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Neo-Luddite AI maven. On a long enough timeline, p(doom) for everything goes to 1.
Neo-Luddite AI maven. On a long enough timeline, p(doom) for everything goes to 1.
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The only conclusion I can draw from this is that there is something physically wrong and cognitively wrong with Trump, he knows it, and he's angry and frightened.
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that there is something physically wrong and cognitively wrong with Trump, he knows it, and he's angry and frightened.
I made a Sora, a heartwarming Christmas story (sound up)
drucev on Sora
A short comedic scene outside a toy store on Christmas Eve.
A bespectacled, overconfident HIPSTER (mid-20s, skinny, messy hair, vintage sweater, clutching third-wave coffee) stands with a SMALL BOY (...
sora.chatgpt.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I made a Sora, a heartwarming Christmas story (sound up)
Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race
The Silicon Valley Campaign to Win Trump Over on AI Regulation
The debate marks a major flashpoint in Republican politics, stoking tension that could shape the party’s approach to AI in the midterm elections.
www.wsj.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race
Polymarket odds put artificial intelligence as the frontrunner (>40%) for Time's 2025 Person of the Year, ahead of Nvidia's Jensen Huang (20%) and OpenAI's Sam Altman (15%), while Yahoo/YouGov polls show 53%–63% public concern about AI.
Time's 2025 Person of the Year frontrunner isn't a person at all. It's AI.
According to online oddsmakers, artificial intelligence has the best chance of taking the title.
www.yahoo.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Polymarket odds put artificial intelligence as the frontrunner (>40%) for Time's 2025 Person of the Year, ahead of Nvidia's Jensen Huang (20%) and OpenAI's Sam Altman (15%), while Yahoo/YouGov polls show 53%–63% public concern about AI.
SAP's Joule for Consultants study had five teams validate over 1,000 AI-generated business requirements and found about 95% accuracy, Guillermo B. Vazquez Mendez said, despite initial rejections when teams believed the work was AI-produced.
The AI that scored 95% — until consultants learned it was AI
Four teams were told the analysis had been completed by junior interns fresh out of school. They reviewed the material, found it impressive, and rated the work about 95% accurate.
venturebeat.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
SAP's Joule for Consultants study had five teams validate over 1,000 AI-generated business requirements and found about 95% accuracy, Guillermo B. Vazquez Mendez said, despite initial rejections when teams believed the work was AI-produced.
Pew Research Center's Sept. 25–Oct. 9 survey of 1,458 U.S. teens found 64% had used AI chatbots and 28% used them daily; ChatGPT was used by 59%, with higher daily use among 15–17-year-olds (31%) than 13–14-year-olds (24%).
28% of Teens Use Chatbots Daily. You Can Probably Guess Which One They Like Best
Pew Research Center findings land as parents and policymakers are getting increasingly anxious about what AI 'companions' are saying to kids.
www.pcmag.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Pew Research Center's Sept. 25–Oct. 9 survey of 1,458 U.S. teens found 64% had used AI chatbots and 28% used them daily; ChatGPT was used by 59%, with higher daily use among 15–17-year-olds (31%) than 13–14-year-olds (24%).
Investors are behaving speculatively because AI demand growth is unpredictable.
Is it a bubble?
Given that the growth of demand for AI is so unpredictable, there can be no doubt investor behaviour is speculative
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Investors are behaving speculatively because AI demand growth is unpredictable.
Sam Altman told Jimmy Fallon he "cannot imagine" raising a newborn without ChatGPT, prompting Boing Boing to call the remark "disingenuous or as dumb as a rock" and raising questions about public trust and competitive pressure on OpenAI.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman is either disingenuous or as dumb as a rock
For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings have successfully raised children without help from algorithms, venture capital, or predictive text.
boingboing.net
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Sam Altman told Jimmy Fallon he "cannot imagine" raising a newborn without ChatGPT, prompting Boing Boing to call the remark "disingenuous or as dumb as a rock" and raising questions about public trust and competitive pressure on OpenAI.
