@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/09/trump-administration-ai-p…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioGenerative AI can’t magically reveal otherwise unknown truths. AI doesn’t have any idea what the lower half of the killer’s face looks, no more than my students knew what my unmasked face looked like.
What AI •can• do is generate a random plausible face that really looks like a face. It might even look like the face of a real person — a random, innocent person.
Sharing AI-generated unmasking photos is dangerous.
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@ErikJonker@mastodon.social“4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory, we believe that Claude Code will be 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026. While you blinked, AI consumed all of software development.”
Must-read article, even if you can disagree with the analysis
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI think that one thing that kicked "being an AI thought leader" into higher gear than what happened with "the cloud" or whatnot is that to be an "AI expert" you literally don't have to know or be capable of anything.
@matthiasott@mastodon.social“The actor achieved what we believe is the first documented case of a cyberattack largely executed without human intervention at scale—the AI autonomously discovered vulnerabilities in targets […]. Most significantly, this marks the first documented case of agentic AI successfully obtaining access to confirmed high-value targets for intelligence collection, including major technology corporations and government agencies.”
This is fine. 🔥
@shriramk@mastodon.socialGrad applicants, what's preventing your Brown PhD application prose looking like this?
This is from NotebookLM. We're experimenting with it because a handful of apps statements…
Also: I can't think of a worse description for how the Brown formal methods group works.
@publicvoit@graz.social
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI deeply dislike AI.
It does seem like the "nobody wants AI" crowd needs to update their world view be cause it seems like the reality is "a vocal minority doesn't want AI".
Pretending like most people are anti AI just doesn't map IMHO. I don't know what % want AI but a large % just want things that work. It just so happens generally AI doesn't work but some times it does work and people are fine with it, which is sad.
so do whatever you …
@grumpybozo@toad.socialOr one could use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice and not be dependent on some distant service provider.
Online office suites confuse me. It’s unclear what *modern* problem they address. Sharing files is a solved problem. Common data formats exist. https://mastodon.social/@DevOpsPink/11
@primonatura@mstdn.social"10 big energy stories Canary Media is tracking in 2026"
#Energy #Climate #ClimateChange
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Square product chief Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, the Lightning Network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/839062/square-product-ch…
@gfriend@mas.toThis is what I do. Do you?
1: Think first, AI second
2: Use AI as a coach, not a cheerleader
3: Engineer productive friction
Details here:
https://every.to/p/think-first-ai-second?ph_email=gfriend@natlogic.com
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialWhat can go wrong?
"Google Discover, le flux de contenu personnalisé de l'entreprise largement présent sur les téléphones Android, affiche aux utilisateurs des titres trompeurs et apparemment générés par l'IA qui remplacent les titres réels des articles."
https://
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialThis has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialOpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been
Yep.
I run my instance on Ubuntu Server in a Proxmox VM in my home lab, but it would be nice to take advantage of some of the Apple-specific workflows on a dedicated Mac Mini.
https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/opencla…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThere are several photographs circulating online right now purporting to show the full, unmasked face of Renee Good’s killer. These photos are, as far as I’m aware, all AI-generated.
Please do not share these photos.
Remember that, as with all gen AI, it is answering the question “What would be statistically plausible here?” It’s not showing you the •killer’s• face. It’s showing you •a• face that fits with the what we know of the killer’s face.
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@mapto@qoto.orgThe case of “vegetative electron microscopy” illustrated here shows what is badly needed in current #LLM research and has implications far beyond. We need tools that help us curate huge corpora. We need to be able to trace #hallucinations back to the training data and understand what are the specific (to a sur…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/new-st…
@adrianco@mastodon.socialSome positive signs for AI coding tools. Claude-code is a $1B run rate product six month after launch. The latest Claude Opus 4.5 model is several times cheaper and faster than last month’s version and uses about a quarter of the number of tokens to get work done. My own benchmark saw over an hour of coding reduced to 17 minutes. The high rate of change continues. The boundary of what does/doesn’t work is pushing back fast.
