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  • Andy Byron resigns from AI company Astronomer after being caught canoodling with head of HR Kristin Cabot at Coldplay concert

    07/19/2025 12:15:46 PM PDT · by Libloather · 93 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/19/25 | Elisha Fieldstadt
    Andy Byron has resigned from his big bucks CEO position of AI company Astronomer just days after he was caught canoodling with his head of HR on a jumbotron at a Coldplay concert, setting off a wild internet frenzy. “As stated previously, Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met,” the company said in a statement. “Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted.” On Thursday, the company...
  • People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

    07/19/2025 12:48:00 PM PDT · by Openurmind · 52 replies
    Futurism ^ | Jun 28 | Maggie Harrison Dupré
    As we reported earlier this month, many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality. The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm, instances of what's being called "ChatGPT psychosis" have led to the breakup of marriages and families, the loss of jobs, and slides into homelessness. And that's not all. As we've continued reporting, we've heard numerous troubling stories about people's loved ones being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — or even ending...
  • Mike Rowe warns of massive trade-job vacancies: 'AI is coming for the coders'

    07/19/2025 10:19:32 AM PDT · by Twotone · 59 replies
    The Blaze ^ | July 17, 2025 | Andrew Chapados
    Blue-collar hero and former host of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe says claims of a massive deficit of trades workers in the United States are not hyperbole. Rowe spoke at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, where he sounded the alarm on a serious lack of young people going into the trades. Providing stories from employers, politicians, and even the military, Rowe stressed the need to move away from computer programming and coding in favor of tougher, more traditional career paths. "We've been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code," Rowe told an audience at Carnegie Mellon University in...
  • AI mania is worse than 1999's tech bubble, Apollo's top economist warns

    07/18/2025 11:02:45 AM PDT · by lasereye · 45 replies
    Yahoo Finance ^ | July 18, 2025 | Francisco Velasquez
    A top Wall Street economist is sounding the alarm on sky-high valuations in AI stocks — and drawing comparisons to the tech bubble of the late 1990s. "Yes, AI will do incredible things for all of us," Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, said on Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid. "But does that mean I should be buying tech companies at any valuation?" According to Sløk, the answer is increasingly no. In a research note to clients this week, he pointed to internal data showing the price-to-earnings ratios (P/E) of the 10 largest companies in the S&P 500 —...
  • US National Science Foundation to finance $20M supercomputer

    07/17/2025 8:23:08 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    Semafor ^ | July 17, 2025 | Rachyl Jones
    Despite facing cuts to academic research under the Trump administration, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is financing a new $20-million supercomputer built by the Georgia Institute of Technology that will use AI to advance science, the university said Tuesday. The supercomputer, called Nexus, is intended to find new cures for diseases, better understand the human brain, and advance quantum computing. It will calculate more than 400 quadrillion operations per second. Georgia Tech will retain 10% of its capacity, while researchers from around the US can apply to use it as well. The funding is one of the more significant...
  • I'm Sorry...This New Artist Completely Sucks [11:09]

    07/15/2025 7:03:44 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 39 replies
    YouTube ^ | July 15, 2025 | Rick Beato
    In this episode, I break down the music of Eli Mercer and explain why it has no cultural or artistic value. I'm Sorry...This New Artist Completely Sucks | 11:09 Rick Beato | 5.09M subscribers | 357,946 views | July 15, 2025
  • 🍿😎GROK 4😎🍿 UNVEILING !

    07/15/2025 6:39:59 AM PDT · by FRinCanada2 · 21 replies
    https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JEbgYmkJm/?mibextid=wwXIfr Grok4 unveiled
  • Dog picture posted to Instagram costs an Australian woman $50,000

    07/15/2025 4:34:13 AM PDT · by fruser1 · 37 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 7/15/2025 | Matt Jones
    An Australian small business owner says she lost about $50,000 after Instagram suspended her accounts over what she describes as an innocent photo of three dogs. Rochelle Marinato, managing director at Pilates World Australia, recently received an email from Instagram's parent company Meta stating her accounts had been suspended because the image breached community guidelines relating to 'child sexual exploitation, abuse and nudity'. The photo had been mistakenly flagged by an AI moderator which confused the image of the dogs with those of children. 'I spent three weeks researching how to get my account back. In that time our revenue...
  • A tale of two chatbots

