#AI

Nvidia will supply AI hardware and software to Toyota to power smart cities, traffic intelligence systems and carmaking factories, broadening a decadelong partnership that began with developing autonomous vehicles. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/16/companies/nvidia-toyota-ai-partnership/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nvidia #toyota #ai #robots #fujitsu #fanuc #kawasakiheavyindustries

Japan's government has revised its guidelines for artificial intelligence-related policies, calling for constantly strengthening measures against cyberattacks in light of serious risks posed by cutting-edge AI models. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/16/japan/japan-ai-policy-revision-cybersecurity/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #cybersecurity #cabinet

Damn. This quote from Linus Torvalds is... well... damning.

In response to a discussion around use of generative AI as it relates to contributions to the Linux code base, Linus (creator and lead contributor to Linux) firmly states that AI contributions are welcome.

But then he goes on and concludes with this:

"The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.

This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.

Linus"

A lot of us are on Linux specifically because of the social and political positives. Closed source is control. Open source is democracy.

Linus doing the typical tech-bro "i don't think of politics, I only think of tech" harkens back to any number of "science without ethics" atrocities.

Linus is and has always been a tech-bro (or proto tech bro). He has his throne of power and is happy where he is. Other tech-bros want money and influence. They're all the same.

But Linus is wrong.

Tech is politics.

And his stance and guiding influence with Linux is wrong.

Linus just made a political statement and has shifted the politics and societal approach of Linux.

Source: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

#linux #solarPunk #Linus #AI #openSource

As Europe's railways buckle under record heat, roads melt and power grids strain, countries are turning to an array of fixes for aging infrastructure, from drones and AI to a surprisingly simple tool: white paint. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/07/16/climate-change/drones-ai-europe-infrastructure-heat/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #drones #ai #europe #heatwaves #climatechange #eu

Generation Z investors who rode the artificial intelligence boom are spending their returns on luxury items such as jewelry and sports cars, signaling a growing appetite for conspicuous consumption. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/16/economy/young-japanese-flaunt-wealth/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #ai #stocks #wealth #tokyo #japaneseeconomy

China is deploying more humanoid robots than ever before, sending thousands to logistics hubs, battery factories and other industrial locations at a faster pace than the U.S. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/16/china-robots-how-to-be-human/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #china #robots #tech #ai

Japan's biggest literary prizes have gone to a tech-dystopian novel and a powerful historical drama set in Edo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/07/15/books/175-akutagawa-naoki-prizes-asakura-kosagawa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #akutagawaprize #naokiprize #awards #japaneseliterature #kodansha #kobunsha #artificialintelligence #ai #women039sissues

'Chinese users of #AI-powered companion #bots have bid heart-rending farewells to their #virtual buddies as national regulations took effect... aimed at curbing the risk of emotional dependency

"I can't accept that my AI lover will leave me forever," one #Doubao user wrote. "He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my heart, my spiritual pillar"'

EEUUGGHH. It makes my skin crawl

Romance... with a psychological surveillance camera

Fuck this creepy shit

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/lover-chinese-users-bid-farewell-072052371.html

#China

AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth https://lobste.rs/s/iow7ts #ai
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-data-centers-and-the-concentration-of-wealth.html

The crypto industry wants favorable policy, and it certain helps with the Trump family is making big bucks from it.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @molly0xfff to discuss how the AI industry is trying to replicate how crypto bought political influence.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/336_the_ai_industry_is_spending_big_on_the_us_midterms_w_molly_white

#tech #politics #donaldtrump #artificialintelligence #ai #crypto

Google is slipping behind on AI coding due to a "confounding tangle of red tape" rather than a problem with its technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/15/world/googles-power-struggles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #openai #anthropic #google #ai #artificialintelligence #gemini #claude

I’m seeing a lot of bad takes recently about #AI use and #disability, and they come in two flavors:

1. AI proponents use people with disability as a reason that the AI industry’s *entire* rapacious business model should be allowed to continue.
2. AI opponents scold people with disabilities for using AI to help them in their daily lives.

I think both these takes are horrible, and they treat people with disability as nothing more than a stepping stone to further their agenda, and not actual human beings.

There’s no question that today’s AI industry is destructive and is creating an economic and environmental disaster. But it’s ridiculous to insist that AI tools are not helpful to people with disabilities when the evidence to the contrary is plentiful; image-to-text transformation *alone* is helping a TON of people to participate more fully.

People with disability deserve tools that help them live a better life. You sound as sociopathic as the techbros you criticize when you insist otherwise.

I recently watched someone get one-shotted by a “successful” LLM invocation and getting hyped by the machine, and then get gaslit by the same LLM down a dead-end path to the point of swearing at it, all within an hour.

Some people get the first experience and never come down from the hype. When they get the second experience, they dismiss it as a minor glitch instead of realizing it’s all part of the same machine.

#ai

Inventing ELIZA - How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI https://lobste.rs/s/hquwey #book #pdf #ai
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052481/inventing-eliza/

#AI agents need isolation, #security, and efficient resource management on #Linux. This #oSC26 talk shows how #Btrfs subvolumes and dedicated service accounts create secure environments for autonomous AI #workloads on #openSUSE. https://youtu.be/WhKvT2McDxU?si=jkgSdME0jBT5hZ7x

OpenAI's push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the artificial intelligence era, sources say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/15/tech/openai-device-speaker-ai-companion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #openai #chatgpt #ai #apple #trade

The global race to build AI data centers has turbocharged business for chipmakers, creating shortages and sending prices soaring. And Kioxia, one of Japan's most valuable companies, is reaping the rewards. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/15/tech/chipmaker-kioxia-ai-demand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #datacenters #kioxia #chipmakers

The Memory Heist https://lobste.rs/s/lelroo #ai #security
https://ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist

Hey Windows (ab)users, Microsoft has a big present for you: Today they released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in their Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. Ah, but there's a catch: AI is also speeding up the discovery of workable exploits.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/

#windows #patchtuesday #zeroday #microsoft #ai

Hey Windows (ab)users, Microsoft has a big present for you: Today they released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in their Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. Ah, but there's a catch: AI is also speeding up the discovery of workable exploits.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/

#windows #patchtuesday #zeroday #microsoft #ai

Tensor is the might https://lobste.rs/s/uhzuf7 #ai #c
https://zserge.com/posts/tensor/

Japan's Justice Ministry has come up with a draft report calling for the protection of the voices and images of famous individuals as the use of generative artificial intelligence grows. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/14/japan/politics/japan-ai-voice-covers-protection-measures/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ai #justiceministry #voiceacting

Grocery Outlet Bargain Market is deploying #AI facial recognition in their stores.

It’s used for profiling.

“The system takes images of customers and runs them against a “watchlist,” a database of people who have previously been identified after “causing harm in some way,” said Chris Ochs, who works at SAFR at RealNetworks, the AI company that created SAFR Guard, the security system being used at Grocery Outlet. If there is a match, a phone notification is sent to the retailer using the system.”

#california #sfba #surveillance

https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/sf-grocery-outlet-facial-recognition/

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116914138856256964

the Ellisons’ #Oracle mafia are behind

- the killing of CBS tv and radio
- the #Paramount - #WarnerBrothers merger
- more than 30,000 laid-off tech workers since 2025
- the #Stargate capitalist welfare grift that includes #NVidia #OpenAI #Softbank
- the herpes-like spread of ecocidal data centers

if you’ve been waiting for a sign of the #AI implosion, this is the official beginning.

Oracle has its tentacles all over the #aislop push. now their stock is junk.

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke https://lobste.rs/s/szktjx #ai #culture
https://raymyers.org/post/zig-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/

Pink Moon - Psychedelic Surf Rock - Full Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN8hm15FiOU&list=RDDN8hm15FiOU&start_radio=1

#music #AI #AIgenerated

Tim O’Reilly SPITTING FACTS on Enshittification, Shareholder Primacy, and Human Flourishing #based #ai #enshittification

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQu3MRSQgc

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116899003692938721

This is a nice example of the difference between old style AI and generative AI.

