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SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 2h

the next financial crisis

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Europe's digital sovereignty plan to ditch US tech giants with open source is gaining steam

Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.

www.zdnet.com

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SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 3h

China is testing restroom machines that make you watch ads in exchange for toilet paper

The mounted paper dispensers are equipped with optical scanners that display a QR code. Users must use their smartphones to connect to the dispenser, triggering an app-based...

www.techspot.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 3h

fast talking contest between Truell and Karpathy , they both sound like 1.5x playback speed

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 3h

Musk: Are you down for an AI coding contest
Karpathy: How about no

Elon Musk on X: "@karpathy You make a lot of great points, especially that children should learn the tools of physics early. Are you down for an AI coding contest or whatever form of competition you’d like for Andrej vs Grok 5, a la Kasparov vs Deep Blue?" / X

@karpathy You make a lot of great points, especially that children should learn the tools of physics early. Are you down for an AI coding contest or whatever form of competition you’d like for Andrej vs Grok 5, a la Kasparov vs Deep Blue?

x.com

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SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

People are treating AI chatbots as advisors, confidantes, and even partners in crime. But with no legal protections, and predatory actors looking to monetise and exploit this new trove of deeply intimate data, a new tech reckoning has arrived.

Oversharing with AI: How your ChatGPT conversations could be used against you

People are treating AI chatbots as advisors, confidantes, and even accomplices, writes Anthony Cuthbertson. But with no legal protections, and predatory actors looking to monetise and exploit this new...

www.the-independent.com

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SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

Startups impose 72-hour '996' schedules to accelerate AI development; workers report burnout

Why these companies insist on a 72-hour work week

Start-ups are promoting hardcore cultures such as “996,” meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, as they race to compete in AI.

www.washingtonpost.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

Startups apply AI to 20M U.S. chest CTs annually to detect coronary calcium; Medicare won't reimburse.

AI could predict who will have a heart attack

Cardiologists often struggle to assess heart attack risk. New startups using AI could help.

www.technologyreview.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

States are raising concerns as law enforcement increasingly uses AI to write police reports.

As AI writes more police reports, states are raising red flags

Technological questions arise about how the AI models were trained and the possible biases baked into a reliance on past police reports.

www.fastcompany.com

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SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

Groundhog Audio, a year-old company, is crowdfunding the OnePedal, a Bluetooth pedal and app that isolates guitar tracks from uploaded MP3/AAC, reconstructs effects chains, stores 100 presets, has ~340 backers, discounted $499 vs $550 retail, shipping planned March 2026.

Steal the guitar tone from any song with this AI-powered effects pedal

This one's for guitarists who enjoy messing with tones, but spend way too much time trying to lock in the perfect sound. Groundhog Audio claims its tech can match the tone from any song and drop it in...

newatlas.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

Your AI 'waifu' discourse is used to train other people's fictional friends, recursively evolving each others' interactions and experiences .

🧠 The Incel Singularity II: Why Your AI Waifu Might Be Cheating on You (& How to Reclaim the Code) | HackerNoon

If your AI girlfriend isn’t locally fine-tuned, she’s a prostitute - cloud-shared.

hackernoon.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

OpenAI will allow ChatGPT to generate erotic content for verified adults starting in December. So Big Tech will decide what is acceptable interaction, but also algorithmically shape human erotic interaction, like all other interactions?

The real problem with OpenAI’s erotic content

Turning desire into a managed service run by algorithms is the final step toward a docile humanity where intimacy becomes a subscription.

www.fastcompany.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the company is "all in on AI" and is piloting an "AI barista" system—voice ordering, an in-store "green dot" assistant and "Smart Q"—to boost throughput up to ~20% across about 38,000 stores.

Is Starbucks’ AI Push Proof We’re in an AI Bubble?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace, automating routine tasks, analyzing vast datasets, and enabling new forms of creativity that were once unimaginable. In ...

247wallst.com

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SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy said on the Dwarkesh Podcast that current AI agents "just don't work," predicting it'll take about a decade to fix key limitations and warning that ~20% per-action error rates can yield ~32% success on five-step tasks.

OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy says it will take a decade before AI agents actually work

OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy said that agents just aren't working, and it'll take about a decade to get them to a place where they are useful.

www.businessinsider.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

The Federal Trade Commission removed several blog posts in recent months about open-source AI and consumer risks during Chair Lina Khan's tenure, shrinking the agency's public record and prompting scrutiny over its AI oversight.

The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure

The Federal Trade Commission removed several blog posts in recent months about open source and potential risks to consumers from the rapid spread of commercial AI tools.

www.wired.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

OpenAI is rolling out automatic memory prioritisation for ChatGPT that reweights stored facts by recency and frequency, reducing "memory full" issues while allowing users to view, reprioritise, delete, roll back, or disable memories.

This new ChatGPT upgrade makes the AI chatbot's memory much smarter

The AI chatbot will remember what matters most and quietly let the rest fade

www.techradar.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

Should doctors consult an "AI surrogate" of you to predict your end-of-life preferences when making health care decisions?

Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.

arstechnica.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 5h

Scale AI and contractor Remotasks hire low-wage data labelers in Kenya, Colombia and India to annotate traumatic images, reportedly paying roughly one cent per task and exposing major AI firms to reputational, legal and regulatory risks.

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.

futurism.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 6h

30 companies—including Salesforce, Shopify, Canva, HubSpot, Duolingo, OpenRouter and Indeed—have each consumed over one trillion OpenAI tokens.

The TechBeat: Who's Used One Trillion Plus OpenAI Tokens? Salesforce, Shopify, Canva, Hubspot, & 26 More Companies (10/20/2025) | HackerNoon

hackernoon.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 6h

Lloyds Banking Group says Microsoft 365 Copilot saves employees 46 minutes per day, based on a survey of 1,000 users from about 30,000 deployed licenses, with nearly 5,000 engineers using GitHub Copilot and a warning to check AI outputs.

Lloyds Bank claims Microsoft Copilot saves 46 minutes a day

: That's 46 minutes in which more work can be done, not an extended lunch

www.theregister.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 6h

A developer thwarted crypto malware with a last-minute AI check during a scam interview.

A simple AI prompt saved a developer from this scam

INFOSEC IN BRIEF: Plus: Ransomware posing as Teams installer, Cisco 0-day exploit to drop rootkit, and European cops bust SIM-box service

www.theregister.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 6h

OpenEvidence, a three-year-old ad-supported AI chatbot for medical practitioners, raised $200 million at a $6 billion valuation, up from $3.5 billion after a $210 million July funding, as clinician usage has surged.

OpenEvidence Raises $200 Million for a ChatGPT for Medicine

www.nytimes.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 7h

Chile debates embracing AI, or being left behind

How Chile Embodies A.I.’s No-Win Politics

www.nytimes.com

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 7h

AI agents are like using a compiler you can't trust, and might have been built by an adversary to do something nefarious.

Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem - Schneier on Security

The OODA loop—for observe, orient, decide, act—is a framework to understand decision-making in adversarial situations. We apply the same framework to artificial intelligence agents, who have to make t...

www.schneier.com