Air France-KLM to increase intelligence of bots that have saved 200,000 hours - Four or five AI uses cases - maybe even agentic! - from the airline I fly.
Untitled - “AI-generated art is abundant and cheap to produce. Yet they are both priced the same by Adobe."
American - “I know the nationalities of my fellow oath-takers because of the next stage of the ceremony. This was the Roll Call of Nations. I did not know this was going to happen. Every country of origin represented was announced in turn. As your country was named, you were asked to stand up, and remain standing. Afghanistan came first. Then Algeria. The last person to stand, immediately to my left, was from the United Kingdom. There were twenty seven countries in all, out of only fifty or so people. For me this part in particular was enormously, irresistibly moving. It perfectly expressed the principle, the claim, the myth–as you please–that America is an idea. That it does not matter where you are from. That, in fact, America will in this moment explicitly and proudly acknowledge the sheer variety of places you are all from. That built in to the heart of the United States is the republican ideal not just that anyone can become an American, but that this possibility is what makes the country what it is."
AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases, Wikipedia - List of words and writing styles commonly found in AI output. I’m really interested in how AI-language leaks (is leaking?) into human language. Also, these would be words and styles you’d tell the AI to NOT do, if you cared.
How to Fix Your Context - Lots to digest in here.
AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study - ”Gartner still expects that by 2028 about 15 percent of daily work decisions will be made autonomously by AI agents, up from 0 percent last year. Also, the firm sees 33 percent of enterprise software applications including agentic AI by that time.”
2025: The State of Consumer AI, Menlo Ventures survey - “More than half of American adults (61%) have used AI in the past six months” - wow! Even for the millions who “just typed one thing at it for 45 seconds” (or whatever) that is a shit-ton.
Pluralistic: What’s a “public internet?” (25 Jun 2025) - A lot of thinking about EU sovereign cloud, from the fiber level to the social media level.