lol, lmao www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. nytimes.com
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We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients futurism.com
Contractor who built Colossus and Colossus II says Elon Musk owes him colossal amount of money actionnews5.com
Inside the White House Tussle to Sway Trump on AI wsj.com
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might be cool if we could go back to the days when everyone was like "lol we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters hahaha :)" https://t.co/mQNTPmGkPe https://t.co/CVpNmqWEex
Next week, Google is set to launch an experimental satellite to test the feasibility of data centers in space and it's doing it on a SpaceX rocket. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...
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- Google's MVP prototype carries four Trillium-generation TPUs and launches October 1, 2026, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg as part of Transporter-18.
- Full Suncatcher design is clusters of 81 satellites flying within a one-kilometer radius at around 650 kilometers altitude, tied together by free-space laser links.
- Google's own math needs launch costs to fall to about $200 per kilogram before space-based AI compute becomes economically feasible, targeted around 2035.
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I'm old enough to remember that after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook started doing "privacy popups" in 2018 where they told people that they cared about their privacy and user consent. Well, lmao. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...
🤗 @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/t...
"Hi, I'm a reporter that would like to cover your company's layoffs." "Hi, uh, ok. What's your name?" "Chip....Cutter." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
this is fun futurism.com/artificial-i...
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- UK-based Movchan Agency operated at least 15 fake personas with AI-generated headshots to pitch journalists on behalf of paying clients.
- Emails from personas 'June Barton' and 'Summer Casey' scored 100 percent AI-generated on the detection tool Pangram, per Futurism's testing.
- Founder Nadya Movchan called it 'poor judgment' tied to Gmail deliverability, though fake-persona emails date back to September 2025.
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just like twitter! www.actionnews5.com/2026/08/01/c...
interesting from the WSJ, which reports that White House officials were concerned about David Sacks' entanglements with AI companies and looked into how he might "personally profit" from his government work https://t.co/7UNKhi0VFZ https://t.co/nAw3GbXdXo
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