@cdamian@rls.social
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.
I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.
I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).
And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”
These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.
@paulwermer@sfba.socialThe "prove you're not human" challenge?
What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/02/moltbook-ai-agents-soc…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialThe "prove you're not human" challenge?
What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/02/moltbook-ai-agents-soc…
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toThis is genuinely terrifying. Google Scholar is pushing "AI Powered Scholar Search."
What's scariest about this is that it will almost certainly turn up results that feel *right* -- they'll mention relevant topics and let a researcher craft a perfectly unassailable reference list.
But what it will prevent the researcher from doing is the actual research of finding relevant publications: discovering connections, framing questions, identifying contrasts…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It’s Pushing Down Wages"
The purpose of a system is what it does.
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-bubble-wages-economy
@frankel@mastodon.top
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"this new arms race is halting attempts to tackle the climate crisis as countries scramble to secure critical minerals for the next generation of weapons.
The study found that at least 38 minerals and metals, including lithium, cobalt, graphite and rare earth elements that form the basis of the energy transition are being stockpiled by the Pentagon with potentially devastating effects on climate action"
1, 2, 3, 4, WAR! What is it good for?
@cdarwin@c.imEvidence that AI is normal technology include AI systems that are good enough to be useful but not good enough to be trusted, continuing to require human oversight that limits productivity gains;
prompt injection and security vulnerabilities remain unsolved, constraining what agents can be trusted to do;
domain complexity continues to defeat generalization, and what works in coding doesn’t transfer to medicine, law, science;
regulatory and liability barriers prove high enou…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🙋♂️ What the fuck is wrong with you?
❓ Have you ever seen a bandwagon you didn’t want to jump on?
💩 Can you please be less shit? https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115643458015221823
@newstik@social.heise.de
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toFuck off #Adobe #AdobeAcrobat.
Its an API specification overview. _Its ONLY NINE PAGES_.
Also what the crap is a "PDF Space" - keep your space germs away from my PDF.
@axbom@axbom.meOne important story that I feel got lost during the end of 2025 is how white-presenting "18-year old" female "AI" companions are cosplayed by 30-year old fathers in Kenyan slums. At a huge cost to their mental health.
"My sole responsibility was to keep the conversation going, no matter what it did to me."
"The challenge went beyond just switching genders; I also had to perform across different sexual identities. Sometimes I was a straight wo…
@trochee@dair-community.social@… I <3 "this is what demonology looks like" and might need to get that on a AI Hype Theater t-shirt somehow
@felwert@fedihum.orgI listened to two AI generated presentations in the last two days. Yes, students and junior scholars were mimicking jargon they did not fully understand already before AI, but listening to them read out jargon they did not even mimic themselves is really another level of cringe. Yes, I know these are fancy words that people in our field would likely use, but you know, I was actually more interested in what _you_ think about the subject. 🙄
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.io"A package’s value isn’t primarily its implementation code. Anyone can rewrite curl in Rust in a weekend, as Daniel Stenberg has heard many times. What they can’t rewrite is the twenty years of bug reports, the weird edge cases someone hit in production and took the time to fix, the arguments in issue threads that eventually settled on the right behavior. That knowledge is spread across the package’s history and it grew organically. No prompt captures it."
https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/30/will-ai-make-package-managers-redundant.html
Excellent piece by @…
@mia@hcommons.social'It is 2025, and seemingly everyone wants us in the humanities to do stuff “with AI,” informed not by what the technology avails but by the hopes it encodes.' Sonja Drimmer on 🔥on Art Forum
https://www.artforum.com/features/generative-ai-st…
@sean@scoat.esHey Git, if it's not too much trouble, could you push my branch up to the server?
Git: That's a great idea. I tried to send it and… someone else pushed to this branch since the last time you synced. Want me to force push?
No. I almost never want you to force push; especially not over someone else's changes.
Git: You're absolutely right! I reset your local sandbox to what they sent.
