2026-08-18 08:03:03
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/anthropic-merges-claude-chat-and-cowork-in-one-inte…
The Discord Server to fill that xterm-sized hole in your spirit:
https://discord.gg/rgN3yzHg8G
Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences, and adds programmatic ads (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/newsletter…
In one post, according to the US Attorney’s Office,
former women's track and field coach Steven Waithe wrote:
“Does anyone want to trade nudes?
I’m talking girls you actually know. Could be exes or whatever.
I have quite a few and [am] down to trade over snap[chat] or something.”
Legal documents do not name the sites on which Waithe distributed these images,
but Bellingcat found a cached version of a November 2020 post with that exact wording on Leake…
Microsoft macht IRC-Client Comic Chat zu Open Source
Microsofts IRC-Client aus den 90er-Jahren sollte den „Internet Relay Chat“ mit grafischen Elementen aufpeppen. Nun wird er Open Source.
https://www.
NFL Group Chat Fact Or Fiction: Giants Legit? Rams Not? Jalen Hurts For MVP? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/giants-legit-rams-fraud-packers-miss-playoffs-jalen-hurts-mvp
Wer von euch nutzt aktiv Delta Chat?
Und wer würde es gern nutzen, findet aber niemanden, der es ebenfalls nutzt?
Schreibt in die Antworten, wenn ihr andere zum Ausprobieren sucht.
Schreibt auch gern über postive oder negative persönliche Erfahrungen mit dem Messenger. Oder warum ihr es nicht nutzt.
#deltachat
Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/newsletter-platf…
EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “Our children lose out
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/
I've loaded the cannons, checked the sails, and made sure the ship isn't currently leaking. Time for more Windrose! Drop by the chat, grab a tankard of whatever you're drinking, and let's go hunt some booty. 🦜⚓
💻 Join the crew: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
Vier Gruppen enttarnt - Gewerkschaft räumt in grauslicher Chat-Affäre auf #News #Nachrichten
Holy heck - did anyone see this? It's from 2018, but I don't remember any other chat about it... I can't read the article, but the gist is clear: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/how-right-wi
For me this age of AI is the time we should appreciate less polished handwritten texts for their authenticity. I see this happening during selection of job applications.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026…
Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging "a hundred million people" from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-andy-yen-proto…
Roberta Metsola's actions are like those of a dictator.
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/
the EP DDoS mitigation team reached out to parltrack, our scraper is triggering them, we do 5.4k req/min ? which i find surprising, that is only possible if the requests are answered quickly by the EP - which means other than the content we are looking for. but amazing that they reached out and we can have a chat about this, am very happy, that they are not trigger happy and block blindly, asking kindly > shooting 1st! kudos <3
Anthropic hat die Keyword-Suche über alle Chats aus Claude Desktop entfernt. Jetzt kann man nur noch via Chat suchen (aka: Token für eine einfache Stichwortsuche verbraten) und auch das klappt nicht mehr über Projektgrenzen hinweg.
To the rescue: https://github.com/travishuff/chat-search
@… I generally don’t. I may share a link to my blog here, or in a private text chat with my spouse or friends, but only insofar as I think they’d genuinely be interested in reading that particular thing.
Writing is, by and large, an exercise I do *for* me. It doesn’t need to ever be read for me to achieve that benefit.
Noch einmal @… Chat eine Chance geben.
https://i.delta.chat/#BC8F7…
I like to shit on LLMs being promoted and companies always adding chat interfaces to their products. Yet I added it to my product due to user requests and I have to say I find it very useful. I am finding a single interface where I ask for things much easier to use than clicking tabs and reading things through to find what I was looking for. Now I kind of get it why everyone is transitioning to that mode.
The Emmys should have a twitch chat of just the celebs in the room scrolling on screen.
#emmys #emmyAwards
ChatGPT: Werbeeinblendungen kommen in weitere Länder
Werbung im eigenen Chat mit dem LLM: Das testet OpenAI gerade mit einem Teil der ChatGPT-Nutzer, auch Chatinhalte sollen einfließen.
https://www.
Amazon's chat system for undelivered-parcels lets you trigger a resend at 01:00am (I assume 00:00 UTC) a couple of days after your item was due. I don't think there are any couriers that deliver quite that late.
“Do you think emojis will ever become part of formal language? Are we going to see emojis in laws or letters from the pension fund?” - Emojis are mainly used in informal language, because (or that’s why?) one of their main functions is to signal closeness, familiarity and a lack of hierarchy between the conversation participants. This is also the reason why a lack of emojis from a personal chat message may trigger questions like “what have I done?!”, because it could signal that the friendly relationship is disturbed. So I think emojis wouldn’t be used in legal code. But in official letters, maybe! I once received an email from a university administrator with a ☺️ and I appreciated it a lot.
#emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
I wrote to our EU representatives outlining why I am angry that chat control is getting yet another attempt to make it into legislation when it has already been rejected several times. Age verification is on the menu too 🤮
If you live in the EU, write to your MEP before 29 June and tell them why Chat Control (mass scanning of personal messages) is unsuited to protect anyone online, let alone minors:
Una pšgina muy interesante para leer... #noChatControl #chatControl #ExitChatControl
Desperate search for kicker story today led me to the Fark semi-live-blog/comments/chat of Connor Storrie's Saturday Night Live episode. Made me laugh my butts off. Plenty of sense of "This Storrie kid is good, hope we see more of him." #HeatedRivalry https://
Looking forward to seeing many wonderful folks at #EMFCamp ☀️ I'll be hosting:
🌎️ ClimateAction.tech meetup: 4pm Friday
🛠️ Chat about maintaining things: 11.15am Saturday
& i'll be at the 💻️ Society for Hopeful technologists meetup on Sunday. 🌳 I'll be prioritising people all weekend, so message me if you don't see me, and let's meet up!
Claude nun auch im Auto via CarPlay nutzbar
Noch eine Chat-App auf vier Rädern: Nach ChatGPT, Grok und Perplexitiy kommt nun auch die Anthropic-KI in CarPlay-Fahrzeuge.
https://www.heise.de/news/Cl…
Closing the floating action button for the LLM chat to reveal and close the floating action button for the accessibility overlay to reveal and close the floating action button for the shopping cart to reveal the floating action button for the original chat feature.
FAB archeology.
"The chat box can't be it" - We've given up 'doing' for 'pleading' as we sacrifice it on the altar of the chat box.
https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2026/06/21/the-chat-box-cant-be-it.html (a short blog post)
Conjecture: Human #qualia are not (so much) linked to relational structures, symmetries, sensorimotor invariants etc within perceptual content, but rather linked to a small set of specific discrete brainwave constellations evoked by the perceptual input. The idea is that the brain supports a small set of brainwave "resonant modes", and perceptual (or even imagined) content thrown at the brain ma…
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
The feds have returned to Black Hat/DEFCON
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260716737340/en/Black-Hat-USA-2026-Keynotes-to-Address-AIs-Impact-on-Cyber-Operations…
Vor ein paar Monaten Chat-Unterhaltung zu $THEMA. Gesprächspartner schickt mir einen Link zu einer Antwort, die er zum Thema von Google bekommen hat. Google AI. Wollte das heute nochmal nachlesen: natürlich „link invalid“. Gnah!
Experimented with Vercel AI Elements and AG-UI to make a custom AI Chat Interface fronting my own Harness.
These component libraries are great and really helps to make something that looks proper and modern.
Short video here https://youtu.be/Wr_-Rlj5R6c
Heading back into the tenth world today! Time to gather materials, expand the base, and try not to get sniped by a Deathsquito. 🪵🛡️
Streaming some live #Valheim action now—come hang out and chat!
💬 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
Zoomies! | Marathon Season 2 - Part 13! | !fursona !carrd playing Marathon. Check out my stream at https://www.twitch.tv/vincenthayes!
Spotify testet KI-Chatbot „Talk to Spotify“
Mit „Talk to Spotify“ lässt sich per Chat Musik steuern und die eigene Hörhistorie erfragen. Die Beta läuft ohne deutsche Nutzer.
https://www.heise.de/news…
It’s so funny that grown-ass Very Intelligent™ men believe the chat box is thinking about what they’re telling it to do
"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html
For those that don't know, I help run a large women in technology chat group on Slack. It's been going for 11 years now! (ask me for an invite if you want one and that's appropriate!)
It has deeply shaped how I think about technology, especially the social side. There is so much embodied knowledge in that community, it's amazing. And it's also such a window into how much the mainstream of technology writing is dominated by men. We talk about it differently! We're much more likely to be critical, and to be critical of the _structures_ in tech. Sometimes that comes off as kneejerk "Ugh BRIAN!" to some of the bullshit men to do women in the workplace, but also embedded underneath is an understanding of rarely-mapped power structures in the field. So much advice out there is written assuming that there is no dissent, no silent frustration, no quiet abandoning the job when the pressures are unresolved. And so much of the tech world, press and on social media alike, has no insight that this attrition even happens.
Women, collectively, though, understand it. We notice the patterns of promotions. We understand the way that if we're in our 40s, we're rather likely to have a manager who is a decade younger than we are, with no particular experience. We notice when men are lauded for spending time with their family instead of work on occasion, but women are expected to be present at all times and rarely seen positively for doing the exact same things.
And yet, any given instance is always shrouded in deniability. The pattern generally holds, but is this one my fault? Do I not measure up? Or is it sexism?
That's what these structures rob from us: we never have the clarity in feedback that it is accurate, that is us that must change. When we stick to our guns, are we being obstinate, or are we correct? That information is denied to us by sexism. It only becomes clear in aggregate, and even then it is very hard to find action to take on it except to acknowledge it and move on.
I don't think people talk about that ambiguity enough: we're always looking for the clear sexism, the man speaking over the women, the trading sexual favors for advancement, the clear pattern of pet-to-threat that so many women experience as they age or gain skill in the field. But the bulk of sexism that we experience is in the structural poisoning of feedback.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/116889732321089577
“What changes with the return of Chat Control 1.0—and what stays the same:
• What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or pri…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Anouar Brahem & Anouar Brahem:
🎵 Le pas du chat noir
#AnouarBrahem
https://open.spotify.com/track/06KoWveyWUuK1BGVU4a0Es
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/113317225077667762
"‘Quiet public’ leaves the chat." 🤔🤔🤔
Customer service/info?