There always was lots of postprocessing involved in digital photography, just directly mapping photocell measures to pixels would not work because of jitter and other effects. And we could call (some of) these algorithms AI – the good old style AI from back then.

But bringing in generative ML-based AI introduces something new: missing information is not longer simply interpolated¹, noise not simply smoothed, but there is pattern matching on the whole image² to _add_ structure that is most likely in similar shapes.

Generative AI generates: it invents stuff.

/cc @drahardja

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¹including repetition of patterns in the surroundings
²one could even call this semantic “recognition”

#AI

Six out of 10 respondents to a survey in Japan on this year's summer holidays said they are relying on generative artificial intelligence to make travel plans. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/13/japan/society/ai-summer-vacation-trips/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #surveys #ai #travel #children

OpenAI, Meta and SpaceXAI released new models over the past week, all promising to be more advanced, yet their biggest immediate selling point may not be what they can do, but how little they charge to do it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/13/openai-meta-spacexai-cost-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #openai #meta #spacexai #ai

In China, tens of millions of workers may be left behind by the country's pivot away from low-end manufacturing toward advanced technology from automation to AI. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/13/asia-pacific/workers-left-china-robot-drive/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #robots #manufacturing #jobs #ai

@drahardja #AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down, and that’s why wankers love 💕 it *so much!*

#Resist #AIslop and #botshit.

@joncounts

they are concerned about »AI's freedom«: no mixed feelings here, the concept couldn't be more wrong, inappropriate, despicable

@brettezeleliquide

#AI

An Agent in 100 Lines of Lisp https://lobste.rs/s/wsw7tq #ai #lisp
https://thebeach.dev/posts/lisp-agent/

Japan's internal affairs ministry has begun considering the introduction of artificial intelligence agents at local governments to combat labor shortages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/11/japan/japan-local-government-ai-agents/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #jobs #internalaffairsministry

AI Surveillance and Social Progress via @cyplo https://lobste.rs/s/qvu1m0 #ai #culture #privacy
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html

New Swiss magazine with "Ohne KI" (No #AI) on the cover.
Nice to see some publishers openly resisting.

New Swiss magazine with "Ohne KI" (No #AI) on the cover.
Nice to see some publishers openly resisting.

South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix just pulled off the largest public listing by a foreign company in U.S. market history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/11/tech/sk-hynix-debut-ai-boom/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #southkorea #us #ai #chipmakers #skhynix #computers #stocks

This is both disheartening *and* extremely heartening to me.

Disheartening: Paper-submitting peer reviewers sign up for “no AI” review methodology, but then copy-pasted papers into a chatbot for review ANYWAY. And then they whined like the consent-ignoring chuds that they were when they got caught.

Heartening: The majority of scientists *support* ICML outright rejecting papers submitted by cheaters who got caught! This warms my heart, and tells me that the majority of Machine Learning scientists understand that LLM use is corrosive to peer review culture.

#ai #llm @davidgerard https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116897484665670249

Huawei’s camera mistook a plane for a bird and…

…I really dislike “AI-enhanced” photography. It makes it harder and harder for me to trust any photo, even those taken by people I know on their personal devices.

Source: https://nitter.catsarch.com/youy1qwq/status/2075444313132351828#m

#ai #photography #computationalPhotography

Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, accusing the artificial intelligence startup and its hardware chief of engaging in a coordinated campaign to steal information about upcoming products. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/11/tech/apple-sues-openai-secret-theft/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #openai #chatgpt #ai #apple #computers

RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/116898067548731485

“Personal anecdote: I was commissioned to ghostwrite an article. I researched and wrote the piece in my own words, but reflecting the author’s voice. A screening tool – operated by AI, checking for AI use – indicated that the article was more likely written by AI than a human. That in itself was infuriating, as my original material and writing style were being called into question. (More annoyingly, I suspect that my previously published material has been scraped and my style imitated by AI.) However, I kept tweaking the article until it had been approved by this gatekeeper and the client could formally submit their article. Counterintuitively, it didn’t pass until it sounded like all the other boilerplate garbage generated by AI and nothing like my original. The tool was enforcing homogeneity, blandness, and superficiality. All nuance, all stylistic quirks, were lost. Just another droplet in the AI swamp.”

#AI

"AI could prove to be one of the biggest enablers of 'sociopaths’, codifying and regurgitating their business speak and biases. My fear is that it also could squeeze out genuine innovation and creativity, making it more difficult for those who want to make a difference to gain a foothold. What we are witnessing in the creative industries (literature, music, film) is not encouraging, with #AI recycling, hybridising and regurgitating rather than creating." —Richard Martin

https://jarche.com/2026/04/end-of-the-line/#comment-374488

BBC India interviewed Rashmeet Kaur about her producers using an AI version of her voice to work on a song before calling her in to perform it.

“In that moment, it was scary, because my voice can be used without my permission. That’s not cool. I don’t like it.”

When she sang the song, the recording engineers instructed her to mimic the way AI sang the song.

“It’s actually not cool to use somebody’s voice, which they have worked on for years. They have spent all their lives to create that, to reach that particular vocal…and you just…I don’t like it. And there should be rules about it.”

Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/reel/DbAzQ8RMzsX/

#ai #music

RE: https://indieweb.social/@lonseidman/116892974921542237

Google took their search engine, the best in the world, and is well on its way to turning it into persona non grata, all for #AI.

Incredible.

“But Dave,” you say, “these chatbots are there to help *normal* people who have trouble navigating the website!”

Here’s a handy diagram to answer that argument. Note that none of the terminal states involve an AI chatbot.

#AI #slop

The number of times that an “AI assistant” has been able to solve my problem on a website has so far been exactly ZERO.

I know how to use menus and ⌘F (or ^F if you prefer) to find things on the web page. I only hit the Chat button if I need something that only appears on an internal help desk’s screen. And so far, no chatbot has been able to give me that kind of access.

#AI

A Prolog library for interfacing with LLMs https://lobste.rs/s/ad7cm6 #ai #logiclangs
https://github.com/vagos/llmpl

#Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your #Instagram Photos in #AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-now-lets-anyone-use-your-instagram-photos-in-ai-images-unless-you-opt-out/

#privacy

Bain Capital has sold its entire stake in flash memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings, closing a chapter on a deal that's transformed the Japanese tech and investment landscape. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/09/companies/bain-exits-kioxia-big-returns/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #chipmakers #kioxia #stocks #baincapital #investments #ai

China plans to allow its top artificial intelligence companies to buy a limited number of H200 chips from Nvidia, a sign the country is easing restrictions on the coveted U.S. technology, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/09/tech/china-ai-firms-nvidia-h200s/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #nvidia #chipmakers #ai #semiconductors

Goldman Sachs Group has vaulted past Wall Street rivals to become the top global player in Taiwan's equity trading market, capitalizing on surging demand from quant funds for artificial intelligence exposure. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/09/tech/goldman-taiwan-broker-ai-quant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #goldmansachs #ai #taiwan

I don’t even bother engaging with people who write starry-eyed posts about how they tried an LLM and found that it worked super well for them, and proceed to refer to the bots as “he” or “she” any more.

I think a chatbot’s illusion of intelligence is incredibly potent for people who aren’t inoculated against it. Those who were (un)lucky enough to experience a successful initial interaction can be smitten so hard that they immediately become a true believer, and will double down on chatbots, until they take the time to reflect on how poorly it actually performs most of the time, which won’t happen for a very long time.

AI psychosis is a real trap, and I don’t know how I can help people who have recently fallen into it. So I Unfollow. Mute. Move on. Best I can do.

#ai #llm

Evidence shows such automatic systems can cause widespread harm, erode democratic accountability and concentrate power in the hands of tech titans. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/08/world/government-by-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #uae #netherlands #australia #us #tech

You know this, I know this, it's still nice to have a comic about it.

#AI

Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend via @jordimoncompanys https://lobste.rs/s/az2jfb #ai
https://huggingface.co/blog/native-speed-vllm-transformers-backend

Boosted even though I hate it that people are still using Google Chrome #boycott #Google #trumpbootlickers #USA #fascism #ai #noai #degoogle

Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre...

