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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-16 05:35:58

Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
econom…

@jtk@infosec.exchange
2026-02-14 02:24:55

Recall the case of Indiana University Bloomington computer science professor XiaoFeng Wang who was abruptly terminated from the university along with this wife, and had his two homes searched by the FBI. The case is ongoing.
He is a co-author of a recently submitted report dated January 23, 2026 entitled "Trojans in Artificial Intelligence", for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the depa…

@deabigt@universeodon.com
2026-03-15 23:30:36

Yet another example of someone trying to get AI to do their work for them instead of helping them be more productive.
ACLU says police need to put in more work to their investigations instead of just relying on artificial intelligence ground.news/article/aclu-says-

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-14 20:36:08

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI (Victor Tangermann/Futurism)
futurism.com/artificial-intell
memeorandum.com/260314/p58#a26

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-15 12:10:56

Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication (New York Times)
nytimes.com/int…

In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a memo to staffthat the company was making a hard pivot to AI — years before the word “slop” was added to the public lexicon.
In the memo, which was published roughly two months after OpenAI unveiled its groundbreaking ChatGPT chatbot, Peretti said BuzzFeed would be using the software to enhance the company’s infamous quizzes by generating personalized responses.
The company’s stock price jumped aggressively, from around $3 …

@Xavier@infosec.exchange
2026-04-15 15:44:39

"The sycophantic (flattering, people-pleasing, affirming) behavior of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, which has been designed to increase user engagement, poses risks as people increasingly seek advice about interpersonal dilemmas. There is usually more than one side to a story during interpersonal conflicts. If AI is designed to tell users what they want to hear instead of challenging their perspectives, then are such systems likely to motivate people to accept responsibility fo…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-04-15 14:01:19

Google plans to replace Dynamic Search Ads with AI Max for Search, an AI tool that uses advertiser context, landing pages, and keywords, for all advertisers (Laurie Sullivan/MediaPost)
mediapost.com/publications/art

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-03-12 16:23:48

‘Exploit every vulnerability’: rogue AI agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software
theguardian.com/technology/ng-

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-11 11:34:34

'It's the new frontier': How AI is pushing NFL draft prep to 'a different level' espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/484467

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-02-13 18:35:08

AI Fails at 96% of Jobs (New Study)
Artificial intelligence has been hailed as one of the most transformative technologies of the century. That may be so, but just not yet. In this episode, we take a look at a study that pits humans directly against AI for paid work. The results were surprising.
📺 youtube.com/watch…

As of a month ago, half of xAI’s founding team of 12 individuals had resigned.
As of today, that number has grown to nine, meaning that a mere three are left, as Bloomberg points out.
In the face of it all, Musk is admitting that the company is in deep trouble
— and in need of a deep overhaul

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-13 16:46:00

Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google" and overstating its "run rate by roughly $8B" (Hayden Field/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-04-14 16:36:01

Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence
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updated: Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pmfull name / name of organization: 5th World Congress on…
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@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2026-04-13 19:05:59

In Salt Lake City, we already have the existential crisis of the drying #GreatSaltLake. Why not radiate the remaining water, too?
sltrib.com/news/2026/04/13/pus

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-04-09 04:58:04

Google's AI overviews give wrong answers 9% of the time (1.25 billion times a day), and in over half of the cases point to websites that don't actually support the answer given.
futurism.com/artificial-intell

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-02-13 15:37:02

⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!
techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-13 19:40:53

Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@peter_mcmahan@mas.to
2026-02-12 14:21:36

Me, in my fedi-hole: It seems like the tide is finally shifting and academics are rejecting GenAI.
Academics in my work email: Join the revolution! Produce more papers faster with AI! This is Science!
#genai #science #academia

Screenshot of an email reading:
"Dear colleagues,


Are you ready to move beyond basic ChatGPT and harness the true power of Artificial Intelligence for your research and coding?


I'm excited to invite you to register for our workshop at [redacted]: “Artificial Intelligence for the Scientist in a Hurry.”


