🗞️In this edition

• •X tests AI for community notes

• • Workflow Wednesday #26 ‘AI Trust’

• • Amazon reaches milestone in warehouse automation

• • In other AI news –

  • •US Senate drops AI regulation ban

  • • Cloudflare lets sites charge AI bots

  • • Surge AI eyes $1B capital raise

  • •Altman blasts Meta’s talent poaching

• • 7 must-try AI tools

X experiments with AI generated community notes for fact checking

♨️News – X is about to test a new twist to its fact-checking system: letting AI chatbots generate Community Notes. These notes, meant to add helpful context to posts, will still go through human vetting before being published, but now the first draft might come from a large language model instead of a person.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• AI tools like Grok or third-party models can now submit Community Notes through an API.

• Notes from AI will be treated just like human-written ones and must pass the same review process.

• Researchers behind the feature recommend a partnership between AI and human reviewers.

• There are concerns about hallucinated facts and reviewer fatigue from sifting through too many AI-generated notes.

• The pilot will run for a few weeks before X decides whether to expand it.

🤓OpenTools POV –  AI might help scale fact-checking, but only if it doesn’t flood the system or erode trust. This experiment will show whether humans and machines can actually share the load without compromising accuracy.

This Week in Workflow Wednesday #26: AI Trust

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Amazon deploys millionth robot and Launches new AI for Warehouses

☕News – Amazon has officially crossed a major milestone in its warehouse automation journey, announcing that it now has over 1 million robots working in its facilities. The milestone robot was recently deployed to a fulfillment center in Japan, as the company continues to scale its robotic operations alongside human workers.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• Amazon started using warehouse robots in 2012 after acquiring Kiva Systems.

• Robots now assist in 75 percent of Amazon's global deliveries.

• The company’s new AI model, DeepFleet, helps coordinate robot traffic inside warehouses.

• DeepFleet was built using Amazon SageMaker and trained on internal warehouse data.

• Amazon’s latest robot, Vulcan, has two arms and a sense of touch to handle items more precisely.

🤓OpenTools POV –   Amazon’s robotics push shows how AI is starting to play a bigger role in physical operations. As models like DeepFleet take over coordination tasks, we’re seeing the early stages of smarter, more adaptive automation.

🙆🏻‍♀️What else is happening?

• US Senate removes controversial ‘AI moratorium’ from budget bill // US senators voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove a controversial 10-year ban on states’ abilities to regulate AI from the Trump administration’s Big Beautiful Bill; LINK

• Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping // The marketplace reimagines the relationship between website owners and AI companies, ideally giving publishers greater control over their content; LINK

• Scale AI’s bigger rival Surge AI seeks up to $1 billion capital raise // Surge AI's high-end services attract major clients like Google and OpenAI; Meanwhile, Scale AI faces customer losses after Meta's investment; LINK

• Sam Altman slams Meta’s AI talent-poaching spree // What Meta is doing will, in my opinion lead to very deep cultural problems, said CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers; LINK

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