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A curated roundup of the most impactful stories in AI, technology, and research — handpicked to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.

1 Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.

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2 Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."

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3 SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers

The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.

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4 ‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs

The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end.

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5 How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion...

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6 The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric...

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7 Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI

Amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents, there’s a disconnect emerging between ambition and execution. Although 85% of organizations say they want to be agentic within the next three...

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8 Parallax: A Parameterized Local Linear Attention That Keeps Softmax and Adds a Learned Covariance Correction Branch

Parallax replaces LLA's per-query solver with a learned projector, doubling arithmetic intensity and improving perplexity at 0.6B and 1.7B. The post Parallax: A Parameterized Local Linear Attention That Keeps Softmax...

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9 An Implementation of the Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit for Safe AI Agent Tool Use with Policies, Approvals, Audit Logs, and Risk Controls

In this tutorial, we build a governed AI-agent workflow using Microsoft’s Agent Governance Toolkit as the reference point. We create a Colab-ready implementation where agents do not directly execute tools;...

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10 A Coding Implementation on Loguru for Designing Robust, Structured, Concurrent, and Production-Ready Python Logging Pipelines

In this tutorial, we implement a practical use case with Loguru, a powerful, flexible, and production-ready logging library for Python. The post A Coding Implementation on Loguru for Designing Robust,...

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