Anthropic's Dario Amodei seems to be begging to re-open negotiations with the Pentagon, likely after the company took at big financial hit with the federal government terminating usage of Claude. Meanwhile Sam Altman at OpenAI admits that he can't control Pentagon's use of their products. Now nVIDIA has announced that it will "pull back" on investments with both OpenAI and Anthropic. Huang also said that the $30 billion OpenAI investment ‘might be the last’. Is he worried that OpenAI may not deliver on their grandiose promises, despite the lucrative contract with the DoW? What's going on?
OpenAI is changing GPT 5.3's output to keep you using it. It's like TikTok or YouTube shorts.
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"This job has become the ultimate case study for why Al won't replace human workers." CNN is missing the point that the radiology example involves computer vision technology, and not LLMs which is causing the real threat on job replacement by AI. Image processing tech can enhance the diagnostic capabilities of the radiologist (although there are nuances to that). But LLMs can mimic conversational and query-answer interaction well enough that low-skills human jobs are being replaced. AI is not all one thing.
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Yikes. A pediatric medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction. This is just unbelievable. Passing case reports as real when they were all fictional. How do these people sleep at night?
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Wikipedia is corrupt and untrustworthy. It's been known that people editors are left-leaning and tend to poison the website with left-leaning propaganda. But I figured that as long I kept to math and science I'd be OK. But I also do look at Wikipedia history articles, and for modern history, it's now completely untrustworthy.
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Since AI-generated art is not copyrightable, what about AI-generated code? This is a good point since many companies are now using AI to create the software that runs their company. So MALUS has decided to dispense with the deception and just take open source code, reverse-engineer it, and make it their own. They call it "liberation". But they do raise some good points, especially as often unmaintained open source software is being relied upon for mission-critical projects. Will these guys deliver, to make it worth the money they will charge. We'll just have to see.
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We have more privacy controls yet less privacy than ever. Thanks to GDPR, we are more aware of how much information websites want to obtain from us. And we are compelled to accept things and hand over information and allow cookies and LSO to be stored on our computer, because otherwise things won't work. For example you can't order a sandwich on Subway's online ordering system without handing over a bunch of unnecessary information and accepting nearly all of their cookies, many of which are for tracking and advertising. Privacy is an illusion. And in the age of AI, online anonymity will be completely gone. I've always thought that someone could make a killing selling alternative identities that people could purchase. In the future, that's what we have to do to live privately. I often think about the nice solution James Penney got from Jack Reacher. Great story. It's what we'll all need to get by in the brave new world of the near future.
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Why your IQ no longer matters in the era of AI. Yeah, being smart isn't enough. You need execution. You need a high Agility Quotient.
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I must say that the ad for the new Macbook Neo is well done. But you wouldn't expect anything less from Apple.
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The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan. This is something that would never fly anywhere else in the world. Can you imagine this in the U.S.? These women would be attacked so quickly. Maybe in parts of rural America would it work. Even in Europe, such a program would not be safe. Japan is the last bastion of a world where you can have nice things. This is precisely why the Japanese elected Sanae Takaichi to be PM.
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I wonder if people that wear Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses realize that they are being spied upon, too?
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Cancer blood tests are everywhere. Do they really work? They detect mutations and epigenetic changes associated with cancer, but the question is: what do you do with this information? When do you initiate some action, and what are the consequences of these actions? Are you ready to have a radiation-exposing CT scan or have some body part removed if the test is positive?
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Interesting inteview with Dwarkesh and Gwern. Not only is the interviewee interesting, but they way they conducted it to preserve Gwern's anonymity (which I'm surprised is still intact all these years). Now THERE'S a guy who knows how to stay hidden.
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Why can’t you tune your guitar? I didn't know you couldn't. Well, not perfectly in the mathematical sense. But this is the same with the piano.
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Someone wants to build a new Flash for 2026. Remember the old Flash, which everyone eventually hated because it was insecure and slowed down loading of websites? It did add dynamic content which added some visual interest, but in the end, it wasn't worth it. In 2026, it could succeed if it were made secure. But do we really need it?
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Some good news. Plan to add 1,700 acres of Hillsboro industrial land dies in Legislative committee. Not in Hillsboro, please. Not in North Plains, either. Put datacenters in north Portland, which is a dump already. So the one year moratorium on datacenter tax breaks won't matter?
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Extensive copper theft from street lamps along I-84. More Portland goodness. They're replacing the wiring with aluminum, which is cheaper. However with aluminum wiring, there is increased fire hazards because of increased electrical resistance, and aluminum corrodes more quickly, requiring increased maintenance. Plus, you have to use thicker wire because of the decreased conductivity. Aluminum has lower tensile strength and breaks more easily under stress. This may end up being more expensive for Portland.
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Portland still wants to have an arts tax. Which is dumb because any art that's put up gets trashed and has to be placed in storage. Portland "art" consists of graffiti. But the city still wants to take people's money, and now they're thinking of taxing Netflix use. Why do we need to fund art? That's something that an affluent city might consider. Not a poor, struggling municipality.
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Bob Ferguson's millionaire income tax plan for Washington residents might be bumped to 2027. Because even some of the more sensible Democrats realize that it's going to lead to money flight.
Related: Starbucks is already looking to Nashville to expand. They say they'll still keep their HQ in Seattle, but who knows?
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