Tootfinder

Ha good luck with that https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/114813445350914205

WhatsApp adds a new "safety overview" that appears in new group chats, including info on the group and when it was created, to help protect users from scams (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/718881/whatsapp-group-chat-scams-safety-ov…

WhatsApp will show a ‘safety overview’ before you join unknown group chats
WhatsApp is trying to combat group messaging scams by launching a new “safety overview” that appears before you can accept group chat invites from someone you might not know.

Nos reíamos de que Reagan preguntara a una vidente decisiones de política durante su presidencia. Pues en Suecia estšn con la versión 3.0 de consultar a un oršculo: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/chat-gpt-sw…

Kristersson, min gode herre – folk röstade inte på AI
#Kristersson

Kristersson, min gode herre – folk röstade inte på AI
Nästa gång kan han lika bra fråga en femåring på stan.

#WhatsApp slidet jetzt in eure DMs. 🥴
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10427116?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beit…

Let's Chat HR & Safety
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

@m7moudfamily@troet.cafe @… Hi, I am seeing lots of accounts for the same fundraiser on many servers. One of them – with hundreds of posts even though it joined a day ago – even linked to gaza-verified.org.
I don’t know which, if any, is the real one or whether there is a real one.
If you want to video chat with me and Joy from Gaza on Signal we can a…

Roblox to verify ages of all gamers who use chat and text features https://therecord.media/roblox-age-verification-text-chat-users-adults-children

The Lean project is looking for someone to work on a documentation tool for math/technical communication. This is likely to be very influential, so a chance for someone with the right skills to have great impact. See the announcement here:
https://

Public view of Lean | Zulip team chat
Browse the publicly accessible channels in Lean without logging in.

Reuters withdraws Xi and Putin's longevity chat video, after China state TV pulls legal permission to use it; the video was distributed to 1,000 media clients (Kenneth Li/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Forgetting for a moment you 2 chuckle fucks invaded DC w/the military just to have them add mulch to parks (that's your raising up warriors?!) but chess playing computer, Big Blue, beat human players not by trying to make the most winning move, but by making the move least likely to lose.
How about kegseth the Ax Tosser and the Bone Spur in Chief google the phrase "game theory" learn a thing or 2 and update the group chat from there, you dumb bastards.

Cat, I farted 5

CatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Meow meow meow
🙀 https://www.cat-gpt.com/chat/meow

Ich eben so dazu in einem Chat: »Das Wort »armutsbetroffen« versucht, mir einen Respekt vorzuspielen, aber es spielt so unterzeugend und mies, es könnte glatt bei ›Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten‹ mitspielen.«.

Happy to report I eventually found the arm64 port of #mobilizon AND found my own upgrade guide in their forum and @… is effortlessly upgraded to 5.1.5 now with our actual logo and a sensible default image. 😊
Yes, those are tiny noticeables, but it tells us the no-challenger¹ most promising #fediverse Event Org platform² is still alive, and that's good news ☺️
¹ some time ago someone here wanted to chat about an artist management Fediverse service but I got swept away (again)
² WP is also very good but lacking in the 'backstage' support.

More of this, please. (Spotted on Reddit.)
#HoesUnion

Excellent article by @… , a staff writer for Privacy Guides, on the risks of government overreach to privacy.
This section focuses on the issue of chat control:

Reminder for those on Bluesky!!
I will only see your interactions from Fedi if you follow this account: https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy

Bridgy Fed for the fediverse (@ap.brid.gy)
Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your Bluesky account to the fediverse, follow this account. To ask a fediverse user to bridge their account, send their address (eg @user@instance) to this account in a chat message.…

A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals GPT-5, available as gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, and gpt-5-chat with "major improvements" in reasoning, code, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/752091/openai-gpt-5-model-announceme…

OpenAI’s new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub
OpenAI’s GPT-5 announcement has been leaked early by GitHub. A now-deleted blog post reveals there are four GPT-5 model variants on the way.

