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Veni Kunche

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🌈 Founder of @DiversifyTech.com 👒 I wear many hats as a dev + founder 🐥 Mom to two girls 🧠 Neurodivergent 🙅‍♀️ Gen AI deinfluencer ✨ she/her 🔗 https://buff.ly/41WjmcB
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“.. Local opposition blocked or delayed at least 48 projects valued at some $156 billion last year, according to Data Center Watch. “.. A record of 20 were canceled in the first quarter ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

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  • Local permit campaigns have already successfully blocked AI data center construction, creating a replicable model for future opposition.
  • Majority poll opposition to AI's development pace now gives legislators bipartisan political cover to push restrictive regulation.
  • Activist groups and legislators are coordinating across multiple simultaneous fronts, not acting as isolated individual incidents.
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OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google: futurism.com/artificial-i... OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... Good luck to everyone who hands over all of their info to OpenAI I guess

OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts | The Verge theverge.com
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  • OpenAI now collects bank transaction data via Plaid, marking its first direct entry into federally regulated financial data.
  • The integration is opt-in but gives ChatGPT read access to checking, savings, and brokerage accounts simultaneously.
  • Privacy and regulatory exposure is heightened because financial data carries distinct legal protections under GLBA and state laws.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social

Last week, IT employees at the University of California system across the state formed the largest tech worker union in the United States. This is how they now plan to confront tech industry layoffs, rein in AI, and push for tech for the common good:

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com

I talked to the author of the "Future of Truth" book that turned out to have AI hallucinations. He told me he feels "seduced and betrayed" by ChatGPT, at one point suggesting it might have undermined him on purpose. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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1. Erin Brockovich is back, and this time she’s taking on the AI industry, calling Big Tech’s data center boom the next major environmental shakedown facing American communities. She launched a self-reporting map at brockovichdatacenter.com, and within just one week, more than…

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@gregpak.net

Happy to see @rweingarten.bsky.social is starting to catch up with the rest of us on the dangers of "A.i." in the schools. Now it's time for her to CANCEL the @aft.org's partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft to push "A.i." on teachers and students. www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

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I'm trying out Duck Duck Go this week. I've been looking up best practices for SQL and Python lately. With Google, I'd eventually give up and see what the AI overview was referencing. Duck Duck Go has been pointing me to useful and relevant resources..which is what a search engine should do.

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A new donut shop is opening by us. I was curious and went to look at their menu and was presented with a chatbot! Is everyone losing their mind?

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I truly cannot tell if people are being sarcastic or not. But thousands of people on X are saying that they don't care about privacy and that they'll gladly give all of their data to OpenAI. On second thought, they maybe bots or influencers paid by OpenAI.

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I'm looking for content for my newsletter, Diversify Tech. Any interesting blog posts or meetups that you all recommend? (Not AI related please! 😅)

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