A Buffoon Walks Into The Oval Office...@alter-idem.bsky.social
Like the Wild West, artificial intelligence has its frontiersmen. In America they are a dwindling bunch. Anthropic and OpenAI remain steadfastly committed to pushing the boundaries of AI. Other tech giants, including Google are wavering.
Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings
Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on theโฆ
Claude will soon be adding an invisible watermark to all the content it generates, and OpenAi and the other major models are soon to follow thanks to new laws from places that have FUNCTIONING governments
OpenAIโs new revenue chief, Dali Rajic, brings experience from Wiz as cybersecurity becomes a bigger part of the AI companyโs pitch to business customers.
Google Sheets now offers Sheets canvas, enabling users to transform spreadsheet data into interactive mini-apps using Gemini without coding. Available for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers alternativeto.net/news/2026/8...
A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online (Washington Post)
For those who donโt follow video games, there is constant policing of any AI use among small, indie developers. They are the most resource constrained firms in a field where profits are rare & artistic vision is often compromised, but they are punished more harshly than big devs by their audience.
"Causal-SAM-LLM: Large Language Models as Causal Reasoners for Robust Medical Segmentation" improves OOD medical segmentation via language-guided disentanglement and test-time intervention. #LLM#MedicalAI#Segmentationarxiv.org/abs/2507.03585
Zuckerbergโs essay is full of platitudes and sentences that mean nothing, โthought experimentsโ that are not developed or explored in any way, discussions of โfreedom,โ etc.
AI-driven cyberattacks increased by 56% in the past year, with more than 25% of organisations that experienced a malicious attack reporting that the incident was driven by artificial intelligence.
A Chinese startup is about to release an open-source AI model that it claims already matches its American rival model at Anthropic.
Zhipu AI (Z.ai), a Chinese artificial intelligence firm with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), allegedly exceeded Anthropicโs ability to find softwareโฆ
AI can solve more math problems with human coaching and encouragement?
Imagine what it can come up with when encouraged to do nefarious activities. Gift link.
Boston Metro Weather Forecast Bot@boston-4castbot.bsky.social
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Where an AI Watermark Can Hide in Plain Text.
Anthropic won't say how its text watermark works, so here's where it hides and how to strip it danielmiessler.com/blog/where-w...
"People who have been intentionally concealing their AI usage worried about being found out." Give me a break lmao, if AI is so great for your workflow, why are you so worried clients will find out you used it?
Starting in version 1.93, Brave browser is rolling out new protections against GPU and graphics-driver fingerprinting. These protections are on by default in the desktop and Android browsers.
Some 1.6 million RingCentral accounts, including emails and names, have been leaked online after the company failed to pay an extortion demand from ShinyHunters, which obtained the data via voice-phishing.
The Durability Curve@thedurabilitycurve.bsky.social
NVIDIA's Ohio guarantee for OpenAI is expected to come in under $120B, down from $250B discussed. The $500B platform runs on third-party capital; this backstop is NVIDIA's own balance sheet, phase one of 10 GW only. AI infrastructure NVIDIA semiconductors
Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired (Alix Coutures/The Information)
Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter www.cnbc.com/2026/08/15/a...