Hop, Skip, and Overthink: Diagnosing Why Reasoning Models Fumble during Multi-Hop Analysis
Anushka Yadav, Isha Nalawade, Srujana Pillarichety, Yashwanth Babu, Reshmi Ghosh, Samyadeep Basu, Wenlong Zhao, Ali Nasaeh, Sriram Balasubramanian, Soundararajan Srinivasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04699

Hop, Skip, and Overthink: Diagnosing Why Reasoning Models Fumble during Multi-Hop Analysis
The emergence of reasoning models and their integration into practical AI chat bots has led to breakthroughs in solving advanced math, deep search, and extractive question answering problems that requires a complex and multi-step thought process. Yet, a complete understanding of why these models hallucinate more than general purpose language models is missing. In this investigative study, we systematicallyexplore reasoning failures of contemporary language models on multi-hop question answering…

A post from the archive 📫:
Building debugging context for Copilot Chat
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/building-debugging-context-for-copilot-chat

A Chat with the UnMute Disabled Artist Roster https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/24/a-chat-with-the-unmute-disabled-artist-roster/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_cont…

A Chat with the UnMute Disabled Artist Roster - Creating New Opportunities for Disabled Musicians
Creating New Opportunities for Disabled Musicians

A Human Centric Requirements Engineering Framework for Assessing Github Copilot Output
Soroush Heydari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03922 https://arxiv.org/p…

A Human Centric Requirements Engineering Framework for Assessing Github Copilot Output
The rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence(AI) programming assistants such as GitHub Copilot introduces new challenges in how these software tools address human needs. Many existing evaluation frameworks address technical aspects such as code correctness and efficiency, but often overlook crucial human factors that affect the successful integration of AI assistants in software development workflows. In this study, I analyzed GitHub Copilot's interaction with users through its chat interface,…

Van die momenten dat je altijd aan de veiligheid van een dienst gaat twijfelen.
(Overdaad schaadt.. 😇)

Prompt Injection Vulnerability of Consensus Generating Applications in Digital Democracy
Jairo Gudi\~no-Rosero, Cl\'ement Contet, Umberto Grandi, C\'esar A. Hidalgo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04281

Prompt Injection Vulnerability of Consensus Generating Applications in Digital Democracy
Large Language Models (LLMs) are gaining traction as a method to generate consensus statements and aggregate preferences in digital democracy experiments. Yet, LLMs may introduce critical vulnerabilities in these systems. Here, we explore the impact of prompt-injection attacks targeting consensus generating systems by introducing a four-dimensional taxonomy of attacks. We test these attacks using LLaMA 3.1 8B and Chat GPT 4.1 Nano finding the LLMs more vulnerable to criticism attacks -- attacks…

it's a 3½-hour drive home. we stopped at the chat n' chew in glennie for some homestyle cooking, no cap. home now.

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
#CelineDion #MyHeartWillGoOn

Bei dem ganzen KI-Gedöns würde ich ja denken, die perfekten und freien, sparsamen Modelle für Autokorrektur und OCR-Erkennung sollte da sein. So als quasi Kernkompetenz von LLMs. Aber hören und lesen tu ich hauptsächlich in Richtung "Chat"-Nutzung.

We have to fight with everything we have against the awful "Chat Control" proposal. It is very easy to explain why it is a very bad idea but because the subject is child abuse, everybody loses rational thinking capabilities it seems. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-contr…

Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.0 proposal in detail Changes proposed by the European Parliament

« Et si les livres nous apprenaient Š nous soucier des autres ? »
– « Le chat qui voulait sauver les livres » de Sôsuke Natsukawa, un joli petit roman japonais sur le pouvoir des livres. (Et un chat exceptionel.) #2025reads #BooksofMastodon

What Micah Parsons Texted His Cowboys Group Chat Amid Trade to Packers https://www.si.com/nfl/what-micah-parsons-texted-cowboys-group-chat-amid-packers-trade

heise | Chatten mit Tabs und KI: Das kann der neue Dia-Browser
The Browser Company erfindet den Browser neu – zum zweiten Mal. Nachdem Arc gescheitert ist, soll Dia das Surfen mit einem KI-Chat erleichtern. Eine gute Idee?

I'm going to make a bold prediction for kinds of future blog post titles you'll see in the next few years:
- I increased production performance 100x by ditching AI Agents
- I reduced my cloud bills 10x by coding algorithmically instead of using AI.
- I improved customer retention after abandoning my chat bot fantasies
Bookmark this post and send me posts from the future please. 🔮

May the Force be with me... and my stream! Firing up my Linux PC to stream Star Wars: The Old Republic tonight. Hope to see you in chat! #StarWarsTheOldRepublic #Streaming #Gaming

It is a fab CMS, if you want to chat about, reach out!
#statamic #laravel
https://mastodon.social/@statamic/1151

Statamic (@statamic@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Hard to argue with the logic! 😁

This is of course very bad, but I also found it funny. AI evangelists are suddenly privacy-aware and repeating this as a security risk. And it is. But the idea that using ChatGPT itself hasn’t always been a security risk is ridiculous to me.

