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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 4m

Rolled back after just four months!

Rest of World @restofworld.org · 5m

Teachers, parents, and students agree: AI textbooks aren't up to the task restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea

South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.

restofworld.org

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 24m

The FT's ability to insightfully take the piss is unmatched

FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 29m

Possibly the world's most valuable company, if you backdate the market cap and calculate it wrong.

on.ft.com/478TZZA

Mullen’s marvellous maths

[FREE TO READ] How can a struggling EV company have a $1.4 quintillion share-price peak?

on.ft.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 35m

well this makes the Daily Show's edit a lot easier

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Axios @axios.com · 1h

The most expensive political ad campaign of the year is being run by the Department of Homeland Security, spending at least $51 million on ads thanking President Trump for securing the border.

U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign

The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

www.axios.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 2h

Clark: "We published our transparency approach for what a federal framework could look like. Has David Sacks published an approach for what federal regulation of AI could look like? Because he’s saying that that’s what’s needed."

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 2h

@anthropic.com co-founder Jack Clark on pushing back on White House: "It’s very bizarre to me that others are not doing the same thing. That says something larger about where we are in the country’s history more than anything else.”

My column today: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Anthropic’s AI Principles Make It a White House Target

On Tuesday, White House AI “czar” and venture capitalist David Sacks intensified a frustration that has been building for months. “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy base...

www.bloomberg.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 4h

Question: why did they bother?

Jonty @fairless.xyz · 5h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 8h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 22h

Who can win the global AI race?

We asked @parmy.bsky.social, @davelee.me and @thorbecke.bsky.social about the biggest challenges in Europe, the US and Asia. Here’s what they found 🎥

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 22h

A compliment!

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 23h

Your carpet looks like it has new carpet smell

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 23h

The first two paragraphs here feel incredibly blasé.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 23h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 1d

I took @Opinion.bloomberg.com’s AI-dentity quiz. My AI-dentity is the Pro-Human Idealist. What’s yours? www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Quiz: What’s Your AI-dentity?

Are you an AI Doomer, an Accelerationist or somewhere in between? Answer these questions to find out.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 1d

Don’t make the mistake of wearing light brown shoes with your inflatable frog costume

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Who owns creative work? The creators or AI bots? An exploration:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

AI’s Copyright War Could Be Its Undoing. Only the US Can End It.

The battle over how AI is built — and who gets paid along the way — must be resolved to benefit both art and technology.

www.bloomberg.com

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Lowering the flag was once a relatively rare symbol of public mourning and respect. It has now “become a largely empty gesture, illegible to the broader public and ultimately ignored,” Justin Murphy argues:

Stop Lowering the Flag

The symbol of public mourning loses its meaning when it’s used too much.

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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone here is still using X/Twitter, here's another good reason to stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

(Remember Musk spoke at so-called Robinson's fascist demonstration a few weeks ago)

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 1d

can take a wild guess at who this is

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 2d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 2d

*Health.

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 2d

Oracle's other co-CEO Mike Sicilia says the company built an Electronic Hearth Records application using only AI.

Hm.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 2d

On CNBC, Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouryk insults The Information's report on low margins for its data center biz as "random musings on the internet.” Doesn't speak to any specific error in the reporting. www.theinformation.com/articles/int...

Internal Oracle Data Show Financial Challenge of Renting Out Nvidia Chips

Oracle became the best-performing megacap stock of 2025 after its executives said last month that the once-sleepy database firm will generate an astonishing $381 billion in revenue from renting out sp...

www.theinformation.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 2d

Nor’easter is no shorter than northeaster, what is everyone doing

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 3d

Thankfully Meta links to the source material. This is the kind of stuff Meta’s AI is feeding on and regurgitating as fact to billions of people. Embarrassing.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 3d

Searched for Jurgen Klopp on insta and Meta AI served up a paragraph of completely fabricated news

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