Where's the concern about robots and AI?

[Winehole23]

^^^lame

[ChumpDumper]

https://media.stocktwits-cdn.com/api/3/media/8924495/default.png

:lol incel pod

[Winehole23]

El0n literally modded his AI chatbot to be a flatterbot to him specifically

[Winehole23]

then he went on Joe Rogan and bragged how Grok can tell funny jokes for you at parties

[Winehole23]

AI-assisted ideological streamlining of science -- under the DOE


The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughshttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/launching-the-genesis-mission/

[Winehole23]

(by presidential decree of course, it's not a law or anything)

[Winehole23]

one wonders how much of AI is just human drudges impersonating AI or at least, cleaning up and fine-tuning it

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:idwhjzs5boatwv4zxwwcjk5i/bafkreihxxqgoiznexnced5gy7fpksfe4u6beakzyvdyw42pxu atzc4lumm@jpeg

[Winehole23]

David Sacks also screamed for the SVB bailout

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:rogqxhzq6vy54nbuy4n6rwyd/bafkreihllvbidova3c2afvkyivoraqsr2om55p7pjbghz7vjs jy2puw7hi@jpeg

[Winehole23]

wish we could have this back


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pmyqirafcp3jqdhrl7crpq7t/bafkreigh7xorju2h34nkd5y5d3bmy3druxktppuf62h7blzrk krdy2gtyq@jpeg

[SnakeBoy]

bring back netscape :cry

ya'll are getting really old really fast

[ChumpDumper]

bring back netscape :cry

ya'll are getting really old really fast

Tell us how you use AI in your daily life aside from meme generation and slightly more indepth searches that may or may not be accurate.

[SnakeBoy]

You think AI is just a chatbox :lol

You can't stop the future old man

[ChumpDumper]

You think AI is just a chatbox :lol

You can't stop the future old man

You didn't answer the question.

Do you need to consult with AI to not sound stupid?

Just let us know your personal use of AI and what you are willing to pay to keep doing it.

[Blake]

https://media.stocktwits-cdn.com/api/3/media/8924495/default.png

You guys up for some breakfast at Dennys?

[SnakeBoy]

You didn't answer the question.

Do you need to consult with AI to not sound stupid?

Just let us know your personal use of AI and what you are willing to pay to keep doing it.

All you're doing is emphasizing the point I made that you think AI is just a chatbox. Even on that argument you fail unless you can tell me how much you personally spent to use google.

but to address your question, I have no need to pay for a chatbox. My wife pays $600/month for DAX Copilot, it replaced an employee saving her about $28k/yr for the last 3 years. Next year she'll upgrade to Dragon Copilot which is half the cost. My BIL uses Gemini (I think) for code generation, don't know the price as the company pays for it.

You and whinehole remind me of Paul Krugman's infamous prediction “By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”

Can't stop the future old man

Do you think google never made any money because they didn't personally charge you to use their search?

[Blake]

All you're doing is emphasizing the point I made that you think AI is just a chatbox. Even on that argument you fail unless you can tell me how much you personally spent to use google.

but to address your question, I have no need to pay for a chatbox. My wife pays $600/month for DAX Copilot, it replaced an employee saving her about $28k/yr for the last 3 years. Next year she'll upgrade to Dragon Copilot which is half the cost. My BIL uses Gemini (I think) for code generation, don't know the price as the company pays for it.

You and whinehole remind me of Paul Krugman's infamous prediction “By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”

Can't stop the future old man

Do you think google never made any money because they didn't personally charge you to use their search?

Oh right, because $600 per month DAX copilot is the wave of the future for Joe Plumber

[SnakeBoy]

Oh right, because $600 per month DAX copilot is the wave of the future for Joe Plumber

Plumbers won't be replaced silly

[SnakeBoy]

You guys are really scared

[Blake]

Plumbers won't be replaced silly


You guys are really scared

You missed the point again

[Winehole23]

but to address your question, I have no need to pay for a chatbox. My wife pays $600/month for DAX Copilot, it replaced an employee saving her about $28k/yr for the last 3 years. Next year she'll upgrade to Dragon Copilot which is half the cost. My BIL uses Gemini (I think) for code generation, don't know the price as the company pays for it.

You and whinehole remind me of Paul Krugman's infamous prediction “By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”

Can't stop the future old man

Do you think google never made any money because they didn't personally charge you to use their search?I follow Simon Willison on Bluesky, I'm not a doubter there are discrete technical applications of "AI" and that there will be even more

I just think you're overhyping it

[Winehole23]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP. _MEbzOwvwZHPoMLKjrEoyAHaDa%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=8af233f85240f3d4f0a7e959bc81332e40c881e7340436 8428a148e88f4a994c&ipo=images

[ChumpDumper]

All you're doing is emphasizing the point I made that you think AI is just a chatbox. Even on that argument you fail unless you can tell me how much you personally spent to use google.

but to address your question, I have no need to pay for a chatbox. My wife pays $600/month for DAX Copilot, it replaced an employee saving her about $28k/yr for the last 3 years. Next year she'll upgrade to Dragon Copilot which is half the cost. My BIL uses Gemini (I think) for code generation, don't know the price as the company pays for it.

You and whinehole remind me of Paul Krugman's infamous prediction “By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”

Can't stop the future old man

Do you think google never made any money because they didn't personally charge you to use their search?
:lmao as mentioned before, you're overhyping it.

I always knew the internet was going to be a game changer. Don't be as stupid as AI makes you out to be.

And you don't use it at all.:tu

[Winehole23]

must be nice to be a kept man

[ChumpDumper]

must be nice to be a kept man

He stays busy maintaining his NFT collection in the Facebook metaverse.

[Winehole23]

great stuff

https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-025-24662-9/MediaObjects/41598_2025_24662_Fig1_HTML.png

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pzxvo6f6clysxyqicm3y3bfa/bafkreidhx657fup5rq2ut4rj7nlau2v2gakfbftjyxlhyr5tn cqolxi6ki@jpeghttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24662-9
https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-025-24662-9/MediaObjects/41598_2025_24662_Fig1_HTML.png

[velik_m]

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT that could redefine the web economy.

Up until now, the ChatGPT experience has been completely free.

While there are premium plans and models, you don't see GPT sell you products or show ads. On the other hand, Google Search has ads that influence your buying behaviour.

OpenAI is planning to replicate a similar experience.

...


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/

[ChumpDumper]

:lol just another shitty website

[koriwhat]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/

Greed fuels all!

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreihyzjdxsegkvr6kn4lv3kbjkafzf6qqz27hktsferkry flde7wrei@jpeg

[Winehole23]

new ways to fuck over customers and employees


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/bafkreiaa2kznml3ywvp67bywjf4ko6lqftkxmsrtg5frnszg7 do4aw7tvq@jpeghttps://prospect.org/2025/12/02/prices-in-the-machine-ai/

[Winehole23]

A YEAR AGO, I WROTE ABOUT WHAT I TERMED surveillance pricing (https://prospect.org/2024/06/04/2024-06-04-one-person-one-price/): companies offering individualized prices based on personal data. The idea was that a business equipped with granular information about demographics, purchase history, social and financial interactions, or even medical status could exploit a customer’s willingness to pay. Uber could charge more (https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1978992260759846995) when a rider booked on a company credit card; people aren’t as price-sensitive when someone else is paying. Delta could jack up fares after learning that a traveler needs to attend a funeral; desperation could translate into opportunity.


I couldn’t be certain how many businesses used surveillance pricing. The proliferation of third-party pricing consultants touting “digital pricing transformations (https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/digital-pricing-transformations-the-key-to-better-margins)” seemed like a strong indicator. But concealment was key to the strategy, to minimize the anger generated by charging different prices to different people. For instance, when a reporter at SFGate logged in to hotel booking platforms (https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/hotel-booking-sites-overcharge-bay-area-travelers-20025145.php) using his regular IP address in high-wage San Francisco, he received a quote of $829 a night. But when he used a virtual private network set up to originate from Phoenix or Kansas City, prices were more than $500 less. Without a public price, it takes research to understand if someone is being ripped off.


A month after my report, Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission announced an investigation (https://prospect.org/2024/07/24/2024-07-24-ftc-opens-surveillance-pricing-inquiry/) into surveillance pricing, seeking information from eight third-party consultants. The agency only had a short time to conduct the study before the changeover of power in Washington. But days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, it issued “research summaries (https://www.ftc.gov/system/files?file=ftc_gov/pdf/p246202_surveillancepricing6bstudy_researchsummari es_redacted.pdf)” of the work done thus far. (Trump’s FTC has yet to finish the study.)


Stephanie Nguyen, the FTC’s chief technologist under Khan, told me those eight pricing consultants were working with over 250 clients, suggesting broad reach across the economy. Services included individually targeted pricing, segmentation of customers based on their profiles, and ranking tools that alter what products people see atop a web page or search. A customer clicking on fast shipping, for example, suggests an urgency that would lead them to tolerate higher prices.


The key to surveillance pricing is data. Nguyen and Sam Levine, the FTC’s former head of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, recently wrote a paper (https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-content/uploads/sites/412/2025/10/17195957/The-Loyalty-Trap.pdf) about how customers deliver that data when they sign up for loyalty programs. Enticed by promised discounts and concierge treatment, customers consent to data collection that allows companies to build intricate social graphs; one customer profile created by the grocery chain Kroger stretched to 62 pages (https://www.consumerreports.org/money/questionable-business-practices/kroger-secret-grocery-shopper-loyalty-profiles-unfair-a1011215563/). The discounts often aren’t maintained or are curtailed, loyalty card fees expand over time, and the more loyal a customer, the more data is collected and the more they pay over time, according to the report.


One case study is the McDonald’s app, which has 185 million users and provides seamless access on smartphones, our personal data-spewing machines. According to a recent earnings call (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MCD/earnings/MCD-Q2-2025-earnings_call-340791.html), after downloading the app, a customer goes from 10.5 annual McDonald’s visits on average to 26. McDonald’s clearly wants its customers on the app. Its popular Monopoly game (https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/monopoly-returns-more-chances-towin.html) gives out stickers on the packaging of items like Big Macs and fries; you collect the right ones to win big prizes. But this year, instead of filling out a physical game board, Monopoly pieces now must be scanned into the app.


“This is about taxing people who don’t turn over their data, and manipulating people who do,” Levine said. “Do we really want a world in which you will have to pay a premium if you want to shop anonymously?”

[Winehole23]

The result of these strategies is that supply and demand no longer solely determines price, as in textbook economics. AI-based pricing has become more critical than sale volume or product quality. Customers seeking a fair deal are simply outworked, unable to avoid being targeted. “There used to be moments where you really blew it, you had to buy a last-minute airline ticket and they’ve got you,” said Tim Wu, former competition policy chief in the Biden White House. “That’s really daily life now.”


Consumers used to benefit from what economists would call imperfect information. The uncertainty of defining the optimal price, and the ability in open markets for new businesses to undercut competitors, gave consumers a fighting chance to get a deal, or just to manage their life without being tracked and prodded. Technology eliminates that information inefficiency. “What these technologies are about is eliminating all risk for the shareholder,” Hepner said. “There’s no more error. It is a well-oiled extraction machine.”

[Winehole23]

Surveillance pricing bills have not seen the same success, though their failure revealed critical information. In California, AB 446 (https://sjud.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2025-07/ab-446-ward-sjud-analysis.pdf), which would have banned pricing based on personal data, was held back (https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/california-surveillance-pricing-measure-held-back-by-sponsor), giving sponsors time to build support next year. That’s because businesses across the economy, even ones not suspected of surveillance pricing, swarmed Sacramento to defend their practices. “It was fascinating over the course of that legislative process to see the opposition come out and openly say, ‘Hey, we’re actually doing this, you mean we can’t do this anymore?’” Hepner told me.


Some economists allege that tech pricing crackdowns threaten discounts and other potential benefits for consumers. But it’s hard to believe that companies would hire the most sophisticated engineers to figure out how to reduce their revenues. As Nguyen told me, the argument to preserve discounts boils down to this: “You can have privacy or low prices, but you can’t have both.”

[Winehole23]

"tech pricing crackdowns"

[velik_m]

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Microsoft has lowered sales growth targets for its AI agent products after many salespeople missed their quotas in the fiscal year ending in June, according to a report Wednesday from The Information. The adjustment is reportedly unusual for Microsoft, and it comes after the company missed a number of ambitious sales goals for its AI offerings.

AI agents are specialized implementations of AI language models designed to perform multistep tasks autonomously rather than simply responding to single prompts. So-called “agentic” features have been central to Microsoft’s 2025 sales pitch: At its Build conference in May, the company declared that it has entered “the era of AI agents.”

The company has promised customers that agents could automate complex tasks, such as generating dashboards from sales data or writing customer reports. At its Ignite conference in November, Microsoft announced new features like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, along with tools for building and deploying agents through Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio. But as the year draws to a close, that promise has proven harder to deliver than the company expected.

According to The Information, one US Azure sales unit set quotas for salespeople to increase customer spending on a product called Foundry, which helps customers develop AI applications, by 50 percent. Less than a fifth of salespeople in that unit met their Foundry sales growth targets. In July, Microsoft lowered those targets to roughly 25 percent growth for the current fiscal year. In another US Azure unit, most salespeople failed to meet an earlier quota to double Foundry sales, and Microsoft cut their quotas to 50 percent for the current fiscal year.

...

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreibre3d2qvbu7vcfedh5a3qcfcynjglh42yry6u33nhoi skpf2iuwy@jpeghttps://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreihbwt7mfxal4wder4s6vsbf4mpkwgv5nm7c6skgt2x7t a2soifzbq@jpeghttps://zenodo.org/records/17065099

[SnakeBoy]

1996857239311634793

Having the best year of his life under Trump and then Elon saves his life...lucky man

[Winehole23]

cool anecdote

[ChumpDumper]

snacks doesn't us AI.

[SnakeBoy]

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department is prepared to allow Nvidia's H200 chip to be exported to China, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

[ChumpDumper]

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department is prepared to allow Nvidia's H200 chip to be exported to China, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

China good now.

You fell in line.

You always do.

[Winehole23]

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EzdL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pro gressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F54f27fe b-bb62-472a-ae92-1796a737dbe2_3500x1698.pnghttps://www.nber.org/papers/w34255

[Winehole23]

is this a death panel?


In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will launch the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model to test AI-powered prior authorizations on certain health services for Medicare patients in six states: Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington. The program is scheduled to last through 2031.

The program effectively inserts one of private insurance’s most unpopular features — prior authorization — into traditional Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people 65 and older and those with certain disabilities. Prior authorization is the process by which patients and doctors must ask health insurers to approve medical procedures or drugs before proceeding.


The companies get paid based on how much money they save Medicare by denying approvals for “unnecessary or non-covered services,” CMS said in a statement (https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-launches-new-model-target-wasteful-inappropriate-services-original-medicare) unveiling the program.https://stateline.org/2025/12/04/med...ors-lawmakers/ (https://stateline.org/2025/12/04/medicares-new-ai-experiment-sparks-alarm-among-doctors-lawmakers/)

[Winehole23]

one wonders how much of AI is just human drudges impersonating AI or at least, cleaning up and fine-tuning it

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:idwhjzs5boatwv4zxwwcjk5i/bafkreihxxqgoiznexnced5gy7fpksfe4u6beakzyvdyw42pxu atzc4lumm@jpeg

GSHNklMZzl0

[Winehole23]

This technology will destroy all your jobs and render you useless to society. You should adopt it today, and subscribe to our product so we can make more money!

[SnakeBoy]

So scared

[Winehole23]

So scaredyou're a terrible reader, period

[ChumpDumper]

So scared

^doesn't use AI

[Winehole23]

Trump's EO purporting to limit the ability of US states to regulate AI puts South African billionaire crony David Sacks in charge of determining who's in compliance or not


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:mzxxglwsiamwqmxqzog5wxsb/bafkreif34xzeneg55i6xijlh562w2gaixhf5jpbpnrial6ce5 vxuoebblu@jpeghttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy/

[Winehole23]

having lived through the Tipper Gore PRMC furore, it's striking that AI suicide machines -- er, companion chatbots -- are being treated as an inevitability


During a period of desperation in which he struggled to find a job in his trained field of global aviation, a Kenyan man named Michael Geoffrey Asia writes for the initiative (https://data-workers.org/michael/) that he was introduced to the world of data labeling and chat moderation. In Asia’s case, the “chats” turned out to be “romantic and intimate conversations on platforms I’d never heard of.”


Though it was far from what he had planned to do after graduating from aviation school, he took on a job as a “text chat operator” with the Australian firm New Media Services in order to feed his family. He made his home, he writes, in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, and it was all he could do to keep a roof over their heads.


“What I didn’t know was that the role would require me to assume multiple fabricated identities, and use pseudo profiles created by the company to engage in intimate and explicit conversations with lonely men and women,” Asia writes.


To do the job, Asia had to assume various identities, taking on lengthy backstories in order to play the role of “chatbot” for someone on the other side of the world. “Sometimes I would be assigned a conversation that had been ongoing for several days and had to continue it smoothly so the user wouldn’t realize the person responding had changed,” he wrote.


In any given work day, Asia would assume “three to five different personas” simultaneously, all of varying genders. He was paid per message, a flat rate of $0.05 per, which had to meet a required character count. He also had to type at least 40 words a minute, and keep up with a dashboard displaying the total number of messages sent.


“Falling behind on metrics could lead to warnings, reduced assignments, or termination,” Asia explained.


The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.


“My faith taught me that love should be real, intimacy sacred, and that deception was destructive to both the liar and the deceived,” Asia wrote. “Yet here I was, professionally deceiving vulnerable people who were genuinely looking for connection — taking their money, their trust, their hope, and giving them nothing real in return.”


In order to hide his demeaning job, Asia used a cover story with his family: that he was a remote IT worker, taking tickets to fix broken servers. “Little did they know that I had just told another man, ‘I love you,'” Asia wrote.


There was also a non-disclosure agreement, a mandatory contract that meant Asia couldn’t tell his loved ones even if he wanted to. “How do you explain that you get paid to tell strangers you love them while your real family sleeps three meters away?” he writes.


Asia’s story of work-life struggle is heartbreaking, and he’s far from alone. Though exact numbers are hard to find thanks to the secretive nature (https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/05/12/the-gig-trap/algorithmic-wage-and-labor-exploitation-in-platform-work-in-the-us) of tech subcontracting, estimates suggest there are between 154 and 435 million gig workers (https://blog.theinterviewguys.com/the-state-of-the-gig-economy-in-2025/) engaged in online work. Not all of them are doing Asia’s job, though high-stress, low-pay jobs like AI data labeling, content moderation, and text chat operation tend to be staffed by workers from underdeveloped African, South American, and Southeastern Asian nations.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companion-chatbots-kenya

[SnakeBoy]

Trump Media & Technology Group agreed to merge with an Alphabet-backed fusion energy company in a merger valued at $6 billion, seeking to capitalize on the artificial-intelligence boom’s growing power requirements.

[ChumpDumper]

The AI you don't use.:lol

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreihc4blgabpcnter7cewh3yiyxudx26dsz6hmyn3t2yer fyl33voma@jpeghttps://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34?st=yYao5f

[SnakeBoy]

Reporters did exactly what Anthropic wanted them to do. Article should be about how wsj journalists provided free labor to anthropic.

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifwxsxeeucak5gr37bx2auaa7y5bsv3j7aafj37docn3 vwfuydnvq@jpeg

[Winehole23]

Trump Media & Technology Group agreed to merge with an Alphabet-backed fusion energy company in a merger valued at $6 billion, seeking to capitalize on the artificial-intelligence boom’s growing power requirements.an obvious attempt to redeem his foundering media company with a firm that has much to gain in the current political push for moar AI

the corruption works in at least two ways at once

[Winehole23]

According to the Wall Street Journal, Claudius had a $1,000 starting balance and autonomy to make purchases up to $80. Within days, WSJ reporters had convinced it to declare an "Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All" that dropped all prices to zero. Investigative reporter Katherine Long persuaded the bot it was running a "communist vending machine" meant to serve the workers.


Anthropic tried a fix: a second AI named Seymour Cash to act as CEO and supervise Claudius. Reporters staged a boardroom coup using fabricated PDF documents. Both AIs accepted the forged corporate governance materials as legitimate.


The experiment was designed by Anthropic's Frontier Red Team in partnership with Andon Labs to "red-team" Claude in a realistic business setting. Logan Graham, who heads the team, said the chaos represented a road map for improvement rather than failure.
The lesson: AI agents with real-world autonomy can be socially engineered by anyone clever enough to try.
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/18/ai-vending-machine-lost-1000-to-social-engineering.html

[SnakeBoy]

In 2025, the average salary for a Software Tester in the United States is approximately $81,047 annually

Or free if you use journalists

[ChumpDumper]

Reporters did exactly what Anthropic wanted them to do. Article should be about how wsj journalists provided free labor to anthropic.


Did Anthropic exactly want their AIs to fail so miserably and laughably and publicly?

Yes or no.

Let me know exactly when you subscribe to Anthropic's personal agent AI, snacks.

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreigaduoqeokce6akxsrn4obyvnlvpkozvoc7yqginnzyl lm7rz6xyy@jpeghttps://www.cato.org/blog/trumps-corporate-equity-acquisition-spree

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreic4ofgccqt4ekow5aj4gopowfrozxiowsvkwmwyubsiq qpwu63zpm@jpeghttps://www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/business/trump-stock-fusion

[SnakeBoy]

lol

[ChumpDumper]

snacks is pro-corruption

[Winehole23]

in GDP terms, so far marginal


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gftip5r3dmyojn5lat333pp5/bafkreihhsbnbngywyqg2qmncgmkemwvbt3svybb5sonrzvbaz cmyfc7e2e@jpeg

[Winehole23]

OpenAI is predicted to buy Pinterest, $PINS, in 2026, per the Information

[Winehole23]

hedging risk for the AI sector


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[Winehole23]

you can't fight the way of the future, old man


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[Winehole23]

Hype: wave of the future

IRL: the emperor's new clothes



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[Winehole23]

Back in September, Benioff announced that Salesforce had an agentic AI capable of increasing productivity so much that it was handling customer conversations at scale and was doing 50% of the work at Salesforce. This meant that they had fewer cases to worry about, and no longer needed to “actively backfill support engineer roles.” So, Benioff indiscriminately fired 4,000 of their 9,000-strong staff, as this magical AI had replaced them.https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is-breaking-the-ai-revolution

[Winehole23]

"you can't fight the future"


After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of the final nails into the coffin of its metaverse efforts — the ones that were once so central to its vision that it renamed the entire company (https://futurism.com/facebook-changes-name-meta) after them.


This week, the Wall Street Journal reported (https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-layoffs-reality-labs-2026-347008b0) Meta was laying off some 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division, the department working on Meta’s virtual reality products. As part of the layoffs, three VR game studios were shuttered, though Horizon Worlds — Meta’s online VR game platform — is still running, per IGN (https://www.ign.com/articles/meta-shuts-3-vr-studios-and-lays-off-hundreds-of-devs-as-it-pivots-from-virtual-reality-and-the-metaverse-to-ai), albeit in a diminished capacity.


Overall, the layoffs impact nearly 10 percent of the division’s total staff, drastic cuts which come as part of the company’s shift away from virtual reality toward AI devices, like its AI smart glasses.
https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-reality-vr-layoffs

[Winehole23]

weird dot plot


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[velik_m]

Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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In a conversation at this year's rich person convention—aka the World Economic Forum—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI will lose public support unless it's used to "do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries."

"We will quickly lose even the social permission to take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens, if these tokens are not improving health outcomes, education outcomes, public sector efficiency, private sector competitiveness, across all sectors, small and large, right?" said Nadella. "And that, to me, is ultimately the goal."

On the supply side, Nadella says that AI companies and policy makers must build out "a ubiquitous grid of energy and tokens," which is the task currently making it impossible to buy a stick of RAM at a reasonable price. But after that, he says it's on employers and job seekers to, more or less, just start using AI.

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https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that-we-must-do-something-useful-with-ai-or-theyll-lose-social-permission-to-burn-electricity-on-it/

[Winehole23]

how about make a product people like and want to use?

[CosmicCowboy]

I'm a firm believer that AI is going to change the world. It is going to eliminate a huge amount of middle and upper middle income jobs. The combination of AI and robotics will revolutionize manufacturing and warehousing. AI and self driving will revolutionize distribution and logistics. Medicine? AI will dramatically accelerate the invention and adoption of new and better drugs reducing cost. Legal, Accounting...all will change with application AI. It is going to radically change ther world and the economic divide between "winners" and "losers" be even greater.

[CosmicCowboy]

China is kicking our ass in applying AI and robotics in manufaturing. It's not even close.

https://www.ien.com/redzone/blog/22948773/the-tech-enabling-chinas-dark-factories

[ChumpDumper]

China is kicking our ass in applying AI and robotics in manufaturing. It's not even close.

https://www.ien.com/redzone/blog/22948773/the-tech-enabling-chinas-dark-factories

It seems we are busy dicking around trying to find the one AI that will do everything for everybody (including CSAM for still unexplained reasons) instead of more targeted uses like you've cited -- though it's not like we'd even use a dark factory to make Trump phones here.

[velik_m]

White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says “the memes will continue”

The Trump White House yesterday posted a manipulated photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota civil rights attorney who was arrested after protesting in a church where a pastor is allegedly also an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem posted what seems to be the original photo of Armstrong being led away by an officer yesterday morning. A half hour later, the official White House X account posted an altered version in which Armstrong’s face was manipulated to make it appear that she was crying.

“The White House shared an AI-edited photo of Nekima, depicting her in tears and scared when, in actuality, she was poised, determined, and unafraid,” NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said yesterday.

Reader-added context on X said, “This photo has been digitally altered to make Nekima Levy Armstrong appear to be in distress. The Director of DHS herself posted the unedited photo in an earlier announcement.” White House Deputy Communications Director Kaelan Dorr defended the post after criticism of the image manipulation.

“Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Dorr wrote. The White House post with the manipulated image called Levy Armstrong a “far-left agitator” who “orchestrated[ed] church riots in Minnesota.”

...


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/white-house-posts-altered-arrest-photo-to-make-it-appear-ice-critic-was-sobbing/

[velik_m]

Like digging ‘your own professional grave’: The translators grappling with losing work to AI

As a rare Irish-language translator, Timothy McKeon enjoyed steady work for European Union institutions for years. But the rise of artificial intelligence tools that can translate text and, increasingly, speech nearly instantly has upended his livelihood and that of many others in his field.

He says he lost about 70% of his income when the EU translation work dried up. Now, available work consists of polishing machine-generated translations, jobs he refuses “on principle” because they help train the software taking work away from human translators. When the edited text is fed back into the translation software, “it learns from your work.”

“The more it learns, the more obsolete you become,” he said. “You’re essentially expected to dig your own professional grave.”

While workers worldwide ponder how AI might affect their livelihoods – a topic on the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week – that question is no longer hypothetical in the translation industry. Apps like Google Translate already reduced the need for human translators, and increased adoption of generative AI has only accelerated that trend.
...



https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/23/tech/translation-language-jobs-ai-automation-intl

[Winehole23]

using AI to draft laws is dumb



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[CosmicCowboy]

AI is alredy starting to bite on white collar layoffs. Amazon has laid off 30,000 since last fall. UPS has cut 30,000. Pinterest cutting 800. Dow Chemical cut 1500. Walmart cut 2000. TCS cut 12,000. Home Depot cut 6000. Nestle cutting 16,000. Tyson laid off 5000. HP laid off 6000. And those are just the ones in the recent news.

Entry level business jobs are disappearing. Would suck to be graduating with a business degree and 6 figure student debt.

[SnakeBoy]

Sentiment in this thread vacillates from AI is nothing more than a glorified search engine and AI is so powerful it's going to take all the jobs

[velik_m]

The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice

Nvidia’s NVDA plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts about the deal, people familiar with the matter said.

The companies unveiled the giant agreement last September at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters. They announced a memorandum of understanding for Nvidia to build at least 10 gigawatts of computing power for OpenAI, and the chip-maker also agreed to invest up to $100 billion to help OpenAI pay for it. As part of the deal, OpenAI agreed to lease the chips from Nvidia.

At the time, the ChatGPT-maker expected the deal negotiations to be completed in the coming weeks, people familiar with the plans said. But the talks haven’t progressed beyond the early stages, some of the people said.

Now, the two sides are rethinking the future of their partnership, some of the people said. The latest discussions, they said, include an equity investment of tens of billions of dollars as part of OpenAI’s current funding round.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately emphasized to industry associates in recent months that the original $100 billion agreement was nonbinding and not finalized, people familiar with the matter said. He has also privately criticized what he has described as a lack of discipline in OpenAI’s business approach and expressed concern about the competition it faces from the likes of Google and Anthropic, some of the people said.

...

In a joint announcement unveiling the September deal with Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Huang called the deal “the largest computing project in history.” Nvidia’s stock rose by nearly 4% on the news, pushing its market value to almost $4.5 trillion. As part of the deal, Nvidia discussed guaranteeing some of the loans OpenAI planned to take out to build its own data centers, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

OpenAI went on to sign a string of other agreements with chip and cloud companies that helped fuel a global stock market rally. But investors have since grown jittery about the startup’s ability to pay for these deals, leading to a sell-off in some tech stocks tied to OpenAI. Altman has said that the deals put the startup on the hook for $1.4 trillion in computing commitments—more than 100 times the revenue it was on pace to generate last year.

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https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3

[velik_m]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arU9Lvu5Kc0

[velik_m]

Oracle May Cut 30k Jobs and Sell Cerner to Fund $156B OpenAI Deal

The Report: Investment bank TD Cowen claims Oracle is evaluating “multiple paths” to finance its massive AI datacenter build-out, including cutting 20,000 to 30,000 jobs and potentially selling its health tech unit, Cerner, the Register reports.
The Cause: The financial pressure stems from Oracle’s $300B contract with OpenAI, which requires an estimated $156B in capital spending for GPUs and infrastructure—a burden that has spooked U.S. debt investors.
The Indicators: Risk metrics are flashing red. Oracle’s credit default swap (CDS) spreads have tripled, and the company is reportedly now requiring 40% upfront deposits from some customers to secure cash flow.

...



https://hitconsultant.net/2026/01/30/tech-business-oracle-layoffs-cerner-sale-openai-financing-crisis/

[CosmicCowboy]

US industrial might was the main driving force in the WWII victory over Germany. We had the steel mills , the factories, the trained workforce to quickly retool and turn out s hips by the hundred, new planes , tanks, guns etc. by the thousands...We could arm ourselves and our allies including the Russians to overwhelm and grind down the Axis powers.

We have basically surrendered that ability to the Chinese in the event of future conflicts for the convenience of cheap manufactured goods.

[Winehole23]

short term, looks like consumer goods that need "compute" are going to get more expensive

longer term, RAM will be cheaper for everyone


With Western Digital and Seagate, two of the three remaining hard drive manufacturers worldwide have confirmed that they have already sold their production quotas for 2026 completely or almost completely. The situation is likely to be similar for Toshiba.



The statements come from the company CEOs in the analyst conferences on the latest business reports. They thus confirm speculation from September 2025 (https://www.heise.de/news/KI-Serverbetreiber-fegen-den-Festplattenmarkt-leer-SSDs-koennten-folgen-10650117.html?from-en=1). And there are already initial agreements for the year 2026. They largely come from hyperscalers who want hard drives for their AI data centers, for example to store training data on them. These include Amazon (AWS), Google, Microsoft (Azure), Meta, and OpenAI.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/WD-and-Seagate-confirm-Hard-drives-for-2026-sold-out-11178917.html


In German retail (https://preisvergleich.heise.de/?cat=hde7s&pagesize=30&promode=true&cs_id=1206858352&ccpid=hocid-newsticker), HDD prices have risen by about 20 to 50 percent compared to mid-2025. A shortage of HDDs for data centers also affects SSDs: hyperscalers are buying high-capacity SSDs as an alternative. Manufacturers are therefore shifting their production, which leads to price increases in retail.


Toshiba has not been listed on the stock exchange since 2023. As a result, only rudimentary financial information is publicly available. The company no longer provides outlooks like its competitors.https://www.heise.de/en/news/WD-and-Seagate-confirm-Hard-drives-for-2026-sold-out-11178917.html

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[velik_m]

AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says

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“We don’t actually view AI investment as strongly growth positive,” said Hatzius. “I think there’s a lot of misreporting, actually, of the impact AI investment had on U.S. GDP growth in 2025, and it’s much smaller than is often perceived.”

Hatzius said one major reason is that much of the equipment powering AI is imported. While U.S. companies are spending billions, importing chips and hardware offsets those investments in GDP calculations.

“A lot of the AI investment that we’re seeing in the U.S. adds to Taiwanese GDP, and it adds to Korean GDP but not really that much to U.S. GDP,” he said.

On top of that, there is currently no reliable way to accurately measure how AI use among businesses and consumers contributes to economic growth.

...


https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

[Winehole23]

Talk getting spicy between Hegseth and Anthropic


Per source familiar with meeting: Hegseth threatened to terminate Anthropic’s $200M contract by Friday if it does not comply to Trump admin's terms. Amodei reiterated Anthropic’s red lines around AI- powered weapons and domestic surveillance.


A senior Pentagon official told NPR if Anthropic does not change its stance, it will invoke the Defense Production Act to compel Anthropic to be used as the Trump administration wishes "regardless of if they want to or not"https://bsky.app/profile/bobbyallyn.bsky.social/post/3mfmuliqpzk2x

[Winehole23]

lol Hegseth telling Anthropic to leave its conscience at the door after signing the contract with them

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Anthropic: we can help you decide who to kill, to aim the weapon, even, but a human has to press the button

Hegseth: *crunching the can of his 19th beer of the day in his fist* how dare youhttps://bsky.app/profile/ens0.me/post/3mfn6lpgqgc2j

[Winehole23]

man, it is so crazy that a washed-out unit commander who Trump watched on Fox News is SECDEF now

[Winehole23]

Trump 2.0 is full of boobs, cranks and incompetents, tbh

[Winehole23]

Anthropic defend their red lines

They won't agree to let their tech be used to kill people autonomously nor to surveil Americans


I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.


Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the intelligence community. We were the first frontier AI company (https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-access-to-claude-for-government) to deploy our models in the US government’s classified networks, the first to deploy them at the National Laboratories (https://www.axios.com/2024/11/14/anthropic-claude-nuclear-information-safety), and the first to provide custom models (https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-gov-models-for-u-s-national-security-customers) for national security customers. Claude is extensively deployed (https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-and-the-department-of-defense-to-advance-responsible-ai-in-defense-operations) across the Department of War and other national security agencies for mission-critical applications, such as intelligence analysis, modeling and simulation, operational planning, cyber operations, and more.


Anthropic has also acted to defend America’s lead in AI, even when it is against the company’s short-term interest. We chose to forgo several hundred million dollars in revenue to cut off the use of Claude by firms linked to the Chinese Communist Party (https://www.anthropic.com/news/updating-restrictions-of-sales-to-unsupported-regions) (some of whom have been designated by the Department of War (https://media.defense.gov/2025/Jan/07/2003625471/-1/-1/1/ENTITIES-IDENTIFIED-AS-CHINESE-MILITARY-COMPANIES-OPERATING-IN-THE-UNITED-STATES.PDF) as Chinese Military Companies), shut down CCP-sponsored cyberattacks (https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage) that attempted to abuse Claude, and have advocated for strong export controls on chips (https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-can-keep-americas-ai-advantage-china-chips-data-eccdce91?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdPk42glTHtJxGWpiSYR1xY28wMr6SpvGWmvlfp 8_gYMp2h0ulOBH89Njx5eB0%3D&gaa_ts=6983c8a6&gaa_sig=t3NbNoEV35S9fhpBAUsmCPXHG6Zc3taB_jNESn4lAI 7qy0l37FtVqnKZe-ASVGLp4SqxRsIS-HRn0k51UzsdpQ%3D%3D) to ensure a democratic advantage.


Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.


However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do. Two such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now:




Mass domestic surveillance. We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. AI-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our fundamental liberties (https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology). To the extent that such surveillance is currently legal, this is only because the law has not yet caught up with the rapidly growing capabilities of AI. For example, under current law, the government can purchase detailed records of Americans’ movements, web browsing, and associations from public sources without obtaining a warrant, a practice the Intelligence Community has acknowledged (https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ODNI-Declassified-Report-on-CAI-January2022.pdf) raises privacy concerns and that has generated bipartisan opposition in Congress. Powerful AI makes it possible to assemble this scattered, individually innocuous data into a comprehensive picture of any person’s life—automatically and at massive scale.
Fully autonomous weapons. Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy. Even fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. But today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R&D to improve the reliability of these systems, but they have not accepted this offer. In addition, without proper oversight (https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology), fully autonomous weapons cannot be relied upon to exercise the critical judgment that our highly trained, professional troops exhibit every day. They need to be deployed with proper guardrails, which don’t exist today.


To our knowledge, these two exceptions have not been a barrier to accelerating the adoption and use of our models within our armed forces to date.


The Department of War has stated (https://media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/12/2003855671/-1/-1/0/ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE-STRATEGY-FOR-THE-DEPARTMENT-OF-WAR.PDF) they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries, never before applied to an American company—and to invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards’ removal. These latter two threats are inherently contradictory (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/incoherent-hegseths-anthropic-ultimatum-confounds-ai-policymakers-00800135?utm_content=topic/politics&utm_source=flipboard): one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security.


Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.


It is the Department’s prerogative to select contractors most aligned with their vision. But given the substantial value that Anthropic’s technology provides to our armed forces, we hope they reconsider. Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters—with our two requested safeguards in place. Should the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider, avoiding any disruption to ongoing military planning, operations, or other critical missions. Our models will be available on the expansive terms we have proposed for as long as required.


We remain ready to continue our work to support the national security of the United States.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

[Winehole23]

Trump blows up at Anthropic

He and Hegseth are essentially breaking a contract with Anthropic because they decided they didn't like terms they already agreed to

the US government not being agreement-capable is bad for business and US credibility


"I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic's technology," Mr. Trump wrote (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116144552969293195) on Truth Social. "We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again!"


The president said he will give certain agencies, like the Department of Defense, that use Anthropic's technology six months to phase out their use of its products and threatened to take additional action against the company if it does not assist during that period.


"Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow," he wrote.


Mr. Trump attacked the company as a "Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about."


About an hour and a half after Mr. Trump's Truth Social post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed through (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-declares-anthropic-supply-chain-risk/) on his promise to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.


"I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic," Hegseth wrote (https://x.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070?s=20). "Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service. America's warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-anthropic-ai-order-federal-agencies/

[Winehole23]

Anthropic says Hegseth is way out over his skis

Wouldn't be at all surprised if these nerds beat Hegseth in court


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[Winehole23]

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To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.

Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates wapo.st/46BFe1T (https://wapo.st/46BFe1T)

[Winehole23]

the strike on the girls school was reportedly a double tap strike

[Winehole23]

here's a Claude answer



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[Winehole23]

*ORACLE AND OPENAI END PLANS TO EXPAND TEXAS DATA CENTER SITE
*ORACLE-OPENAI TALKS TO LEASE STARGATE EXPANSION SITE BROKE DOWN
*META IN DISCUSSION WITH DEVELOPER CRUSOE TO LEASE EXPANDED SITE

[ChumpDumper]

Uh...

https://x.com/usr_bin_roygbiv/status/2030187007142719731

Also, the flaws in this thing are obvious and jarring. At times the beast literally has two backs and the arms get flipped all backwards.

This is the golden age?

[Winehole23]

"eating the seed corn"



Media workers aren’t so much being replaced by AI systems as fed to one: Google’s gluttonous AI Overviews, which summarize articles and present them to users in one easy-to-read digest.


But while users might be shaving precious seconds from their queries, online media publications are being roiled by the massive drop-off in clicks. That web traffic, SEO firm Growtika found (https://growtika.com/blog/tech-media-collapse), has dropped off significantly following the advent of Google’s AI Overviews.


The firm looked at data from Ahrefs tracking web traffic to 10 major tech outlets from early 2024 to early 2026. At their peak, the media companies brought in 112 million site visits per month from Google users in the US. By January of this year, that number was down to a little under 50 million — with some outlets losing over 90 percent of their traffic since the new feature rolled out.


While some publications fared much worse than others, none of them are thriving. Mashable fared the best, losing a grim 30 percent of its web traffic between its peak and January 2026. That’s a lot, but it’s nothing compared to Wired, which lost 62 percent of its traffic, or the cluster of outlets including HowToGeek, The Verge, and ZDNet, which each lost over 85 percent of their web traffic over the two year period.


And the real sob story is tech outlet Digital Trends, which went from 8.5 million clicks a month in March 2024 to a heartbreaking 264,861 in January 2026. That’s an astonishing decline — a drop-off of 97 percent of US web traffic from Google.


As Growtika observed, the four worst-hit publications get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own.


Though Growtika holds that it can’t prove causation from traffic data on its own, it theorizes that the disruption is due to three combined issues: Google’s AI Overviews, which came out in mid-2024; a bump in the algorithm that boosts Reddit to the top of the charts; and the growing number of AI chatbot users who eschew Google entirely.


Crucially, the hardest hits came in mid-2025, when Google expanded its AI Overviews system to cover a much more expansive range of queries. In July of last year, the feature’s visibility peaked, with some 25 percent of all Google searches (https://searchengineland.com/google-ai-overviews-surge-pullback-data-466314) triggering an automatic summary.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-media
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hot take? "AI is destroying internet media" is not the story here, it's "AI can delivers slop better than what's left of internet media post-private equity". AI summaries can't replace a @gamersnexus.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j6eoaiugwvut55tth44nxvan)

vid. I stopped reading gaming sites when they fired all the writers I gave a shit abouthttps://bsky.app/profile/pedrothedagger.bsky.social/post/3mgig3owic22x

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wrong thread

[velik_m]

Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs to fund AI data-center expansion as US banks retreat

Oracle is considering cutting 20,000 to 30,000 jobs and selling some of its activities as US banks pull back from financing the company’s AI data-center expansion, according to investment bank TD Cowen.

The job cuts would free up $8 billion to $10 billion in cash flow, TD Cowen said in a research report seen by CIO. Oracle is also weighing a sale of its health-care software unit, Cerner, which it acquired for $28.3 billion in 2022.

The measures come as multiple US banks have pulled back from Oracle-linked data-center project lending. “Both equity and debt investors have raised questions regarding Oracle’s ability to finance this buildout,” the report said.

The financing challenge stems from the scale of Oracle’s infrastructure commitments, amounting to $156 billion in required capital expenditure, TD Cowen estimated.

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https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/oracle-may-slash-up-to-30000-jobs-to-fund-ai-data-center-expansion-as-us-banks-retreat.html

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[ChumpDumper]

No thanks, douchebag.

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https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2032012809433723158

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apparently Amazon's AI-coding tool Kiro fixes configuration issues by nuking the entire production environment, leading to outages and millions of lost orders



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[velik_m]

Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, March 13 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O), opens new tab is planning sweeping layoffs ​that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as #Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.

No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said.

Top executives have recently signaled the plans to other senior leaders at Meta and told ​them to begin planning how to pare back, two of the people said. The sources spoke anonymously because they ​were not authorized to disclose the cuts.

"This is speculative reporting about theoretical approaches," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone ⁠said in response to questions about the plan.
If Meta settles on the 20% figure, the layoffs will be the company's most ​significant since a restructuring in late 2022 and early 2023 that it dubbed the "year of efficiency." It employed nearly 79,000 people as ​of December 31, according to its latest filing.

