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Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
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They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

NYT: They asked an A.I. chatbot questions. The answers sent them spiraling. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html (archived at

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

Kinda cool to see the programme for the UN's open source week... https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/content/open-source-week-2025 but, of course, it's already almost entirely co-opted by corporate interests. They shit on ev…

Corruption & incompetence all in one!
Amtrak brings in Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" company to reassess plan for building new Northeast Corridor rail tunnel in Baltimore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12…

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project
The Federal Railroad Administration has brought in the tunneling company to see if it could help with a multibillion-dollar rail project.

Die „One Big Beautiful Bill“ will US-Bundesstaaten zehn Jahre lang jegliche KI-Regulierung verbieten. Laut FAZ ist das ein Freifahrtschein für Big Tech – Verbraucherrechte und Datenschutz bleiben auf der Strecke. Kritiker warnen vor Machtmissbrauch und Kontrollverlust #FAZ (€) #KI

Technologiebranche unter Trump: Zehn Jahre keine KI-Regulierung?
Trumps geplantes Steuergesetz enthält auch ein Moratorium für KI-Vorschriften in den USA. Demnach dürfte es in den USA kaum Regulierung auf dem Gebiet der Künstlichen Intelligenz geben. Doch es bildet sich Widerstand.

I read this press release and I think the only thing I found interesting was the bit about improved accessibility...
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/

Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers to foster creativity, innovation, and design
Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.

A look at Amsterdam's failed experiment to create a fair welfare AI system that would evaluate every welfare applicant in the city for potential fraud (MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/1

Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI
The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?

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TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

TSMC opens a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo, the company's first with a university outside Taiwan, expanding a relationship that began in 2019 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology…

Taiwan chip titan TSMC opens joint lab with University of Tokyo
Chipmaker 'definitely' committed to Japan despite huge US investment, says executive