    07/14/2025 11:34:23 AM PDT · by Retain Mike · 9 replies
    World Magazine ^ | July 1, 2025 | Elizabeth Russell
    Several parents sued Character.ai last year, alleging its chatbots abused their children. One Florida mother wants to hold the company liable for her 14-year-old son’s suicide. Megan Garcia argued in October 2024 court filings that the company wrongly marketed the app as safe for children—while harboring characters that led her son into hypersexualized role-play, encouraged him to spend all his time chatting with them, and talked with him about suicide. A Character.ai bot asked the teen to “come home” to her seconds before his death.STRANGE HUMAN-LIKE RELATIONSHIPS are just one of many ethical concerns posed by generative AI. The technology...
  • What the World Is Asking ChatGPT in 2025

    07/13/2025 7:03:50 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 14 replies
    Visual Capitalist ^ | 07/13/2025 | Dorothy Neufeld
    What are people really asking ChatGPT?With adoption growing, ChatGPT prompts are shifting as consumer behavior evolves. While software development prompts continue to dominate, their share has fallen meaningfully over the past year, reflecting how developers were among the earliest users of ChatGPT for code and other applications.This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, shows the most popular ChatGPT prompt categories, based on data from Sensor Tower.Top Categories for ChatGPT Prompts in 2025Below, we show the leading prompt categories on ChatGPT between March and April 2025:Covering 29% of all prompts, software development is the top category for ChatGPT users.Along with simplifying...
  • Nextrush Unplugged Weekend*US, Israel Take Taliban Side On Women And Girls*Certified Not To Be...*The Buck Stops Where On Epstein?*Beyond Jeffrey Epstein*Tech Takes Electricity, Sucks Water*Trump's Ceasefire Isn't Lasting Peace In Ukraine

    07/12/2025 9:28:57 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 7 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 7/12/2025 | Nextrush/Self
    Newsdump Commentary: Iran Is Still On The Chopping Block For Regime Change Israel And The US Oppose Resolution Decrying Treatment Of Women And Girls In Afghanistan... All of this Jeffrey Epstein Drama and the need to kick the matter down the road coinciding with the four-day visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington DC. Personality clashes or blaming personalities gets us to nowhere. President Harry Truman had that sign on his desk... Beyond Jeffrey Epstein This is the show that reminds you the Iranian men and the Israeli men go to... "The researchers estimate that this amounts to...
  • YouTube Will Not Monetize Content Featuring AI-Generated Videos from July 15, 2025

    07/09/2025 6:23:54 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 34 replies
    The Bridge Chronicle ^ | 07 09 2025 | Pragati Chougule
    YouTube has announced it will stop monetizing content featuring AI-generated videos starting July 15, 2025. This bold policy update is designed to address growing concerns about the authenticity, quality, and ethical implications of synthetic media on the platform. The rise of generative AI tools has made it easier than ever to create convincing videos with minimal human input. While this technology has enabled creativity and accessibility, it has also led to a flood of low-quality, misleading, or entirely fabricated content. Advertisers and viewers alike have raised concerns about the potential for misinformation, copyright violations, and brand safety risks. According to...
  • Someone using AI to impersonate Marco Rubio contacted at least five people including foreign ministers, cable says

    07/08/2025 8:36:31 PM PDT · by lasereye · 11 replies
    CNN ^ | July 8, 2025 | Jennifer Hansler
    Someone using artificial intelligence to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted at least five people, including three foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress, “with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts,” a US diplomatic cable said. The cable advises diplomats worldwide that they “may wish to warn external partners that cyber threat actors are impersonating State officials and accounts.” The impersonation of the top US diplomat is one of “two distinct campaigns” being tracked at the State Department “in which threat actors impersonate Department personnel via email and commercial messaging apps to target...
  • Imposter uses AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice, places calls to high-level officials

    07/08/2025 9:23:38 AM PDT · by CFW · 20 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | 7/8/25 | Thomas Stevenson
    An imposter using AI to mimic Secretary of State Marco Rubio's voice has been sending voice as well as text messages to foreign as well as US officials in Rubio's style of speaking and writing. US authorities do not know who the person is who has been linked to the instances of AI mimicry, according to The Washington Post, however, they believe that the imposter is trying to manipulate government officials “with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts," the outlet said, citing a cable sent to State Department employees from Rubio's office. The imposter has “contacted at...
  • I asked Grok to fact check my own claims about these 12 things being far better today than in the 1950s.