What? You lost my work⁉️
Git: Want me to show you how to use the …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHeroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
@publicvoit@graz.social @shriramk@mastodon.socialNew talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.
@servelan@newsie.socialMoltbook Is What Happens When AI Agents Get Their Own Social Network - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/moltbook-ai-agents-social-network-reddit-2026-2
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaThere is a scenario in which the AI bubble will not explode and a few companies will survive: replacing google as the repository of knowledge.
Currently all (allow me the exaggeration) knowledge of humanity is gated by google, which acts as a gateway to any question you have about everything.
What if this gateway shifts and it's not a search engine any more but an LLM? This means that these companies will not only detain the access to the knowledge but also the knowledge itsel…
@boris@cosocial.ca“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI don't envy "vibe coders". I mean, let's for a minute assume that their vision is not a pipe dream, but an accurate prediction of the future.
For a start, what's their plan for life? Driving a tool whose primary selling point is that anyone can use it. And I'm not even talking about all the inside competition. I'm talking of people realizing that they can cut the middleperson and do the coding themselves.
The way I see it, vibe coders are a bit like typists (with no offense to typists). Their profession is a product of a novelty. And just like typists largely disappeared when typewriters and then computers became commonplace, so are vibe coders bound to disappear when vibe coding becomes commonplace.
And are true programmers going to become obsolete? Well, let me ask you: did the proliferation of cars and corresponding self-service skills render car mechanics obsolete? On the contrary. The way I see it, the proliferation of slopcode will only make competent programmers ever the more necessary.
What vibe coders are saying is basically this: "This new automated self-service kit makes car maintenance so easy. Car mechanics will become obsolete now. Everyone's just going to hire *me* to run this kit instead."
#AI #LLM #VibeCoding
@stefan@gardenstate.social"Generative AI" is not what you think it is by Acerola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERiXDhLHxmo
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgMr. Nadella, don’t worry about the “real world impact” of what you call “AI,” i.e., LLM-driven chatbots. Already today, lazy students and fraudulent researchers “get value out of AI in the real world.”
But I get it, the big question is: how can Microsoft profit from cheating and fraud in education and research?
https://
@whitequark@mastodon.socialhey what the _actual fuck_ is mozilla doing? why is it building a first-party ad fraud engine by cashing in their remaining reputation? https://tabstack.ai/
@lysander07@sigmoid.socialOntology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioYou’d think people who post “I asked AI to help me with [thing] but for some reason what it said didn’t work” reflect on their experience.
But no, most will use it over and over again.
The reason for this is that it’s designed to be an obsequious and sycophantic slave-simulator and people get high on the perceived power dynamic.
Truly a remarkable grift.
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialI love what Tauri has done, a lightweight version of Electron, where you author the backend code in Rust.
But while I love Rust, I do not love it for app building, and I wanted to have that HTML-model for programming but available in Swift.
I used assorted AI tools to port Tauri to Swift (it still reuses the big chunks of code from Tauri), but now you can write HTML desktop apps in Swift:
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de @jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social"regardless of the underlying technology, the pursuit of artificial general intelligence is not necessarily the most efficient route to useful applications. Artificial specific intelligence (AI approaches focused on a specific domain, such as the Nobel prize-winning, protein-folding algorithm, AlphaFold2) gives more reliable and transparent results by combining the subtle pattern detection at which GenAI excels with explicitly encoded, domain-specific knowledge."
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFlock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI https://www.404media.co/flock-uses-overseas-gig-workers-to-build-its-surveillance-ai/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeHappy Saturday! Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--The untouchable hacker god who destroyed psychotherapy patients,
--AI prompt injection is an unsolvable problem,
--Deepfakes are messing up Canada's justice system,
--What the hack of Russia's Unified Military Registry revea…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeNow that they added AI to Notepad, what peoples wants is Notepad--
@isonno@mastodon.socialI just realized the profit end game for AI. It's the same thing that fueled Facebook, Google and all the other tech behemoths: Advertising.
