Water will find its way through cracks in walls and foundations in such a manner that even the most wondrously designed structure may collapse into pile of rubble. Do not attribute agency to the water; rather, denounce the engineers and the builders and the maintainers who failed in their work.

HappeningNow@happeningnow.news · 2d ago

OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The… 🔗 https://hnow.live/a/d1289836

The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.

Anna Mills@annamillsoer.bsky.social · 2w ago

"They don't realize the debate inside the companies is if AI will be advancing itself past our control in two years or four." www.pacingthefrontier.com

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Ik was in Silicon Valley en kon de karikaturen niet vermijden, decorrespondent.nl/16977/reizen...

Reizend door Silicon Valley is de karikatuur niet te vermijden: mooie woorden, brute werkelijkheid

Ik sta voor een dichte deur van het hoofdkantoor van Anthropic. Althans, ik dacht dat dit het hoofdkantoor van Anthropic was. Google Maps leidde me naar dit adres in San Francisco, maar door de beplak...

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Juist

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · last mo.

I was in two intensive week-long workshops this year with neuroscientists, philosophers and computer scientists and not *one* thought LLMs are conscious, or that anything is ‘mysterious’ in a model trained on scifi and Internet chat doing woo-woo musing about self-consciousness. And do you know why?

I want you to notice how this article, which took two journalists to write, doesn't even bother to seriously explore whether the claims being made by companies are true it's genuinely just not relevant to them

Semafor@semafor.com · 2mo ago

Building data centers in space could be cost-effective by the early 2030s. www.semafor.com/article/06/1...

“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Anthropic maakt technologie die een cruciale kern vormt van de Amerikaanse diensten, het leger en het buitenlandbeleid. Je kunt niet Trump een gevaar voor de wereld noemen en tegelijkertijd Anthropic de hemel in prijzen als moreel baken. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.

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Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

De hele vloot!

San Antonio Express-News@expressnews.com · 3mo ago

The company is recalling nearly 3,800 robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle entered floodwaters on a San Antonio road and was washed into a creek. bit.ly/4wmkV3G

“There is just so much pressure to use these tools,” one Amazon employee told the FT. “Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximise their token usage.”

Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores

In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company’s AI leaderboard

ft.com

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

So. Which do you think is more efficient: 1) Solar panels in space, converting that electricity *back* into EM radiation, beaming that *through the same atmospheric losses*, recapturing it (losing some to efficiency/misses), and converting it back into electricity, or 2) solar panels on the ground

Meta makes a bid for space-based solar

Unlike Elon Musk’s approach of putting compute into orbit, Overview Energy plans to beam energy to solar farms here on Earth.

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Dit lijkt mij een risicovolle politieke strategie. Omwonenenden staan met hooivorken voor datacenters. AI pollt bijna net zo slecht als Trump. Wat brengt deze technologie de burgers die gele hesjes aan de kapstok hebben hangen? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace AI as government makes first £500m fund investment

Technology secretary plays down fears over jobs and cyber security as stake taken in British startup

theguardian.com

Happy 4/20 everyone I am sorry to inform you that this appears to be real

Why.

This pasta sauce wants to record your family

Even dinner wants to listen to your conversations now.

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Vanceplaining

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is stunning.

The system “combines a Reddit-like forum with a chatbot called VictorBot to help troops surface useful information, like the best way to configure electromagnetic warfare systems for a particular mission.”

The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat

The AI system, trained on real military data, is meant to give soldiers mission-critical information.

wired.com

BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.

Headline maker @theguardian.com has a distinct sense of conveying irony.

Microsoft, to its billions of customers: You must use this product to be hired or promoted. It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy. You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it. It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

Als 'Fellow' bij Mediahuis blogt oud-hoofdredacteur van o.a. NRC Peter Vandermeersch tegenwoordig over de journalistiek. Daarbij publiceerde hij tientallen fictieve citaten van echte deskundigen. Het onbedoelde gevolg van AI-gebruik, bevestigt Vandermeersch. Mediahuis heeft hem tijdelijk geschorst.

Hoe een journalist uitglijdt op door AI verzonnen citaten

Gebruik van AI-programma’s als ChatGPT als schrijfassistent leidt regelmatig tot missers. Na incidenten in media, wetenschap en advocatuur, ging nu ook journalist Peter Vandermeersch in de fout. „Ik h...

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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

The Iran war disrupts global helium supply and artificial intelligence chip makers

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

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In 1992, I watched my mother vote for a U.S. president born of her generation, in 1946. The president from 2001–2009 was born in 1946. (His opponents: 1943 and 1948). In 2016, the two major presidential candidates were born in 1946 and 1947. In 2026, the sitting U.S. president was born in… 1946.

I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader

404 Media@404media.co · 5mo ago

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

You know the war is going well when JD Vance’s allies are leaking that he was opposed to it all along. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Vance was ‘skeptical’ voice in White House on Iran strikes

White House officials revealed that the vice president made his opposition known in the leadup.

politico.com

Goede analyse, leesvoer voor iedereen die Anthropic op het schild hijst www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war

Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how

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These guys are so normal.

"On top of automating rote tasks, government agencies have launched hundreds of artificial intelligence projects in the past year, many of them taking on central and sensitive roles in law enforcement, immigration and health care."

Trump wants AI everywhere in government. See the 1,300 new ways it’s being used.

The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

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While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...