Today's Hallucination HQJensen Huang Discovers the Perfect Regulator: Jensen Huang
The CEO of the company that sells the picks and shovels to every AI gold rush has a modest proposal: skip the government oversight, and let each AI company handle its own safety. Jensen Huang told attendees that AI is simply "hardware and software," not some alien intelligence — which is reassuring, until you remember that hardware and software have also given us ransomware, Facebook, and the Boeing 737 MAX software patch.
Source: TechCrunch
Turns Out, Nobody Asked for a Data Centre Next Door
A New York Times/Siena poll finds that 61% of Americans oppose building new data centres to power AI — making it roughly as popular as a root canal, but with worse electricity bills. Politicians, blessed with the rare instinct of noticing when nearly two-thirds of voters agree on anything, are apparently responding accordingly. The industry spent years telling us AI was inevitable. Voters, it seems, read the memo and wrote "no" in the margin.
Source: The Verge
A Sales AI Built by the Two Companies That Sell AI to Salespeople
Salesforce and Nvidia have jointly released Koa, a reasoning model trained specifically for sales, marketing, and customer support — which means it has been purpose-built to be confidently persuasive with incomplete information. A natural fit, one might say. Koa runs on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model, costs less than the big lab models, and is apparently good enough that OpenAI and Anthropic should find it mildly alarming over their morning coffee.
Source: TechCrunch
OpenAI Turns to Failed Biotech Firms for Data, Which Is Either Genius or Very On-Brand
Policy analyst Ruxandra Teslo had a quietly brilliant idea: the detailed regulatory filings, trial data, and research records of bankrupt biotech companies are sitting in bankruptcy proceedings, largely ignored, and could be bid on. OpenAI liked this enough to start funding the effort. It is, genuinely, an elegant solution — harvesting knowledge from companies that didn't survive to use it, which gives the whole thing the faint atmosphere of a very polite scientific séance.
Source: MIT Technology Review
Cloudflare Solves the Problem Nobody Could Be Bothered to Solve Properly
Website owners have long faced a binary choice: block AI crawlers entirely and vanish from search, or allow them and quietly donate your content to someone else's training run. Cloudflare has introduced a mechanism to separate the two — letting sites stay visible in search while blocking unauthorised AI training scrapes. It is, in principle, exactly the kind of granular control the web needed eighteen months ago. Better late than never, though "late" is doing considerable heavy lifting in that sentence.
Source: Hacker News / Cloudflare
As always, the AI industry moves fast — mostly in the direction of asking you to trust it.
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