Darn! I was looking forward to this.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/tariffs-amazon-prime-day-sellers-report
Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile and political"
Amazon now denies reports it planned to list how much tariffs increased products' prices after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the move as a "hostile and political act."
Why it matters: The reported plan further suggests a growing rift between businesses and President Trump, who has made aggressive tariffs and a global trade war central to his economic agenda.
As I feared, AI is becoming the dominant influencer…
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/great-language-flattening/682627/
The Great Language Flattening
In at least one crucial way, AI has already won its campaign for global dominance. An unbelievable volume of synthetic prose is published every moment of every day—heaping piles of machine-written news articles, text messages, emails, search results, customer-service chats, even scientific research.
Chatbots learned from human writing. Now the influence may run in the other direction. Some people have hypothesized that the proliferation of generative-AI tools such as ChatGPT will seep into human communication, that the terse language we use when prompting a chatbot may lead us to dispose of any niceties or writerly flourishes when corresponding with friends and colleagues. But there are other possibilities. Jeremy Nguyen, a senior researcher at Swinburne University of Technology, in Australia, ran an experiment last year to see how exposure to AI-generated text might change the way people write. He and his colleagues asked 320 people to write a post advertising a sofa for sale on a secondhand marketplace. Afterward, the researchers showed the participants what ChatGPT had written when given the same prompt, and they asked the subjects to do the same task again. The responses changed dramatically.
Better or bitter?
Colorado lawmakers, being watched across the country, scale back artificial intelligence law
… Senate Bill 318 would reduce the administrative tasks smaller companies must take to protect consumers against discrimination if their AI systems are used to decide who gets a job, housing, personal loans, health care, insurance coverage, educational opportunities, or legal or essential government services.
The measure also would delay implementation for about a year and make the resource-intensive parts of the AI law apply initially to companies with 500 or more employees worldwide, instead of 50 or more. That would step down gradually until April 1, 2029, when companies with fewer than 100 workers would be exempt.
Perspective?
Anthropic mapped Claude's morality. Here's what the chatbot values (and doesn't)
… On Monday, Anthropic released an analysis of over 300,000 anonymized conversations between users and Claude, primarily Claude 3.5 models Sonnet and Haiku, as well as Claude 3. Titled "Values in the wild," the paper maps Claude's morality through patterns in the interactions that revealed 3,307 "AI values."
… As a result, Anthropic discovered a hierarchical values taxonomy of five macro-categories: Practical (the most prevalent), Epistemic, Social, Protective, and Personal (the least prevalent) values. Those categories were then subdivided into values, such as "professional and technical excellence" and "critical thinking."
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