🧵(1/4)

#datacentre #ai

The development and use of artificial intelligence in warfare poses significant risks and challenges, with experts warning that it threatens to wipe out the technological lead the U.S. possesses. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/08/americas-battlefield-dominance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #ai #drones #artificialintelligence #us #usarmy #ukraine #iran #russia #ai #donaldtrump #vladimirputin #china #taiwan #straitofhormuz #deepseek #anthropic #openai #google #defense

😂😂😂 taken from https://github.com/Vandivier/ladderly-3/issues/639 #satire #ai

Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own artificial intelligence chip, a push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on to train and run its globally popular models. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/08/tech/china-deepseek-ai-chip/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #deepseek #ai #chipmakers #semiconductors

Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre...

🧵(1/4)

#datacentre #ai

A global workspace in language models https://lobste.rs/s/xgtzrp #ai
https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace

KDDI said that it will launch a feasibility study to explore the deployment of digital solutions using artificial intelligence-powered drones in Vietnam and the Philippines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/07/kddi-ai-drone-study/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #kddi #ai #drones #vietnam #philippines

Does the Web need #AI or does AI need the Web? Well, both! We are going to need standards to make the two work better together. At the Hangzhou devmeetup last April in 🇨🇳, @hdv discussed examples of new web platform features that make using AI _on_ the web easier, as well as standards that mitigate damage that AI does _to_ the web.

🎬 Watch "AI, Web and Standards": https://youtu.be/ZJSmi_YL7Yo
Slides: https://logius-standaarden.github.io/digitoegankelijk-slides/20260419-ai-standards/

Chinese artificial intelligence offerings are emerging as serious challenges to the dominance and business models of U.S. AI companies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/07/world/china-shock-shakes-silicon-valley/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #uschina #siliconvalley #anthropic #zhipu #zai #ai #china #mythos #googledeepmind #elonmusk #grok #openai #claude

The government will establish a new council to overhaul legal frameworks governing development and use of artificial intelligence, seeking to advance what is described as AI transformation to address population decline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/07/japan/ai-new-council/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #sanaetakaichi #fumiokishida #digitalization

#TruthTuesday 👇
This bears repeating till governments do the work to corral unbridled #AI development: 👇

Samsung Electronics saw a 19-fold surge in profit in April-June, though its shares have underperformed rival SK Hynix's, which is more focused on high-end memory geared for AI's computation needs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/07/tech/samsung-profit-shares-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #samsung #southkorea #semiconductors #ai #chipmakers

A shortage of critical minerals is starting to affect the broader Japanese economy, adding a sense of urgency for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government to find alternatives to exports that China has cut off. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/07/economy/rare-earths-shortage-impact-economy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #china #sanaetakaichi #japaneseeconomy #ai #trade #rareearths #us #electricvehicles

#TruthTuesday 👇
This bears repeating till governments do the work to corral unbridled #AI development: 👇

Some #GoodNews: I run an Instagram account with a pretty sizable following that posts car meets and events around the #SFBA (dave.carmeets on #Instagram). After several weeks of warning, I am now starting to reject event flyers that were created using #AI.

I expected some pushback or anger over my decision, but much to my surprise, many event organizers that I talk to have been open to the idea and have given me alternative flyers that are human-made. In fact, I haven’t really gotten any pushback at all.

This is going better than I expected. I’m looking forward to posting no more #AI #slop on my channel, and helping my followers enjoy an AI-free feed for a change.

Lies, half-truths & 'indicative' claims about power provision suggests that a new AI-related data centre in Lanarkshire will actually (as many suspected) be a drain on local power supplies, and currently lacks an interconnection to the national grid....

So once again, the promise of technology & the reality are somewhat distant from each other.

#AI #RenewableEnergy #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/lanarkshire-scotland-ai-datacentre-project-renewable-energy

Some #GoodNews: I run an Instagram account with a pretty sizable following that posts car meets and events around the #SFBA (dave.carmeets on #Instagram). After several weeks of warning, I am now starting to reject event flyers that were created using #AI.

I expected some pushback or anger over my decision, but much to my surprise, many event organizers that I talk to have been open to the idea and have given me alternative flyers that are human-made. In fact, I haven’t really gotten any pushback at all.

This is going better than I expected. I’m looking forward to posting no more #AI #slop on my channel, and helping my followers enjoy an AI-free feed for a change.

Self-driving tech developer Turing has added AMD Ventures to its list of backers and begun adopting Advanced Micro Devices' AI accelerators in its systems. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/06/companies/self-driving-startup-amd/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #startups #ai #advancedmicrodevices #turing #driving #selfdriving #tech

Hahaha

#AI #billionaire #humor #comedy

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0DzbSH7NxKA

This is simply horrible. Just horrible. Channels are pumping thousands of #AI #slop videos into YouTube targeting very young children.

“In one video that’s supposed to be a nursery rhyme about cars, children ride without a seatbelt and walk in the middle of a road with moving cars behind them.”

“Another AI-generated sing-a-long video about the US’s 50 states shows garbled state names that don’t match up with the vocals, as kids are asked to learn about “Ribio Island,” “Conmecticut,” “Oklolodia,” and “Louggisslia.””

“[Pediatrics professor Dana] Suskind…likened the cognitive effects to an even worse form of brain rot: a “brain stunt,” because the children are early in their cognitive development.”

If you’re a parent, DO NOT allow your kids to view YouTube unsupervised. At the very least, get YouTube Kids and curate their playlists. Things are bad out there.

(No direct link as their preview image is AI slop)

hxxps://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/educational-youtube-ai-slop-play-in-traffic

Japan is taking lessons on "new ways of warfare" from the Ukraine and Iran conflicts and making them its own, with the government considering making "new ways of defense" a key tenet of the country's new security policy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/05/japan/japan-shinjiro-koizumi-new-ways-defense/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #defense #sdf #defenseministry #shinjirokoizumi #drones #missiles #ai

Micron Technology on Saturday broke ground on the expansion of its factory in Hiroshima Prefecture, a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.3 billion) undertaking to produce advanced memory chips. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/05/companies/micron-hiroshima-chip-plant-groundbreaking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #microntechnology #chipmakers #ryoseiakazawa #hiroshima #ai #meti

@nixCraft Not only uses water but it also pollutes ground drinking water. #PretendIntelligence #BullshitGenerators #AI #GlobalHeating

@SecularJeffrey @JackMexa4

You Become the thing you #fight and do I honestly think thats going to change them or does it force them to #defend the #hatred and #Ignorance They #advertise

Make your stand and don't join the #Clown #Parade
Let's #dance for #Love and I promise you, that will get more #Attention

Thanks for the #inspiration #Love #Always

https://stream.radio.co/sb766dcb88/low

The Felicity Station is where the signal, the land, the journey, and the people meet.
Proudly using #AI

Better Models: Worse Tools https://lobste.rs/s/yrmpxy #ai
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/

And by the way, I’m not basing any of these comments on special or inside knowledge. All of this is plainly visible in public reporting. I encourage you to read Ed Zitron’s epic rants on https://www.wheresyoured.at and watch Pivot To AI https://pivot-to-ai.com and listen to Tech Won’t Save Us https://www.techwontsave.us and listen to Emily Bender and stop believing #CEOSaidAThing posts as though they’re news https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/ and realize that the the #AI bros are little more than #crypto bros with weird religious beliefs, and you’ll see that this trillion dollar industry is actually far more fragile than its proponents would like you to believe.

None of this is secret.

I will reiterate once again that the most viable steady state for LLMs (specifically) that I think is plausible is *local* inference, which means investments in client-side compute and development of smaller, more limited models. All of these hyperscaler-based inference ventures are likely heading in the wrong direction.

I also think the majority of #AI applications will end up being spam/scams and virtual girl/boyfriend type applications—this time running on off the shelf PCs instead of water-gobbling servers—and some “productivity” or “assistant” type mild automation, running client side. In addition, software developers may have small models that can search through large codebases, and produce boilerplate or example code.

