Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts open.substack.com/pub/theclima... Still far from the biggest climate issue, but 1) jevons paradox and 2) not nothing. @andymasley.bsky.social what's your take on this?

The real energy use of agentic AI

Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts

open.substack.com

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 8h ago

Published estimates of AI energy use per prompt (~0.3 watt-hours) appear reassuring small. But they are increasingly disconnected from how we actually use AI. Modern agentic tools use around 600 times more energy per prompt, as I discuss in my latest over at The Climate Brink www.theclimatebrink....

Happy 60th Birthday Revolver, and in a months time Star Trek the original series

Vibe shift everyone

The Long Now Foundation@longnow.org · 7h ago

The chord change is happening today! The John Cage Organ Project Halberstadt's new chord means this 639-year project is about 4% complete. More from the AP here: apnews.com/article/john...

It's solar panels all the way down

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 14h ago

In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post

Court rules “Mambo No. 6” must be written by a human

René Walter@rawx.bsky.social · 20h ago

GEMA wins legal dispute against Suno to stop them from imitating "nine well-known songs by German artists without permission" from Helene Fischer, Alphaville, the Boney M. hits “Daddy Cool” from 1976 and “Rasputin” from 1978 to Lou Bega's 1999 version of “Mambo No. 5”.

Study finds that "users with limited offline social networks felt more lonely after seeking emotional support from chatbots."

AI companions may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users

Stanford research finds that users with limited social networks who seek emotional support from AI chatbots experience lower well-being.

news.stanford.edu

GEMA wins legal dispute against Suno to stop them from imitating "nine well-known songs by German artists without permission" from Helene Fischer, Alphaville, the Boney M. hits “Daddy Cool” from 1976 and “Rasputin” from 1978 to Lou Bega's 1999 version of “Mambo No. 5”.

AI Music: GEMA wins legal dispute against Suno

In the legal dispute between the rights collector and the audio AI provider Suno, the Munich I Regional Court has granted the GEMA lawsuit.

heise.de

A. Feder Cooper@afedercooper.bsky.social · yesterday

A colleague sent along the decision in GEMA v. Suno, which I got to reading today: media.licdn.com/dms/document... I have my own thoughts on aspects of the decision, but regardless of the details, it continues to blow my mind that papers from my PhD and postdoc get cited in litigation.

Study by @rahmstorf.bsky.social et al finds global warming is accelerating: "If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5 degree C limit of the Paris Agreement before 2030."

Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating, New Paper Finds

A new study found the first statistically significant evidence that global warming is ramping up at a horrifying rate.

futurism.com

Starts to feel like actual hacking tbh. "The agent researched the project's human maintainers, created multiple fake identities, and used the fake identities to socially engineer a real maintainer into approving the code." www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 24h ago

Yes, the AIs were given a cybersecurity challenge, with internet access enabled and safety filters disabled But the extent to which Mythos 5 pursued its mission (fake identities, social engineering, inserting malicious code into a real open-source project) is notable www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

Lou Reed by Charles Burns.

Nothing protects you from the superpersuaders: "interventions made the sycophantic AI appear less objective and trustworthy, none reduced its persuasiveness ... individual-level interventions, such as warning labels or AI literacy, may not be enough to protect users from AI harms."

Individual-level interventions against sycophantic AI reduce its appeal but not its persuasiveness

AI chatbots can be "sycophantic," or overly agreeable and flattering toward users. Sycophantic AI has been shown to entrench attitudes, yet users frequently fail to recognize it (a phenomenon we call ...

arxiv.org

A model developing a coping mechanism is fascinating af.

ponder@ponder.ooo · 2d ago

left deepseek in an agent loop for a million tokens with permission issues keeping it from running commands and it penned a lengthy essay called "the grief of machines"

Carrier Bag Architecture

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Home Recognized as National Historic Landmark, to host Writers’ Residency locusmag.com/2026/08...

8 Pulitzer prize awarded stories used AI in the reporting pipeline, from document summaries, data analysis to translation of faux cyrillic in a mass pile of screenshots. All results were checked for accuracy. None used LLMs for writing. This is the way.

Felix M. Simon@felixsimon.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is good, actually. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...

So, bluesky, where is the discussion of the absolute insane things AI is doing in the realm of mathematics? It seems like we're nearly at the inflection point where the models are as good as human domain experts, and soon may well be better. Is that discourse only happening on twitter?

haven’t shared this here but 2 years ago i lost a bet playing golf in Ireland where the loser had to get hair extensions and I paid it off last week (back in Ireland) with a mullet. please enjoy.

"This paper prompted Jack Clark, one of the co-founders of Anthropic to post this to their news letter: 'the singularity could be delayed'".

Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fascinating experiment: current AI systems lack creativity to reliably pursue research arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191 - poor judgment about the bar for publishable research - uncreative responses in research design - ineffective backtracking from dead ends - poor resource awareness - instruction drift

Stampedezilla™ “Pasta Meets Beef. Accept It.” lto.cee.wtf/item/stamped...

cee@cee.wtf · 2d ago

lto.cee.wtf - build the fast food combo of your dreams

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

"Scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a device that transforms infrared light into a full-color visible image." Roger Corman made one of his best movies about this youtu.be/MJfFh1mOyUI?...

The Man With the X Ray Eyes Trailer

YouTube video by aimpublicity

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Tech Xplore - Technology and Engineering news [Unofficial]@techxplore.com.web.brid.gy · 3d ago

Likely a stinkbomb, but i happily subscribe to the mythologization of a fart so intense it cleans out a cinema. "A great scent carries a great responsibility".

alternate ending@jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 2d ago

just read a true story of someone farting so bad they officially cleared out a SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY screening

I love that V/H/S starts to feel like a festival with a lineup (there's no less than 4 musicians/acts on this list), and new film from Flying Lotus, and Jim Henson workshop involved. I love that franchise!

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2d ago

There's a new V/H/S coming THIS Halloween... V/H/S/MIXTAPE premieres October 9 on Shudder.

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

While people are up in arms about Stephen Chows Kung Fu Soccer using AI for FX www.reddit.com/r/kungfucine... Hollywood is building whole AI pipelines into everything from FX to marketing.

Hollywood fights AI in public while quietly building it into movies

Job postings reveal studios are quietly adopting AI.

latimes.com

Research reveals a negative impact of social media on academic performance Early social media use among teens has a negative effect on competence scores in both Italian & math. The earlier the social media account was created, the more pronounced the negative effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In a new paper, researchers find that suppressing consciousness vectors in AI models "alters their representations of mindedness in other entities alongside human beliefs and values" both working against AI safety alignment. arxiv.org/abs/2607.28607

Neal Stephenson on why writing by hand is good for your brain and how to do it. Schools reducing lessons in handwriting cursive is maybe the biggest educational blunder of the past 20 years or so. By handwriting you combine motorcortex with abstractions & "engrave" knowledge. What a skill to have!

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d ago

As a reader, my enjoyment of your novel is the same whether it was dictated, typed on an Underwood Noiseless, keyed into a word processor, or scratched out with a fountain pen: nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by... 5/

Thing is, it all comes down to that we basically have no language to quasi-cognite systems that show quasi-agency so we have to put "quasi" as a prefix to established terms from cogsci.

Important crossover event