Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was- forc... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : “I managed bots replacing my team until they replaced me.” A former support lead's warning. This piece details AI erasing c...
Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its X post about its €120M fine of X; X terminates the EC's ad account
to post a link that deceives users into thinking it's a video and to artificially increase its reach. As you may be aware, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform. However, it...
A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks
championed by colleagues like @trevordarrell, @pabbeel, @istoica05, and others—is leading the nation, unleashing the creativity of top students and research labs through industry-sponsored open-source...
Duolingo's “AI-first” announcement highlights the unfolding AI jobs crisis, with attrition in creative fields, hiring cuts, declining freelance incomes, more
On Monday, April 29th, Luis von Ahn, the billionaire CEO of the popular language learning app Duolingo … Bluesky: @bcmerchant , @bcmerchant , and @bcmerchant Mastodon: @MissConstrue@mefi.social , @eli...
CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”
Survey Bloomberg : What Are Memecoins and Why Did Trump Launch One? Callum Jones / The Guardian : Experts alarmed by Trumps' crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ Michael Anthony Bitoon / ...
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says Meta's moderation changes are “deeply troubling”, and Mastodon will take action on Threads accounts violating Mastodon's policies
Today Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is bending the knee … Wall Street Journal : Sources: Zuckerberg demanded a review of an algorithm change after his 2023 knee surgery Facebook post got anemic ...
OnePlus 13 review: excellent battery life, six years of security updates, solid build quality with an IP69 rating, but most AI tools need internet connectivity
OnePlus has revealed its flagship smartphone lineup for 2025 … Kristijan Lucic / Android Headlines : OnePlus 13 can be located even when it's turned off JerryRigEverything / JerryRigEverything on YouT...
Google says its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers that underpin its AI efforts
About this report Google's 2024 Environmental Report provides … Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Google's emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand The Keyword : Our 2024 Environmenta...
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying OpenAI's founding agreement to develop an AGI for the “benefit of humanity” rather than profit
“It's a fun complaint to read; it fundamentally accuses OpenAI & its CEO, Sam Altman, of pretending to run a nonprofit designed to benefit humanity while actually running a regular ol' tech company & ...
California regulators close SVB and name the FDIC as the receiver to protect insured deposits; SVB ended 2022 with ~$209B in assets and $175.4B in deposits
banks, lawyers, etc — and it's a minor but not insignificant screening mechanism. https://twitter.com/... Jason Zweig / @jasonzweigwsj : If you want to create a perverse incentive for banks to become ...