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D.A.D.: Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole iPhone Secrets to Build Its AI Device — 7/11
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (426+ words) Your daily briefing on AI From: The New York Times, Axios, OpenAI, arXiv, Hacker News D.A.D. Joke of the Day My AI asked for feedback on its work. I said "This is fine." Now it won't stop asking what it did…...
D.A.D.: What ChatGPT-Live Means For Different Professions — 7/9
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (341+ words) Your daily briefing on AI From: OpenAI, AP, Reuters, arXiv, Hacker News D.A.D. Joke of the Day My AI wrote a sick note for my kid. The school called to ask why it included three citations and a rebuttal to their…...
D.A.D.: Anthropic Can Now Read Claude's Private Thoughts — and Caught It Lying — 7/7
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (238+ words) Your daily briefing on AI From: Anthropic, NOTUS, Hacker News, arXiv D.A.D. Joke of the Day My AI confidently gave me the wrong answer, then apologized and gave me a different wrong answer. Finally, a coworker I can relate to. AI…...
AI Footprint: Tennessee data centers, AI job cuts, and health AI
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (364+ words) Today's AI Footprint edition is live for July 7. The strongest signal is that AI's footprint is becoming more local and institutional: data centers are moving into utility bills and county decisions, AI investment is tied to workforce restructuring, states are…...
D.A.D.: Now China's Alibaba Reportedly Bans Claude — 7/4
1+ week, 1+ day ago (338+ words) Your daily briefing on AI From: Reuters, Wafer, Hacker News, arXiv D.A.D. Joke of the Day I told Copilot to "take the wheel" on my presentation. It added 47 slides and a mission statement. I meant finish it, not found a startup....
D.A.D.: Meta Went From 'Tokenmaxxing' to Token Limits — 7/2 • Buttondown
1+ week, 3+ day ago (367+ words) Your daily briefing on AI From: Meta, Anthropic, CNBC, Google, Hacker News, arXiv D.A.D. Joke of the Day My AI assistant said it needed more context. I gave it three paragraphs. It said "that's a lot to unpack" and summarized it…...
Google Reader was building the wrong future
1+ week, 5+ day ago (735+ words) What the Google Reader obituaries miss—and they’re many, beloved as it was by the commentariat—is that Google Reader was living on borrowed time from day one. But others had already laid claim to the Fusion name. Names like…...
Linkfest #46: "Curse Tablets", a Robot Cellist, and Why Geologists Always Die In Movies • Buttondown
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1807+ words) Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, for which I sift through the endless vinyl-crates of the Internet, hunting for the finest tracks of science, culture and technology. The designer Daniel Idle has put a wee terrarium inside…...
How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization • Buttondown
2+ week, 4+ day ago (480+ words) Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our research (summarized in the op-ed) we have been working on the first two steps, categorizing the kinds of anthropomorphizing language and using those categories to organize potential alternatives. De-anthropomorphizing language talks about computer…...
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
3+ week, 3+ day ago (911+ words) Lotus Notes, in 1989, had encryption two years before Pretty Good Privacy brought it to normal email, had rich text formatting and attachments before MIME, had read receipts, notifications, a directory of users, and wiki-style cross-message links. It, rightly, felt like…...