I mean just read the archetypes! bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/
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The AI Compass bambamramfan.github.io
I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood. nytimes.com
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AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found thenextweb.com
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Funding The Web: A Wise Choice ftw.fund
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CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge casp.ac
Ford hid a man inside a car seat to test reactions to self-driving cars theverge.com
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The DOGE Bros Want Another Shot theatlantic.com
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A quote from Paul Graham simonwillison.net
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Work agent, GPT-5.6 models now available - 9to5Mac 9to5mac.com
Sam Altman Is Finally Admitting Something No One Else Wants To slate.com
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Norway’s 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training blocksandfiles.com
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Me, working for some reason in the New York Times accounts department: “And why, exactly, did Taffy need to fly to London to interview an AI-generated ‘actress’?” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/m...
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AI Weekly's analysis
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- In a Milano-Bicocca-led study, participant accuracy on film trivia fell from 27% to 9% when they had access to AI advice.
- Willingness to say 'I don't know' collapsed from 44% to 3%, while stated confidence rose from 30% to 76%.
- Wharton researchers earlier this year coined 'cognitive surrender' for users accepting wrong AI answers about 80% of the time.
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"They are arguably the modern-day railroad,” Schulte said. “It makes sense for them to issue longer maturities because AI is a long-term infrastructure." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... I'm v sympathetic to long-term infra development, but what if hyperscale AI is as flying…
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A small fine is a start, but saving the web and our information environment requires more ambitious approaches. We have the means, with the DMA as it exists, to be far more strategic in shaping a livable technological future. One such strategy, that also helps a lot for AI, is…
can you imagine someone out there is acting in the role of ai / tech evangelist and persuading people in boko haram that it's totally a good idea to use llm chatbots, like a shingy for terrorists: casp.ac/reports/ai-e...
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every once in a while i am re-haunted by this story, when ford and Virginia Tech hid a man in a van seat and had him drive around to test people's reactions to AVs www.theverge.com/2017/9/13/16...
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So the two DOGE staffers who used ChatGPT to cut all those grants and programs and who struggled to define DEI in that viral deposition footage have a new startup: DOGE for the public sector. I wrote about them and the myth of the “builder” as a disguise for something more ins…
Paul Graham, everybody simonwillison.net/2026/May/26/...
OpenAI surges into the lead in the annual "who can beat Google's social network/chat/messaging product strategy" award from 9to5mac.com/2026/07/09/o...
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wrote more in depth about the death of Sora and its Disney deal, the other business troubles and scuppered agreements on OpenAI's plate, and what Sam Altman's pivot indicates about the long-dreaded Tech Bubble: slate.com/technology/2...
Duck me, Norway did it (national library-backed model training data using the legal depository mandate) www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
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open/closed-weight models discourse weirdly starting to feel like the "yeah, but you need to use the gold-plated connectors and the premium cables to really get the richness from the LLM"
Only just realized that the Borg are roaming around assimilating everything because they can't afford to buy new computers because of the AI apocalypse
DEAR PENTHOUSE It happened to me: I thought my girlfriend was AI, but it turned out to be a human in the global south. Here's how it started,
OpenAI's hardware thing having "personality" and "being able to connect" and rechargeable battery, being able to be carried, etc. would sound like a ChatGPT-powered tamagotchi and the mechanical elements that can move on their own could just be kismet-style ears and eyebrows.
I just realized that some people treat AI-created art with the same awe and reverence that parents do to art taken home by their preschoolers and think I understand them a bit more now. AND YET
something dissonant in those creating apps to run llms natively on your mac and those apps are 100% totally not native mac apps at all and do not behave or look like it
skill to let customer service LLM agents post to r/amitheasshole to get feedback on their interactions, bonus points if you can prompt inject the practie into a customer service platform
"Your organization must now preview Slackbot's AI abilities"
cursed gen AI email app that allows the sender to force you to experience the email as a rendered gen AI video of their agent reading it to you
Trump is going to set up Token Accounts to give every kid some extra OpenAI tokens each month and this is how the U.S. will beat China.
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