The UN is warning people against saying please and thank you to AI chatbots because of water consumption (AI News)

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week defined by AI being pulled back rather than pushed forward, starting with the US government ordering Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals from its powerful Mythos model just days after its public release, citing national security, and what that might signal about AI becoming segregated along national lines. He covers new consumer trust data showing six in ten people are now put off by seeing the word AI in brand messaging, alongside a report finding 59% of a fresh TikTok account's For You feed is AI generated content, three times higher than YouTube, with categories featuring real people showing the lowest rates. He also breaks down the UN's warning against using pleasantries with AI chatbots due to water consumption, offering a cynical theory about who that messaging really benefits, plus MidJourney's surprising pivot into healthcare body scanning, a coalition of major publishers pushing for AI copyright accountability, and Facebook's new AI search mode pulling answers from real group discussions rather than generic web results. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.