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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.
Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/meta-reportedly-hires-four-more-researchers-from-openai/
Week in Review: Meta’s AI recruiting blitz Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots of news for you this week, including Travis Kalanick’s possible return, CoreWeave’s CEO is now worth $10 billion, Apple users aren’t happy with how the company is promoting its new F1 movie, and much more. Powered
Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/vitalik-buterin-has-reservations-about-sam-altmans-world-project/
Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’ Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/anthropics-claude-ai-became-a-terrible-business-owner-in-experiment-that-got-weird/