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Well, the news out of the latest #FreeBSD status report with regard to #AI policy is not super-duper encouraging.
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Hey, did you know #zdnet fired all but a couple of people at #HumbleBundle and replaced them with #AI? And the vibe-coded site removed a ton of security features? Yeah, vibe coding, wave of the future. Go remove any stored payment data now.
You could have invented transformers from memory https://lobste.rs/s/u2h9as #ai
https://alexwang.ai/posts/associative-memory/
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The Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza has been cleared of using AI to write a prize-winning short story, after the prestigious Caine prize for African writers concluded that his entry was “human-written” after a month-long investigation.
I wonder why all these Black writers and academics keep getting accused?
#AI #Racism
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117613225001676142
I thought this was pretty obvious from the circular financing, and the fact that NVIDIA earned the popular moniker “The Central Bank of #AI”.
It’s interesting that major outlets are getting their knives out today for #NVIDIA when they were basically silent just last week.
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NVIDIA Allegedly Engineered Scarcity By Funding AI Startups To Buy Its GPUs
https://www.techpowerup.com/354814/nvidia-allegedly-engineered-scarcity-by-funding-ai-startups-to-buy-its-gpus
Following the departure of now-former NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, a new report has emerged alleging that NVIDIA artificially inflated the ongoing GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups that would go on to buy NVIDIA GPUs and build data centers. The reason behind this was to maintain the perception of ongoing high demand and to move an oversupply of semiconductors from TSMC.
Open quoted post
The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer https://lobste.rs/s/0aungk #ai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29713
🐧 Linus Torvalds Says AI-Assisted Linux Kernel Fixes Are Becoming the Norm
“And yes, much of this was driven by various AI fixes. I think I’ll stop repeating that, and we can just take it for granted,”
https://linuxiac.com/linus-torvalds-says-ai-assisted-linux-kernel-fixes-are-becoming-the-norm/
#ai #linux #opensource
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@demofox/117610334329985119
#Microsoft
Noun:
"black box systems built by people who left 2 years ago."
#AI
Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250 million on the midterms. In the races where their money could actually make a difference, nearly two-thirds of it backed candidates who lost.
You wouldn’t know it from what the industries are saying. New issue: https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-ai-lost-the-midterms/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter
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OpenAI- and a16z-linked Leading the Future spent $8.2M defeating “AI safety” candidate Alex Bores in NY-12, only for him to lose to a candidate with a similar platform. Backlash from AI’s intervention in that race was likely why they backed off in the general election.
On the other side was the Anthropic-linked “AI safety” Public First PAC network, which claimed a “crushing blow” to the “anti-regulation” PACs. But of the $29.2 million they spent, only about $10.9 million ended up helping winning candidates (37%).
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter
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Despite the crypto industry’s public claims of widespread public support, their admakers clearly understand that being “pro-crypto” is not a winning message. Out of the 57 ads I tracked from crypto super PACs, only 3 mentioned crypto (obliquely).
AI-focused super PACs were more willing to mention their industry, but not in a good way. Most mentions came from “AI safety” PACs warning about the harms of AI, or from Leading the Future bashing Alex Bores for his history in the tech sector.
https://influence.citationneeded.news/2026/analysis/ads/library
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter
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Most crypto and AI ads avoided mentioning their industries at all, instead telling voters what they thought they’d want to hear. One “AI safety” PAC network ran “remove the illegals, seal the border” ads for a Republican and “overhaul ICE” ads for a Democrat a few hours away.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter
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AI and crypto both declared victory, despite their objectively poor performance. Both have vowed to spend heavily in 2028, and are still hoping to intimidate lawmakers with the dominance they failed to demonstrate.
But before then, AI and crypto will both have to try to backtrack on their strong rightward turn over the past few years, lobbying a Democratic Congress. More on that pivot coming soon.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter
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#Microsoft🚨continued to warn that users may be unable to connect to multi Microsoft 365 products *making “continued recovery progress” overall, w “broader improvements” in NA, “sustained improvements” in much of Eur..."
-CNBC
A grp of current & fmr Microsoft employees🚨is circulating a letter accusing the co of chasing #AI at the cost of its own ppl, customers & climate goals *drawn fresh attn after the co offered buyouts to ~60K employees, >1/4 of the WF.
#BigTech #USPol
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"Nvidia CEO Jenson Huang⚡resigns, Colette Kress named interim chief."
-CNBC
"Replacing #Huang as CEO of #Nvidia 🚨could backfire on the ENTIRE #AI boom.
Why?
Bc of this chart.
Jensen's been one of the biggest architects of circular financing -has been propping up those valuations & nearly all of these deals were negotiated by him.
Would a successor be able to engineer similar structures?
& does uncertainty with Nvidia's direction call into Q this broader gambit?
Tenuous times."
-Nic
#USPol