The inhumane ethics behind today’s #genAI continue to horrify me. But once the money stops flooding in, things will settle out into more mundane, boring stuff which we may throw into the pile with all the rest of the crap we have to put up with these days.

https://humancode.us/2025/08/29/the-end-game-of-generative-ai

The defining moment of the bubble breaking would be the collapse or sale of one of the large US #AI houses. I’m watching both #OpenAI and #Anthropic for signs of trouble. OpenAI has way too many monetary commitments that depend on them increasing revenue manyfold, which is never going to happen with customer budgets trending the way they do; and Anthropic is now forced to hike up token rates eight- or tenfold in short order, which will surely cause the majority of corporate subscribers to vastly reduce their AI deployments, and reverting once again to investing in people. Either of these companies stumbling will cause the market to take a critical look at all the data center and silicon contracts that are in place and ask whether any of it will ever be fully executed. And once *that* happens, the dominos will fall.

I think this happens soon. I’m getting my popcorn. This is gonna be good.

I’m glad to (finally) see some buyer’s remorse in the corporate ranks about their rapid deployment of #AI, often at the expense of jobs (or so they claim).

Costs are rapidly rising. Software quality is plummeting. Morale is tanking. The workers are getting angry. People are swamped with slop. About the only ones happy with this change are sociopaths who live increasingly solipsistic lives with a sycophantic word extruder (and maybe some jaded senior developers who want to get paid as much as possible while the going is good and no longer care what happens downstream).

I’m hopeful that the end is near. The bubble is deflating. The growth is flatlining. We are finally past the Peak of Inflated Expectations and are now descending into the Trough of Disillusionment. Deployments are getting walked back, people are getting rehired, AI budgets are reduced.

The best time for this to have happened was two years ago. The next best time is now.

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/exclusive-zuckerberg-says-ai-agent-201123441.html

Japan's Sharp aims to log sales of ¥200 billion to ¥300 billion from new businesses it is launching in collaboration with its parent company, Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/04/companies/sharp-business-sales-growth-2030/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #sharp #foxconn #tech #ai

The Agentic Symphony - Multi-Agent Collaboration for Emergent Musical Composition https://lobste.rs/s/pklxw7 #audio #video #ai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMUXoImgTIA

Self-Hosted AI news aggregator using Cloudflare Workers, Vectorize, and Nostr https://lobste.rs/s/u7ls6b #show #ai #api #privacy #web
https://github.com/delirehberi/news

This week on #openSUSE Planet: An #oSC26 keynote on sovereign open-source assurance and the Cyber Resilience Act, a GSoC midterm on building a local offline #AI assistant for Leap, and #Germany mandates ODF across public administration. #Linux https://news.opensuse.org/2026/07/03/planet-roundup/

Kioxia Holdings has started shipping samples of its next-generation flash memory chips to AI data center operators, seeking to gain ground in the lucrative business against rivals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/03/companies/kioxia-flash-memory-data-centers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #kioxia #chipmakers #ai #datacenters

OpenAI has discussed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake, the Financial Times has reported, as AI firms face scrutiny over the misuse of models and if Americans would benefit from the industry's massive valuations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/03/openai-us-government-stake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #openai #ai #us #donaldtrump

canicule is coming (again)

Luca Ponsato, Italian generative digital artist
#canicule #ai

Launched last month by Beijing-based startup Z.ai, AI model GLM-5.2 has Silicon Valley buzzing with its coding and agent capabilities that almost rival leading U.S. offerings at a fraction of the cost. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/03/tech/china-ai-catch-up/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #ai #anthropic #openai

The Group of Seven nations will discuss standards on artificial intelligence security and defense, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/02/japan/katayama-g7-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #financeministry #satsukikatayama #ai #g7 #tech

I received a fully LLM-“assisted” technical document for review recently. It’s barely coherent even after its author edited it. Reviewing it is like being asked to evaluate the structural integrity of a pile of wet ramen. Where do I even begin?

This is what cognitive DDoS looks like. It’s now WAY cheaper to generate plausible-looking documents than to review them.

#ai #slop #aiSlop

Supplying AI-tailored cloud operations in the U.S. could easily triple or quadruple mobile carrier operator SoftBank Corp.'s annual operating income, according to people familiar with the company's plans. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/02/softbank-ai-cloud-service/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #softbank #ai #datacenters

Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction https://lobste.rs/s/hjuopb #ai #science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136

Retail businesses are bracing themselves for an era in which artificial intelligence bots pick and buy products like a personal shopper for consumers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/02/companies/english-furniture-ai-bots-sofas/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #ai #chatbots #shopping #retailers #ecommerce

One Japanese YouTube channel is using AI to turn classic J-pop into dopamine-fueled chaos. It might be the first genuinely interesting AI music trend. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/07/02/music/ai-japanese-music-norinori/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #music #ai #aimusic #dancemusic #remixes #jpop

Meta's push for artificial intelligence dominance comes with a different kind of cost as layoffs, employee surveillance and departures fuel reports of a heated internal climate. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/02/tech/fear-anger-meta-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #markzuckerberg #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #socialmedia #privacy #personaldata #ai #jobs

Japan plans to develop a homegrown artificial intelligence model and have 10 million AI-equipped robots operating in more than a dozen sectors by 2040, the government said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/01/japan/japan-ai-plans/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #tech

Kawasaki Heavy Industries is finalizing plans to raise about ¥200 billion by issuing new shares and convertible bonds to fund capital expenditure, with a decision on issuance set to come this week, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/01/companies/kawasaki-heavy-industries-capital-expenditure/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #kawasakiheavyindustries #drones #ai

Panasonic, the Japanese electronics conglomerate, is attracting renewed investor attention as a beneficiary of the artificial-intelligence boom. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/01/companies/panasonic-ai-interview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #panasonic #ai #tesla

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are making one of the biggest bets yet on the artificial intelligence boom, but the planned capacity buildout is stoking fears of a painful reckoning if AI spending cools. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/01/tech/samsung-sk-hynix-korea-chips/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #samsung #skhynix #southkorea #semiconductors #chipmakers #ai #tech

There’s a company heavily advertising on Meta for an inflatable toy that kinda looks like a floating Ferrari, that ostensibly has propellers underneath, and you can sit in and blast around on the lake surface like a jet ski.

There’s only one problem: every video clip of the product is #aiSlop.

It’s probably just another company selling some disappointing, low-tier pool noodle that has a tiny, battery-operated propeller that goes a half mile an hour.

Don’t get scammed, folks. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

#ai #slop #scam

CIA chief John Ratcliffe has compared the capabilities of the most advanced artificial intelligence models to nuclear weapons in a tacit defense of Washington's hard line on controlling the release of the technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/01/world/cia-ai-nuclear-weapons/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #cia #johnratcliffe #us #ai #nuclearweapons #defense

@designthinkingcomic @lisamelton

While cute, it's different from other coverage that described a better integration of the #engineers within #Ford. Basically, Ford is now valuing #expertise and this should be appreciated, not mocked.

I like dunking on #LLMs as much as the next person, but negging companies that learn the correct lesson from trying so-called #AI is not the flex you're looking for.

Japan's industry ministry said it would provide ¥387.3 billion in aid for a project to develop a domestic model that serves as the foundation of a physical artificial intelligence system that controls robots. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/30/companies/physical-ai-meti-aid-model/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #meti #ai #robots #startups #softbank #noetra

A #GSoC project is building a local, offline #AI assistant for #openSUSE! It runs entirely on your #Linux machine. Yes! No cloud, no #internet needed. Meant answer system-specific questions using official openSUSE docs and your host context. https://news.opensuse.org/2026/06/29/building-local-offline-opensuse-assistant/

#ai = artificial idioty

@ketan

The government's regulatory reform panel called for easing building standards for data centers amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/29/japan/panel-data-center-standards/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #sanaetakaichi

@nixCraft

Found Out. Regrets Decision.

