other states are likely to be next. (Politico)
3 Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill could lead to more than 51,000 deaths a year
Due to the bill’s provisions for public health insurance. (Undark)
4 How Ukraine’s AI-guided drones hit Russia’s airfields
But its opponent is also stepping up its AI capabilities. (FT $)
+ Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine’s drone defense. (MIT Technology Review)
5 US agencies tracked foreign nationals travelling to Elon Musk
Officials kept an eye on who visited him in 2022 and 2023. (WSJ $)
6 Snap’s new AR smart glasses will go on sale next year
Its sixth generation of Specs will enter an increasingly crowded field. (CNBC)
+ Qualcomm has made a new processor to power similar glasses. (Bloomberg $)
+ What’s next for smart glasses. (MIT Technology Review)
7 Each ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon’ of water
That’s according to Sam Altman, at least. (The Verge)
+ We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. (MIT Technology Review)
8 Death Valley’s air could be a valuable water source
Scientists proved their hydrogel method worked in the real world. (New Scientist $)
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