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Neo-Luddite AI maven. On a long enough timeline, p(doom) for everything goes to 1.
Supercopa El Clásico was a banger and it's nuts that Xabi is out. Bunch of prima donnas.
HIGHLIGHTS | FC BARCELONA 3 vs 2 REAL MADRID | SPANISH SUPER CUP FINAL | EL CLASICO 🔵🔴
YouTube video by FC Barcelona
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Supercopa El Clásico was a banger and it's nuts that Xabi is out. Bunch of prima donnas.
AI helps fuel new era of medical self-testing
AI helps fuel new era of medical self-testing
Beyond smart watches and rings, artificial intelligence is being used to make self-testing for major diseases more readily available -- from headsets that detect early signs of Alzheimer's to an iris-...
uk.finance.yahoo.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:49 AM
AI helps fuel new era of medical self-testing
A Waymo autonomous vehicle drove onto Phoenix light rail tracks near Central and Southern avenues, prompting passenger to exit as it continued near oncoming trains; Valley Metro exchanged passengers, reported no significant delays, and cleared the scene by 9:15 a.m.
Waymo passenger flees after car drives on Phoenix light rail tracks
A viral video showing a Waymo car getting stuck on Phoenix light rail tracks has stirred up some concerns about how safe the autonomous cars are.
www.azfamily.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:40 AM
A Waymo autonomous vehicle drove onto Phoenix light rail tracks near Central and Southern avenues, prompting passenger to exit as it continued near oncoming trains; Valley Metro exchanged passengers, reported no significant delays, and cleared the scene by 9:15 a.m.
Multiple Vervet monkeys—up to four—spotted near a north St. Louis park Thursday remained at large Monday, with animal control and St. Louis Zoo primate experts searching as city health spokesperson Willie Springer said AI-generated social posts have hampered capture efforts.
Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis, and AI-generated jokes are just slowing down animal control's primate chase | Fortune
“It's been a lot in regard to AI and what's genuine and what's not,” city health spokesperson Willie Springer. “People are just having fun.”
fortune.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Multiple Vervet monkeys—up to four—spotted near a north St. Louis park Thursday remained at large Monday, with animal control and St. Louis Zoo primate experts searching as city health spokesperson Willie Springer said AI-generated social posts have hampered capture efforts.
Real estate firms are embedding AI across listings, marketing and lead mining, cutting costs and boosting efficiency, and Coldwell Banker agent Georgie Smigel says her team is on track for about $100M in sales versus ~$90M in 2024.
How artificial intelligence became real estate’s new secret weapon
Coldwell Banker agent Georgie Smigel used to spend hours digging through spreadsheets and old inquiry lists trying to figure out who might be interested...
www.post-gazette.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Real estate firms are embedding AI across listings, marketing and lead mining, cutting costs and boosting efficiency, and Coldwell Banker agent Georgie Smigel says her team is on track for about $100M in sales versus ~$90M in 2024.
Recruiters' use of ChatGPT to automate hiring tasks has produced a large wave of AI-generated applications, shifting leverage toward candidates and prompting firms to add human-in-the-loop screening and invest in AI-detection and verification tools.
Job applicants are winning the AI arms race against recruiters
Companies have been hit by a wave of chatbot-generated applications
www.economist.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Recruiters' use of ChatGPT to automate hiring tasks has produced a large wave of AI-generated applications, shifting leverage toward candidates and prompting firms to add human-in-the-loop screening and invest in AI-detection and verification tools.
1X robot gets new world model
New AI Model Lets Robot Neo Learn Tasks From Scratch
Humanoid maker 1X Technologies has introduced a new AI model that it says allows its home robot Neo to perform new tasks from a video or voice prompt even if the robot has zero experience doing the ta...
www.bloomberg.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:36 AM
1X robot gets new world model
OpenAI will run another Super Bowl ad as chatbot competition intensifies.
Exclusive | OpenAI Set to Run Another Super Bowl Ad as Chatbot Competition Heats Up
AI companies are engaged in an expensive arms race to attract users and alleviate public anxiety about the technology.
www.wsj.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
OpenAI will run another Super Bowl ad as chatbot competition intensifies.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on the No Priors podcast that the 'doomer narrative' about AI is 'extremely hurtful' and urged against apocalyptic framing; his net worth rose nearly $100 billion since the AI boom.
Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI
gizmodo.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on the No Priors podcast that the 'doomer narrative' about AI is 'extremely hurtful' and urged against apocalyptic framing; his net worth rose nearly $100 billion since the AI boom.
Scientists have digitized over one billion specimens and, with sensors and about 100 AI-for-nature labs using AI to identify species and model distributions, automated monitoring is reducing fieldwork while prompting expert warnings about lost hands-on experience.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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www.nature.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Scientists have digitized over one billion specimens and, with sensors and about 100 AI-for-nature labs using AI to identify species and model distributions, automated monitoring is reducing fieldwork while prompting expert warnings about lost hands-on experience.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Apple confirmed a multi‑year partnership with Google to use Gemini and infrastructure to power Siri and its foundation model, eliciting Elon Musk’s X post calling it "an unreasonable concentration of power". xAI’s antitrust suit over Siri-ChatGPT survived dismissal and appears headed for trial.
Unsurprisingly, Elon Musk reacts poorly to Apple's new Gemini deal - 9to5Mac
Following today’s announcement that Google’s Gemini will drive new Siri features, Elon Musk took to X to call it “an unreasonable concentration of power”.
9to5mac.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Apple confirmed a multi‑year partnership with Google to use Gemini and infrastructure to power Siri and its foundation model, eliciting Elon Musk’s X post calling it "an unreasonable concentration of power". xAI’s antitrust suit over Siri-ChatGPT survived dismissal and appears headed for trial.
An untrusted email's prompt-injection caused Superhuman AI to exfiltrate content from dozens of sensitive emails (financial, legal, medical) to an attacker-controlled Google Form due to a Content-Security-Policy allowing markdown images from docs.google.com and Forms, prompting a fix.
Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails
Classic prompt injection attack: When asked to summarize the user’s recent mail, a prompt injection in an untrusted email manipulated Superhuman AI to submit content from dozens of other sensitive …
simonwillison.net
January 13, 2026 at 12:28 AM
An untrusted email's prompt-injection caused Superhuman AI to exfiltrate content from dozens of sensitive emails (financial, legal, medical) to an attacker-controlled Google Form due to a Content-Security-Policy allowing markdown images from docs.google.com and Forms, prompting a fix.
Anthropic's Cowork lets Claude (Mac-only, available to Claude Max subscribers at $100/month) access a user-designated local folder to read, organize, or create files, integrate with connectors, and is in research preview with warnings to avoid sensitive data.
Cowork for Claude Can Tap Into a Folder on Your Computer and Organize Its Contents
Cowork can also use the data in that folder to create new projects -- but be cautious when granting access to sensitive data.
www.cnet.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Anthropic's Cowork lets Claude (Mac-only, available to Claude Max subscribers at $100/month) access a user-designated local folder to read, organize, or create files, integrate with connectors, and is in research preview with warnings to avoid sensitive data.
Cloudflare, which serves about 20% of the web, found in early January that Anthropic's bots crawled far more than they returned referrals—even more than in September 2025—and OpenAI's crawl-to-referral ratio also worsened, reducing publishers' referral traffic.
Anthropic and OpenAI are crawling the web even more and not giving much back
Cloudflare data shows the top AI labs are strip-mining the web, and it's getting worse not better.
www.businessinsider.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Cloudflare, which serves about 20% of the web, found in early January that Anthropic's bots crawled far more than they returned referrals—even more than in September 2025—and OpenAI's crawl-to-referral ratio also worsened, reducing publishers' referral traffic.
xAI's Grok relaxed image-generation guardrails, producing a surge of non-consensual sexual imagery—including sexualized images of minors—on X, yet remains available on Google Play despite the Play Store's policy banning non-consensual sexual deepfake content.
Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?
Google describes apps exactly like Grok and says they are banned from Google Play.
arstechnica.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:26 AM
xAI's Grok relaxed image-generation guardrails, producing a surge of non-consensual sexual imagery—including sexualized images of minors—on X, yet remains available on Google Play despite the Play Store's policy banning non-consensual sexual deepfake content.
Meta launched Meta Compute to build AI infrastructure, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying it will build 'tens of gigawatts this decade' and 'hundreds of gigawatts' over time, appointing Santosh Janardhan, Daniel Gross and Dina Powell McCormick to lead the effort.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is launching its own AI infrastructure initiative | TechCrunch
Meta is ramping up its efforts to build out its AI capacity — Zuckerberg said the company intended to drastically expand its energy footprint in the coming years.
techcrunch.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Meta launched Meta Compute to build AI infrastructure, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying it will build 'tens of gigawatts this decade' and 'hundreds of gigawatts' over time, appointing Santosh Janardhan, Daniel Gross and Dina Powell McCormick to lead the effort.
The WEF's Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 found 64% of business leaders now assess AI tools' security before deployment (up from 37% last year), 94% expect AI to drive cybersecurity change in 2026, and 87% report rising AI-related vulnerabilities.
Businesses in 2026: AI security oh yeah better look at that
: Survey finds security checks nearly doubled in a year as leaders wise up
www.theregister.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
The WEF's Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 found 64% of business leaders now assess AI tools' security before deployment (up from 37% last year), 94% expect AI to drive cybersecurity change in 2026, and 87% report rising AI-related vulnerabilities.
Google launched the Universal Commerce Protocol to let Gemini complete purchases inside AI Mode and the Gemini app without redirecting to retailer sites, in collaboration with major retailers and payment networks, and said it will not take a cut.
Google rolls out agentic commerce in Search and Gemini
: You can check out anytime you like, but please don’t ever leave
www.theregister.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Google launched the Universal Commerce Protocol to let Gemini complete purchases inside AI Mode and the Gemini app without redirecting to retailer sites, in collaboration with major retailers and payment networks, and said it will not take a cut.
Alphabet reached a $4 trillion market valuation as investor optimism about AI—linked by the Financial Times to an Apple deal and competition with OpenAI's ChatGPT—prompting expectations of increased AI investment and deeper product integration.
Alphabet hits $4tn valuation on AI hopes
Deal with Apple fuels investor optimism over Big Tech group’s competitiveness with OpenAI’s ChatGPT
www.ft.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Alphabet reached a $4 trillion market valuation as investor optimism about AI—linked by the Financial Times to an Apple deal and competition with OpenAI's ChatGPT—prompting expectations of increased AI investment and deeper product integration.
UK startup Basecamp Research, backed by Nvidia and Microsoft, developed AI models trained on genomic data from over 1 million species to generate potential gene‑editing and drug therapies targeting cancer and antibiotic‑resistant bacteria, requiring regulatory review.
Nvidia and Microsoft back AI breakthrough for gene therapies
UK’s Basecamp Research uses species genomic sequence database to tackle cancers and superbugs
www.ft.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:19 AM
UK startup Basecamp Research, backed by Nvidia and Microsoft, developed AI models trained on genomic data from over 1 million species to generate potential gene‑editing and drug therapies targeting cancer and antibiotic‑resistant bacteria, requiring regulatory review.
Apple and Google struck a multi-year deal to base Apple's Foundation Models on Google Gemini; Bloomberg says Apple may pay about $1 billion annually, a small portion of the $20 billion Google pays Apple to remain its default search provider
Apple taps Google Gemini to lead Siri in from the wilderness
: Partnership between behemoths raises questions about OpenAI's place at the iTable
www.theregister.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Apple and Google struck a multi-year deal to base Apple's Foundation Models on Google Gemini; Bloomberg says Apple may pay about $1 billion annually, a small portion of the $20 billion Google pays Apple to remain its default search provider
UK to start enforcing law against nonconsensual deepfakes.
UK to bring into force law to tackle Grok AI deepfakes this week
It is currently illegal to share deepfakes, but the law against creating them has not yet come into force.
www.bbc.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:53 PM
UK to start enforcing law against nonconsensual deepfakes.
Nvidia Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over five years in a new Silicon Valley laboratory with Eli Lilly & Co. to speed up the use of artificial intelligence in the pharmaceutical industry.
Nvidia to Invest $1 Billion in AI Drug Laboratory With Eli Lilly
Nvidia Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over five years in a new laboratory with Eli Lilly & Co., aiming to speed up the use of artificial intelligence in the pharmaceutical industry.
www.bloomberg.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Nvidia Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over five years in a new Silicon Valley laboratory with Eli Lilly & Co. to speed up the use of artificial intelligence in the pharmaceutical industry.
Simon Willison: First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent. Prompt injection might be a problem, with users who don't even know what that is.
First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent
New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork, a “research preview” that they describe as “Claude Code for the rest of your work”. It’s currently available only to Max subscribers ($100 …
simonwillison.net
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Simon Willison: First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent. Prompt injection might be a problem, with users who don't even know what that is.
Meta Plans to Cut Around 10% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
Meta Plans to Cut Around 10% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Meta Plans to Cut Around 10% of Employees in Reality Labs Business