Eliza Strickland / IEEE Spectrum:
A look at the state of AI in 2025 across training and inference costs, carbon footprint, investment activity, bills proposed in the US, and more — Stanford’s AI Index tracks performance, investment, public opinion, and more — If you read the news about AI, you may feel bombarded with conflicting messages: AI is booming.
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
IBM unveils the z17 mainframe with a Telum II chip, built for 250+ AI use cases and can perform 450B daily inferences, 50% more than z16, available on June 8 — IBM is releasing the latest version of its mainframe hardware that includes new updates meant to accelerate AI adoption.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on rejoining in May 2024 after stepping down, agentic AI being the future of automation, licensing AI tech, and more — Today, I’m talking with Daniel Dines, the cofounder and, once again, the CEO of UiPath, a software company that specializes in something called robotic process automation (RPA).
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
LMArena says it’s updating its leaderboard rules after Meta secured the #2 spot with a Llama 4 Maverick version it noted in fine print was not released publicly — With Llama 4, Meta fudged benchmarks to appear as though its new AI model is better than the competition.
Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy:
How LLMs, unlike previous transformative tech like the internet, disproportionately benefit regular people, with slower impact in corporations and governments — Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusion
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Memo: the White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards — The White House said on Monday it is ordering federal agencies to name chief AI officers and develop strategies for an expansion …
Bloomberg:
Publishers say traffic to their sites has plummeted since Google rolled out AI Overviews; sources: Google acknowledged the drop in a meeting with publishers — In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways …
Nico Grant / New York Times:
Memo: Google tells staff they can discuss the DOJ’s antitrust case, rescinding an earlier command, as part of a settlement with the Alphabet Workers Union — The Silicon Valley giant had ordered employees to stay silent on the landmark case before reaching a settlement with a workers’ union over the issue.
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Rescale, which develops engineering software to help simulate complex physical systems, raised a $115M Series D, bringing its total funding to over $260M — Rescale, a San Francisco-based startup that makes engineering software used to design race cars and computer chips, raised $115 million on Monday in venture financing.
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Broadcom announces a share buyback program of up to $10B, set to run through the end of the year; AVGO jumps 3%+ after hours, after closing up 5.37% on Monday — Broadcom (AVGO.O) said on Monday it was launching a new share buyback program of up to $10 billion through December 31.
