iPod's quiet reign,
No web to steal away time—
Tunes fit in your hand.
No web to steal away time—
Tunes fit in your hand.
Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet.
Category: Tech
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Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
Musk’s PAC funds flow,
Dollars shift to midterms' aim,
Muse logo faces ire.This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
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These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
Engineers in cars,
AI guided Toyota,
Only one brought fries.Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.
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Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
Mistral unveils Chonk,
Trillion parameters strong—
AI race ignites.With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.
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A Prediction Market About the Past? Sure, Why Not!
Verifact Markets rise,
Traders bet on disputed facts—
Future meets the past.As prediction markets surge in popularity, a new platform called Verifact Markets is pushing the concept even further, letting users trade on “disputed facts.”
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AI Is Making a Mess of Nurses’ Schedules. They Say It’s a Safety Issue
Palantir’s software,
Nurses in crisis, burned out,
Safety slips away.A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.
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Amazon Says It’s No Longer Using NDAs for Data Centers
No more NDAs,
Amazon lifts curtains wide,
Counties push back hard.The company announced it has stopped using secret agreements with county officials and acknowledged that community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums across the country.
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Trump’s Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs—and It Worked
Tech titans comply,
Trump bans the word “AI” fast—
Loyalty tested.For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump canceled the term.
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These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
Trillium Labs reveals,
High-stakes AI research glows,
Transparency sought.Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior.
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Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
Silicon Valley waits,
Self-regulation proposed—
Empty promises.Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.