FYI: This is a big dump, but I think it shows how A/I-related news is flooding the newscycle. In fact, the vast majority of these stories appeared within the last 48 hours! I’ve curated A/I stories for a while … this flood has surged quite a bit over the last few months. I cannot think of another issue/topic currently getting more press. - jp
Poll finds bipartisan agreement on a key issue: Regulating AI
https://theconversation.com/poll-finds-bipartisan-agreement-on-a-key-issue-regulating-ai-259780
GOP Lawmakers Wage Tug-of-War Over AI Regulation
https://thedispatch.com/article/congress-ai-regulation-state-moratorium/
White House Prepares Executive Order Targeting ‘Woke AI’
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/white-house-prepares-executive-order-targeting-woke-ai-e68e8e24
Trump AI Guidelines Expected to Loosen Rules, Pursue Energy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-18/trump-ai-guidelines-expected-to-loosen-rules-pursue-energy
Electricity prices may spike due to AI demand if US doesn't boost energy output, White House warns
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/electricity-prices-may-spike-due-ai-demand-us-doesnt-boost-energy-output-white-house-warns
AI demand could drive up US electricity bills – even if it fizzles
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2488769-ai-demand-could-drive-up-us-electricity-bills-even-if-it-fizzles/
AI Demand Has Wall Street Snatching Up Utility Companies
https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2025/ai-demand-has-wall-street-snatching-up-utility-companies/
You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you?
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/420135/ai-meta-openai-ethics-risk
Zuckerberg’s AI ‘Prometheus’ Sparks Wall Street Optimism — Meta Target Raised to $775
https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/zuckerbergs-ai-prometheus-sparks-wall-street-optimism-meta-target-raised-to-775-1570618/
Microsoft (MSFT) Gets $600 Target as AI Spending Surges — Wells Fargo Stays Bullish
https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/microsoft-msft-gets-600-target-as-ai-spending-surges-wells-fargo-stays-bullish-1570630/
As Palantir Makes a Big Bet on AI-Powered Weather, Is PLTR Stock a Buy, Sell, or Hold?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/palantir-makes-big-bet-ai-173638542.html
Apollo’s chief economist warns the AI bubble is even worse than the 1999 dot-com bubble
https://fortune.com/2025/07/17/ai-bubble-vs-dot-com-stocks-apollo-economist-torsten-slok/
Why the AI stock bubble may be just getting started
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/why-ai-stock-bubble-may-154744983.html
Fed Governor Lisa Cook: AI Set to Reshape Labor Market
https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2025/fed-governor-lisa-cook-ai-set-to-reshape-labor-market/
Amazon now requires staff to show AI use to get promoted at Ring and some other units
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-requires-staff-show-ai-use-get-promoted-ring-2025-7
Amazon cuts hundreds of AWS cloud jobs after strategic review, says AI wasn’t the main factor
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-cuts-hundreds-of-aws-cloud-jobs-after-strategic-review-says-ai-wasnt-the-main-factor/
Tech’s latest job cuts raise the question: Is AI to blame?
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/07/17/as-techs-latest-round-of-layoffs-pile-up-is-ai-to-blame.html
You’re Not Imagining It: AI Is Already Taking Tech Jobs
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/07/17/ai-tech-layoffs/
Perplexity's CEO says his AI browser could replace 2 white-collar roles every company relies on
https://www.businessinsider.com/perplexity-ceo-ai-browser-will-automate-2-white-collar-roles-2025-7
30% of aviation jobs could be redesigned due to AI, automation; $200m fund to support workers: CAAS
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/up-to-30-per-cent-of-aviation-jobs-would-have-to-be-redesigned-because-of-ai-automation-caas
As AI rocks entry-level gigs, Whole Foods exec says the billion-dollar grocer is offering workers the chance to become butchers, fishmongers, and pizza makers
https://fortune.com/2025/07/17/whole-foods-artisan-apprenticeships-butcher-as-ai-wipes-corporate-jobs-gen-z/
AI-generated music is going viral. Should the music industry be worried?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/ai-generated-music-is-going-viral-should-the-music-industry-worry.html
Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vr4rymlw9o
Invideo AI enables anyone with an idea to produce high-quality videos
https://openai.com/index/invideo-ai/
Alberta football coach accused of using AI to make child pornography: ALERT
https://globalnews.ca/news/11294032/lethbridge-football-ai-child-pornography-alert/
Shocking number of pet owners would date AI versions of their animals, study reveals
https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/lifestyle/shocking-number-of-pet-owners-would-date-ai-versions-of-their-animals-study-reveals/
Elon Musk’s Grok releases two new ‘AI companions,’ including an anime girlfriend
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/17/elon-musks-grok-releases-two-new-ai-companions-including-an-anime-girlfriend
Why Elon Musk's 'flirty AI chatbot' might actually be dangerous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-6NcuMlQJY [LBC]
People With Body Dysmorphia Are Spiraling Out After Asking AI to Rate Their Looks
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/body-dysmorphia-ai-chatbots-1235388108/
Is It Bad That I Desperately Need My Chatbot’s Approval?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/confessions-of-an-ai-addict-d75ca283
A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends
https://futurism.com/teens-ai-friends
AI Might Now Be as Good as Humans at Detecting Emotion, Political Leaning, and Sarcasm
https://singularityhub.com/2025/07/15/ai-might-now-be-as-good-as-humans-at-detecting-emotion-political-leaning-and-sarcasm/
How well does AI know you?
