AI News Weekly - Issue #444: Is Meta Creating An Uncontrollable Superintelligence? - Jun 12th 2025
Powered by columbia.edu Welcome Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Join the AI conversation and transform your advertising strategy with AI weekly sponsorship aiweekly.co In the News Is Meta Creating An Uncontrollable Superintelligence? Between Microsoft and OpenAI, Amazon and Anthropic, Meta is trying to stay in the race. What if algorithmic power became the new measure of economic influence? The market already thinks so. cointribune.com Sponsor Get AI-Smart in Just 8 Weeks Invest in the skills that keep you competitive. The AI for Business & Finance Certificate Program from Columbia Business School Exec Ed + Wall Street Prep gives you hands-on training with today’s most in-demand AI tools using real-world case studies and interactive simulations. In just 8 weeks, you’ll build practical AI skills and earn a credential that sets you apart. Save $500 when you enroll by June 16: $200 off for early enrollment + $300 with code AIWEEKLY. Learn more columbia.edu In The News This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job Mechanize, a San Francisco start-up, is building artificial intelligence tools to automate white-collar jobs “as fast as possible.” nytimes.com Teachers in England given the green-light to use AI Teachers in England have been given the all-clear to use AI to help them in low-level tasks that are part of their duties, the BBC reports. artificialintelligence-news.com The AI execution gap: Why 80% of projects don’t reach production Enterprise artificial intelligence investment is unprecedented, with IDC projecting global spending on AI and GenAI to double to $631 billion by 2028. artificialintelligence-news.com Applied use cases AI is now an A+ law student, study finds OpenAI’s newest model, called o3, earned grades ranging from A+ to B on eight spring finals given by faculty at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, researchers found in a new paper published on SSRN reuters.com Meta’s new AI video tool can put you in a desert (or at least try to) Meta is launching new video editing tools that will let you transform videos using AI. The tool, which is only free for a “limited time,” gives you more than 50 preset prompts you can use to edit your video, allowing you to set a theme, change the background, and tweak what you’re wearing. theverge.com Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become extremely challenging to manage the finite amount of wireless spectrum available for all users to share. mit.edu Ethics Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney over images Disney and Universal are suing artificial intelligence (AI) firm Midjourney over its image generator, which the Hollywood giants allege is a "bottomless pit of plagiarism". bbc.com How a fake news study tested ethical research boundaries A controversial fake news study, carried out by Swiss-based researchers on the social media platform Reddit, has highlighted the ethical responsibilities and challenges of conducting studies on society. swissinfo.ch High court tells UK lawyers to stop misuse of AI after fake case-law citations The high court has told senior lawyers to take urgent action to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence after dozens of fake case-law citations were put before the courts that were either completely fictitious or contained made-up passages. theguardian.com Robotics Sam Altman-backed Coco Robotics raises $80M Los Angeles-based Coco Robotics, a startup building last-mile delivery robots, announced it raised $80 million on Wednesday. techcrunch.com Amazon ‘testing humanoid robots to deliver packages’ Tech firm is building ‘humanoid park’ in US to try out robots, which could ‘spring out’ of its vans theguardian.com Interview with Amar Halilovic: Explainable AI for robotics In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. robohub.org Research The future of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity: A Comprehensive Survey The increase in the incidence and quality of cyber-attacks is driving AI-enabled cyber systems. Increasing incidents of huge cyber-attacks globally have created awareness among organizations for securing their information. researchgat

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Is Meta Creating An Uncontrollable Superintelligence?
Between Microsoft and OpenAI, Amazon and Anthropic, Meta is trying to stay in the race. What if algorithmic power became the new measure of economic influence? The market already thinks so.
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In The News
This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job
Mechanize, a San Francisco start-up, is building artificial intelligence tools to automate white-collar jobs “as fast as possible.”
Teachers in England given the green-light to use AI
Teachers in England have been given the all-clear to use AI to help them in low-level tasks that are part of their duties, the BBC reports.
artificialintelligence-news.com
The AI execution gap: Why 80% of projects don’t reach production
Enterprise artificial intelligence investment is unprecedented, with IDC projecting global spending on AI and GenAI to double to $631 billion by 2028.
artificialintelligence-news.com
Applied use cases
AI is now an A+ law student, study finds
OpenAI’s newest model, called o3, earned grades ranging from A+ to B on eight spring finals given by faculty at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, researchers found in a new paper published on SSRN
Meta’s new AI video tool can put you in a desert (or at least try to)
Meta is launching new video editing tools that will let you transform videos using AI. The tool, which is only free for a “limited time,” gives you more than 50 preset prompts you can use to edit your video, allowing you to set a theme, change the background, and tweak what you’re wearing.
Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing
As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become extremely challenging to manage the finite amount of wireless spectrum available for all users to share.
Ethics
Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney over images
Disney and Universal are suing artificial intelligence (AI) firm Midjourney over its image generator, which the Hollywood giants allege is a "bottomless pit of plagiarism".
How a fake news study tested ethical research boundaries
A controversial fake news study, carried out by Swiss-based researchers on the social media platform Reddit, has highlighted the ethical responsibilities and challenges of conducting studies on society.
High court tells UK lawyers to stop misuse of AI after fake case-law citations
The high court has told senior lawyers to take urgent action to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence after dozens of fake case-law citations were put before the courts that were either completely fictitious or contained made-up passages.
Robotics
Sam Altman-backed Coco Robotics raises $80M
Los Angeles-based Coco Robotics, a startup building last-mile delivery robots, announced it raised $80 million on Wednesday.
Amazon ‘testing humanoid robots to deliver packages’
Tech firm is building ‘humanoid park’ in US to try out robots, which could ‘spring out’ of its vans
Interview with Amar Halilovic: Explainable AI for robotics
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research.
Research
The future of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity: A Comprehensive Survey
The increase in the incidence and quality of cyber-attacks is driving AI-enabled cyber systems. Increasing incidents of huge cyber-attacks globally have created awareness among organizations for securing their information.
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Chatbot Design and Implementation: Towards an Operational Model for Chatbots
This article reports on qualitative inductive research undertaken within a chatbot development team operating in a major international enterprise. The findings identify critical success factors for chatbot projects, and a model is developed and validated to support the planning and implementation of chatbot projects.
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