AI Fear & Greed Index
> Track the emotional sentiment of artificial intelligence news and community opinion. Get insights into market psychology and AI development trends.
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30-day trend, topic mix, story drivers, company mentions, and workforce impact signals.
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2026-04-30 to 2026-05-29
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The Infrastructure Behind Making Local LLM Agents Actually Useful
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
Claude’s new model is more ‘honest’ when it messes up
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
Most AI Agents Fail in Production Because They’re Built Backwards
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
A product, feature, app, device, or user-facing tool is the news hook.
Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
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Claude’s new model is more ‘honest’ when it messes up
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A $2,000 AI-generated film will make its debut at Tribeca
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Nvidia bets $150B on Taiwan as Trump's plan to make US an AI hub backfires
Nvidia will invest $150 billion a year to make Taiwan an AI “epicenter.”
YouTube to begin automatically labeling AI videos
AI videos that are animated, unrealistic, or only have a little AI may still hide their origins, though.
US law enforcement warns of "anti-tech extremism" as AI hatred grows
The feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat.
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Vertu Is Back With a Folding Phone Powered by—Surprise—an AI Agent
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Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill
The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.
Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
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Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien
The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.
Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation
Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley.
What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI
In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.
EmoNet: Speaker-Aware Transformers for Emotion Recognition — and What I’d Build Differently in 2026
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The Infrastructure Behind Making Local LLM Agents Actually Useful
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Why AI Still Can’t Solve Your Real Mathematical Optimization Problem
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DiffuJudge-AV: A Diffusion-Inspired Framework for Calibrated AV Video Evaluation
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Most AI Agents Fail in Production Because They’re Built Backwards
Good models don't save bad architecture, and most teams learn that the hard way. The post Most AI Agents Fail in Production Because They’re Built Backwards appeared first on Towards Data Science.
How Ferrari bungled the design of its first EV
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How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment
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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.
Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri
As Apple tries to shrink Gemini for the iPhone, a cloud component is probably inevitable.
Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law
Here’s why Anthropic and OpenAI are on board with Illinois safety testing.
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.
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RAG Is Burning Money — I Built a Cost Control Layer to Fix It
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