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Bloomberg: Amazon secures a $17.5B loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling CA$14B in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars  —  Soon after selling the biggest Canadian corporate bond sale on record, Amazon.com Inc. inked another multi-billion dollar financing …

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned in a new policy essay that AI-related job loss may be "intrinsic" to the tech's development. Bloomberg/Getty Images Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that AI-related job loss may be "intrinsic" to the tech's creation. In a new policy essay, he suggested that measures like universal basic income may offset job losses. Amodei's commentary has shifted in recent weeks as the company gears up for its historic IPO. Dario Amodei says he's not trying to be a "prophet of doom" about AI and jobs, but the Anthropic CEO is warning that mass displacement may not be a temporary growing pain of the technology — it may be part of what makes AI work. In a new policy essay, Amodei wrote that there is a "decent possibility" that, despite efforts to soften the blow, AI could cause "significant enduring job loss" — and that this "may be an intrinsic property of the technology and the way it broadly replicates human cognition." The argument reframes one of the AI industry's most uncomfortable questions. If AI systems are designed to perform more of the cognitive work humans do, then job losses may not simply be the result of bad corporate behavior or short-term adjustment, as some executives argue. Amodei suggests they could be a structural consequence of successful AI development. In other words, a feature, not a bug. Amodei has sounded alarms on this before. He previously warned that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years and push unemployment to 10% to 20%, urging companies and policymakers to stop "sugarcoating" the risk. His latest essay is less about predicting a specific jobs apocalypse than spelling out what governments should do if enduring displacement arrives. His answer is twofold: slow the damage and share the gains. Amodei called for better "measurement and tracking" of AI's labor-market effects, including expanded government statistics. He also endorsed "pro-employment incentives" such as wage insurance for workers who have to take lower-paying jobs due to the technology, retention tax incentives, workforce training grants, and better job-matching infrastructure. If AI permanently reduces demand for human labor, he wrote, governments may need to go further, including "long-term income support" such as universal basic income, financed by taxes on relevant companies or higher capital gains taxes. He also floated universal capital accounts as another way to spread AI-created wealth. The essay lands amid a broader shift in tone, as some of the industry's most prominent AI leaders, including Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, have recently stressed productivity gains and new economic opportunities rather than warnings of job losses. Business Insider recently reported that the executives — who once highlighted AI's disruptive effects — are now spending more time discussing how workers and society can benefit from the technology's gains as they gear up for hotly anticipated IPOs. Amodei's latest policy memo said Anthropic aims to help corporate customers find new revenue and "do more with their existing workforce," rather than focusing solely on cost savings. However, he said, if AI's upside is truly as enormous as he argues, society needs a plan for workers who may not automatically share in its gains. Read the original article on Business Insider

A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.

Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the same thing.  An entrepreneur at heart, […]

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI said it discovered a suspected Chinese-based influence operation to generate ill will toward US data centers. The suspected operation was identified because the users relied in part on ChatGPT. OpenAI said the suspect campaign didn't gain meaningful traction online. OpenAI said it banned likely China-based users after they used ChatGPT to try to fuel a suspected influence operation aimed at undermining support for US data centers. "This looks like a classic example of a foreign influence operation, jumping onto the bandwagon of a genuine pre-existing domestic debate, and trying to manipulate it by using fake accounts, posing as Americans," Ben Nimmo, principal investigator on OpenAI's Intelligence and Investigations team, told reporters on Wednesday ahead of the report's release. While OpenAI has previously identified other suspected Chinese influence operations, none of them had specifically used the company's AI models to try to sway US opinion on data centers. "Under the circumstances, it's particularly ironic that they use American AI to do it," Nimmo said. OpenAI stressed that the suspected data center operation, which it dubbed the "'Data Center Bandwagon' Campaign," was "small scale" and "lasted a short duration, with most of their posts gaining little to no authentic engagement" on X and also Facebook. "The operation sought to exploit and amplify existing public concerns about energy prices and local impacts of data center development, but we found no evidence of meaningful breakout beyond its own activity," the company said. "We didn't see any signs that they succeeded," Nimmo said. The users behind the campaign, OpenAI wrote in its report, "were likely part of a social media operations team at a private Chinese technology company conducting work for Chinese provincial-level government clients." Nimmo said the suspected campaign, which occurred between roughly late 2025 and earlier this year, tried to latch onto news coverage about data centers and then tried to use ChatGPT to generate critical posts. OpenAI said this is one example of screenshots of X posts that were part of the suspected campaign OpenAI The report's publication adds new light to the debate over the construction of data centers in the US, infrastructure which OpenAI and its competitors say is central to cementing the country's lead in the global AI race and meeting the current and expected future demands of the burgeoning technology. China has come up before in the debate about US data centers. In a claim unrelated to OpenAI's report, "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary recently suggested that some opponents to his company's Utah data center critics had ties to the Chinese Communist Party, a claim that two political strategists he called out by name strongly disputed in a mocking online video. Amid wider pushback to the project and requests from Utah lawmakers, O'Leary agreed to cut the size of his proposed data center in half. Another example of the suspected part of the influence campaign OpenAI OpenAI said the users behind the suspected campaign it detailed on Wednesday "prompted ChatGPT in Simplified Chinese while repeatedly asking for English- and Chinese- language outputs." The AI startup does not allow access to ChatGPT in China, meaning the campaign needed to rely on VPNs to access the AI tools. Nimmo said the suspected campaign is important because, regardless of its effectiveness, it shows "the intentions of influence operators from China, and the narratives they're testing." Another campaign targeted Trump's tariffs OpenAI said a second suspected operation, which it dubbed "'Tech and Tariffs' Campaign," used ChatGPT to "generate short comments and political cartoons criticizing US tech policies and tariffs." Some of those posts included AI-generated cartoon images of President Donald Trump depicting him as careless, including one showing him sawing a ladder while standing on it. OpenAI said the timing of the posts was notable because it happened around October 2025, when Trump announced an additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods. Examples of X posts that OpenAI said were generated by a suspected influence operation OpenAI Notably, OpenAI said the users for this suspected campaign asked that China's leader, Xi Jinping, be excluded from any AI-generated cartoon images. Unlike the first operation, OpenAI was unable to link the suspected tariff and political campaign to a particular entity in China. Read the original article on Business Insider

<p><strong><a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/diffusion-gemma-faster-text-generation/">DiffusionGemma</a></strong></p> Last May Google briefly released an experimental Gemini Diffusion model. I <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/">tried the preview at the time</a> and recorded it running at 857 tokens/second. It was an exciting model, but Google made no further announcements about it.</p> <p>That research has returned in the best possible way: as a new open weight (Apache 2 licensed) Gemma model, <a href="https://huggingface.co/google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it">google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it</a>.</p> <p>NVIDIA are currently <a href="https://build.nvidia.com/google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it">hosting the model for free</a> on their NIM cloud API. I used that API to <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2Fe5e234a6dc6eef61e209ce1629620042">generate this pelican</a>, which took 4.4s (according to <code>time uv run generate.py</code>) to return 2,409 tokens - so at least 500 tokens/second.</p> <p><img alt="Flat minimalist illustration of a white pelican with a large orange beak riding a red bicycle with black wheels, against a pale blue background with a green line representing the ground" src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/diffusiongemma-pelican.png" /> <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478471">Hacker News</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nvidia">nvidia</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle">pelican-riding-a-bicycle</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gemma">gemma</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm-release">llm-release</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm-performance">llm-performance</a></p>

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