NVIDIA’s $100B OpenAI investment is a reflection of a larger trend: companies investing in their own customers to create a veneer of a functioning market that isn’t actually producing economic value. @smw.bsky.social explained the economics of the ever-inflating AI bubble on Computer Says Maybe.

. @smw.bsky.social joined joined Alix Dunn at “Computer Says Maybe" to discuss the economics of the AI bubble. Even as companies are realizing this tech isn’t as useful as they thought it would be, gov actors are signing lucrative contracts.

Watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/WvN1wQ_CBlY

OpenAI, Anthropic & others have shifted from championing ethics to signing $200M+ defense contracts that embed gen AI into high-risk military systems. In @theverge.com, @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social explains why the move toward defense partnerships is a safety risk.

Listen here: shorturl.at/mTAZq

Last week, @smw.bsky.social spoke at @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social about the AI arms race and mythologies around AGI. "If policymakers are hinging significant decision making on pursuit of AGI and foregoing near term concerns, that's a risky and irresponsible bet."

. @kate-brennan.bsky.social sat down with
@novasafo.bsky.social at Marketplace to speak about algorithmic decision systems’ impact on people's everyday lives, like deciding whether someone qualifies for a bank loan or whether a rental application is approved.

www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

“[There’s] been this discourse that emerges at moments when AI is being more stringently regulated around there being an arms race between the US and China.” @smw.bsky.social sat down with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social about Big Tech’s consolidation of power and more.

Using AI for targeting when accuracy levels are as low as 60% is little better than a flip of a coin - we need to be more responsible about military use, warns @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social during an @icrc.org webinar on AI in Military Decision Making.

Instead of debating how “good” technologies like ChatGPT are, we should be asking whether the AI industry’s unaccountable power is good for society.

Read our 2025 Landscape Report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

At our launch event for @karenhao.bsky.social's new book, Empire of AI, Lina Khan spoke on the ramifications of Big Tech’s consolidated control over AI.

Watch the full recording: ainowinstitute.org/news/announc...

Artificial Power, AI Now’s 2025 Landscape Report, examines the fallout of the ‘AI boom,’ and how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies, and the tech oligarchs that run them, power that goes far beyond their deep pockets. Read it: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

In testimony yesterday before the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, @ambakak.bsky.social spelled out what we have to lose: this moratorium on state AI laws flies in the face of common sense – it sets back the clock and freezes it there.

At MSC, in a panel with @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social, Kent Walker, and Claudia Plattner, moderated by @ginasue.bsky.social, AI Now Co-ED @ambakak.bsky.social highlighted the threat that AI-fueled concentration of power poses to democracy today. Listen here:
securityconference.org/en/msc-2025/...