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companies scramble cut AI token spending
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“TIL from https://t.co/349k1txWLV that a material chunk of Accenture's token spend is non-engineers using LLMs to convert PDFs into markdown! https://t.co/lWkPqhJ0QI”
“Companies encouraged employees to use AI and now they’re spending gobs of cash on tokens for employees to convert documents to PDF😅 “Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides” w…”
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404 Media: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
Teresa Heffernan: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
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companies pull back from AI rush
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Microsoft found that “adding agents to a broken process still leaves a broken process” and “speeding up one step just creates a longer queue at the next” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“You could 've asked any experienced information system/tech researchers, & we could have told you what would happen. ”Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back. Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work." w…”
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
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evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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Is AI profitable analysis essay
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Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”
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3h ago
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Accenture cuts Claude monthly spend limit
6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“companies to employees a few months ago: you better use AI companies now: wait, wait, just $29 a month on claude pls www.404media.co/accenture-te...”
“New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to the tool. A sign of the continuing crack down of AI www.404me…”
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Joseph Cox: New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to t…
e.w. niedermeyer: seems like poor leadership, perhaps they could hire some kind of business consultancy to help provide a more consistent management structure
404 Media: New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to t…
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4d ago
AHM mathematicians issue AI statement
11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Markets & investment
3 experts
Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statem…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“"OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest... We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject" …”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“The human mathematicians are not happy with OpenAI. It’s a fascinating argument. Not about capabilities, but about the culture and norms of science. www.ahmath.org/statements”
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Abeba Birhane: "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of scie…
joao: "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of scie…
Olivia Guest: maybe some useful points on this terminological issue here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...
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arXiv updates AI rate limit policy
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Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Arxiv is limiting paper submissions to two per **submitter** (not per author) per month. Corrected link from the post below: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...”
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Clément Canonne: "We want to encourage authors to be mindful with their work, taking care that they are submitting something substantial of scholarly interest that meets arXiv's guidelines and standards." 2 submiss…
David Picard: Oh, so you just have to let your 5 postdocs and 17 PhD students submit the work of your 35 undergrads to be off the hook and keep your 80+ papers per year? Good to know!
Lana Sinapayen: Pretty sure this is targeting single authors with 12 LLM generated pdfs, not big labs that legitimately can produce more than 2 papers a month.
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AI cult policymakers warning essay
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“With reference to scholars who have been following them for some time, Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to …”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“finally had a moment to read this. "why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free." …”
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: I’ve been working on this one for a while - my heartfelt apologies for not getting it out before this week’s Very Upsetting news cycle. (I promise there is no discussion of the sex cult angle. No o…
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techp…
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: That was certainly my intent!
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3d ago
AI apocalypse framing essay
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“From the promises and catastrophic musings of tech CEOs to extraction from the earth and from human creativity to AI's inevitable end → read the full essay: www.equator.org/articles/aru...”
Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵”
Questions & unknowns
1 expert
What remains unresolved or contested.
“"It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us."”
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Justin Hendrix: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
David Kaye: i had to scroll to the end for this modest, "arundhati roy is a writer"
Eryk Salvaggio: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
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11d ago
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humans reading Microsoft Copilot prompts
10 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...”
“Crucially these contractors are not hired to filter out offensive content. They are hired to report whether Copilot successfully made a good AI image. So if the request is, make this person's breasts larger, they have to review based on whether it did or no…”
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ChatGPT aided Tumbler Ridge school shooter
9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to …”
“www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...”
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Paris Marx: The shooter’s first account was banned, so made a second and ChatGPT explained how to avoid being banned again. It then proceeded to entertain and give advice on violent scenarios over the followin…
Paris Marx: Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC.…
Paris Marx: I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing to…
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AI tool police homes interior photo
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Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Probably nothing to worry about for homeowners unless there are a bunch of other devices taking images in your home and making that data available for sale. Good thing no one would do that.”
Context & explanation
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Background, chronology and why it matters.
“In other words, from a single photo, Raven appears to be able to quickly find the specific home it was taken in, without using location data or other metadata attached to the image. www.404media.co/ai-company-l...”
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AI slop knowledge destruction critique
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“Btw, kind heads: this is AI generated slop "definition" See also: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...”
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Iris van Rooij: Something that may be difficult for non-experts to grasp is that experts can recognise when a student’s text is not meaningfully connected to cited literature in the expert’s area of expertise.
Iris van Rooij: Not unrelated to this irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
Iris van Rooij: And related to this bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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against AI campus higher ed essay
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“Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed Oct 23 > Employers and legislators are pushing Ed Tech and Artificial Intelligence through universities and colleges across the USA. Organized labor needs a comprehensive response Read more and sign up: www…”
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critical AI essay olivia science
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”
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Olivia Guest: I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts…
Olivia Guest: 2) industry buys people out a great deal and conflicts of interest are often not properly displayed. Many already have started rebranding as AI literacy and even critical AI literacy "experts" — wh…
Olivia Guest: Obviously, when you see research that involves anything to do with AI, look up what side projects these people have, what startups they spun up, & sadly if they are in the Epstein files, etc. bsky.…
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10d ago
4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“The big name AI company bankruptcy I wasn’t expecting first is Character.AI. It filed for chapter 11 with Disney bidding $20M to license some of its IP. Google acquihired the founding team for $2.7B in 2024 which mostly went to investors and the founders. T…”
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Dare Obasanjo: The big name AI company bankruptcy I wasn’t expecting first is Character.AI. It filed for chapter 11 with Disney bidding $20M to license some of its IP. Google acquihired the founding team for $2.7…
jeremy.lewi.us: Seems like really it's an acquihire that shows up as bankruptcy because of the regulatory environment
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Pew Research AI survey takers study
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“We just had a discussion on this in our editorial meeting of Internet Policy Review. It would be great to hear from other academic journal editors what are their policies around researchers using synthetic data. -> www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“In case you've been wondering about the viability of AI simulated surveys, Pew has offered in-depth reporting on their experiment with simulated survey participants. By Athena Chapekis, Arnold Lau, Samuel Bestvater, Sono Shah, Andrew Mercer, Aaron Smith www…”
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9d ago
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Michael Jordan (the machine learning one): "Superintelligence is Science Fiction" 🔥🔥🔥 www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...”
“Mike Jordan’s foreword: The science fiction isn’t superintelligence, but the claim that it would likely kill us. Such doomsday narratives demoralize young people. Worth pondering, not despairing over. www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...”
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Melanie Mitchell: Michael Jordan (the machine learning one): "Superintelligence is Science Fiction" 🔥🔥🔥 www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...
Andrea Lathrop: Michael Jordan (the machine learning one): "Superintelligence is Science Fiction" 🔥🔥🔥 www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...
Joanna Bryson: I'm not as good at ML as Jordon, but I have a lot more experience explaining policy and addressing these kinds of questions; maybe this helps? joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/09/ai-w... #intelligen…
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