TLDR: If you’ve ever used the share function on a ChatGPT chat, that full chat can be found via Google, viewable for anyone in the world.

https:…

#Anthropic plant, künftig neue #Chatverläufe und #Codingsitzungen zur Verbesserung seiner KI-Modelle zu nutzen-
Nutzer müssen nicht aktiv widersprechen. Die

Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts
Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including chat transcripts and coding sessions, and extending its data retention policy to five years for active users — unless users choose to opt out.

‘What Age Is Considered an Unc?’: Camp Chat With Jamal Adams and Elandon Roberts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF89CGgB5KQ

Thanks, dude. Appreciate you reaching out.

A IL de vez em quando acerta. É raro, é muito, muito raro, mas lš de onde a onde, naquela do relógio parado dar as horas certas duas vezes por dia, lš atingem o alvo.
https://ciberlandia.pt/@d3/115124470436660063

Olin yhteydessä DNA:n chattiin. Onneksi tarjosi mahdollisuuden keskustella ihmisen kanssa koska botti ei ollenkaan ymmärtänyt kysymystä. Mutta ei sekään pihan mennyt kuin Strömsöössä.
#asiakaspalvelu

Fight Chat Control – Protect Digital Privacy in the EU: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos.
The "Chat Control" proposal would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.
🇪🇺 https://

The words "bumbling incompetence" comes to mind.
☑️ ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time
https://www.404media.co/ice-adds-random-person-to-group-chat-exposes-details-of-manhunt-in-re…

ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time
The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copies of the messages obtained by 404 Media show.

I just scrolled through #Instagram - or to be precise: I tried to. Every second or third post that I saw was an ad. 😳
Instagram degrades to a chat contact in my case.

If you are a citizen of the EU and are concerned about government surveillance of our private chats, photographs and documents, it is important to take action before October. This tool: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ will easily enable you to draft an email to send to your MEPs.
Specifically,

@… @… @… Is the matrix chat down for y'all too?

ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time
https://www.404media.co/ice-adds-random-person-to-group-chat-exposes-details-of-manhunt-in-real-time/

say what's up to chat 💬 | @AmericanAirlines #DallasCowboys #NFL #chat #football

I wished I could disagree with this post but sadly I cannot. I had high hopes for Matrix and still use it but boy is it not fixing the core and conceptual issues.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-never-going-back-to-matrix/

I'm never going back to Matrix
I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea shanties! Let's join the future! The problem is - Matrix is shit. Not …

A really practical application of Gemini 2.5 flash image, is thinking about changing your interior, you can easily change the color of your furniture in images , add elements etc., really fun.
You can try it here, https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat

Hi everyone,
Today, I had a video chat with Mohammed from Gaza on Signal.
He is @… here on the fediverse.
He is 22 years old and is trying to keep his family and himself alive during Israel’s ongoing genocide and the resulting famine.
You can help him and his family survive by supporting his fundraiser:

No shelter, no safety - Help Mohammed survive genocide in Gaza
My name is Thomas and I live in France and in the UK. I'm hosting Mohammed's campaign because Palestinians cannot host their own campaigns. If you've got any questions or if you'd like any proofs, I'm happy to provide you with these. Please support! Peace ✌️

Claude Haiku 3.5 got web search now!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo AI Chat&ia=chat&duckai=1
How did this happen? I like that 1 more LLM got search but didn't expect it to be Claude whom I've found to be very strict in how you can …

Treatment, evidence, imitation, and chat
Samuel J. Weisenthal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23040 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23040

Treatment, evidence, imitation, and chat
Large language models are thought to have potential to aid in medical decision making. We investigate this here. We start with the treatment problem, the patient's core medical decision-making task, which is solved in collaboration with a healthcare provider. We discuss approaches to solving the treatment problem, including -- within evidence-based medicine -- trials and observational data. We then discuss the chat problem, and how this differs from the treatment problem -- in particular as it …

Roblox restricts some features in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, including its in-game chat tool, and improves Arabic content moderation over child safety concerns (Leen Al-Rashdan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Just Chat
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Just found out that many chat apps (#Threema, #Signal, #Element, ...) (sometimes??) ignore trailing dashes as not part of the url, breaking the link 😑 Manually replacing that dash with - fixes this.

if you follow this account bluesky then remember to follow this bridge account so I can see your posts and stuff
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xbifsywyv5pka5jlknhv5yv3

That thing where a neighbour goes on a bit of an “anti-woke” grumble on the neighbourhood chat then asks for help the very next day…
#lgbtq

I just played my first couple of matches in Helldivers 2 (on PC), and it was a lot of fun! We were led by a guy who plays on PlayStation, and crossplay worked really well. No issues, no problems with voice chat. Everyone I met was really friendly.
#Helldivers2 #SteamSale

I thought I'd try out Open WebUI, so I installed it via pip. 20 minutes later we're at 8 gigabytes and compiling a bunch of code from scratch. Folks, it's just a simple chat-style web interface to LLM APIs. I'm wondering if the whole thing was coded by AIs who didn't care at all about footprint.

