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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸@rweingarten.bsky.social

From hands-on career teaching in NM, to integrating AI into math lessons in NJ, to marching in AL for voting rights, to demanding an end children’s detention in DC, @aft.org members make it clear: We should invest in our kids & communities - not a slush fund for Trump’s allies. youtu.be/45rLAD6W8n8

youtu.beOur Tax Dollars: For Families & Schools, Not Political AlliesYouTube video by AFT

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

Cloudflare’s CEO explains why despite over 30% revenue growth, they are laying off 20% of staff. He argues that there are 3 types of workers; builders, sellers and measurers (middle managers, legal, HR, operations, etc). AI makes it possible to automate the last group and he expects everyone will

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com

CSU officials have renewed their contract with OpenAI for $13 million a year despite faculty opposition and millions of dollars in budget cuts across the system.

bit.lyCalifornia State University renews controversial systemwide contract with OpenAICSU officials have renewed their contract with OpenAI for $13 million a year despite faculty opposition and millions of dollars in budget cuts across the system.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social

This will make some folks mad :). The best way for these grocery stores to work is if they use AI to get an edge over private grocery stores. AI is the one way for the state government to out perform private enterprises.

Alexios Mantzarlis@mantzarlis.com

Today on @indicator.media: A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X. This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.

indicator.media8 AI bots now write 50% of X’s Community NotesThe crowdsourced moderation project faces a choice between scale and legitimacy

The Verge@theverge.com

Boots Riley is resolute in his belief that AI proponents and studio heads who say that gen AI is the future of filmmaking are simply lying. Read the full interview from @charlespulliam.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Reuters@reuters.com

OpenAI Foundation commits $250 million to help workers, economies navigate AI disruption reut.rs/3Q2tsbI

reut.rsOpenAI Foundation commits $250 million to help workers, economies navigate AI disruptionThe non-profit that controls OpenAI will commit an initial $250 million for grants, partnerships and direct work aimed at helping workers and economies ​navigate the disruption caused by AI technology, it said on Wednesday.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com

Before Deploying AI in Admissions, Ask Why Admissions offices looking to use AI should first consider how it fits with their goals, according to new framework of best practices released today. https://bit.ly/49lCVBA #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com

Groupon laying off 400 employees — nearly 25% of its workforce — in AI shift

chicagotribune.comGroupon laying off 400 employees — nearly 25% of its workforce — in AI shift

Jonathan Bernstein@jonbern.bsky.social

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

Axios@axios.com

Companies are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns. An AI consultant tells us a client recently spent half a billion dollars in a month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees.

axios.comCorporate America enters its AI reckoningCompanies begin to question the payoffs of toxenmaxxing.

Jessica Lussenhop@jlussenhop.bsky.social

"Anuj Kapur, CEO of CloudBees, told Axios that workforce cuts may simply be 'the only lever they can pull' to offset their AI bills." dkluhgblkerhjbflkjbnrelkgjbnrleakjgbnlrekj www.axios.com/2026/05/28/a...

axios.comAI sticker shock hits corporate AmericaCompanies begin to question the payoffs of toxenmaxxing.

The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics@iethics.bsky.social

"Researchers have used top Generative #AI models to grade hundreds of undergraduate essays and found that AI only matched human-awarded degree classification around half the time, with AI often failing to assess the best and worst submissions accurately": www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-u... #ethics #tech

cam.ac.ukAI not yet good enough to mark university essays, rewarding ‘style over substance’Top AI systems show bias towards rewarding overly complex prose styles and only match human examiners for grade bands around half the time, research finds.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. pumping the brakes in a way that could complicate AI’s triumphal march across the economy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/corp...

Reuters@reuters.com

Morning Bid: Who needs oil when there's AI to buy? reut.rs/4o7Ydc0

reut.rsMorning Bid: Who needs oil when there's AI to buy?A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole.