What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?
New profile of Sam Altman shines a light on a whole industry.
Nate Anderson
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AI // Open the pod doors
Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on “vibe coding”
Use of AI coding tools has become a convenient boogeyman for any tech issues.
Kyle Orland
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Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?
Ryan Whitwam
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Intel is going all-in on advanced chip packaging
Intel is hoping to cash in on the AI boom.
Lauren Goode, wired.com
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From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability
New model can respond to disruptions and figure out moves it wasn’t trained for.
Kyle Orland
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“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI insiders don’t trust CEO
OpenAI brainstorms ways AI can benefit humanity in effort to counter bad vibes.
Ashley Belanger
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“Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting “faulty” AI answers.
Kyle Orland
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Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing
Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure.
Ashley Belanger
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OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security
The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.
Dan Goodin
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OpenAI takes on another “side quest,” buys tech-focused talk show TBPN
OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent.
Financial Times
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Perplexity’s “Incognito Mode” is a “sham,” lawsuit says
Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.
Ashley Belanger
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Google Vids gets AI upgrade with Veo and Lyria models, directable AI avatars
Google Vids brings together Google’s most capable AI creation tools.
Ryan Whitwam
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Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license
Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google’s open models in a year.
Ryan Whitwam
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Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks
But the effort to stop the spread of leaked Claude Code client code is an uphill battle.
Kyle Orland
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Here’s what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic’s plans
A persistent agent, stealth “Undercover” mode, and… a virtual assistant named Buddy?
Kyle Orland
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Musk loves Grok’s “roasts.” Swiss official sues in attempt to neuter them.
Swiss finance minister filed a criminal complaint over Grok’s “defamation.”
Ashley Belanger
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Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama’s MLX support
Apple Silicon Macs get a performance boost thanks to better unified memory usage.
Samuel Axon
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Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file
512,000 lines of code that competitors and hobbyists will be studying for weeks.
Samuel Axon
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How did Anthropic measure AI’s “theoretical capabilities” in the job market?
2023 study made a lot of assumptions about future “anticipated LLM-powered software.”
Kyle Orland
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Authors’ lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting
Judge gave authors an easier attack on Meta’s torrenting. Meta hopes SCOTUS ruling will block it.
Ashley Belanger
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With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding
Things are moving fast, and competitors have offered something similar for a while.
Samuel Axon
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Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage
In a letter, senators press for mandated annual electricity disclosure for data centers.
WIRED
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Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment
Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to resolve conflicts.
Jennifer Ouellette
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The debut of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live could make it harder to know if you’re talking to a robot
Google’s new conversational audio AI is rolling out in search, Gemini, and developer tools today.
Ryan Whitwam
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OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT
Some staff reportedly questioned how sexy ChatGPT benefits humanity.
Ashley Belanger
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Reddit will require “fishy” accounts to verify they are run by a human
AI-generated content is still acceptable for now.
Scharon Harding
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Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x
TurboQuant makes AI models more efficient but doesn’t reduce output quality like other methods.
Ryan Whitwam
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Disney cancels $1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans
Press reports suggest Disney was blindsided and that no money changed hands.
Kyle Orland
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Mozilla dev’s “Stack Overflow for agents” targets a key weakness in coding AI
There are major problems to be solved before it can be adopted, though.
Samuel Axon
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OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator
Move comes amid a reported plan to refocus on business and productivity use cases.
Kyle Orland
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Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate
Public interest in government tech abuses is peaking. EFF’s new leader plans to build on that.
Ashley Belanger
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Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks
But Anthropic urges caution as “research preview” safeguards “aren’t absolute.”
Kyle Orland
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Nvidia CEO tries to explain why DLSS 5 isn’t just “AI slop”
If game makers don’t like it, “they could decide not to use it, you know?”
Kyle Orland
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As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school
Teens will be sentenced Wednesday after admitting to creating AI CSAM.
Ashley Belanger
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AI is beginning to change the business of law
Attorneys are finding uses for AI apart from generating fake case quotations.
Financial Times
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Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use
One of the first controversies of its kind.
Nate Anderson
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