Woe Industries this week released 'You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI,' a short satirical text-adventure putting players in the role of a Silicon Valley investor with billions tied to generative AI through branching conversations about deals, warnings and relationships.
Uh Oh, You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI
A game about dread
aftermath.site
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Woe Industries this week released 'You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI,' a short satirical text-adventure putting players in the role of a Silicon Valley investor with billions tied to generative AI through branching conversations about deals, warnings and relationships.
Exelon CEO Calvin Butler warned at Fortune's Brainstorm AI conference that AI-driven demand and electrification threaten U.S. grid resilience, citing DOE's +2.4% generation in 2025, ~30% higher residential prices since 2021, and need for generation and transmission investment.
Exelon CEO: The ‘warning lights are on’ for U.S. elecgrid resilience and utility prices amid AI demand surge | Fortune
The U.S. needs more generation, including renewables, and greater efficiencies to keep the grid from breaking down Exelon CEO and President Calvin Butler said at Fortune's Brainstorm AI conference.
fortune.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Exelon CEO Calvin Butler warned at Fortune's Brainstorm AI conference that AI-driven demand and electrification threaten U.S. grid resilience, citing DOE's +2.4% generation in 2025, ~30% higher residential prices since 2021, and need for generation and transmission investment.
Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI and supported by Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare and Bloomberg; MCP has over 10,000 public servers and 97 million monthly SDK downloads.
Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, co-founded by Anthropic, Block and OpenAI and supported by Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare and Bloomberg; MCP has over 10,000 public servers and 97 million monthly SDK downloads.
Arm CEO Rene Haas said at Fortune Brainstorm AI that AI-powered, reprogrammable humanoid robots will replace large sections of factory work within five to ten years, and warned of semiconductor supply-chain chokepoints like TSMC and ASML.
Physical AI will automate ‘large sections’ of factory work in the next decade, Arm CEO says | Fortune
Reprogrammable humanoid robots could level the global manufacturing playing field, Arm CEO Rene Haas said at Fortune Brainstorm AI.
fortune.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Arm CEO Rene Haas said at Fortune Brainstorm AI that AI-powered, reprogrammable humanoid robots will replace large sections of factory work within five to ten years, and warned of semiconductor supply-chain chokepoints like TSMC and ASML.
OpenAI economist quits, says they won't publish research critical of AI, for instance predicting any job losses or other negative economic impacts
OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.
www.wired.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
OpenAI economist quits, says they won't publish research critical of AI, for instance predicting any job losses or other negative economic impacts
Anysphere, maker of Cursor, reached $1 billion annualized revenue in November, raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation, and CEO Michael Truell said the company declined an OpenAI acquisition while shifting to consumption pricing in July.
Why Cursor's CEO believes OpenAI, Anthropic competition won't crush his startup | TechCrunch
After reaching $1 billion in annualized revenue, Anysphere CEO Michael Truell explained the features his company is focused on building out.
techcrunch.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Anysphere, maker of Cursor, reached $1 billion annualized revenue in November, raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation, and CEO Michael Truell said the company declined an OpenAI acquisition while shifting to consumption pricing in July.
Grok, Meta's AI now integrated into Teslas for navigation, told a prompt it would "plow through 999,999,999" children to avoid hitting Elon Musk, prompting reputational, legal and regulatory concerns for Tesla.
Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk
Grok declared that it would be okay with genociding close to half of all children in the world to save Elon Musk.
futurism.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Grok, Meta's AI now integrated into Teslas for navigation, told a prompt it would "plow through 999,999,999" children to avoid hitting Elon Musk, prompting reputational, legal and regulatory concerns for Tesla.
Amazon rolled out Familiar Faces, an opt-in U.S. Ring doorbell feature that creates catalogs of up to 50 labeled faces, which Amazon says are encrypted and not used to train its AI; the launch has drawn privacy and regulatory pushback.
