Google Ends Search Access for Schools That Reject AI
Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI, making AI adoption a condition of search access. — nytimes.com
Proton Workers Rally for Unionization Over AI Demands
A group of Proton employees is urging colleagues to join tech unions, demanding an end to a planned re-interview process that could dismiss staff judged to use AI too little, and more investment in training over AI outsourcing. — molecule.build
Agentic Coding Replaces Hand-Writing for Salesforce Engineer
For a Salesforce AI Research engineer, AI agents now write the bulk of his code: several Claude Code agents handle features, tests, and pull requests in separate working copies, though they still need human taste to avoid over-architected results. — ben.stolovitz.com
Mathematical Primer Draws Together Generative AI Models
A revised preprint, "The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations," offers a compact, derivation-oriented path through major generative model families, from variational autoencoders and diffusion models to GANs, for researchers and students. — arxiv.org
Chilean Town Plays Human AI to Expose Water Drain
Residents of Quilicura, Chile, manually answered more than 25,000 prompts in a single day to show how AI data centers, which use local water for cooling, strain the drought-stricken region's supply. — quili.ai