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A profile of Simile, which offers "agentic twins" modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/can-ai-r…

Ben Stiller voiced his anger at the White House‘s use of a clip from
Tropic Thunder to support its war initiative on Friday.
“Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip,” he wrote on social media.
“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. -- War is not a movie.”
The White House’s X account on Thursday published a montage of scenes from movies and TV shows including Tropic Thunder, Braveheart, Top Gun: Mav…

‘War Is Not a Movie’: Ben Stiller Claps Back at White House Propaganda Video
Ben Stiller has sounded off about a White House propaganda video about the war against Iran using a clip from 'Tropic Thunder.

Want answers 10X faster and 10X more accurate than LLMs? Use the DuckDuckGo CLI. I'm using that today to study for a cert. I had been using a number of LLMs but they are sooooo sloooooow.
#llm

Heute vor 27 Jahren: Am 8. Januar 1999 ereignete sich auf einem Schrottplatz in der #Türkei ein unerwarteter #Strahlungsunfall. Eine beschädigte Cobalt-60-Quelle führte zur schweren Bestrahlung von 5 Mitarbeitern. Die türkische Atomenergiebehörde (

This is a really good analysis of how #Labour became a right wing party.
I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in order to divert it from the

Pretty sure I just got my first AI-bot spam question about an item I have listed on eBay.
The account was from 2017 and had 0 feedback.
If you're a seller on eBay, I recommend not answering "weird" questions and immediately block the account via the buyer blocking feature. (https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/BuyerBlock)

An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned https://www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-was-banned-from-creating-wikipedia-articles-then-wrote-angry-blogs-about-being-banned/…

Angriff der KI-Schwärme: Wie simulierte Mehrheiten die Demokratie bedrohen
Ein Forschungsteam warnt vor koordinierten KI-Agenten, die durch vorgetäuschten Konsens und soziale Dynamiken die öffentliche Meinung manipulieren könnten.

Answering the dilemma of cycle lane versus shared space planning through an agent-based simulation experiment and accessibility equity analysis
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44327-026-00200-8

Answering the dilemma of cycle lane versus shared space planning through an agent-based simulation experiment and accessibility equity analysis - Discover Cities
This paper explores a vital dilemma about the future of urban road infrastructure: whether to dedicate space for each sustainable transport mode, such as m

A reporter writes about a visit from the FBI in 2020, following his story about a hack, and the long-term personal impact, along with eroding press freedoms (Zack Whittaker/~this week in security~)
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/fbi-ag

FBI agents visited my home about an article I wrote, and now I can't go to Mexico
Mexico formally requested the FBI's help in seeking answers about one of my stories. Having federal agents on my doorstep sparked my own years-long effort to pry information out of the FBI to explain why it came to my house to begin with.