In this rapidly evolving AI landscape, this workshop is your fast track to practical AI literacy. We’ll cut through the hype and show you real, actionable examples for researchers …

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 
— an inflection point in the race to develop ever more powerful forms of artificial intelligence
— developers have been scouring the United States for places to build the giant computing clusters needed to scale up the technology.
Located nine miles northeast of the city of Scranton, and home to about 7,500 people,
Archbald PA is facing plans to build five data center complexes across six sites, making it one of the most …

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-04-06 14:50:57

My department is looking to hire a professor of practice in CS, with a focus on AI. Job posting below. If you have questions I'll do my best to answer them, else find someone who can! We are in Providence, easy commute access from Boston.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-04-08 09:08:01

“Teachers who use AI ‘will replace those who don’t’, the chair of the Oireachtas committee on artificial intelligence has warned.
Fianna Fšil TD Malcolm Byrne said he was worried Ireland was at risk of falling behind in discussions around how AI can be ‘responsibly integrated into our formal education system.’”
Fianna Fšil TD Malcolm Byrne is a fool who doesn’t have the first clue about what he’s taking about.

@veit@mastodon.social
2026-03-12 10:04:31

The German Research Association (@…) has established binding framework conditions for the use of AI. The aim is to ensure the legally compliant and transparent use of AI, taking technological developments into account while maintaining scientific integrity:

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-11 19:25:52

Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions "inspired by" real writers without permission, after backlash (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-10 19:26:57

Researchers warn of AI, data centers’ water impact - Route Fifty
route-fifty.com/artificial-int

Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to kidnap Nicolšs Maduro from Venezuela,
a high-profile example of how the US defence department is using artificial intelligence in its operations.
The US raid on Venezuela involved bombing across the capital, Caracas, and the killing of 83 people, according to Venezuela’s defence ministry.
Anthropic’s terms of use prohibit the use of Claude for violent ends, for the development o…

@marjolica@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-09 17:28:28

Good news for once, at least if you're British.
"OpenAI shelves Stargate UK in blow to Britain’s AI ambitions
Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation for putting landmark project on hold"
theguardian.co…

@kctipton@mas.to
2026-03-13 05:38:43

Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history | New Scientist newscientist.com/article/25185

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-04-14 16:36:00

Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence
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updated: Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pmfull name / name of organization: 5th World Congress on…
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@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-07 16:43:38

L'Iran minaccia il data center Stargate di OpenAI ad Abu Dhabi.
Un video diffuso dal Corpo delle Guardie Rivoluzionarie Islamiche iraniane suggerisce che, qualora gli Stati Uniti attaccassero le sue centrali elettriche, prenderanno di mira il data center che OpenAI intende costruire.
@…

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-03-02 13:31:09

bleepingcomputer.com/news/arti

@hynek@mastodon.social
2026-03-03 09:13:05

slop consequences 🥹
I have no illusions that there's gonna be any once slop code does harm, tho. After all, companies got away with all kinds for hand-crafted, artisanal negligence for decades.
futurism.com/artificial-intell

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-03-14 15:00:50

"Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash"
#AI #xAI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-02-11 08:16:18

"Hope in the Library: How Libraries Can Help Shape Our Future with Artificial Intelligence"
doi.org/10.5040/9798765136201
[leider closed access und für "einfach mal bestellen" zu teuer. 🙄]

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-02-02 15:02:18

The "prove you're not human" challenge?
What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots
theguardian.com/technology/202

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-02-02 15:02:18

The "prove you're not human" challenge?
What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots
theguardian.com/technology/202

@samvarma@fosstodon.org
2026-04-07 04:19:18

Seriously considering trying this, for all my voiced text input. Definitely my work reports.
If only I trusted google. At all. @…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-03 22:14:12

Blind users of Meta glasses beware: Meta workers say they're seeing disturbing things through users' smart glasses futurism.com/artificial-intell

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-04-06 19:20:15

Claude Mythos Wake-Up Call: What AI Vulnerability Discovery Means for Cyber Defense – Check Point
<blog.checkpoint.com/artificial

@nohillside@smnn.ch
2026-03-10 21:09:05

What a surprise 😂
OpenAI Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle - Slashdot developers.slashdot.org/story/

Words I did not enjoy reading this week, from a leading artificial intelligence company:
“During our testing, we found that Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so.”