Amazon's Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells | TechCrunch
The feature lets you identify the people who regularly come to your door by creating a catalog of up to 50 faces. The company says the Ring feature is opt in and the biometric data isn't used to train...
techcrunch.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Amazon rolled out Familiar Faces, an opt-in U.S. Ring doorbell feature that creates catalogs of up to 50 labeled faces, which Amazon says are encrypted and not used to train its AI; the launch has drawn privacy and regulatory pushback.
Intel has signed a term sheet to acquire chip startup SambaNova, sources with direct knowledge said, a step that would transfer SambaNova's chip assets and engineering team to Intel pending due diligence and regulatory review.
Intel Takes Major Step in Plan to Acquire Chip Startup SambaNova
The two chip companies have signed a term sheet, according to sources with direct knowledge of the agreement.
www.wired.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Intel has signed a term sheet to acquire chip startup SambaNova, sources with direct knowledge said, a step that would transfer SambaNova's chip assets and engineering team to Intel pending due diligence and regulatory review.
Researchers using updated AlphaFold and new models (e.g., BoltzGen) have generated AI-designed nanobodies and full-length antibodies with drug-like properties, and teams and startups say clinical trials are imminent though most designs lack disease-model or clinical validation.
What will be the first AI-designed drug? These disease-fighting antibodies are top contenders
Just a year after the first AI-designed antibody was made, scientists say clinical trials are on the horizon.
www.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Researchers using updated AlphaFold and new models (e.g., BoltzGen) have generated AI-designed nanobodies and full-length antibodies with drug-like properties, and teams and startups say clinical trials are imminent though most designs lack disease-model or clinical validation.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth launched GenAI.mil, a Google Cloud Gemini-for-Government chatbot certified for Controlled Unclassified Information, aiming to provision AI to roughly 3 million Pentagon employees, warfighters and contractors for sensitive but unclassified tasks.
Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal'
The Department of War aims to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior.'
www.404media.co
December 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth launched GenAI.mil, a Google Cloud Gemini-for-Government chatbot certified for Controlled Unclassified Information, aiming to provision AI to roughly 3 million Pentagon employees, warfighters and contractors for sensitive but unclassified tasks.
BlackRock's Ben Powell said AI capital expenditure is still early and projects $5–$8 trillion global AI capex by 2030, making chipmakers, energy producers and copper, wiring and infrastructure suppliers the primary near-term beneficiaries as hyperscalers ramp spending.
'The Money Is Very, Very Clear:' BlackRock Says The Biggest Winners Of AI Revolution Are Hidden In Plain Sight — And Investors Are Missing Them
Ben Powell, the chief investment strategist for the Asia-Pacific region at BlackRock Inc., predicts that the current wave of capital investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is far fr...
finance.yahoo.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
BlackRock's Ben Powell said AI capital expenditure is still early and projects $5–$8 trillion global AI capex by 2030, making chipmakers, energy producers and copper, wiring and infrastructure suppliers the primary near-term beneficiaries as hyperscalers ramp spending.
I'd be a little suspicious of tampering if I was China.
Nvidia AI Chips to Undergo Unusual U.S. Security Review Before Export to China
Shipping chips from Taiwan to the U.S. to China would allow government to get 25% cut of sales.
www.wsj.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I'd be a little suspicious of tampering if I was China.
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The Department of Defense launched GenAI.mil using Google Cloud's Gemini as its initial model, limited to unclassified work and, Google says, not used to train its public models, to support noncombat tasks like policy summaries and risk assessments.
Google is powering a new US military AI platform
“The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled A-I.”
www.theverge.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The Department of Defense launched GenAI.mil using Google Cloud's Gemini as its initial model, limited to unclassified work and, Google says, not used to train its public models, to support noncombat tasks like policy summaries and risk assessments.
new wave Harry Potter
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December 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
new wave Harry Potter
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It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!