As we enter a period of rapid change driven by advances in AI, we need to track changes in the economy. That means we should invest more in government statistics, not less. 1/2
POLICY
-
OCR Conjecture: Evidence OpenAI Scanned Books for Training
By
–
the OCR conjecture: some examples include artifacts such as OCRV ROOT, which indicate the training data may have been reading between the lines: OpenAI is scanning books (for some reason the model loves mentioning how many deaf people live in Malaysia)
-
Sam Altman Announces GPT-4o Return for Plus Subscribers
By
–
Sam Altman just announced a change in policy, GPT-4o will be coming back, at least for Plus ($20/month) users
-
Philosophers Expected to Have Current Political Opinions
By
–
In my generation, philosophers are expected to have very good and current political opinions
-
Scientists Must Resist Ideological Pressure to Preserve Scientific Integrity
By
–
I don’t think that scientists can serve ideology, because the criterion for what’s true in an ideology is not scientific. Academics who submit to the tyranny of political opinion in their work have betrayed the scientific project, and must change beliefs with political fashions
-
OpenAI retires GPT models without warning breaking user workflows
By
–
Suddenly retiring every other model without warning was a weird move by OpenAI. … and they did it without explaining how switching models worked or even details of various GPT-5 models …and they did it when everyone has built workflows around older models, breaking them all.
-
AI Workshop Demonstrates Public Sector Value and Societal Benefits
By
–
“The workshop showed how AI can support the public sector, proving it to be a valuable tool rather than something to fear,” said Lily Fraser from @StanfordHAI and @stanforddschool
's first civil society program. This year, we are bringing it back: -
EU Media Freedom Act strengthens independence and pluralism
By
–
Europe strengthens media freedom, independence and pluralism with new European Media Freedom Act https://
ec.europa.eu/commission/pre
sscorner/detail/en/mex_25_1950
…
#digitaleu #media #mediafreedom #innovation #technology @DigitalEU @ArturHabant @elaniazito @BetaMoroney @nafisalam @Fabriziobustama @debashis_dutta -
India AI Impact Summit 2026 Invites Organizations to Host Events
By
–
Organizations across sectors and geographies are invited to organize events in alignment with the themes of the India – AI Impact Summit 2026. Host an event and contribute to the Summit’s mission to amplify the positive impact of AI across People, Planet, and Progress. Event
-
OpenAI Deploys GPT-5 Despite EU AI Act Regulations
By
–
Ursula von der Leyen ne doit pas être très contente. OpenAI implémente GPT-5 malgré l’AI Act, à la surprise générale. L’Europe est le deuxième marché pour OpenAI, autant dire que c’est vital pour eux. C’est sans doute un choix réfléchi. Deux possibilités : – Soit Altman a