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Hey so those of you who thought the whole TikTok v. Garland situation wasn't a big deal because "it's just a divestiture", here you go. Anything we don't like is "national security" now. TikTok paved the way for this. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
Duuuuuude. When caught having AI-fabricated quotes in your book about the impact AI is having on "truth"... trying to turn that into "well, see here, this proves the point of my book" is just grade A level chutzpah. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
Chatbots' obsession with a fictional character named "Elias Thorne" gives new meaning to Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse." Amazing story of a hallucination shared by multiple chatbots from @404media.co www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
NEW: "It's literally the gulag." A Meta engineer describes their job in the new 6,500-person "Applied AI" unit, where highly-paid Silicon Valley talent are now "draftees" forced to write puzzle problems to feed the beast. WIRED's inside the morale collapse:
the biden administration adopted an AI Bill of Rights. trump: "The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of War."
If you want a barometer of American political concerns you could do worse than checking what spam accounts are turning into AI-generated slop on Facebook. There are now hundreds of pages churning out dozens of AI-generated images playing into anti-data center sentiment across …
Elon Musk suffered the worst defeat possible in his legal battle against OpenAI as a federal jury and a judge ruled he waited too long to bring his claims against the AI startup and its top executives, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
Random paper that just flitted across my feed, not endorsing it (or criticizing it), just appreciating the “choose the bear” title arxiv.org/abs/2606.12440
If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildas…
You've probably heard about Anthropic's Mythos, but did you know open-source AI tools have been doing the same thing for the past year? I wrote about these bug-finding systems and why they might be better than Mythos for critical infrastructure firms. www.cybersecuritydive.com…
As with all White House things during the Golden Age, 'As promised, this story just keeps getting stupider.' @masnick.com tells the timeless tale of pathetic grudges, @thekrebscycle.bsky.social, Anthropic & a petty would-be king and her merry men. www.techdirt.com/2026/06/16/a...
*sigh* Another day where I finish writing an article, begin the edit, and spot a "it's not x, it's y" rhetorical point and cringe, because it sounds like an LLM, even though it's straight from my brain. *sigh*
Meanwhile, have spent my Friday night & Saturday getting my agentic setup to mostly use local models (Gemma 4 31B and Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B) to see if I can manage much more of my inference locally... Just testing so far... but... um, local models are really good these days.
Okay, on the latest #taskmaster @alexhorne.bsky.social holds up this puzzle, telling people to solve it before continuing the show. I gave up after about 10 minutes, but for fun... I gave it to Claude, Gemini, & ChatGPT... Only one of them figured it out.
Random fun use of agentic coding: there's a stupid silly card game that I sometimes play on my phone as a time waster. There are a bunch of versions available but all have incredibly intrusive and annoying ads and or tracking. I even looked to see if there was a version I could pay a couple bucks...
Center = Mike Masnick. Left = members they follow (green edges). Right = members who follow them (blue edges). Top = mutual follows (orange edges, slightly larger). Drag any node to reposition; click to open that profile.
