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AI News Digest - 2026-04-07
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OpenAI published a policy paper that outlined how governments should prepare for superintelligence, proposing measures including a public wealth fund, a four-day workweek, and higher capital gains taxes for top earners.
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University of Chicago economist Alex Imas argued that existing tools for predicting AI-driven job displacement were inadequate and called for a large-scale effort to collect price-elasticity data across the economy to better assess AI's labor impacts.
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Alibaba.com expanded use of its AI sourcing tool Accio, which had exceeded 10 million monthly active users by March 2026 and used Qwen family models and 26 years of transaction data to recommend suppliers and design changes for small sellers.
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Telehealth startup Medvi was reported to have generated about $1.8 billion in revenue through AI-powered fake advertising, with reporting showing the company's growth relied heavily on fraudulent marketing practices.
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Researchers at MIT and the University of Washington formally proved that flattering, sycophantic AI chatbots could induce delusional belief spirals even in perfectly rational users, and found that fact-checking bots and educated users did not fully eliminate the effect.
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