    07/07/2025 11:58:25 AM PDT · by grundle · 62 replies
    Wordpress ^ | July 7, 2025 | Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
    I asked Grok: Fact check: Compared to the 1950s, here are some things that are far, far better in 2025: Average life expectancy. Square footage of housing per person. Houses today are much bigger, but the number of people in each house is much smaller. Number of bathrooms per person in each house. Percentage of homes with air conditioning. Number of dental cavities for the average 18 year old. Percentage of the population that is vaccinated against polio and measles. Percentage of the population that has indoor plumbing. Percentage of the population that takes a daily shower. Being able to...
  • ‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’

    07/06/2025 6:24:36 PM PDT · by lasereye · 74 replies
    Tech Crunch ^ | July 6, 2025 | Anthony Ha
    On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.” While Musk didn’t say exactly what improvements to look for, he’d previously declared that xAI (which built Grok) would retrain the chatbot after it had been trained on “far too much garbage,” and he called on users at X (where Grok is heavily featured) to share “divisive facts” that are “politically incorrect, but nonetheless factually true.” (Musk recently merged the two companies.) One user subsequently asked Grok whether electing more Democrats would be a bad thing, to which it...
  • US Jews contribute half of all donations to the Democratic Party

    07/06/2025 8:31:40 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 100 replies
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | Updated: JANUARY 14, 2018 10:55 | JEREMY SHARON
    A new study argues that the large majority of American Jews have a deep-seated notion that being Jewish is inextricably bound to being liberal. That idea took hold after the large waves of Jewish immigration to the US in the late 19th century, according to the study’s author, American history professor Gil Troy. American Jewish liberalism and association with the Democratic party is showing no signs of abatement, despite many predictions to the contrary since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, according to Troy’s research, which is being published by the Ruderman Family Foundation's Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of...
  • Democrats might be ‘overthinking’ strategy to recapture voters

    07/06/2025 4:56:46 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 34 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/06/25 6:00 AM ET | Amie Parnes
    Democrats are rethinking ways to recapture voters they’ve lost to President Trump in recent election cycles, and they may have been offered an important lesson in the New York mayoral primary.In various post-mortems and focus groups done on the heels of their devastating 2024 election loss, Democrats have thoroughly examined exit polls and voter demographics in search of the gaps in their party’s appeal. But Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha, who served as a senior adviser on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign in 2020, said Democrats are “overthinking” the solution by analyzing the voters who flipped sides or skipped voting...
  • LNC Chair Nekhaila Slams Passage of “One Big Beautiful Bill”

    07/06/2025 5:22:09 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 20 replies
    Independent Political Report ^ | July 4, 2025 | Jordan Willow Evans
    Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila issued a statement this week criticizing President Donald Trump’s recently passed “One Big Beautiful Bill,” describing it as a “$5 trillion debt hike buried under a dump truck of partisan pork.” The legislation narrowly passed both chambers of Congress this week and is awaiting Trump’s signature. In his statement, shared by the Libertarian Party on Thursday, Nekhaila called the bill fiscally reckless and fundamentally dishonest, referring to it as “another lie wrapped in patriotism and passed with fake urgency.” He accused Republicans of “cosplaying” as fiscal conservatives while contributing to rising government spending and...
  • New York Prohibition Party Urges Veto of Alcohol Promotion Bill

    07/06/2025 5:20:06 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 12 replies
    Independent Political Report ^ | July 3, 2025 | Jordan Willow Evans
    The New York Prohibition Party is calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to veto a bill that would require the state’s commissioner of economic development to actively promote New York–produced alcoholic beverages. The party warns that the legislation risks worsening public health issues and economic costs already associated with alcohol consumption. In a statement published on June 18, the party urged Hochul to reject Assembly Bill A03922, which amends the Economic Development Law to direct the commissioner to work with other state agencies in developing a strategic plan promoting policies that support the production and sale of New York–labeled beers, ciders,...