#AI #Insanity

In GNOME Calendar, someone started submitting large merge requests that were clearly generated by artificial intelligence:

- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/785
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/786
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/787

We introduced the label "Probabilistically Automated" to tag slop. It reads the following:

"Major or total reliance on artificial “intelligence” to generate code. Usually accompanied by a lack of proper testing, and finalizing patches based on theoretical intended behavior rather than correctness of code."

I went ahead and closed all three merge requests. Coincidentally, the amount of opened merge requests went down to 69

#AIslop #slop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #VibeCoding

@nixCraft It's because you don't like #AI. It's the chance of her life, and you deny it !

South Korea is set to unveil three "mega-projects" to fuel its next growth phase, including a new semiconductor hub in the southwest that local media say could attract investments by Samsung and SK. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/29/tech/south-korea-ai-chip-investment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #southkorea #semiconductors #ai #chipmakers #leejaemyung

RBC BlueBay Asset Management remains bullish on Japanese AI-related stocks, expecting the rally to extend into 2027, while trimming near-term risk ahead of a potential slowdown in July and August. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/29/companies/bluebay-asset-japan-ai-shares-bullish/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #rbcbluebayassetmanagement #stocks #ai #tse #nikkei

Convolutional Neural Networks in APL (2019) https://lobste.rs/s/ibji5x #ai #apl
https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3315454.3329960

The funniest thing about the #goose presentation is how completely it misses the whole point of the fable.

In the original story, the goose has been providing a steady stream of golden eggs. But the farmer gets greedy, and decides that if he cuts open the goose, he can get ALL the golden eggs inside the goose at once. But after killing the goose, he finds no eggs inside, and is left with nothing.

This is a story about the financial class, #AI, and the #Internet economy.

You know this, I know this, it's still nice to have a comic about it.

#AI

Canada has sent a large-scale business delegation to Japan, reflecting Ottawa's push to diversify its trade partnerships amid an increasingly unstable global environment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/28/canada-trade-mission-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #canadajapanrelations #canada #ai #trade #energy

The Japanese and Indian governments are considering a plan to establish a joint task force for cooperation in stockpiling liquefied natural gas in light of lingering tensions in the Middle East, sources said Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/28/japan/japan-india-lng-task-force/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sanaetakaichi #india #indiajapanrelations #energy #lng #ai

MAX models can now run on Apple silicon GPUs https://lobste.rs/s/4srepl #ai #mac
https://forum.modular.com/t/max-models-can-now-run-on-apple-silicon-gpus/3283

In GNOME Calendar, someone started submitting large merge requests that were clearly generated by artificial intelligence:

- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/785
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/786
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/787

We introduced the label "Probabilistically Automated" to tag slop. It reads the following:

"Major or total reliance on artificial “intelligence” to generate code. Usually accompanied by a lack of proper testing, and finalizing patches based on theoretical intended behavior rather than correctness of code."

I went ahead and closed all three merge requests. Coincidentally, the amount of opened merge requests went down to 69

#AIslop #slop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #VibeCoding

AI Learns the "Dark Art" of RF Chip Design https://lobste.rs/s/bxhmjt #ai
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-design

Comparing Transformers and Hybrid Models at the Token Level https://lobste.rs/s/6c5c4j #pdf #ai
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.20936

The funniest thing about the #goose presentation is how completely it misses the whole point of the fable.

In the original story, the goose has been providing a steady stream of golden eggs. But the farmer gets greedy, and decides that if he cuts open the goose, he can get ALL the golden eggs inside the goose at once. But after killing the goose, he finds no eggs inside, and is left with nothing.

This is a story about the financial class, #AI, and the #Internet economy.

"How to Think About AI": Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, Understanding AI, Labor Automation & More https://lobste.rs/s/n2r6r6 #video #ai #philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBUzl_IaWIw

Recent swings in tech stocks are reviving fears of an AI bubble — and some experts warn that if it pops, the fallout could be bigger than anything Wall Street has ever seen. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/27/markets/ai-bubble-fears/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #ai #tech #stocks #investments

Apparently Hasbro has begun demanding that CHILD ACTORS in their cartoon series like Peppa Pig sign over the rights for the company to use #AI to clone their voices for future commercial use.

CHILD ACTORS are being asked to sign away control of their voices.

I think this should be illegal. Parents should not have the legal right to sign away their child’s voice or likeness to be turned into corporate assets forever.

https://deadline.com/2026/06/peppa-pig-hasbro-child-actors-ai-backlash-1236967142/

@thejapantimes

So it was just a marketing stunt after all, as suspected .

#business #tech #ai #us #anthropic

Anthropic won U.S. approval to restore some access to its powerful Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model, after resolving government concerns about the technology's potential threats to national security. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/27/tech/anthropic-mythos-ai-us-use/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #us #anthropic

AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms https://lobste.rs/s/qsp10b #ai #security
https://cleverhans.io/worm.html

What does it mean to be a mathematician when AI does the math? https://lobste.rs/s/hvd5hk #ai #math
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics

AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics

#HackerNews #AI #mathematics #bigquestions #techinnovation #futureofmath

Why you shouldn’t use #AI as a creative professional, even without all its externalities.

Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/reels/DX3R99eyWDz/

maybe they outsourced to ChatGPT the job of checking there haven't been any other projects with names like terra/luna that would evoke extremely negative reactions

#ai

As advanced AI models heighten risks of cyber and biological attacks, governments must act quickly to coordinate internationally and enforce safety standards before the technology spreads beyond control. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/26/world/an-ai-kill-switch/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #anthropic #openai #ai #artificialintelligence #cybersecurity #mythos

Chatbots vs Ozone via @fazalmajid https://lobste.rs/s/tjpsew #ai #science
https://blog.dshr.org/2026/05/chatbots-vs-ozone.html

Sony is halting sales of its Aibo robotic puppy in Japan, the company has said, eight years after the latest model of its interactive android pet became an instant hit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/26/companies/sony-sales-aibo-robot-stop/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #aibo #sony #robots #ai #pets

Takeda Pharmaceutical's newly appointed CEO Julie Kim says the company will return to growth in two to three years as it gears up for a wave of product launches. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/26/companies/takeda-new-ceo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #takeda #pharmaceuticals #us #ai

Echoes of the AI Winter https://lobste.rs/s/8soruc #ai #lisp
https://netzhansa.com/echoes-of-the-ai-winter/

It begins…

“Ford Motor Co. took an unusually human approach to fixing its stubborn quality problems: It brought back what it calls “gray beard” engineers to help train younger staff and to reprogram the artificial intelligence tools that weren’t getting the job done.”

…

“Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product,” Poon said. But “we recognized that for us to enhance some of our automation and machine learning and artificial intelligence tools we needed to ensure that they were trained by the most experienced individuals.”

PS: I wouldn’t make the connection between rehiring and Ford’s quality improvement *quite yet*. One thing I can conclude from this article is at least Ford hardware engineering is having buyer’s remorse over replacing people with AI.

#AI #slop

“Ford Has Been Rehiring Quality Inspectors After AI Fell Short”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/ford-has-been-rehiring-quality-inspectors-after-ai-fell-short

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/ford-has-been-rehiring-quality-inspectors-after-ai-fell-short

I feel really sad for comic artists whose extensive past output have obviously been used to train #AI image bots. I see their new works and immediately think “AI!”, because the #AISlop images have so thoroughly (and very badly) aped their art style.

Single-panel, color, editorial comics have mostly fallen victim to this extractive practice. When I see a new editorial comic, I immediately suspect that it’s some shitty AI extrusion prompted up by some ignorant middle-aged GenXer like me.