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-07-14/opinion/columns/How-well-does-AI-know-you/2351514
Does AI understand?
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/does-ai-understand/
Top AI Researchers Concerned They’re Losing the Ability to Understand What They’ve Created
https://futurism.com/top-ai-researchers-concerned
Ex-Google CEO says superintelligence is tech’s holy grail—but the U.S. is ill-equipped to address its ‘natural limit’
https://fortune.com/2025/07/18/eric-schmidt-ai-natural-limit-electricity-chips-water-usage/
AI firms ‘unprepared’ for dangers of building human-level systems, report warns
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/17/ai-firms-unprepared-for-dangers-of-building-human-level-systems-report-warns
How to avoid nuclear war in an era of AI and misinformation
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02260-z
Statement on Biosecurity Risks at the Convergence of AI and the Life Sciences
https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/statement-on-biosecurity-risks-at-the-convergence-of-ai-and-the-life-sciences/
How AI is mapping the tree of life | Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbN3ClySZsg [Microsoft]
Medical breakthrough using AI at Mayo Clinic gives hope to rare disease population
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/kare11-extras/medical-breakthrough-using-ai-at-mayo-clinic-hope-rare-disease/89-76ef7169-21df-4934-b7f3-4a5c7dc7894a
UW scientists use AI to crack ‘undruggable’ proteins, opening door to new treatments
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/uw-scientists-use-ai-to-crack-undruggable-proteins-opening-door-to-new-treatments/
AI is helping patients fight insurance company denials
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ai-helping-patients-fight-insurance-company-denials-wild-rcna219008
Healthcare provider to use AI to cut paperwork
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2d0y9x297zo
The government wants AI to fight wars and review your taxes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/14/trump-ai-government-war-taxes-jobs/
Pentagon taps four commercial tech firms to expand military use of AI
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2025/07/15/pentagon-taps-four-commercial-tech-firms-to-expand-military-use-of-ai/
AI firm’s AUKUS approval proves Australia’s increasing military ties to US, UK
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/18/aukus-pillar-two-ai-military-technology-greenroom-robotics/
Isambard-AI, the UK’s Most Powerful AI Supercomputer, Goes Live
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/isambard-ai/
Britain boosts computing power in $1.3 billion AI drive
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-boosts-computing-power-13-billion-ai-drive-2025-07-17/
China Is Spending Billions to Become an A.I. Superpower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/technology/china-ai.html
Humanoids are leading China’s AI and tech revolution
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/business/video/china-artificial-intelligence-humanoids-mpa-hnk-spc
Humanoid robot Ai-Da paints portrait of King Charles using AI
https://cybernews.com/ai-news/king-charles-portrait-ai-art/
Will AI Kill Art? Robot Ai-Da Weighs In On Creative Life
https://aimagazine.com/news/will-ai-kill-art-robot-ai-da-weighs-in-on-creative-life
AI-designed autonomous underwater glider looks like a paper airplane and swims like a seal
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/mit-engineers-unveil-ai-designed-underwater-gliders-that-redefine-ocean-exploration/
AI-Fueled Robot Dog Stuns Researchers by Learning Real Animal Gaits in Under 10 Hours Without Human Intervention
https://www.rudebaguette.com/en/2025/07/ai-fueled-robot-dog-stuns-researchers-by-learning-real-animal-gaits-in-under-10-hours-without-human-intervention/
MIT's new AI can teach itself to control robots by watching the world through their eyes — it only needs a single camera
https://www.livescience.com/technology/robotics/mits-new-ai-can-teach-itself-to-control-robots-by-watching-the-world-through-their-eyes-it-only-needs-a-single-camera