How to Make Museums More Interactive? Case Study of Artistic Chatbot
Filip J. Kucia, Bartosz Grabek, Szymon D. Trochimiak, Anna Wr\'oblewska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00572

How to Make Museums More Interactive? Case Study of Artistic Chatbot
Conversational agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized in educational settings, in particular in individual closed digital environments, yet their potential adoption in the physical learning environments like cultural heritage sites, museums, and art galleries remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we present Artistic Chatbot, a voice-to-voice RAG-powered chat system to support informal learning and enhance visitor engagement during a live art exhibition …

So linux is a cylinder. Let me see it's source code
https://mander.xyz/post/37040054

Sobre clientes XMPP, en Android he estado probando Monocles Chat, que a mi gusto tiene todo lo que una app de mensajería instantšnea requiere: multicuentas, cifrado e2e, envío de imšgenes, archivos, audios, llamadas y hasta permite importar stickers de signal. Ademšs tiene widgets/extensiones que permite agregar mas funciones como encuestas y algunos juegos.
Creo que es una app ideal para promover xmpp.
#XMPP

Tech billionaire Trump adviser
Marc Andreessen
recently said universities will
“pay the price” for promoting diversity and allegedly discriminating against Trump supporters,
according to messages he sent to a group chat with White House officials and technology leaders.

The billionaire’s messages cited Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University
and the National Science Foundation.

“I view Stanford and MIT as mainly political lobbying o…

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

This is such a devastatingly sad read for how "chat bots" are effectively exploiting people's loneliness: Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots
https://www.404media.co/inside-ai-addiction-support-groups-where-people-try-to-stop-talking-to-chatbots/

The EU (still) wants to scan
your private messages and photos
it’s not too late to act:
Reach out to your Representatives.
#chatcontrol #privacy #CSAM

Opt-out nötig: Anthropic nutzt künftig Nutzerdaten fürs Training
Anthropic führt Änderungen an seinen Nutzungsbedingungen ein: Chat-Protokolle und Coding-Sessions sollen künftig das KI-Modell Claude trainieren.

A Chat with the UnMute Disabled Artist Roster https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/24/a-chat-with-the-unmute-disabled-artist-roster/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=…

A Chat with the UnMute Disabled Artist Roster - Creating New Opportunities for Disabled Musicians
Creating New Opportunities for Disabled Musicians

tipp aus unserem uni-internen chat in sachen #KI: In der im heft 55 des magazins "#Erwachsenenbildung", "Künstliche Intelligenz und Erwachsenenbildung", gibt es praxisbeiträge zu generativen KI-tools in der

As for “but it's great for coding!“…
…world-wide there's about 3.6 billion jobs or so, of which ~25 million are in software development; this means maybe about 0.7% of all jobs world-wide can use "great for coding".
Writing actual code amounts to maybe, if you're lucky, 10% of the work a software developer does.
The rest is meetings, high-level specifications, email and chat, more meetings, learning new things, updating stuff, lots of testing and debugging, etc.
The gist is, the supposed gains from "AI" are completely irrelevant (and indeed there's signs and studies that show it doesn't do anything for programmer productivity either).
tl;dr: This is the worst economic bubble in history, pushing a dream of a magical technology that unfortunately doesn't work, by appealing to investor greed.

OpenAI says ChatGPT now offers "gentle reminders" to take breaks during long sessions, and it is building tools to better detect signs of emotional distress (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/chatgpt-will-n

ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT to remind users to take breaks if they chat with AI for a long period of time.