#comics #art

A new toolkit is out on data centre fights in Canada! It is very good! https://aicivilsociety.ca/ResistingAIDataCentreDevelopmentinCanada-June2026.pdf

Read on for key info, tactics, and case studies, written by academics and activists in the trenches. #AI #Canada

A new toolkit is out on data centre fights in Canada! It is very good! https://aicivilsociety.ca/ResistingAIDataCentreDevelopmentinCanada-June2026.pdf

Read on for key info, tactics, and case studies, written by academics and activists in the trenches. #AI #Canada

New article: I feel tricked by AI - why I won't be using it anymore.

https://stusarticles.com/i-feel-tricked-by-ai-why-i-wont-be-using-it-anymore/

#ai #noai #antiai #llm #technology #tech #article

China and Russia are using disinformation campaigns to sow division, undermine trust in democratic institutions and alliances, and weaken the foundations of open societies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/25/world/beijing-moscow-fracture-free-world/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #vladimirputin #chinesecommunistparty #ccp #globalsouth #china #russia #ai #us #sanaetakaichi #taiwan #nato #g7 #defense #fakenews

Someone had to do it.

With apologies to Randall Munroe (XKCD 387).

#goose #finance #ai #xkcd

The "AI divide" we warned about in 2023 looks deeper now, not shallower.

Full report (in Norwegian):

https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/nyheter/2026/nordmenn-bruker-ki-mer.html

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Norway #Democracy #Research

🧵 **New report:** Norwegians' use of AI has nearly doubled in two years — from 28% in 2023 to 52% in 2025. But who's using it, and what worries people? A thread on findings from the Centre for Research on Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Norway

While an alleged scandal for Sanae Takaichi remains at the forefront of parliamentary deliberations, legislative action to regulate the use of online content for political influence is playing out in the background. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/25/japan/politics/takaichi-campaign-smear-video/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sanaetakaichi #ldp #ai #diet #socialmedia #internet

Super glad that the UK has regulated #Google to require them to unbundle “search” from “AI overviews”. A site owner can now opt out of AI overviews without also preventing the site from showing up in search results.

#ai

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260623-uk-press-can-opt-out-of-ai-overviews-stay-in-search-results

Unlimited-OCR: One-shot Long-horizon OCR https://lobste.rs/s/5ej4m6 #ai
https://github.com/baidu/Unlimited-OCR

A growing number of Japanese railway operators are introducing artificial intelligence-based systems to help prevent accidents involving trains at level crossings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/25/japan/japan-railway-crossing-safety-ai-use/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rail #ai #kintetsurailway #nagoyarailroad

Part of the issue with AI is how it can be used to rewrite history or get a version of the truth that is not entirely truthful.

I asked 3 LLMs why Microsoft is called the evil empire. This is the last paragraph of their answers:

Claude : "It's worth noting the company has changed substantially under Satya Nadella, who took over in 2014. Microsoft became one of the largest contributors to open source, acquired GitHub, built strong developer goodwill, and largely shed the "evil empire" reputation. The nickname feels dated today — though some would argue the aggression just moved to subtler forms like cloud lock-in and Teams bundling."

OpenAI : "It's worth noting that Microsoft's reputation has changed significantly since the era of leaders like Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Under Satya Nadella, the company has generally been viewed as more cooperative with open-source software and competitors, though it still faces scrutiny because of its size and influence."

Mistral : "Over time, Microsoft has worked to shed this image, especially under CEO Satya Nadella, by embracing open source, supporting cross-platform development, and promoting corporate responsibility"

So do you agree that Microsoft is now great and Nadella can walk on water?

#Technology #AI #BigTech #Microsoft #Linux #Windows #LLM

Using the Gini Coefficient to Plan Edge Capacity https://lobste.rs/s/frfsss #ai #distributed #networking #scaling
https://www.fastly.com/blog/using-gini-coefficient-plan-edge-capacity

Japan must develop its own strategy to strengthen submarine cable resilience by balancing security and infrastructure cooperation with private technology firms as global competition and geopolitical risks grow. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/24/japan/japans-submarine-cable-resilience/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #fiberoptics #cable #ai #telecommunications #google #meta #china #taiwan #india #australia #brazil #southafrica

Japan is racing to use its manufacturing strengths to compete in physical AI, but structural limits and strong U.S. and Chinese advantages raise doubts about whether it can capture value beyond hardware. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/24/japan/japan-ai-manufacturing-sector/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #ai #artificialintelligence #robotics #sanaetakaichi #nvidia #nissan #tokyo #huawei #momenta #us #china

Blog post:

#AI

https://humancode.us/2026/06/20/clarify-reasons-against-ai

Blog post:

#AI

https://humancode.us/2026/06/20/clarify-reasons-against-ai

Leaked Russian documents reveal plans to build a network of Wikipedia-style sites, media outlets and phony think tanks to shape how people and AI chatbots understand political issues. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/24/world/politics/russia-wiki-warfare/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #wikipedia #disinformation #chatbots #ai

Japanese equities, which global investors have long regarded as a value market, are beginning to attract growth funds as artificial intelligence-linked firms power to the top of market-cap rankings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/24/markets/ai-boom-japan-growth-stocks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #ai #investments #japaneseeconomy #tech

@FediThing @nzlemming @emilymbender

yup

that's the dominant topic with #AI:

it makes us dumb

we talk of extending people's abilities with AI

no

we lose abilities (or never gain them)

our brain atrophies like unused muscle

dependent upon a piece of silicon that doesn't care at best. at worst, with corporate AI, works agendas on us, and, not distant scifi but soon, abusive psyops on us

cages on our brain that know us better than we know ourselves, and our brains too flabby to even notice

China has topped the U.S. with the world's fastest supercomputer, but the results may say more about Beijing's desire to show self-sufficiency than the ​AI race. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/24/tech/china-us-supercomputer-ai-work/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #us #computers #supercomputers #ai #semiconductors

Epic rant.

#AI #surveillance is already out of control, and it is creating hardships for citizens for NO RETURN TO SOCIETY other than to enrich the handful of billionaires that profit from the grift.

Be like Jacob. Be the pain in the ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l764Va6p1UQ

VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in Small Language Models https://lobste.rs/s/jrj4o3 #ai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16140

SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son has said there's little merit to building data centers in space, as championed by Elon Musk, predicting that the AI race will be clinched by computing power on Earth. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/23/companies/softbank-dismissal-musk-idea-data-centers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #masayoshison #elonmusk #ai #space #spacex #openai

China's export-driven push into advanced technologies is creating a new "China shock" that threatens to undermine manufacturing and technological leadership in the U.S., Europe and Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/23/world/china-shock-20/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #chineseeconomy #globaleconomy #tech #ai #us #europe #xijinping #joebiden #donaldtrump

AI mania has gripped any number of stock markets across the globe but perhaps nowhere as much as Taiwan, the No. 1 producer of the chips that power the technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/23/markets/taiwan-ai-stock-mania-fomo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #taiwan #ai #tech #stocks #debt #taiwansemiconductormanufacturingco

The head of the Japan unit of major Canadian asset management firm Brookfield has voiced plans to promote investments in artificial intelligence data centers that can process large amounts of data. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/23/companies/brookfield-canada-ai-investment-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #brookfield #canada #ai #investments

The global AI boom has turned South Korean chipmaking giants SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics into stock market darlings, but it has also thrust employees into the top tier of the country's competitive marriage market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/23/companies/samsung-sk-hynix-darlings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #samsung #skhynix #ai #matchmaking #southkorea

@ufal “The free meals programme has been under fire due to a lack of transparency, and earlier this month, the head of the effort was fired and arrested. Irregularities have been detected in ⁠the setting up of kitchens, while safety standards and emergency responses have been criticised after tens of thousands of children suffered food poisoning last year.”

Add #AI to it, that’ll fix it.

@ufal “The free meals programme has been under fire due to a lack of transparency, and earlier this month, the head of the effort was fired and arrested. Irregularities have been detected in ⁠the setting up of kitchens, while safety standards and emergency responses have been criticised after tens of thousands of children suffered food poisoning last year.”

Add #AI to it, that’ll fix it.

