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HIBP confirms cybercrims stuck a straw into marketing reservoir, sucking up six-years of leaky Whopper secrets

Many who’ve experimented with Muse were unsettled by how much it dug up on them and how closely it monitored their habits.

The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.

Terrorists and other shady characters are already creating advanced weapons using everyday AI chatbots.

The fact that AI can create convincing fakes is not why it’s such a powerful tool of disinformation. Other attributes matter more.

Great piece and interesting data. The rate of LLM-based writing rejection among developers is even higher than I thought it would be.

To me, the glaring question is: What are we doing? The act of writing exists to 1) externalize and organize one's own thoughts for the purpose of considering and revising those thoughts; and 2) share one's own thoughts with other minds.

When we hand writing to a machine, we hand thinking to a machine, denying both our humanity and our role in the conversation.

Artificial Intelligence can make individual workers more productive. But what does that mean for the larger organization?

This seems obvious and predictable. of course people with flexibility, comfort, privacy, and convenience are better off than people forced into a grueling commute, a sick office, an exposed cubicle and toxic office politics

Because the streaming era has made it harder to capture reliable viewership data.

OpenAI’s new “teen” version is an admission by the company that it knows its chatbot is harmful and knows how to make it less harmful. It also knows harms are profitable.

Protein has escaped the shaker bottle. It is now in cereal, coffee, pastries, pasta and almost every other corner of the supermarket as food companies scramble to keep up with the latest version of “healthy.”

Tech Transparency Project’s report shows whenever governments mull platform regulations, company recruits influencers to promote its safety features

Instagram said in July it would remove the harassment videos filmed on Meta glasses. Business Insider went looking a month later and found dozens still up. The more revealing finding came next. Interacting with a few of them was enough for the Reels feed to serve almost nothing else.

A German regulator accused Apple of giving the pop-ups a design that favored its own apps over third-party apps.

One person's AI-fueled productivity causes extra work for everyone else. It's time to stop the delusional thinking about AI.

Shrinking portion sizes for junk food is probably the best thing we could do. Some 37% of Americans are obese. Back in the 40s and 50s, a normal amount of, say, Coca-Cola was a tiny-ass little bottle. Now you can get a half-gallon at the movies.

I'm thrilled someone has attempted to quantify the lies, fraud and deception that has been the norm here in Silicon Valley for decades. I've worked at startups, have friends who are entrepreneurs, everyone in my family has worked at startups, and there's no question that lying and deception are normal and expected here.

Both Apple and OpenAI want to demo desktop robots this year and ship early next year. It's a race between Apple engineers who stayed and Apple engineers who left.

AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains.

Less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers—at least until developers provide more information about their projects’ potential impacts on the grid and communities.

A new app called Wrinkles uses your location to automatically surface stories about the places around you. Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.

You can use Google News to search social media for your specific phrase, or you can search news sites for the disconnected words in your phrase, but you can't search news sites for your actual phrase.

It’s complicated

While Apple and Google are adding AI apps to smartphones, Chinese companies are replacing apps with AI.

Kagi, obviously (disclosure: My son works for Kagi.)

I don't think that will work for what I'm looking for. I'm looking for very, VERY specific subjects like the Attachment Economy, synthetic relationships, and a hundreds others, and I need to know all the stories on this subjects or using these keywords that have been published in the United States in the past week.

Now, when I do my traditional searches, a huge majority of some of my searches are from Instagram or other social media sites, not news publishing sites.

Many of my results are in foreign languages I cannot even identify.

Many of my results are published in foreign countries, not the U.S. as I specified.

Now, the most recent failure is that when I specify news published in, say, the past week, it just ignores that setting and gives me news published weeks, months or years in the past.

Google has abandoned Google News and let it crash into the dock.

It’s part of an art project, and the “canvas” is capitalism.

On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it has granted the Amazon-owned Zoox a temporary exemption, allowing it to deploy up to 2,500 vehicles annually over the next two years.

Opus won the benchmark simulation by taking collusion and other dishonest tactics to a whole new level.