Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations

America Hates AI. Why Aren’t Democrats Doing Anything About It?

Rep. Greg Casar tells Gizmodo the three most pressing AI-related risks are “mass unemployment, mass surveillance, and mass destruction.”

Perplexity makes it easier to run AI workflows entirely on your own Mac

A Mac with at least 36GB of RAM can now run Perplexity AI workflows locally.

Inception says its Mercury 3 model beats GPT-6 Luna and runs far faster

Inception, the Redwood City AI lab, released Mercury 3 on Monday. It is the newest version of what the company calls a diffusion LLM, a design that differs from the systems behind most chatbots. Most language models are autoregressive. They write one token at a time, each one chosen after the last.

The new economics of enterprise AI

Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity becomes infrastructure, every process depends on it, and the question changes from “can we use it?”

ALTK-Evolve: How learned memory tops the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without a frontier model

MIT’s AI agent society result holds up on consumer hardware

In August, researchers at MIT dropped a society of AI agents into a shared world with no instructions. They showed it could invent, build and maintain technology better than the same number of agents working alone. The study ran on a hosted frontier model.