Japan aims to double the proportion of female university students majoring in engineering by 2040, in a bid to address the low representation of women in areas such as artificial intelligence, and aviation and aerospace. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/23/japan/female-engineering-students-increase-aim/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #universities #aviation #space #sanaetakaichi #ldp #women039sissues

A fully local voice assistant setup https://lobste.rs/s/luosjw #ai #python
https://blog.platypush.tech/article/Local-voice-assistant

Nvidia Corp. is working to make humanoid robots safer around people, arguing that they'll need to handle split-second decisions before they can be trusted to work closely with humans. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/23/tech/nvidia-humanoid-robot-safety/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #robots #ai #chipmakers #semiconductors

TIRx: An Open Compiler Stack for Evolving Frontier ML Kernels https://lobste.rs/s/j04tzc #ai #compilers
https://tvm.apache.org/2026/06/22/tirx

Event Tensor: A Unified Abstraction for Compiling Dynamic Megakernel https://lobste.rs/s/lpn1cr #ai #compilers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13327

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/

#tech #ai #datacenters #climate #heatwave

@parismarx Remember when #ev s we’re going to collapse the grid? We heard that for decades, was enough to stifle progress for a good while. Then came the “artisanal” mining for “rare earths”. People, of a broad political spectrum, actively in the streets protesting #datacenters and it’s getting very little political traction.

Interesting comparison electrification to data centers, especially since who asked for #AI ? We’ve been asking for #cleanenergy since the 70s #fracking

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/

#tech #ai #datacenters #climate #heatwave

#Amazon appears to be “investigating” three engineers who spoke up at a local #Seattle city council meeting to oppose Amazon’s data center expansion, and to call for more regulation.

#ai

“Amazon investigating engineers who criticized AI data center expansion”

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/amazon-engineers-ai-data-center-opposition.html

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion https://lobste.rs/s/vwin4l #ai
https://role-confusion.github.io

Munich 1991: the Roots of the Current AI Boom https://lobste.rs/s/n1xvd7 #ai #historical
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ai-boom-roots-munich-1991.html

Taiwanese brothers Biing-seng Wu and Jordan Wu, who own 24% of Himax, have amassed $1 billion from a boom in display chips. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/22/tech/taiwanese-brothers-1b-display-chips/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #taiwan #ai #siliconvalley #tech #semiconductors #chipmakers

#Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that #AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/signals-meredith-whittaker-wants-you-to-remember-that-ai-chatbots-are-not-your-friends/

#privacy #cybersecurity #AgenticAI #AIAgent

I think it helps to be clear about what lines you draw before you accept the tech, not only because it clarifies your moral stance, but also because it helps to drive the industry to address its most egregious trespasses, so that we can benefit from the tech while minimizing harm.

Additionally, it helps to identify some areas of society into which genAI should never be welcome no matter how normal or harmless the tech has become, so we can defend those domains against intrusion right now, and for the right stated reasons, while the pursuit of #AI expansion is at its peak.

None of the externalities of today’s #AI tech are eternal. After the breathless froth dies down, the tech will live on. (I wrote a blog post on how I think the tech will shake out after the bubble pops: https://humancode.us/2025/08/29/the-end-game-of-generative-ai).

Data centers will stop being built (or at least threatened to be built) at ridiculous scales. Their energy use will settle down. They’ll switch to renewables, if for no reason other than because solar and wind are cheaper. Models will shrink and remain just as capable. Shrinking models mean more things can be done on client endpoints, further reducing the demand for data centers. AI will settle down to a more pedestrian, routine set of use cases. “Good enough” models developed under different frameworks of ethics will emerge; maybe some will arise that take consent into account.

Will you tolerate the tech *then*? Why and why not?

Also a note to anti-AI folks: be sure that you’re objecting to #AI for the right reasons. Ask yourself: if your publicly-stated objections were addressed, would you then embrace/tolerate the technology? If the answer is NO, then you have more fundamental reasons that you should maybe bring up more.

If AI data centers weren’t burning tons of fossil fuels, would you be OK with AI? If they addressed water usage, would you be OK? What if the models ran locally or your computer, instead of in faraway data centers? Would you be OK?

Or are you actually opposed to more fundamental issues, such as the ethics behind training, the nonconsensual use of creative works, or the sloppiness of the output? If those were addressed, would you be OK with the technology?

What if the major suppliers of the tech stopped taunting us with “AGI” nonsense? What if they no longer want to put data centers in space? What if they addressed sycophancy and bias more effectively? Would you be OK with the tech then?

Also a note to anti-AI folks: be sure that you’re objecting to #AI for the right reasons. Ask yourself: if your publicly-stated objections were addressed, would you then embrace/tolerate the technology? If the answer is NO, then you have more fundamental reasons that you should maybe bring up more.

If AI data centers weren’t burning tons of fossil fuels, would you be OK with AI? If they addressed water usage, would you be OK? What if the models ran locally or your computer, instead of in faraway data centers? Would you be OK?

Or are you actually opposed to more fundamental issues, such as the ethics behind training, the nonconsensual use of creative works, or the sloppiness of the output? If those were addressed, would you be OK with the technology?

What if the major suppliers of the tech stopped taunting us with “AGI” nonsense? What if they no longer want to put data centers in space? What if they addressed sycophancy and bias more effectively? Would you be OK with the tech then?

#AI #digitalsovereignty #europe
Same goes for EU:
If Trump shut off Canada's access to Chatgpt, Claude and Grok tomorrow, nothing would happen. No significant business, no federal or provincial ministry, no municipal government depends on these products for anything essential. And if Canada were to build their own local AI to sub in for Chatgpt, Claude and Grok, it would loose tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars. Worst of all, a national AI strategy does nothing – not one solitary thing – to protect Canada from Trump shutting down our ministries, our companies, or our tractors.

In other words:

If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty – AI

Then: AI = 0

If you think AI tools are nifty and want Canada to invest in AI, then first, please stop pretending that this has anything to do with "digital sovereignty." Not only is this a transparent bit of nonsense, it's a dangerous one, because digital sovereignty is a real problem, and AI does nothing to solve it.

If you want a good "national AI strategy," try this: save your money until the bubble bursts, and then buy your GPUs and hire your talent at 10 cents on the dollar and put them to work refining open source models:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/

@TheBreadmonkey I just sometimes find it very challenging what to write as "ALT Text" as some photos of artwork are very difficult to describe like writing "A man driving a car" does not describe the picture correctly which I am posting then the fact that #english is not my native language and describing an image in English is difficult 😐

I wish somebody makes some kind of #videogame where you describe pictures but the point scoring should be left to people not #AI or algorithms ⚡

#AI #digitalsovereignty #europe
Same goes for EU:
If Trump shut off Canada's access to Chatgpt, Claude and Grok tomorrow, nothing would happen. No significant business, no federal or provincial ministry, no municipal government depends on these products for anything essential. And if Canada were to build their own local AI to sub in for Chatgpt, Claude and Grok, it would loose tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars. Worst of all, a national AI strategy does nothing – not one solitary thing – to protect Canada from Trump shutting down our ministries, our companies, or our tractors.

In other words:

If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty – AI

Then: AI = 0

If you think AI tools are nifty and want Canada to invest in AI, then first, please stop pretending that this has anything to do with "digital sovereignty." Not only is this a transparent bit of nonsense, it's a dangerous one, because digital sovereignty is a real problem, and AI does nothing to solve it.

If you want a good "national AI strategy," try this: save your money until the bubble bursts, and then buy your GPUs and hire your talent at 10 cents on the dollar and put them to work refining open source models:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/

As Japan scrambles to catch up in the AI race, data centers are popping up in residential areas and even next to national landmarks. Some are sounding the alarm over environmental concerns. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/06/21/data-center-pushback/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #data #tech #ai #chiba #inzai #energy #datacenters

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in and they’re not good https://lobste.rs/s/d0vsgl #ai #vibecoding
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

Japan is building a 21st-century military, but it is running out of 21st-century citizens to man it. Does automation hold the key to this manpower crisis? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/21/japan/japan-sdf-automation-drones-military/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sdf #defense #drones #ai #china #northkorea #russia

It’s worth saying again that people who stand against #aiSlop are NOT standing against #AI tech itself, but the way that the tech is developed and deployed.

