A profile of Anthropic and its key executives like Chris Olah, and a look at Project Vend, an internal “Claudius” experiment to run the office vending machine
Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system's mind—examining its neurons …
How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant
Almost three of every four restaurant orders in the U.S. weren't eaten in a restaurant, according to recent data.
Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard that lets AI agents work across customer buying processes, from discovery to support
Google today announced a new open standard, called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference.
Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process
Google today announced a new open standard, called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference.
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”
I feel sorry for billionaires. Each election season … Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics : Platformonomics TGIF #109: November 21, 2025 Miles Klee / Rolling Stone : Grok Claims ...
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”
Elon Musk is as smart as da Vinci, fitter than LeBron James, and really good at drinking piss.
How ChatGPT and other AI tools enable systemic cheating in college, unravelling the entire academic project; one student says “the ceiling has been blown off”
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. — Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University's campus …
A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen
THE SCOOP — Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, ...
Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration
The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. — The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones
If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …
How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023
The newsletter start-up, which once drew an overture from Elon Musk, is betting on politics content and recruiting stars.
A profile of Nicole Shanahan, the ex-wife of Sergey Brin and a rising MAGA star; sources: Shanahan and Brin's marriage drove a wedge between Brin and Larry Page
With a massive divorce settlement from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the former Democrat and RFK Jr. running mate is remaking herself … Threads: @pkafka . X: @nitashatiku , @_cing...
Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues
the company's new chip plant allegedly plagued by worker abuses Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.2207: TSMC's Arizona culture clash, Apple preps new iPads, Vision Pro fo...
How the erosion of competition, regulation, self-help, and worker power ushered in the “enshittocene” era, or the slow decay of online platforms like Facebook
to stop video clerks leaking your rental history, incentivised after a Supreme Court nominee had his leaked. @doctorow of @EFF writes in @FTMag Mag on enshittification https://www....
Q&A with Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on Medium expecting to turn a profit in 2024, distribution, training LLMs, AI-generated content, media layoffs, and more
Reed Albergotti / Semafor : Mastodon: @nicol@social.coop . X: @nbj914 , @emilybell , @bigmeaninternet , @seamushughes , @te_rowley , and @semaforben See also Mediagazer Mastodon: ...
How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts
How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts
So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok? — When Rachael Kay Albers was shopping around her book proposal … Threads: @joanwestenberg and @jonathangarelick Mast...