Microsoft AI Costs Hit Budget Walls; Anthropic Says AI Is Finding Real Bugs; Vibe Coding Creates Cleanup Work
The sharpest signal today is that AI cost math is getting less theoretical. Microsoft AI cost problem discussions, bug-finding claims…
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TikTok served more anti-Democratic videos in US election
A Nature paper published on 6 May found that TikTok’s recommendation system served an uneven mix of 2024 US election…
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DeepSeek Tests Open Model Economics; Foreign Coauthors
Today’s through-line is control. DeepSeek is reportedly trying to prove that open models and serious capital can coexist, while NIH,…
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GitHub says poisoned VS Code extension exposed 3,800 repos
GitHub said on 20 May that a compromised employee device running a poisoned VS Code extension led to the exfiltration…
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MRNA adjuvant boosts T-cell responses in mice
MIT- and Harvard-linked researchers reported on 13 May that an mRNA-encoded adjuvant built from NIK and IRF8 boosted T-cell responses…
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Ontario audit finds AI scribes making clinical errors
Ontario’s Auditor General found this month that AI note-taking systems approved for doctors were routinely getting basic clinical facts wrong,…
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Enamel proteins link Homo erectus to Denisovan ancestry
A Nature paper published on 13 May reports that researchers recovered enamel proteins from six Chinese Homo erectus fossils, adding…
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Palantir and Spectral Intelligence say SaaS is dead
Palantir-linked voices and Spectral Intelligence argued in May that the old bargain behind generic enterprise SaaS has broken down, with…
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FutureSim Exposes Polymarket AI’s Narrow Wins and Failures
Max Planck Institute researchers recently released FutureSim, a benchmark for polymarket ai-style forecasting that tests whether agents can predict real-world…
