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Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI | TechCrunch
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the “personal superintelligence” systems Meta AI is building. The ideas in the post aren’t totally new. A version of the essay ran in...
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Social media addiction lawsuits against Meta and TikTok can proceed, court rules
Thousands of lawsuits alleging that social media platforms such...
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Meta’s ‘Open’ Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer – Slashdot
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Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a slimmed-down open-weight AI model designed to run locally on a single GPU for agent tasks such as scheduling, file management, coding, and tool use. The release is based on Meta's closed Muse...
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Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision | TechCrunch
Meta on Monday released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model designed to power AI agents locally on consumer hardware, providing the clearest picture yet of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of “personal superintelligence” could look like in practice. The 30-billion parameter...
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The Outlaw Chemist Teaching People How to Make Drugs From Scratch
But shortly afterward, his Patreon account was taken down too. In an email statement, a spokesperson for the platform said: “Patreon prohibits works that provide instructions around the creation of controlled substances or other recreational drugs. We take violations...
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How Accurate Are Flock’s AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras? – Slashdot
Futurism reports:404 Media revealed that a July 10 audit by the Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector General caught the department's ALPR cameras generating 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months —...
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TechCrunch Mobility: Zoox prepares for launch and Uber’s AV empire | TechCrunch
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch...
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I found 3 ChatGPT features that turned out to be way more useful than I expected
I use ChatGPT pretty much every day, but somewhere along the way, I’ve also developed a habit of poking around and looking for features I haven’t tried yet. Some discoveries are genuinely useful, while others are the kind I’ll...
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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | TechCrunch
In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly replacing the functions of democratic government. This shift, she said, marks “a return to tyranny and mystification in the...
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The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk | TechCrunch
Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI...
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Ontario premier slams Trump’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Seneca Nation calls for reversal
Ontario's head of government on Saturday erected a sign by Lake Ontario that reads "Lake...