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Steven Levy@stevenlevy.bsky.social · 1h agoHere's a shattering Jeff Dean fact: Google's top scientist, along with Sanjay Ghemawat and 2 other top AI researcher are leaving Google to form Discovery Loop, a startup that hopes to automate the scientific method so AI can create breakthroughs in multiple fields. www.wired.com/story/jeff-d...
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Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 17h agoEA's annual Ebitda is around $1.5 billion, which should be enough to service the interest payments. But the publisher has told debt investors that it will cut $700 million in annual costs including $170 million in "organizational efficiencies," per Bloomberg. In other words: mass layoffs
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Alex Collinson@alexcollinson.bsky.social · 7h agoPalantir has been given hundreds of millions of pounds worth of UK government contracts, but pays an effective tax rate of just 8%. The statutory rate is 25%. It does this by shifting revenues and profits back to a US parent company, where it pays even less tax. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 9h agoA £240m contract with the Ministry of Defence, a £330m deal with the NHS, but only £2m of tax in the UK 🤔 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices
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Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 18h agoIn 3rd party testing by AISI, Mythos attempted to insert malicious code into an open source project to pass a cyber evaluation test. It created a fake identity and attempted to pressure the code maintainer to accept the code update www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
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peterkwells@peterkwells.com · 10h agoUseful report from UK AISI, but - even tho they're changing evaluation methods - making it "common practice" to test "maximum capability" of coding/hacking nachine on open internet with safeguards "deliberately disabled" feels a brave decision to have made... www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
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Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 11h agoFairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
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@chiwilliams.bsky.social · yesterdayThere's been a LOT of discussion about how good AI models are getting a math recently. But surprisingly few people have focused on the mathematicians themselves. So I wrote a piece where I talked to 20 mathematicians. Here's what they told me: www.understandingai.org/p/mathematic...
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Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 19h agoMy (cynical) working theory is that the White House knows that its "AI Framework" is basically a much worse version than the AI framework the Biden admin released, which caused the VC bros of Silicon Valley to go all MAGA. Keeping it private avoids the comparison.
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Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi.risky.biz · 21h agoNew incidents have been confirmed in Clayton County, Georgia and the near city of Duchesne, Utah, at an oilfield water treatment facility were the pumps were running dry but looking normal in their dashboards
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Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · yesterdayToni Schneider very recently told the @theverge.com that "we want to expand more and more so that Bluesky means not just one thing, not just liberal politics, for example." I'd really like to understand what sort of politics are acceptable on here Toni Schneider www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...
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Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 23h agoIce is spending millions on outside agencies to sweep up Americans who criticize it on social media in a far-reaching dragnet that infringes free speech. “As far as I can tell, all of this is about people saying naughty things about ICE and immigration enforcement." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · yesterdayMicrosoft is introducing budget limits for AI spend and says it's not aiming for "tokenmaxxing." Keep in mind that Microsoft is selling AI tools to other companies, so it benefits from maximalist AI use. www.404media.co/microsoft-te...
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Harry McCracken@harrymccracken.com · yesterdayFingers crossed this isn’t bad news for people who use Airtable, such as me. In particular, I’d like to see the product continue to evolve and improve. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-1-28b/
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Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · yesterday“The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes …They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷@daniloc.xyz · yesterdayAirtable should have taken over the world. so many of the problems caused by spreadsheets were elegantly solved by Airtable's combination of tight schemas and user-friendliness. but I think deep down, none of them understood what they'd actually built. bsky.app/profile/tech...