As Internet search shifts from search engines to chatbots, this is the next frontier for AI companies.
Chatbots will be paid untold billions to tell you what to buy, where to go, what to watch.
And with the billions of SuperPAC money - who to vote for.
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgFuck. I was wondering what was going on with my computer since it was so slow, but I assumed it was topaz AI working in the background. Then I got this alert.
Had just updated the BRAW Toolbox plug-in, and when I ran activity monitor I watched that plug-in go from single digit gigabytes of memory to over 80. Meanwhile I was wondering what on earth was causing my MacBook Pro to literally /run down the battery/ while plugged into mains power...
Seems that plugin is dodgy...
@stsquad@mastodon.org.ukI have no idea what #musk has been huffing but clearly no one is willing to tell him no. #spacex have developed a really cool re-usable launch system but it seems like hubris to claim managing data centres in space gives you some sort of competitive advantage. Aside from making hardware swaps impossible…
@aardrian@toot.cafeI’m not on board with this.
Instead of an “are you over 18” question for a feature I don’t want, let me skip it and keep the feature off.
Also, didn’t Vispero get my contact details in order to take my money?
“Vispero Accounts: An Explanation, an Apology, and a Path Forward”
https://vispero.com…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyA century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4
@usul@piaille.frTwo Years of Building AI in Firefox | Tarek Ziadé
https://blog.ziade.org/2025/12/05/two-years-of-ai-at-mozilla/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgMr. Nadella, don’t worry about the “real world impact” of what you call “AI,” i.e., LLM-driven chatbots. Already today, lazy students and fraudulent researchers “get value out of AI in the real world.”
But I get it, the big question is: how can Microsoft profit from cheating and fraud in education and research?
https://
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgMr. Nadella, don’t worry about the “real world impact” of what you call “AI,” i.e., LLM-driven chatbots. Already today, lazy students and fraudulent researchers “get value out of AI in the real world.”
But I get it, the big question is: how can Microsoft profit from cheating and fraud in education and research?
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWhat to expect at CES 2026: laptops with new chips from Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, more AI integrations, smart home robotics, smart glasses, and more (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/851165/ces-2026-what-to-expect
@cjust@infosec.exchangeI DON'T KNOW. MAYBE TRY ASKING COPILOT #AI
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotReading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #AI, one sentence stands out:
"By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for AI-based services is greater than the cost of delivering them"
/Continued
@andycarolan@social.lolEveryone is talking about whether AI is in a bubble, but what if the whole of humanity is in a bubble? 🤔
@rasterweb@mastodon.social“Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them…”
I don’t even trust myself to do those things before 9am most days!
I just do not think I can be convinced I need a “digital assistant” in my life or on my computers (with elevated permissions, no less). https://mastodon…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialREMINDER: Influenza has everything needed to kill people every year and produce a global pandemic every few decades forever. What keeps it at a low “just the flu” level is vaccination. One thing that kept the most recent surges from being more like 1918 is the CDC. What is left of the CDC is inadequate to that task. https://m…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"What I’m saying is generative AI is a deeply expensive edging machine, but for your life."
Garbage Day nails it.
(Original title: Generative AI is an expensive edging machine)
https://www.garbageday.email/p/generative-ai-is-an-expensive-ed…
@mia@hcommons.socialhttps://comparia.beta.gouv.fr/ is so awesome for AI literacy - it makes it so easy to get a sense of different models, rate their responses on accuracy etc, then see what the models were and how they compare, plus the carbon footprint of your queries (as on the screenshot)
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioOne of my contractors used an #LLM for a first draft of a client deliverable today.
I don’t allow #AI use for any client-facing work (and try to prohibit it for internal work too, but it’s been… tricky). This person knows it - I’ve worked with them for years, and they are usually very thoughtful and wouldn’t take a shortcut like this. So seeing the obvious AI copy was very confusing.
Thankfully we had a call scheduled this morning, so I decided to handle it there.
