- California Senate Bill 1047 (SB 1047) is being framed as a de-facto ban on open-source AI: it defines “hazardous capability” to include anything a third party could demonstrate after unlimited fine-tuning or re-training, while closed models receive explicit safe-harbor provisions.  
- The bill’s text is publicly available at https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1047/id/2919384 and is being debated on Twitter by policymakers and researchers who argue it uses civil—not criminal—sanctions yet still criminalizes open-source development.  
- Microsoft is reportedly planning to record “everything you do on your PC” for AI processing, raising concerns about privacy, battery drain, and the normalization of a personal-computing panopticon.  
- websim.ai is being hailed as the most convincing “singularity demo” yet: users are spontaneously generating fully functional websites (e.g., Tetris clones) simply by describing them, with live examples circulating on Twitter.  
- Olden Labs has released a computer-vision “quantified mouse panopticon” that tracks individual lab mice via overhead cameras; critics argue RFID ear tags plus triangulation would be more reliable and cheaper than pure vision.  
- Practical RFID tracking of mice is constrained by tag size (900 MHz tags are too large), battery weight for active tags, and the lack of off-the-shelf sub-centimeter localization hardware, though LANDMARC-like schemes were proposed as work-arounds.  
- Ray Kurzweil’s upcoming book-launch event for “The Singularity Is Nearer” (Menlo Park, June) charges $30 admission, prompting jokes about building an AI Kurzweil robot to autograph books instead.