Pic 6: Jalen Tolbert making waves in WR battle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-jalen-tolbert-making-waves-in-wr-battle

LLMREI: Automating Requirements Elicitation Interviews with LLMs
Alexander Korn, Samuel Gorsch, Andreas Vogelsang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02564 https://…

LLMREI: Automating Requirements Elicitation Interviews with LLMs
Requirements elicitation interviews are crucial for gathering system requirements but heavily depend on skilled analysts, making them resource-intensive, susceptible to human biases, and prone to miscommunication. Recent advancements in Large Language Models present new opportunities for automating parts of this process. This study introduces LLMREI, a chat bot designed to conduct requirements elicitation interviews with minimal human intervention, aiming to reduce common interviewer errors and…

Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews in May 2024, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/chat

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

Had my talk on Small Web accepted at #why2025 but I hadn’t realised (my bad) that not only do you have to cover your own travel and accommodation but you also have to buy a ticket to speak. I’m sorry, as part of a tiny two-person not-for-profit working for the common good, I can’t afford to pay to speak at events. I’m not Deloitte. So I sadly had to withdraw my talk.
If any conferences do w…

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

I’ve noticed documentation sites doing this obnoxious thing where they implement a shortcut typically reserved for copying the URL (cmd shift C) and copy the text of the page into your clipboard for use in an LLM chat window.

Pic 6: Jalen Tolbert making waves in WR battle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-jalen-tolbert-making-waves-in-wr-battle

Mistral updates Le Chat with a memory feature for chats and an MCP connector directory supporting over 20 enterprise platforms, both available on its free plan (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-just-made-…

Time is On My Side: Dynamics of Talk-Time Sharing in Video-chat Conversations
Kaixiang Zhang, Justine Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20474

Time is On My Side: Dynamics of Talk-Time Sharing in Video-chat Conversations
An intrinsic aspect of every conversation is the way talk-time is shared between multiple speakers. Conversations can be balanced, with each speaker claiming a similar amount of talk-time, or imbalanced when one talks disproportionately. Such overall distributions are the consequence of continuous negotiations between the speakers throughout the conversation: who should be talking at every point in time, and for how long? In this work we introduce a computational framework for quantifying bot…

I emailed all 14 Irish MEP's regarding the "Chat Control" proposal.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ @…
I have received a grand total of 1 response (outs…

KI-Update: Chat GPT-5, KI-Übersetzer, KI und Unis, KI-Schuld, Nvidia und China
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Mistral adds new features to its Le Chat chatbot, including a new "deep research" mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/mistrals-…

Mistral's Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research' mode | TechCrunch
French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google. The new update includes a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing. 

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
#PaloAlto #CyberArk

Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/chat

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

Opt-out nötig: Anthropic nutzt künftig Nutzerdaten fürs Training
Anthropic führt Änderungen an seinen Nutzungsbedingungen ein: Chat-Protokolle und Coding-Sessions sollen künftig das KI-Modell Claude trainieren.

Happening right now in Gaza: Israel’s occupation force is expanding its ground offensive.
(Screenshot posted from private chat with permission.)
@…
#israel #genocide

Anthropics Claude bricht bei Gefahren Gespräche ab
"Claude hat den Chat verlassen" – Anthropics KI-Chatbot kann Gespräche dauerhaft beenden. Des eigenen Wohles wegen.
https://www.…

Uber Eats adds AI tools to generate for menu item descriptions, enhance food images, and more; it will pay customers in some countries for uploading food photos (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/716578/uber-eats-ai-menu-photo-descript…

Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews
Uber Eats is rolling out new live chat features, and using AI for menu descriptions, food photos, and review summaries.

"Roblox" schätzt Alter von Usern mithilfe von Gesichts-Scans
Um bestimmte Chat-Funktionen freizuschalten, müssen "Roblox"-Nutzer künftig ihr Alter verifizieren. Das übernimmt künftig ein Gesichts-Scan.

Microsoft begins testing a Windows 11 feature for sharing the entire desktop with Copilot Vision; it requires first entering a special mode in the Copilot app (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Microsoft begins testing sharing your desktop with Copilot on Windows 11 — allows AI to view and chat about what's on your screen
First announced earlier this year, sharing your desktop with Copilot on Windows 11 is now in testing with insiders across all preview channels.

Real-time text: Handynutzer können bald während des Telefonats chatten
Mit Real-time text können deutsche Handynutzer in allen Netzen ab dem 28. Juni während des Telefonierens chatten. Das soll die Barrierefreiheit verbessern.

Survey: when it comes to using AI as a companion to seek advice, flirt, or share deep conversations, ~75% of US teens say they've used AI this way at least once (Neda Ulaby/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/20/nx-s1-5471268/teens-ai-friends-chat-risks

Salesloft says hackers stole OAuth tokens from its Drift chat agent integration to conduct a Salesforce data theft campaign between August 8 and August 18 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu