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Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombs

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party like it’s 2007

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Our Friends Are Getting Wobbly on Prediction Markets

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The Rationalist web magazine Asterisk published a long article on prediction markets and invested 80 karma to boosting it on Hacker News. It drops the usual names (author has worked for Google and Metaculous, cites Friedrich Hayek, Phil Tetlock, Vitalik Buterin, Scott Alexander, Elon Musk, mentions the tiny prediction market Manifold because its a Rationalist shop). What is notable is that it pivots: so actually existing prediction markets are mostly gambling (he does not say “fraud and insider trading” or “just like cryptocurrency"), but some day soon LLMs will be our superforcasters!

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OpenAI may not be able to IPO in 2026

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But your pension fund will pay if it does

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Google Chrome force-installs a 4-gigabyte AI model — how to get rid of it

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How to get rid of it

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OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-E6oSeIMLw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250506-openai-gpt-55-goes-goblin-mode - podcast

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Grok AI unofficial crypto wallet hacked with an NFT and a prompt injection

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the future of agentic commerce is fraud

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Microsoft VS Code says Copilot AI wrote all your code

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as vibe-coded by a manager

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Kim Crawley: Technofascism Survival Guide (video interview)

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a practical manual for these trying times

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OpenAI to Microsoft: It’s not me, it’s you

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so long, suckers

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OpenAI tries ads in ChatGPT — but it won’t save them

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Sam Altman desperately scraping pennies together

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Tokenmaxxing: “How much did you spend in tokens?” — CEO of tokens

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if you don’t know what you’re doing, do it harder

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Kohl-Verlag’s new line of AI slop school textbooks

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a six-fingered AI image in the wild in 2026!

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Project Lobster: Microsoft brings Copilot AI to OpenClaw

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‘Nadella encouraged staff to think about developing similar products’

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Claude Code rate limits: Anthropic AI squeezes the customers

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what are they going to do? learn to code?

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Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

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Oh no! The President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus is in trouble

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‘may have been naïve about how complex these projects are’

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Gudtrip: the AI agent vape pen with blockchain

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winners don’t do drugs

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Russia demands a sovereign AI

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Bots in all branches of knowledge! Well, some

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Objection AI: venture capital tries to block bad press

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Thiel and Balaji’s hot new plan to fight journalism

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Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580%

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Long Island Iced AI

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Maine bans new data centres until November 2027

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don’t be left behind!

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Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC

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It’s a new paradigm! Don’t be left behind!

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AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house

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Sam might build a nothingburger so tasty it destroys the Earth

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HIGHLIGHTS from the AI panel at the 2026 Liberal Party of Canada convention, feat. Yoshua Bengio and Minister of AI Evan Solomon, world class ding dong

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OpenAI pulls out of Stargate UK data centre

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‘Regulatory uncertainty’ (not enough free stuff)

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Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! Allegedly

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Your expensive static checker

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OpenAI IPO proceeds — even as CFO says the company is ‘not ready’

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SpaceX makes bankers buy Grok

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Associated Press dumps journalists for AI

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‘Resistance is futile’ — AP senior manager

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Nobody wants OpenAI shares on the secondary market

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meanwhile, SpaceX lines up its IPO

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Microsoft AI reshuffle: Mustafa Suleyman goes AI doomsday crank

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not to worry, Copilot’s ‘for entertainment purposes only’

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Claude Code codebase is leaked

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Anthropic: ‘human error, not a security breach’

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GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requests

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Microsoft: ‘product tips’, not ‘ads’

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OpenAI offers 17.5% on venture deal! How can it do that?

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By not guaranteeing it in any way

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The AI bubble and the global polycrisis

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Everything is screwed. But how screwed?

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BuzzFeed goes AI — then it goes broke

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go slop, go flop

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OpenAI shuts down Sora video — Disney deal off

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pivoting from video

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Walmart dumps OpenAI at the checkout

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the customers? not so convinced

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OpenAI courting private-equity firms with guaranteed minimum 17.5% return - Who the fuck believes they can deliver this shit?

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Article: https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-sweetens-private-equity-pitch-amid-enterprise-turf-war-with-anthropic-2026-03-23/

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Layoffs don’t boost the share price — they drop it

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‘Restructuring’ gets a 7% hit, ‘AI’ only a 2% hit

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OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs for 2026

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venture capital discovers there’s no exit

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Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due

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Microsoft will pay you tomorrow for a token today

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OpenAI to acquire Astral

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I thought this was worthy of it’s own post rather than a sneery comment. Astral make UV which at this point is a load bearing part of the python software ecosystem. This could have a huge knock on effect on the open source community.

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Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse

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the Metaverse just didn’t have legs

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Kai Lentit: Interview with a sweating AI CEO (2026)

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UK chancellor Rachel Reeves: ‘Quantum is an area within AI’

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When you’re out of ideas, why not try magic

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OpenAI advisor: ‘adult mode’ risks becoming ‘sexy suicide coach’

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actual quote from the OpenAI Expert Council on Well-Being and AI

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AI chatbot kids’ toys are still an obviously terrible idea

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Sorry kid, life is rentware now

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AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

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Study: AI autocomplete suggestions can nudge people's opinions - and they don't notice

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AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

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I owe my SOUL․md to the company store

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Survey results are in! AI is more hated than ICE! (but less hated than the Democratic Party)

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AI bot network Facebook buys AI bot network Moltbook

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the dumbest AI bubble acqui-hire this week

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UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, and no AI

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♫ we told you so ♫

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Anthropic sues the Pentagon over being labelled a supply chain risk

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Originally posted in the Stubsack, but decided to make it its own post because why not

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Block’s AI layoffs are fake too

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ayahuasca beard weirdo

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How much water do the data centres use? It’s a secret!

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Google goes to court not to tell you

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Power price rises are from data centres. Nothing but data centres.

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Brookings: make the data centres pay to build the power plants

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Duolingo is dying celebratory thread

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DUOL shares have fallen more than 78% from their May 2025 high, and that’s before its nearly 25% fall in premarket trading today.

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AI works can’t be copyrighted or patented in the US

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even if you think your robot is alive

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OpenAI’s ‘$110b’ funding round is $25b and some promises

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It’s not circular! More of a Moebius strip

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Get your war on: AI chatbots in the kill chain

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what if Anthropic and OpenAI were both bad

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Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

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US Used Chatbot for War Planning

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h/t to Ed Zitron: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mfxqjqoias2q

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Somehow, I've been chosen to speak at my company's internal meeting on whether or not AI integration has actually been useful to us. I want feedback on my thoughts + inputs from you people too.

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So this is a bit of a weird one. I have a tech background, which gives me some more authority, but I’m working in a non-tech field at the moment. They’re taking this event pretty seriously, they’re flying me out from Beirut to one of their Gulf offices, so I would hope that they would make the trip worth it and not only listen for AI boosting.

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Copilot: insecure and unhelpful — but oh, those influencers!

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how does this keep happening

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Blue Owl won’t give your money back. This is fine

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The AI data centre business is solid, honest

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Apparently Anthropic may be about to be on the receiving end of some major banana republic shit from the Trump admin -- Update: Anthropic labeled supply chain risk by DoD.

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edit: The banana republic shit is that they seem about to blacklist anthropic on “supply chain risk” grounds (see also huawei) which signifies the admin’s willingness to from here on use national emergency legal tools to fuck over any company they don’t like.

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Accenture: you’re promoted or fired on using the AI

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‘broken slop generators’

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Meta’s director of AI alignment falls for OpenClaw

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STOP, OPENCLAW!

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Bet against the bubble: Goldman Sachs’ non-AI stock index

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‘eliminate the noise introduced by the AI hype’

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Amazon Web Services vibe-codes itself an outage or two

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‘user error, not AI error,’ Amazon said

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AI vibe-generates the same ‘random’ passwords over and over

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The most random number is 7

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Seedance’s ‘generated’ AI Cruise-Pitt demo was a green screen and face swap

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Seedance’s ‘generated’ AI Cruise-Pitt demo was a green screen and face swap

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The AI Scare Trade — the all-purpose excuse for number go down

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Business can’t compete if it has to think up new excuses

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The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro

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AI is crypto part two

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Let’s vibe-regulate US transport with Gemini!

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‘We’re flooding the zone’

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SaaSpocalypse: investors overspend badly on software companies and blame AI

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no, you can’t vibe code your enterprise accounting

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The Anthropic test refusal string: kill a Claude session dead

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and a very lovely ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 to you also

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UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI

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the AI is for spam

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Waymo self-driving cars, powered by AGI — A Guy Instead

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Tesla and Waymo find safety rules so inconvenient

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AI coding makes you worse at learning — and not even any faster

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Coding bot vendor: coding bots are bad for you

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The OpenAI and Nvidia $100b not-a-deal is off

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a mere memorandum of understanding

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Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right

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is 30% of Microsoft’s press coverage vibe-marketed

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The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2

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raw mp3

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AI makes Microsoft’s Q4 2025 numbers weird and bad

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Investors and analysts are not happy

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Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

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Or maybe Tesla

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AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist

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’Our AI has messed up completely’

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The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake

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Great Depression 2.0 gets under way

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PwC CEO survey reports no business advantage from of AI investment for the majority

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…which is of course, because they should be prompting harder. Unusually savage heise remarks:

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Moltbot/Clawdbot: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn’t work

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plus casual bot racism about Morocco

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Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI

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Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI

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Insurers don’t want to cover AI

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The true AI risk

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OpenAI faces cash crunch in 2026 as bills come due

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I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a GPU today

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Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam

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Stop it. Get some help.

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What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble

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Microsoft CEO one-shotted by GitHub Copilot

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How to hack Microsoft Copilot AI: ask it twice

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sudo make me a sandwich

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Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats it

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creates art a thousand times the worth

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Workday sued for AI-powered hiring discrimination

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We outsourced the bias machine

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Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals

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old devil washes out in deal with new devil

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Microsoft now paying customers to train in Copilot AI

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Please use our lying chatbot. Please?

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