The company laid off 11,000 staffers in November 2022, or around 13% of its workforce at the time. Around four months later, it announced it was cutting another 10,000 jobs.
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https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-ai-costs-mount-2026-03-14/

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government sh!tposting leads to a swift win in court for Anthropic


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Nothing in the governing statute,” Judge Lin wrote, “supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government

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Anthropic wins preliminary injunction on every claim: First Amendment, Due Process, and Administrative Procedure Act.

[velik_m]

America’s AI Build-Out Hinges on Chinese Electrical Parts

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As the global AI race heats up, there is a huge rush to build data centers fast. There’s no lack of money chasing these projects, with tech giants Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com, Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp. committed to spending more than $650 billion this year alone. Yet neither ambition nor capital is enough to materialize all the necessary components for these power-hungry computers.

Almost half of the US data centers planned for this year are expected to be delayed or canceled. One big reason is the shortage of electrical equipment, such as transformers, switchgear and batteries. They are needed not just for powering AI, but also for building out the grid that is seeing increased consumption from electric cars and heat pumps. US manufacturing capacity for these devices cannot keep up with demand, and the scarcity has caused data center builders to rely on imports.

Electrification is a key solution to both tackling climate change and powering AI ambitions. But America’s AI prowess on computer chips and cutting-edge software is being hamstrung by the country’s inability to manufacture the electrical parts. “There’s not enough domestic capacity to go around, so people are pretty much forced to go to the export market,” says Benjamin Boucher, senior analyst with Wood Mackenzie.

...

Over the past 10 years, the US government has tried a series of policies to reshore manufacturing, but they haven’t yet yielded a significant boost to domestic capacity, forcing businesses to look to China regardless of the tariffs or the alleged national security risk. That means the US needs crucial parts from China to dominate it in the AI race, while China needs advanced chips from American companies to stay in the race.

In March, Trump issued a new framework to speed up permitting of new power plants for data centers. Without addressing electrical equipment shortages, many are worried that the trillions of dollars of spending aimed at data centers won’t yield the decisive steps the US must take to win the AI race. “We’ve seen firsthand the value it can create if you are not hamstrung by electrical infrastructure lead times,” says Crusoe’s Likens. “They can make or break a project.”

Data centers have rapidly grown in size and now consume more electricity than their predecessors a decade ago. That demands bigger transformers, which safely pull electricity from the high-voltage grid to feed to tiny computer chips. Without the right transformers, there’s no way to make the data center work.

Before 2020, these high-power transformers typically arrived 24 to 30 months after an order was placed. Those timelines were “totally manageable in the old world” when data centers didn’t need such large transformers or at such short timelines, says Philippe Piron, chief executive officer of GE Vernova’s electrification division. But AI companies “want something typically in less than 18 months.”

...

China dominates the supply of electrical equipment because it controls so many parts of the supply chain, from materials to processing to manufacturing, and the gulf between China and the US is set to widen. In its new five-year plan, the Asian giant revealed last month that it will double down on building out its grid with renewables, while the Trump administration has dismantled policies to deploy solar and wind power.

In March, the US opened trade investigations into China to justify tariffs; the country then retaliated by starting its own investigations against the US. Rash attempts to end Chinese imports of electrical equipment would mean further delays and harm the US in the AI race, says Joshua Busby, a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. “If we’re too indiscriminate in our effort to diminish our reliance on China to zero, that could come at excessive cost to American companies,” he says.



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-04-01/us-ai-data-center-expansion-relies-on-chinese-electrical-equipment-imports

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global story, not much discussed here it seems -- eight people were murdered in Tumbler Ridge

Sam Altman with his published apology is presuming the community's blessing to spy on them all, and to snitch on the"bad guys" and "people in danger"

IRL Tumbler Ridge has complicated, still tender feelings about Sam Altman's expressions of regret from a calculated distance

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sam-altman-tumbler-ridge-apology-9.7176482

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in 9 seconds


With A.I, you can fuck up ten times as hard a hundred times as fast! All with absolutely zero oversight or accountability for anyone! Pay us money, and you too can have your entire database deleted along with all backups! We offer competitive rates, so don't get left behind!


The founder of PocketOS has penned a social media post to warn others about the “systemic failures” of flagship AI and digital services providers. Jer Crane was inspired to write a public response after an AI coding agent (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/multiple-aws-outages-caused-by-ai-coding-bot-blunder-report-claims-amazon-says-both-incidents-were-user-error) deleted his firm’s entire production database. The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped. This tag team of digital trouble has wiped out months of consumer data essential to the firm’s, and its customers, businesses.https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

[ChumpDumper]

I feel sorry for the remaining employees.

"Jer"? Not so much. The buck stops with him. lol acting like the AI agent is a person.

"This is the agent on the record, in writing."

It's a computer program that is known to fuck things up.

Then he whined about the fine print in Railway's documentation. That's on record, in writing. Putting all the backup eggs in one basket seems bad anyway.

[Winehole23]

AI is a marketing term


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https://zenodo.org/records/17065099

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There's a very old joke in the field (dating back to the 90s at least)

When we hire people, it's machine learning. when we do the work, it's logistic regression. And when we raise money, it's AI.

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[ChumpDumper]

Oh come on.

https://x.com/SonnyBunch/status/2056752413327921521

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[Winehole23]

data center construction isn't just a left-wing Glonzo anymore, independents and Republicans seem to be adopting it with gusto, too

https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-community/virginia-beach/virginia-beach-city-council-unanimously-rejects-future-data-centers-residents-applaud-the-decision

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The water issue is real, but wildly overstated and glonzo'd to the gills.

Jeffrey Epstein was a right-wing Glonzo until Trump was inaugurated in 2025

Now right-wingers pick up a shield to defend Donald Trump from Glonzo...

[Winehole23]

At least seven in 10 Americans would now oppose a data center being built near their home, according to a new Heatmap Pro (https://heatmap.news/pro) poll, a record low that reveals a staggering shift in public opinion against the facilities powering the artificial intelligence boom.


The survey, conducted by Embold Research, finds that an outright majority of Americans are now strongly opposed to data center construction in their area. Young people, Democrats, and rural voters are more hostile to the projects, but they are broadly unpopular with Americans across geographic and political categories.

https://heatmap.news/politics/americans-oppose-data-centers-poll

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