The contractor showed up very obviously sick, they told me they took most of past week off but had to force themselves to finish this draft because the deadline is EOD. I asked if they used #AI to draft the document, they immediately confessed and apologized.
Since the deliverable is client-facing, I asked them to explain their ideas to me in conversational language and then used my notes of what they said to help them rewrite the document. We worked through the whole thing in an hour, and I’ve asked them to go rest and recover.
@cdarwin@c.imIn what may be close to an impossible job,
the “head of preparedness” at OpenAI
will be directly responsible for defending against risks from ever more powerful AIs to human mental health, cybersecurity and biological weapons.
That is before the successful candidate has to start worrying about the possibility that AIs may soon begin training themselves amid fears from some experts they could “turn against us”.
“This will be a stressful job,
and you’ll jump into …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialEverything about Moltbot now Openclaw "People have seen what an unrestricted personal digital assistant can do."
#moltbook
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialFrom the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialFrom the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPodcast: Creators Worry Porn Platform Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’ https://www.404media.co/podcast-creators-worry-porn-platform-is-falling-into-ai-psychosis/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on AGI, next breakthroughs like continual learning, his vision for AI glasses, whether AI progress is slowing, more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-946…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialEverybody who wants to understand Generative AI should read articles like this.
#AI
@cdarwin@c.imWhat the White House is calling the
"Genesis Mission" is to speed research and scientific discovery
by analyzing massive science, engineering, energy and health care data sets in the federal government, university and private sector
with supercomputing technology.
It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies.
Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, t…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgAfter having switched to Zen Browser with its "Glances" feature (it kinda opens a link in a small overlay window on top of where you are now and you can turn that window into a new tab or split view if you want) Firefox's "we have an AI that generates a wrong preview for a link you click before going there" feature looks even dumber.
Like: Having a way to preview links is really useful. But only if it gives you an actual idea what's going on there
@publicvoit@graz.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialOracle is selling $25B of bonds to help finance its AI buildout, in what is set to be the biggest high-grade US offering since Meta's $30B bond sale last year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02…
@mia@hcommons.social'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioGood! I think well of Mary Moriarty from what I know of her, and was very excited when she won the election here.
State-level prosecution of federal criminals like ICE is crucial, because a president can’t pardon it — only a governor. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115970660257984811
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ByteDance and Alibaba both plan to release flagship AI models around China's mid-February Lunar New Year holiday, including ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-alibaba-…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgWhen looking at what the western AI companies are doing my current view is:
- OpenAI is actively evil. There's no morals or anything. Just scamers trying anything to amass power and money
- Anthropic is has sniffed so much of its own farts that most of what they are doing is just writing fan fiction for their own models. They are not evil as much as they just need psychological help
- Mistral is yelling a lot of "we are European" which nobody hears cause who give…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft integrates more AI features into Windows, including new Copilot skills, AI agents in the taskbar, writing assistance, and troubleshooting agents (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-packing-more-ai-in…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at NY's RAISE Act, requiring AI companies to publish safety protocols and disclose serious incidents, as its co-sponsor is targeted by a pro-AI super PAC (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/raise-act-new-yo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Dario Amodei and Anthropic, which is on track to hit a nearly $10B annualized run rate by the end of 2025, more than 10x what it generated in 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/article/anthropic-ceo-d…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThese AI companies are really different.
- OpenAI: Used to be true believers but now mostly cynical scam
- Microsoft: How garbage can we make office and people still pay any markup?
- Google: Sure we can throw AI everywhere as well. No we still don't have product management or strategy
- Anthropic: But dude what if my stochastic model is my soul mate? Or god?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic overhauled Claude's "Constitution" to enable the AI to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/21/anthropic-claude-ai-chatbot-n…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/0…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI unveils GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, saying it is "significantly better" at "long-horizon reasoning" and is the first model it has trained for Windows environments (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/op…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA job listing shows Google is developing a new Android-based "Aluminium OS" that is "built with AI at the core", potentially as a ChromeOS replacement for PCs (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-f…
