Data controversies, James Stewart
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The Census will be a battleground for the future of politics and much more, and tech scholar extraordinaire danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social has a new book coming out about it. This will surely be essential reading. I've pre-ordered my copy: www.danah.org/data-are-mad...
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Wipro's AI push frees capacity equivalent to 20,000 workers, CTO says
Wipro's AI initiatives have increased productivity equivalent to the output of 20,000 employees, who have since been redeployed within the Indian IT firm, its chief technology officer said.
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Google mapped the entire connectome of a fly brain and made it available for download research.google/blog/a-conne...
A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain
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Plenty of major gaps in the data, but absolute numbers from Indía and Brazil still important. www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-count...
Ranked: The Countries That Use AI Tools the Most
The U.S. generated 26.9 billion visits to AI tool websites in 2025, more than India, Brazil, and Germany combined.
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The EU got access to Anthropic's most powerful model, months later
The EU's cybersecurity agency ENISA has gained access to Anthropic's Mythos 5, one of the most powerful AI technologies with disruptive cyber capabilities, three months after it was released to select...
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Elon Musk’s gas turbines could shake up the backlogged sector - www.ft.com/content/38e0... via @financialtimes.com
Elon Musk’s gas turbines could shake up the backlogged sector
Just the threat of market disruption might help ease bottlenecks, to the extent that it prods manufacturers to expand output
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Top US official named to OpenAI non-profit board warns advanced AI could be ‘deadly’ - www.ft.com/content/d73e... via @financialtimes.com
Top US official named to OpenAI non-profit board warns advanced AI could be ‘deadly’
Paul Christiano says technology could ‘kill most people’ without stronger safety features
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Anthropic uses its pattern matching machines to try to do a "pre-crime" approach towards detecting resistance against their god. It's kinda like I predicted: https://tante.cc/2025/04/15/these-are-not-the-same/ In the end all that "AI" shit is gonna be surveillance.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d agoAnthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
BBC News - Google picks Finland for its largest single investment in Europe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google to fund Finnish AI with €13bn investment and nuclear power pact
The US tech giant says the €13bn data centre project will create tens of thousands of jobs.
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The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here www.economist.com/finance-and-... From The Economist
The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here
Initial effects of the technology on employment look positive
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As everyone is losing their mind over <another> AI is alive and going to kill us scare, it is time to point y'all to this by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social again hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...
AI Safety Is a Narrative Problem
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Stop turning schoolchildren into crash-test dummies www.economist.com/by-invitatio... From The Economist
Stop turning schoolchildren into crash-test dummies
AI can help in classrooms but it needs to be treated with caution, says Andreas Schleicher, founder of the PISA test
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Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency - www.ft.com/content/560e... via @financialtimes.com
Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency
Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups
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L'algorithme des réseaux sociaux favorisant les contenus d'extrême droite, couplé à leurs outils de monétisation et à la massification de l'IA, a permis la création d'un écosystème de pages racistes et réactionnaires à but lucratif. Massif et inquiétant. www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
Sur Facebook, le lucratif business des contenus réactionnaires générés par IA
Des centaines de pages comportant des contenus d’extrême droite sont publiées à destination du public français, au Sri Lanka, en Algérie ou au Venezuela, et obtiennent des audiences massives dans un b...
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"there is no evidence—none—of any corresponding learning benefit arising from students using AI" Empirical evidence of the educational harm of generative AI buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/the-50-per...
this needs emphasising: there are very few jobs coming from these huge, automated centres, so don't fall for that line
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d agoUK datacentres likely to directly employ 10,400 workers, compared with the 40,000 cited. 8.6 jobs per megawatt of power, compared to 400 in a car plant, 3,600 in a hospital or health facility. Huge consumption of electricity/water, emission of pollution. Need moratorium on expansion.
Here is a clip of a Wisconsin man 404 Media spoke to being pulled over. In it, the cop says he’s being pulled over because his license plate was “a little bit obstructed.” That wasn’t the real reason. Court docs show it’s because of predictive policing units. www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 4d agoHere's a video of a stop, we spoke to the person impacted. The cop comes up, says they're pulling over for an obstructed license plate. “Just so you know, that’s our reason for stopping you,” the cop says in the video. But it wasn't the real reason... www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
BBC News - New law to force tech firms to stop children taking or sharing nude images www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New law to force tech firms to prevent children from taking nude images
The government said it will legislate "as soon as they can" but may "reassess" its plans if firms make the desired changes sooner.
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Los ejecutivos ya ven el daño de la IA en sus equipos: nueve de cada diez empresas no tienen plan para frenarlo
Boston Consulting Group encuestó a 70 altos ejecutivos globales y la mitad ya observa pérdida de habilidades críticas por el uso de inteligencia artificial. El juicio y la toma de decisiones encabezan...
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Italy’s government, DPA argue over legality of face biometrics retention plan | Biometric Update
At issue is whether the collection of biometric data continuously and subsequent retrospective processing, as part of a forensic investigation, counts as LFR.
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