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Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic) [20d]
Survey of 6,698 people across six EU countries: around 84% said they don't trust US tech companies with their personal data; 93% don't trust Chinese companies (Ellen O'Regan/Politico) [20d]
Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a "child of God" (Washington Post) [20d]
A wave of top AI researchers returned from the US to China in the past year, driven by better pay, quality of life, and a more restrictive US immigration system (Zijing Wu/Financial Times) [20d]
Google says that Polymarket bets showing up in Google News was an error, and the prediction market's bets on real world events were not supposed to appear there (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge) [20d]
Japan approves an additional $4B in subsidies to Rapidus to bankroll the chipmaker's work for Fujitsu, taking the total state investment and fees to $16.3B (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg) [21d]