@stephane_klein@social.coop
2026-03-12 00:06:25

« Ma cartographie de l'écosystème LLM de mars 2026 »
#LLM

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-11 19:26:06

Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions "inspired by" real writers without permission, after backlash (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@mia@hcommons.social
2026-04-09 12:44:45

Jisc report: 'Student perceptions of AI 2025' jisc.ac.uk/reports/student-per
'A report on how students view artificial intelligence, how they are using it, and their concerns and hopes, based on conversations with…

@ocrampal@mastodon.social
2026-02-08 10:39:19

AGI is Our Generation's Alchemy, And We're Too Arrogant to Admit It
The AI industry has a dirty secret: we're building toward Artificial General Intelligence without the faintest consensus on what intelligence actually is.
ocrampal.com/from-sophi…

@johl@mastodon.xyz
2026-04-06 12:50:21

Last month, I was in Vienna to talk about #Wikipedia and AI (and #Wikidata, #AbstractWikipedia, and the Wikidata Embedding Project). It took me some time, but I have now written down most of my talk…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-11 10:11:00

Anthropic debuts Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark combining its societal impacts, red team, and economic research teams (Hayden Field/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-02-09 03:34:19

I have never seen a more tone deaf TV advertisement than the #Amazon Artificial Intelligence, "I COULD KILL YOU HUMAN LET ME VISUALIZE THE WAYS YOU COULD DIE AT MY HAND".
Maybe drawing attention - any attention - to their poorly adopted AI was their intent, but DAMN, that was cringeworthy.

@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
2026-01-29 15:11:04

I hate to state the obvious, but your biggest advantage in the current job market is showing up and being human, imperfections and all.
Your goal is to connect with the human(s) on the other side.
If you're trying to game the system by regurgitating ChatGPT responses as your own, you've already surrendered your edge.

It was not so long ago that working with the military on potentially harmful technology was seen as a red line for many big tech workers.
In 2018, thousands of #Google employees launched a protest against a program to analyze drone footage for the DoD called #Project

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-12 07:11:08

How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's "half-baked" tools are creating more work (Varsha Bansal/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/technology/ng-

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-04-09 06:35:51

Q&A with Jeremy Caplan, a journalism teacher and author of a newsletter about digital tools for journalism, on the potential of AI, its limits, and its dangers (Carolina Abbott Galvão/Columbia Journalism Review)
cjr.org/the-interview/jeremy-c

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-02-09 07:05:22

Artificial intelligence — Moltbook was peak AI theater
The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.
🤖 technologyreview.com/2026/02/0

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-07 22:21:12

Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
futurism.com/artificial-intell
memeorandum.com/260307/p54#a26

@mia@hcommons.social
2026-02-23 12:17:27

The LIBER AI Taskforce has launched a series of short seminars! Friday's first seminar is very much a listening exercise to learn where European research libraries are with AI in libraries from participants libereurope.eu/article/liber-l

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-04-03 08:42:41

This resonates: «Generative models are fundamentally cliche machines. If you ask AI to write a film script, it will produce an average film script masterfully. If you ask it to write an essay, it will produce an average essay masterfully.
Once upon a time, mastery of the banal was adequate for writers. It was enough to prove that you were capable of writing. But that skill has no purpose any more – it can be automated. Skill will be found in the purpose of the work. What can you alone …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-13 17:06:18

Elon Musk says xAI "was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up" (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
electrek.co/2026/03/13/elon-mu

OpenAI’s newly appointed revenue chief, Denise Dresser,
sent a memo to staffers on Sunday, touting the company’s alliance with Amazon as a key growth driver for its enterprise business,
🔸while noting the constraints of its long-standing tie-up with Microsoft.
Dresser’s memo lands less than two months after Amazon announced plans to invest up to
⭐️$50 billion in OpenAI as part of a strategic partnership.
Microsoft, Amazon’s top cloud computing rival, has investe…

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-03-08 20:56:56

"A dancing bear, a colleague, or a sharpened toolbox? The cautious adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies in digital humanities research"
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.co

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-05 09:05:58

Four Nieman Fellow alumni discuss the potential of AI in journalism, offering varied opinions on its value for writing, sorting data, creating images, and more (Nieman Reports)
niemanreports.org/ai-research-

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-13 12:51:36

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says the Microsoft deal "limited our ability" to reach clients on Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/04/13/openai-tou

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-09 13:50:29

This Year’s Super Bowl Ads Were Dominated by AI Companies nytimes.com/2026/02/09/busines

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-03-07 06:16:14

Oh no
The Pentagon named Gavin Kliger, a computer scientist who has amplified white supremacists and misogynists online, as its new Chief Data Officer, placing him at the heart of the Department’s ambitious artificial intelligence initiatives.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-11 06:01:47

Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (The Economic Times)
economi…

