Leo's Lightbulbs

Hello everyone and welcome to Leo’s Lightbulbs! I’ll be covering the top news from the past week every Monday morning in your inbox. This newsletter was written completely by hand, without any AI assistance or even AI editing.

The big news this week is Cara, the social network for artists which grew from 40 to 600k users this week. It’s explicitly opposed to AI and Meta/Facebook/Instagram. I see no issues here btw, I think this is a good thing. Read more

💡Apple WWDC today at 12pm central time, expect big AI announcements and things that only work on iPhone 15 pro.

💡OpenAI employees and others call for blanket whistleblower protections for all AI workers in the US, angering Skynet supporters everywhere

💡More on how AI sexual deepfakes are affecting education and how people are fighting back

💡AI weather forecasting models are about to take the world by storm (sorry couldn’t resist)

💡Sam Altman’s bad week is starting to look like a bad month. Can the golden boy of AI prevail?

💡Zoom CEO says he is betting the company on leading the way with AI twins attending meetings in your place

💡NewsBreak AI (#1 news app apparently) is dangerously buggy, reporting public shootings that never happened

💡Humane AI Pin’s charging case may burn you or explode

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Yours,