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OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.

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Amazon also slows down its data centre commitments

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OpenAI starts verifying corporate customers. Sometimes the ID system works!

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If you report a bug, Apple reserves the right to train Apple Intelligence on your private dev logs

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AI bot scammers flood California community colleges

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‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating again

  • originally nicked from an old Inquirer article i think, no longer live!

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    Amazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it?

  • this URL is the PDF of the NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Capital Monitor for Q1 2025

    the Q3 2024 report was comedy gold, using word mangling to present bad news as okay news

    i expect this one to be more of the same

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    Cursor’s AI-powered tech support vibe-codes a customer revolt

  • realy, who doesn't want to fuck Clippy

    (looks around nervously)

  • We don’t even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF

    at 1.5 totally-not-drivers per car, we don't have them there eithe

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    H&M’s ‘AI models’ campaign makes impossible claims

  • I'm not really an accelerationist, but I'll make an exception for this

  • COMMERCIAL NOTICE: Pivot to AI now has T-shirts! yeah, I sorted out Redbubble. Also does mugs and stuff. All proceeds go to a worthy cause, i.e. me.

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    New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo writes his housing plan with ChatGPT

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    How to sell AI slop to the US military — with Vannevar Labs and MIT Tech Review

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    $119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’

  • I understand this post is technically illegal in the US

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    Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead

  • this user is far too informed and knowledgeable to lower himself to educating us peons, and has been guided elsewhere

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    a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping

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    Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI!

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    Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead)

  • apparently a complete archive of scott siskind's old livejournal. found on the EA forum no less. https://archive.fo/fCFQx

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    Confirmed: Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide

  • the user who cannot read has been guided to go not read elsewhere

  • still holds - it's still a bunch that needs a label and that's the label

    even as TREACLES was right there

    (i asked emile, they said it was TESCREAL is very searchable. i mean fine)

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    How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)

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    Capgemini: Fix your customer service — with chatbots!

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    China massively overbuilds empty AI data centres