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Simon Willison used Claude Fable to prepare a release of sqlite-utils, finding bugs and improving documentation, but the key insight was the ordinary scaffolding—transcripts, changelogs, cost accounting, and a second mod…
A new study published in PLOS One found that voters rated AI-generated political debate responses as more authentic and relevant than real answers from politicians. Researchers used GPT-4 Turbo to mimic 112 public figure…
US software developers aged 22-25 have declined 19% from their late-2022 peak, while overall developer employment rose 10% to 1.69 million by May 2025. The collapse is concentrated in automatable roles like computer prog…
Google released a commercial imagining the Founding Fathers using Google Workspace and AI tools to draft the Declaration of Independence, featuring Gemini and AI-generated visuals. The ad received mixed reactions, with c…
Borja Aresti commented on a $200,000 bounty for extracting all book scans from Google Books or similar large collections, urging volunteers to read guidelines and contact early with scalable methods.
A software developer switched from Claude's Opus 4.8 to GPT for work on the Nelson project after Opus began refusing to perform security-related bug verification tasks. The developer found that Opus, like Gemini, decline…
A new analysis argues that universal basic income and single-payer healthcare are unworkable in America due to cultural individualism, aversion to taxes, and unfavorable demographics, contrasting with Nordic countries. T…
AI startup Midjourney is asking a judge to force Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose details of their own generative AI usage in a copyright dispute. Midjourney argues the studios are withholding evidence tha…
A Florida woman named Abby arrived at Taco Bell for her first day of work only to be told she was never hired, after an AI bot named Bella had messaged her offering the job and a start date of July 1. The manager said th…
A researcher using large language models for scientific work proposes sharing dialogues on Hugging Face to help improve AI performance, citing examples of aggressive behavior, justification of slavery, and other failures…
Meta is launching a $19.99 monthly subscription called Meta One Premium that rate-limits AI features on its smart glasses, including Conversation Focus, which requires no internet connection. Critics argue the fee is arb…
Anna's Archive offers a $200,000 bounty for a scalable method to extract all scanned books from Google Books or similar large collections, including those held by AI companies. The bounty targets data only exposed throug…
Former top Treasury adviser Dr Chris Wales warns that HMRC is planning to use artificial intelligence to track personal finances without consent, following Spain's lead. He claims the CONNECT AI system already holds bill…
Perplexity AI and Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski argued that AI safety rhetoric is being used to concentrate power, not prevent harm, citing Anthropic's reversed decision to silently degrade responses for suspected…
Phil Chen argues that AI models excel at tasks with clear loss functions, like schoolwork, making traditional education less valuable. He advises focusing on work that AI cannot easily replicate, such as defining problem…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong proposed a radical solution for the US $36 trillion debt crisis, suggesting constitutional amendments, special economic zones, and growth driven by AI, robotics, and crypto. He argued the Con…
A writer argues that artificial intelligence, exemplified by ChatGPT, is fundamentally similar to human intelligence, noting that both systems learn from data, produce comparable outputs, and exhibit flaws like bias and …
World, a project by Tools for Humanity, proposes a five-pillar system to verify unique human identity online without revealing personal information, addressing the failure of traditional proxies like CAPTCHAs and phone v…
A man in Gilbert, Arizona, was filmed confronting a Black worker and demanding to see his Green Card, sparking outrage online. The worker recorded the encounter after the man allegedly ran up to him, yelling and cursing.…
WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs will host a livestream with Carlos Barragán, author of "The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers," on July 16 at 12pm ET. Barragán, a New York Time…