Workers’ pay is increasingly shaped by opaque algorithms and artificial intelligence systems,
shifting compensation decisions away from human managers, clear legal standards, and collective bargaining.
This phenomenon
—known as algorithmic wage discrimination1 or surveillance pay
—was first documented in app-controlled ride-hail and food-delivery work.
Now, it is spreading to a range of other industries and services.
Surveillance wages are being offered …

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-25 21:20:59

Chinese National and Two U.S. Citizens Charged with Conspiring to Smuggle Artificial Intelligence Technology to China (US Department of Justice)
justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-nat
memeorandum.com/260325/p109#a2

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-03 11:35:45

Source: Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after his February 13 story had AI-fabricated quotes; Edwards admitted to using Claude and ChatGPT (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
futurism.com/artificial-intell

There are a couple of other tricks you could try if have any doubts that the voice you are conversing with might not be human.
You could, for example, ask it to scream.
Many Al-voice programs struggle to speak outside the normal range, unless they have been specifically trained to, said Nicoletti.
I asked ChatGPT to do it and it told me it couldn't.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-10 08:46:03

Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on "red envelope" freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
asia.nikkei.com/business/tech…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-13 08:30:48

For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive (Andy Kemp/Gallup)
gallup.com/workplace/704225/ri

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-12 22:06:18

A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/04/12/technol

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-12 23:51:27

Sources: Meta delayed the launch of its Avocado model to at least May over performance concerns and discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power its products (Eli Tan/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technol

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-12 20:21:16

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after a successor is named; he became CEO in 2007 and will remain as chair of the board; ADBE drops 6% after hours (CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/03/12/adobe-ceo-

Chinese firms
— some with links to the People’s Liberation Army
— marrying artificial intelligence with open-source data
to market information they claim can “expose” the movements of U.S. forces.

Beijing has sought to distance itself from any direct involvement in the Iran war, but the firms
— many of which have emerged in the past five years as part of the government’s push to harness private AI for military use
— are capitalizing on the conflict.

U.S. …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-08 06:35:54

RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation (Nikkei Asia)
asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-05 18:08:55

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 that it says is its "most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work" and first with native computer use capabilities (Emma Roth/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-05 14:12:17

OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, available to select customers (Robert Hart/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

The Trump administration is planning to
👉use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations,
according to U.S. Department of Transportation records
and interviews with six agency staffers.
The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI’s “potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings,”
agency attorney Daniel Cohen wrote to colleagues.
The demonstration, Cohen wrote, would showcase “exciting new AI to…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-11 21:26:08

Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ant

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-11 22:36:07

Source: Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease hundreds of MWs of data center capacity in Abilene, TX, after Oracle abandoned its expansion plans at the site (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/mi

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-12 01:06:07

Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investment in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M-$236M in charges (CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/03/11/atlassian-

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-03 21:01:45

Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications (Robert Hart/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

OpenAI is amending its hastily arranged deal to supply artificial intelligence to the US Department of War (DoW) after the ChatGPT owner’s chief executive admitted it looked 🔸“opportunistic and sloppy”.
The contract prompted fears the San Francisco startup’s AI could be used for ♦️domestic mass surveillance but its boss, Sam Altman, said on Monday night the startup would explicitly bar its technology from being used for that purpose
or being deployed by defence department intelli…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-02 18:36:35

Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-02 14:45:47

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-05 06:01:40

According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only" and "Don't rely on Copilot for important advice" (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-11 05:21:10

Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
reuters.com/technology/applied

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-10 06:01:17

How AI may disrupt venture capital, from making it easier and cheaper to start software companies, to agentic investors analyzing startup pitch decks and teams (Arielle Pardes/Wired)
wired.com/story/ai-kill-ventur

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-09 10:30:38

A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly (Callie Holtermann/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/g

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-10 00:26:43

Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/sp

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-26 15:45:41

Sources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule (Jesse Coburn/ProPublica)
propublica.org/article/trump-a

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-26 14:35:56

Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for "friendliness" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-08 10:35:53

Anthropic's Mythos Preview is not a publicity stunt, and sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security (Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-26 13:20:48

The European Parliament votes to delay EU AI Act deadlines, including pushing compliance for high-risk AI systems back to December 2027, and to ban nudify apps (Robert Hart/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-24 07:20:49

A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-06 22:25:40

Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/04/06/broadcom-a

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-22 11:20:36

Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800 creatives launch "Stealing Isn't Innovation" to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others (Mia Sato/The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int