Kylie Robison / Wired:
At the Man vs. Machine hackathon, co-hosted by AI nonprofit METR to test if AI helps people code faster and better, the top prize went to an “AI-supported” team  —  At a weekend hackathon in San Francisco, more than 100 coders gathered to test whether they could beat AI—and win a $12,500 cash prize.

Laura Rodríguez Salamanca / Rest of World:
How AI is upending the music industry in Latin America, as artists push back against a flood of AI-generated music on Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube Music  —  Musicians from Chile to Mexico say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the lifespan of songs.  Even Bad Bunny isn't safe.

Bloomberg:
The stocks of Strategy copycats, companies buying crypto for their treasuries, are falling, as some struggle with little differentiation and rising volatility  —  It wasn't hard to see it coming.  The stocks had soared too fast, the promises had gotten too big, and the math had gotten too weird.

Financial Times:
How AlphaFold2 and the rise of generative AI kickstarted a new AI drug discovery boom after a spate of startups from the mid-2010s failed to live up to the hype  —  In the mid-2010s, a spate of start-ups hoping to transform the laborious process of finding new drugs launched with big promises.

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta's TBD Lab team sits in an area near Mark Zuckerberg's desk that needs special badge access and their names are not on the internal org chart  —  An influx of highly paid researchers has created new status divisions, even as some recent hires have already left their jobs