Cory Bergman
@corybe.com
Cofounder and chief product officer @factal.com. Journalist entrepreneur, AI nerd. Former Breaking News, NBC News. Seattle
It’s like a sci-fi alternate universe. www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...
Inside Ukraine’s Kill Zone
Drones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuter...
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Surprised more folks don’t follow @factal.com on this platform: global breaking news without the hype, consistently faster than any other source on Bluesky. (This feed is a small subset of our full service).
Joys of camping: book spot one year out, battle traffic for hours, pull into a packed parking lot with trees, listen to kids complain about crap internet, fall asleep early exhausted, wake 1 am 2 am then 3 am, fall down in the dark trying to pee, up at 5 am, leave early after kids threaten mutiny.
Just got GPT-5 and the first test (oddly I know) is whether voice mode can speak in Spanglish. Passed with flying colors, switching back and forth flawlessly for the first time.
The Niche Machine is here. We are now not just seeing AI slop about current events and natural disasters, we are seeing hyperpersonalized AI slop that combines "news" and disinformation with any interest / celebrity / hobby you could possibly imagine www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...
The Hyperpersonalized AI Slop Silo Machine Is Here
We are on a path to where social media will feed you hyperpersonalized AI slop about anything and everything.
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“We have never graduated coders. We have always graduated software engineers.” www.geekwire.com/2025/coding-...
Coding is dead: UW computer science program rethinks curriculum for the AI era
The University of Washington's Allen School is rethinking how to train the next generation of software engineers in an AI-dominated job market.
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Of course it did. And there will be more reports like this. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
Swedish bodyguards' fitness app data reveals private locations of royal family
Data from bodyguards' Strava apps showed the royals took trips to a private island in the Seychelles and to a luxury villa on the French Riviera.
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Seattle is at risk of becoming an “old tech” town — nearly all AI innovation is squarely back in Silicon Valley/SF. Microsoft is powering a big part of it, but faces increasing risks as AI upends software ecosystems. Amazon… ugh… had a huge head start with Alexa, and now…?
Microsoft cuts people to help offset the high cost of AI data centers. Then as AI gets even better, it will cut more people. Double whammy for tech workers.
Fascinating data point from Cloudflare’s CEO: click rates to AI source citations are plummeting because people trust the results more. In a ratio of pages scraped to search visitors, OpenAI was 250:1 six months ago, now 1500:1. m.youtube.com/watch?v=H5C9...
Axios’ Sara Fischer in conversation with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
YouTube video by Axios
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A moderately common event is someone confidently tells me that LLMs can't solve their specific puzzle, I whack it in o3, it spins up a python programme that solves it in 12 seconds, and it turns out the person had only ever tested it on the free versions of ChatGPT and Grok
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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Good overview of how AI is playing a larger roll in elections — for better or worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...
A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
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Unsurprising — and as AI makes it easier to get the news, fewer Americans will pay (at least directly).
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · last yr.In the past year, only 17% of Americans have paid for news, per Pew The #1 reason they give is that the information is available free elsewhere www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Not a fan of these kinds of user surveys. Reducing information friction is always popular if you design it well. Users struggle to articulate features — or even recognize that AI is at play. Anti-AI fears skew numbers, too. 1/2
Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org · last yr.The success of these tools will largely depend on how keen audiences are to use them in the first place, and there are big regional and demographic differences. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/ai-p...
When someone is talking with their AI in voice mode, it’s rude to interrupt. 😏
We as a community are rooting for Indy and not this dishonorable basketball, yes?
Hoop Informatics@hoopinformatics.bsky.social · last yr.Lu Dort draws a foul on Bennedict Mathurin in the backcourt
What is up with all the Achilles injuries in the NBA? Can’t remember it happening this often over the years. #nbasky
Completely agree, and feeds and lists don’t help when there’s so little niche content to begin with. If engagement mostly rewards political posts, there’s not much incentive to post anything else. The architecture invites content diversity but the culture discourages it.
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last yr.to me the biggest problem with bluesky is that politics dominates this place. that makes sense, i assume most of us left twitter for political reasons. but there's not enough chat about other things on here. there used to be, but not anymore. you get a little of the old twitter on big sports nights
NEW from me and @thiccreese.bsky.social: Disney is suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, but Midjourney's new video tool still produces animations of some Disney characters (including stuff like Wall-E with a gun or Yoda smoking weed): www.wired.com/story/midjou...
'Wall-E With a Gun': Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit
A week after Disney and Universal filed a landmark lawsuit against Midjourney, the generative AI startup's new V1 video tool will make clips of Shrek, Deadpool, and other famous creations.
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Agree — this is why Bluesky engagement is steadily declining. bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · last yr.The replies on here may not be as racist as Twitter, but they damn sure are hateful. Talk AI: FU, AI sucks go away Talk Business: Go away Talk Healthcare: Crickets. Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist We are forcing posts to X