Axios
AI agents are here for real this time
AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work.
AI's brain is getting bloated with AI content
AI is consuming more and more AI-written content to formulate its answers—a feedback loop that could make its answers narrower, blander, and easier to manipulate. I
Global AI Wars
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a rare joint warning this week that frontier AI capable of crippling governments and businesses is close.
Tech stocks slump as AI bubble fears loom (Axios)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 06/23/2026 - 15:00People Inc. CEO accuses Google of abusing its market power
People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel accused Google of abusing its market power by using the same crawler for both search and AI. While some publishers want to block crawlers to protect their content from getting swept up by AI models, search traffic remains a key metric for advertising and affiliate revenue. "We can't actually block Google, because Google uses the same crawler for search as they do for AI, which is like an incredible abuse of market power," Vogel said.
Phishing enters automation era (Axios)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 06/23/2026 - 14:36Data centers become the face of AI backlash
Only a small fraction of data center opponents actually live near one, according to new polling by a consulting firm that counsels leading AI labs and tech startups.
Inside the White House's AI power center
Like its AI policy, the Trump administration's AI team is taking shape on the fly. Here's who's running the show—for now:
Writing with AI
Few AI use cases elicit more outrage than writing. So here's the nitty-gritty of how I use AI for writing: