Microsoft employees say "AI is evil"

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Friday.

Three Microsoft CEOs walk into a room…

And then…this happened…

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI. “Shame on you,” said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman.

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It kept going…the Microsoft CEOs were interrupted by another protestor:

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OK let’s keep going ↓

Here’s what you should know:

• Midjourney releases V7, its first new AI image model in nearly a year

  V7 is the first model to have model personalization turned on by default.

• Reasoning models don't always say what they think

  Can we actually trust what models say in their Chain-of-Thought?

• Microsoft’s Copilot can now browse the web

  And take action on “most websites”

• Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s most expensive AI model yet

  The Gemini API "free tier" is offered through the API service with lower rate limits for testing purposes. Google AI Studio usage is completely free in all available countries. The Gemini API "paid tier" comes with higher rate limits, additional features, and different data handling.

• An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court

  It took only seconds for the judges on a New York appeals court to realize that the man addressing them from a video screen — a person about to present an argument in a lawsuit — not only had no law degree, but didn’t exist at all.

• AI proves that human fingerprints are not unique

  Fingerprint analysis has been a dependable tool in crime-solving for more than a century.

Finally, Sam says they’ll release o3 after all…and “then do GPT-5 in a few months”

The numbers:

• Unframe, the all-in-one turnkey AI platform for global enterprises, today emerged from stealth with $50M in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, TLV Partners, Craft Ventures, Third Point Ventures, SentinelOne Ventures, Cerca Partners, and Terra Nova Ventures

• Adaptive raises $43M to build the AI-native defense platform to protect businesses from next-gen threats like deepfake social engineering, led by a16z and OpenAI

• Unravel, an AI-powered video commerce platform, raised a $7M Series A, led by Nauta Capital

Thought starters:

Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney highlights the need for basic income ('social supports') to help workers navigate the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the job market.

"New jobs will be created, but old jobs will be lost... What happens to the people in those jobs - are they ready for the new jobs?"

Meme of the day:

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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