AI taking over the whole internet with bots? “It is naive and structurally impossible.” A security expert takes Dario Amodei’s essay apart. (pop.rdi.sh)

This is why LinkedIn is about to get even worse: Rysy is an open-source AI agent that researches people, builds psychological portraits from public signals, and drafts outreach calibrated to the person and your intent.

The biggest bottleneck to AI adoption: A blank text box hides everything when the interface should reveal its own capabilities. (Miguel Acevedo)

European AI lab Desert Ant launched 18 small on-device models for audio, vision, and text. No round-trips, no tokens, no data leaving the device.

The Extinction Archive: Public doomsday statements next to whatever the company was announcing that same week. (Diletta Huyskes)

Trailer for “Artificial”, Hollywood’s retelling of the birth of ChatGPT. Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman. Ominous music by Damon Albarn, of Blur and Gorillaz, and strong “The Social Network” vibes.

Google Search auto-expands some AI Overviews, burying the actual results even further. The web is still down there somewhere. Keep scrolling. (Jay Peters, The Verge)

SecondBrain turns Claude Code into a private, sourced wiki: drop in a PDF, a web page, or a note, let it organize everything into cross-linked articles, then ask questions and get answers with citations. Stays on your machine. macOS app included.

Mother Jones is suing OpenAI. Now the Trump administration has filed a brief, arguing that making AI companies pay for content would just be a handout to “old mainstream media companies.” (Monika Bauerlein, Mother Jones)

What you’re up against blocking bots: A solo developer built Obscura, a headless browser that spoofs fingerprints well enough that no tracker can catch it. (via Aymane Mrini)

One year in, Switzerland’s open-source AI model Apertus has found real-world uses like translations, but lags behind commercial rivals on coding, math, and reasoning. You can’t train on the murky data everyone else is quietly using in the open. (Sara Ibrahim, swissinfo.ch)

Google launches “Expert Intelligence”, an initiative to bring trusted sources into Gemini. First: Play Books in Gemini Notebook, with 100,000+ titles from Penguin Random House, Macmillan, O’Reilly and others. Coming soon: “Third-party subscriptions, textbooks, and broader surface availability like AI Mode in Search and the Gemini App.”

ChatGPT Ads has reached a revenue pace equivalent to $1 billion a year, OpenAI says, in less than 200 days. The release is careful to say ads are kept separate from answers, and then promises to make them more native.

Can data make a newsroom more diverse in its choice of sources? In 2023, a Canadian newsroom let researchers demo an AI tool that reads published articles and sorts every quote: politicians, authorities, experts, organizations, celebrities, media, and unaffiliated. After seeing results, the newsroom decided against it. (Sage)

Thomson Reuters has built its own frontier models, aimed at legal, tax, and journalism. The open-weight Thomson-1.0-Small is based on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and is on HuggingFace for academic and non-commercial use. Another version stays in-house.