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MakeUseOf: “Your ISP can see everything you do online. Every site, search, and click is diligently logged by the company that provides your internet connection, logging your online presence. Maybe it’s for analysis, but maybe it’s waiting to be sold to the highest bidder at a later date. The good news is that you don’t …
“The Sugar Pine Foundation is friends with two of the leading discoverers of the world’s tallest trees: Michael Taylor and Dr. Steve Sillett. For 30 years, Taylor and Sillett have slogged through dense, punishing underbrush and up and down vertiginous ravines in search of the tallest trees on Earth. Their pursuits are the subject of …
EpochAI: “80% of US adults who report using Claude in the previous week live in households earning $100,000 or more a year, compared to 37% of Meta AI users. Nationally, about 50% of US adults fall in this income bracket. Among Meta AI users, 32% live in households earning less than $50,000, compared to 7% …
Wired – no paywall: “For its famous intractability, the Bloomberg Terminal has long inspired devotion, bordering on obsession. Among traders, the ability to chart a path through the software’s dizzying scrolls of numbers and text to isolate far-flung information is the mark of a seasoned professional. But as a greater mass of data is fed …
Taylor Lorenz – “I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all. Lately it feels like I’m encountering more and more AI-generated content on Substack. This mirrors patterns across the broader web. Last fall, media …
Licensed to Loot – Big Finance, Big Tech and the AI Infrastructure Grab: I. Introduction: A manufactured market. The global race to build AI data centres is a manufactured investment cycle. Consumer demand did not create it and no credible case for economy-wide benefit underpins it. It is built by concentrated financial capital in alliance …
Ky Decker: “Consider the following scenarios: You join a meeting with a coworker. Your coworker has enabled an AI tool to automatically take notes and summarize the meeting. They do not ask for consent to turn it on. The tool mischaracterizes what you discuss. A team lead adds an AI chatbot to a Slack channel. …
The New York Times Gift Article – “Apps that record visits are becoming popular, but they come with privacy and accuracy concerns. At your next appointment, your doctor may have a new kind of assistant listening in: artificial intelligence. Across the nation, A.I. programs are quietly recording these conversations and turning them into draft medical …
404 Media – “Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips. Faculty and scholars I spoke to whose lectures are included in Atomic are disturbed …
@article{levine2026talkie, title={Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930}, author={Levine, Nick and Duvenaud, David and Radford, Alec}, year={2026}, month={April}, url={https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie} } “Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past? What would you ask someone with no knowledge of the modern world? What would they ask you? While we don’t have time …
Dean Blundell: “The $400 Million Question: Was Trump’s “Privately Funded” Ballroom Always Headed for Your Wallet? On July 31, 2025, Donald Trump made a promise. He was going to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the East Wing of the White House — a venue grand enough for state dinners, presidential inaugurations, and the kind of …
Knowable Magazine – From where the Camellia sinensis bush is grown to whether the leaves are withered or fermented, much can influence the popular drink’s molecular and flavor profile: “How about a cuppa? Tea is the world’s most popular drink, except for plain old water. Whether we’re talking matcha, Earl Grey or oolong, it’s all …