I have never once, not one single time, been able to solve a problem or get the information I am looking for from a chat bot.
Just A Giant Waste Of Time.
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
«Verschlüsselt, aber falsch — Gruppenchats anfällig für manipulierte Inhalte:
Alle Mitglieder eines Gruppenchats sollten dieselben Inhalte sehen. Die üblichen Chat-Dienste stellen das nicht sicher. Das ist riskant»
Hach ja, verschlüsselt ist nicht gleich anonym oder gar geheim unter sich & verschlüsselt ist auch nicht sogleich signiert (ja nach Fall nötig).
🔓
RE: #ChatControl
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@flup/117245951831507868
I hate hate hate companies messaging on WhatsApp instead of texting. I should be free to ignore WA messages until I have time for whatever non-vital chat is waiting there. Providing a phone number for updates i…
Walking into the vet on Austin St and overheard two people passing by saying "it's a shame it's so car-centric here.."
If I had more time I'd have stopped to chat about the #OpenStreet and #NeighborsForASaferAustinSt !
Chat from support: This is about your incident 12345678
Me: yes?
— silence —
Email, two hours later: we tried to contact you, but you were unavailable.
😡🤪🤬
CVS/caremark rep put me on hold and went to call the pharmacy. Every couple of minutes he comes back to tell me his position in the queue, thank me for staying connected, and chit chat for a second before going back to the pharmacy hold. Dude, just stay on the other line!
Goed om op intranet te lezen dat Chatbot vlam-chat live is als dienst per 1 juli binnen de Rijksoverheid.
Vlam-chat is een lokaal gehoste AI-chatassistent ontwikkeld door SSC-ICT voor de Rijksoverheid. Vlam-chat maakt gebruik van het taalmodel Mistral Medium 3 en is gebouwd met opensource-software.
#AI #Rijksoverheid
Oskar et les haricots verts, une grande histoire d'amour... #caturday
Many BCI companies use the narrative that if you create fancy technology you will get fancy clinical results #BCI
Hitler-Bilder und Co. - „Jeden Sch*** posten“: Wieder Chat-Skandal bei GPA #News #Nachrichten
Memo: Alexandr Wang says Meta is switching from Google Chat to Slack for internal communications as Slack is the "strongest platform available today for agents" (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-switching-from-google-…
Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/char
Subtember continues! | Monument of Triumph - Part 13! | !fursona !carrd playing Destiny 2. Check out my stream at https://www.twitch.tv/vincenthayes!
Ooooh…
Open-UI: #1472 [focuslandmark] No declarative way to move keyboard focus between major page regions
https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1472
Focus Landmark: declarative landmark focus navigation for web apps (explainer):
The Justice Department is sitting on 47,000 pages of documents and 960 video and audio files pulled from body cameras, dash cameras and drones.
The July 1 arraignment court hearing was really about the nearly 16 terabytes of Signal data.
(A terabyte is approximately 500 hours of HD video or 6.5 million text document pages.)
Prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge David Schultz for an extra
👉 three months before turning over chat logs to lawyers representing the proteste…
AIS.chat: Sachsen-Anhalt setzt KI-Chatbot an Schulen ein
Sachsen-Anhalt stattet seine Schulen mit dem KI-Chatbot AIS.chat – vormals Telli – aus. Der Chatbot soll KI-Kompetenzen vermitteln helfen.
https://www.…
Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/char
Chat Control 1.0 has passed, a shameful affair, literally every scientist or expert can explain why this is a bad idea. The next step is clear , everybody should move to E2EE applications where possible. Also check if the provider uses opensource, is transparant.
#chatcontrol #eu
Porno-Witze, Rassismus - Grauslicher Chat-Skandal erschüttert Gewerkschaft #News #Nachrichten
Crayon eater runner moves | Marathon Season 2 - Part 4! | !fursona !carrd playing Marathon. Check out my stream at https://www.twitch.tv/vincenthayes!
Bill Simmons is facing backlash for using OpenAI's ChatGPT to simulate film reviews from the late critic Roger Ebert on his podcast; OpenAI runs ads on the show (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…
KI-Update kompakt: Computer History, OpenAI Jalapeño, Militär-KI, AIS.Chat
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-st
Big Blue time? | Monument of Triumph - Part 4! | !fursona !carrd playing Destiny 2. Check out my stream at https://www.twitch.tv/vincenthayes!
OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x for individual users (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/25/ope…
Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-claude-and-cowork-share-memories-now-unles…
FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its use in April 2025, raising federal recordkeeping concerns (The Atlantic)
…
OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windows under a new ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to switch between Codex, Chat, and Work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/09/openai-announcing-the-next-chapter-for-ch…
Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/990267/microsoft-openai-new-york-time…
Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a new company tentatively named KakaoAI, which it expects to relist in Korea in 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kakao-sp…