Daring Fireball 1 hr ago

NYT: ‘Powered by A.I., Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years’

Tripp Mickle, Kate Conger, and Brian X. Chen, opening The New York Times’s report on yesterday’s Google I/O keynote (gift link): For 25 years, Google’s iconi...

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Daring Fireball 1d ago

Andrej Karpathy Joined Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy, on Twitter/X (XCancel link): Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially f...

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Daring Fireball 2d ago

Jury Rejects Elon Musk’s Claim Against Sam Altman in Unanimous Verdict

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuit against OpenAI and ...

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Daring Fireball 2d ago

Define ‘Boom’ Please

While I’m linking to pieces on Apple’s CEO transition, here’s an annoying tidbit from Tripp Mickle and Karl Russell’s piece for The New York Times, under the...

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Daring Fireball 2d ago

Existing Stakeholders Have a Say in the Future

A follow-up point on my “AI Is Technology, Not a Product” column over the weekend. Here’s a repeat of Steven Levy’s argument that John Ternus must direct App...

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Daring Fireball 2d ago

‘AI, “Humanity”, and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome’

Jim Prosser, back in February: Let me be clear about causation, because the AI parallel only works if we’re honest about it. The communications failures didn...

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Daring Fireball 2d ago

AI Data Centers Are Deeply Unpopular, Across the Political Spectrum

Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup: Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly half, 48%,...

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Daring Fireball 3d ago

Drata

My thanks to Drata for sponsoring last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal an...

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Daring Fireball 4d ago

ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop

Samantha Cole, writing for 404 Media: Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv, wrote on X: “If generative AI...

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Daring Fireball 4d ago

The Talk Show: ‘A Sociopathic Father’

Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft, his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he’s developing it with AI coding tools. ...

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Daring Fireball 4d ago

Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of Products at OpenAI, a Very Stable Well-Run Company

Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (News+ link): OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its pr...

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Daring Fireball 5d ago

Aluminium OS: Google’s ‘Android for PC’ OS for Googlebooks

Update: I originally posted this item thinking the aluminium-os.com website was official. It’s not. And the fact that it’s not is only mentioned in small pri...

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