Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-o…
An Answer to Auden: The Truth About Love, 1937 to 2026
In 1937, W. H. Auden published "O Tell Me the Truth About Love" inside a sequence called Twelve Songs. The poem is a list of comic guesses about what love might look like, smell like, sound like, do. Each refrain stanza ends in the same plea: tell me. The song is a young man's question asked across a noisy room, hoping someone older will answer.
Second, just because it •seems• like everyone’s talking about AI all the time, that doesn’t actually mean that AI has taken over your industry / public consciousness / the world. If you feel “blah” about it, you’re not alone.
Don’t let the loudest voices distort your perception of the world.
If nobody’s talking about what you wish everyone were talking about, don’t assume nobody wants to hear it. Be brave. Speak up.
If you think you’re the only one…you’re almost never the only one.
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Mehdi Hasan zeigt wie deutsche Medien von Anfang an mit der AfD hätten reden sollen — dieser AfD Spitzenpolitiker scheitert an den einfachsten Fragen. Da sieht man wie leicht sich die AfD entzaubert hätte, hätte man sie mal tatsächlich inhaltlich gestellt und nicht was auch immer der ÖRR in Deutschland tut.
https://youtu.be/VTOmrTYvGYI
Die #AfD, oder ihr Umfeld ist rege unterwegs mit KI generierten Kampagnen. Ich frage mich, wie blöd muss man sein, um sich davon einfangen zu lassen.
#Correctiv hat dazu recherchiert.
A brain implant for depression is about to be tested in humans #BCI
SB 5 in Five: What to Know About Connecticut’s New AI Law
https://fpf.org/blog/sb-5-in-five-what-to-know-about-connecticuts-new-ai-law/
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So many typical weasel words and denials. The part that especially stuck out to me was him going on about US and Israeli war crimes (undeniable) while deflecting from questions about their *own* war crimes:
https://zeteo.com/p/esmaeil-baghaei-iran-war-israel
OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-really-wants-codex-to-shut-up-about-goblins/…
If nobody’s talking about what you wish everyone were talking about, be brave. Speak up.
Right before the session deadline, I looked at the schedule and thought, “Nothing about ICE?? Really?! After all we’ve been through in MSP!” Feeling a little desperate, I created this session:
https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/2108
I quickly got a DM from the inimitable Eryn O’Neil, who’d been thinking exactly the same and was halfway through writing up a session when she saw mine come in. We quickly determined our two ideas were complementary, so she created hers:
https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/2126
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