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And he thinks posts are still called tweets. (The post is about AI creating so much wealth that “everyone can have a penthouse if they want.”) We're getting some meandering analysis of AI creating prosperity, but even the judge seems frustrated at this point.

She says the starting point was Sutskever reaching out to have a conversation where he expressed serious concerns about Altman. It was a “pattern of behavior” that included issues with “honesty and candor” that led to the firing, not any one action. Toner has already laid out some of this in a 2024 podcast, and it's

Jared Leto's band Thirty Seconds to Mars is (for real, this time ?) using Sam Altman's World eye-scanning orb to stop bots, reports The San Francisco Standard

16 pts An exceptionally weird controversy has come back to haunt Cox Media and a pair of marketing firms, which claimed they were secretly listening to users via phones and smart devices - despite little evidence they actually could. On Thursday the Federal Trade Commission announced that Cox, MindSift, and 1010…

A minimalist outside and a lot of buttons.

The early decision found AI summaries are different from conventional search: > A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate “independent, new, and substantive statements” by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites. And only Google can check those statements, the court said, “at least by comparing the underlying third-party websites with its own statements based on them.” [Link: Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A hardboiled world of sinister corporations, animal-human hybrids, and master sandwich-makers is both clever and absurd.

Beginning on July 20, all eyewear or headwear that contains cameras, microphones or other recording technology will not be allowed inside any Unified Court System facilities, according to a memo from the Office of Court Administration.

An increasing number of people seem to agree the internet is terrible for children - allegedly addictive, destructive to self-esteem, possibly a portal to predators. Over the past year, several countries have started requiring stringent age verification or outright bans for minors. At the end of June in the US,…

Would a Big Tech tax for kid-focused nonprofit platforms be complicated? Sure. Where we're headed is worse.