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Ryan Whitwam

@rwhitwam.bsky.social

Minnesotan. Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica. Previous bylines at ExtremeTech, Android Police, Wirecutter, NY Times, PC World, HotHardware, Android Authority, and more.

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Ryan Whitwam@rwhitwam.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Gemini in Android Auto started reading its system chain of thought today. It went on for like a minute. The sheer number of AI tokens that it took to search for a drug store is wild.

lex luddy needs a nap@lexluddy.xyz · 4mo ago

On Thursday evening Valnet issued new contracts to writers at TheGamer instituting a minimum article viewership threshold for payment. Most writers already have pay tied to article performance, but this new system would mean that if a piece didn't get X number of clicks you wouldn't be paid for it.

Michelle Cyca@michellecyca.com · 5mo ago

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026 This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
Ryan Whitwam@rwhitwam.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I know the consensus on Crimson Desert has shifted since release, but I'm about 10 hours in, and that is increasingly feeling like cope. This game is a mess in a lot of ways. Not sure I can or want to stick it out for 60 hours.