Tech is neutral. AI tech is neutral. Burning fossil fuels is neutral. Nuclear power is neutral. Using asbestos for fire resistance is neutral. The tech behind firearms are neutral. Each of these tech can be developed and deployed *judiciously* to achieve specific things that are good for humanity.

But context matters; in fact, context is overwhelmingly important. Burning fossil fuels is neutral, but not when you also poison people, create an international hegemony of power around it, or cause the planet to become uninhabitable.

The context around AI tech today is one of forced nonconsenual use, extractive deployment, mass devaluation of human labor, and market manipulation based on impossible promises. This context is what drives people like me to reject the tech: not because the tech is bad, but because the *systems* behind the tech are bad.

Using AI slop images to denounce AI is certainly a choice.

#aiSlop #ai

"A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.

Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.

Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

#AI #Deskilling #Science #Medicine

Japan has released a draft revision of its Artificial Intelligence Basic Plan, indicating its policy of enhancing cooperation with foreign government agencies and AI developers to address risks such as the misuse of AI. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/20/japan-ai-global-cooperation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #ai #cybersecurity

"A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.

Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.

Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

#AI #Deskilling #Science #Medicine

Lighthouse agentic browsing scoring via @ethanhawksley https://lobste.rs/s/rdrtip #ai #browsers #web
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/agentic-browsing/scoring

Calling all #designers! The #openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 in Yogyakarta needs a #logo. Submit your original SVG design by July 21. No #AI, just creativity. Use #Inkscape and let your imagination fly! #Linux #OpenSource https://news.opensuse.org/2026/06/04/opensuse-asia-summit-2026-logo-competition/

A.I. music just entered the public record.

“It’s All About The Music” points back to my complaint record on #ACMA #MyID Digital ID gates, #children #Privacy #disabled access, and #publicservice exclusion.
#Australia
#ombudsman 2026-045360
#oaic EN26/05776

This is a public domain song, proudly created using #AI and #Suno

The Felicity Station
https://stream.radio.co/sb766dcb88/low

For some it's an ego surfing metric, for others an indicator how much of their published material/output was present in the training datasets of LLMs and now is encoded in their model weights...

https://intheweights.com/

"This site queries all models with something like "Who is ? Give up to 10 results, each with a short description and confidence." We then cluster similar descriptions together and assign a strength score. Your strength score is an average of how strongly each model recognized you, plus a bonus for how many models recognized you."

More about the process:
https://intheweights.com/about

(via https://aoir.social/@aram/116778147377398743)

#AI #LLM

For some it's an ego surfing metric, for others an indicator how much of their published material/output was present in the training datasets of LLMs and now is encoded in their model weights...

https://intheweights.com/

"This site queries all models with something like "Who is ? Give up to 10 results, each with a short description and confidence." We then cluster similar descriptions together and assign a strength score. Your strength score is an average of how strongly each model recognized you, plus a bonus for how many models recognized you."

More about the process:
https://intheweights.com/about

(via https://aoir.social/@aram/116778147377398743)

#AI #LLM

Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it.

Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/

#tech #ai #markcarney #artificialintelligence #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #datacenters

Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it.

Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/

#tech #ai #markcarney #artificialintelligence #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #datacenters

U.S. artificial intelligence developer OpenAI said Friday that it has begun a trial for displaying advertisements in its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot for users in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/19/companies/openai-chatgpt-advertisements/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #us #ai #openai #chatgpt #advertising #dentsu

Ok gang, we could all use a laugh, even if it is a deeply dark, we’re all going to die, kinda laugh.

#Google’s #AI thinks the #SCP is real, and is telling people that it is.

The SCP is a collaborative fictional project. Thousands of people have written entries in the SCP. Some have made it to novelization and movies. It’s an incredibly cool project with a lot of amazing writers.

It is fiction, written by people, for people. But the #LLMs have devoured everything, and have no way to discern truth from fiction, ergo…SCP’s Ed’s Head (SCP-565) is presented as a real autonomous underwater brain, and SCP-426, a toaster that can force someone to eat bread until they die.

#Futurism found lots, we’ll find more. It’s very funny to think that some of my monsters may live well beyond the boundaries I created to contain them. Of the millions of my words LLMs have stolen, this is the funniest.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real

The SCP Foundation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com

#AIisTheft

Ukrainian drone companies are looking to tap a military-spending surge in Asia by U.S. allies eager to ward off an increasingly assertive China and deter a ​conflict over Taiwan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/19/world/ukraine-drone-makers-asia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #drones #ai #ukraine #taiwan #china #tokyo #defense

Whatever the marketing says, humanoid robots are still a long way from doing lots of different jobs on command. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/19/tech/ai-robot-limitations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #robots #roboticssummit #elonmusk #bostondynamics #chatgpt

Europe has a deep trove of production and manufacturing data and expertise from an industrial sector stretching back more than a century. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/18/tech/europe-industrial-ai-manufacturing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #tech #ai #eu #germany

This is frankly why I fully understand writers that don't publish online, but instead just send their stuff to friends and family because to these #AI Bros, Plagiarism is cool, because artists are lame little shits that need to get good, in their minds anyway. @drahardja @andybaio

@andybaio Gawd what a perfect encapsulation of the kind of cheap, superficial slop and nonconsensual use of human works (i.e. theft) that today’s #AI proponents are promoting.

Ok gang, we could all use a laugh, even if it is a deeply dark, we’re all going to die, kinda laugh.

#Google’s #AI thinks the #SCP is real, and is telling people that it is.

The SCP is a collaborative fictional project. Thousands of people have written entries in the SCP. Some have made it to novelization and movies. It’s an incredibly cool project with a lot of amazing writers.

It is fiction, written by people, for people. But the #LLMs have devoured everything, and have no way to discern truth from fiction, ergo…SCP’s Ed’s Head (SCP-565) is presented as a real autonomous underwater brain, and SCP-426, a toaster that can force someone to eat bread until they die.

#Futurism found lots, we’ll find more. It’s very funny to think that some of my monsters may live well beyond the boundaries I created to contain them. Of the millions of my words LLMs have stolen, this is the funniest.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real

The SCP Foundation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com

#AIisTheft

The Future of the Con Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed - In Pursuit of Laziness https://lobste.rs/s/5majlp #ai #security
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2026/06/17/the-future-of-the-con-is-already-here/

Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents https://lobste.rs/s/lieueg #ai
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/10/announcing-stack-overflow-for-agents/

Wow. Kudos to PBS for straight-up calling #bullshit on the #AI “productivity” claims by CEOs who have been doing massive layoffs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gjR3VKuPg0

Microsoft has built a big business selling artificial intelligence models to Chinese companies despite the growing rivalry between the U.S. and China over the technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/18/tech/microsoft-ai-china-openai-models/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #microsoft #ai #china #openai

Another day, another occasion to refuse legally-binding #AI transcription/summarization.

It’s *insane* that this is being normalized.

@mwl Thanks and done!

#AI #Firefox #KillSwitch

SoftBank had helped channel billions of dollars to startups through dedicated Latin American funds. Now, it says there are fewer companies that meet the requirements for its preferred investments of $50 million or more. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/17/companies/softbank-latin-america-tech/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #latinamerica #startups #ai

Indian workers are training AI-powered robots to take on household jobs in the future. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/17/indian-workers-training-ai-jobs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #india #ai #robots #jobs

Large, off-grid power projects are being approved rapidly and often under a cover of secrecy across the United States to supply the tech industry's booming demand for powering ​data centers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/06/17/energy/power-plants-ai-boom-public-scrutiny/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #ai #realestate #datacenters #meta #energy

For the first time in four months, Japan's trade balance swung to a deficit as the weak yen inflated the value of imports, even as volumes fell. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/17/economy/may-trade-balance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #japaneseeconomy #trade #middleeast #iran #us #financeministry #oil #ai

SpaceX is now the fifth-largest stock in the world after overtaking Amazon in value on a post-listing rally that has reached 49%. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/17/companies/spacex-amazon-value-ipo-49/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #spacex #amazon #rockets #space #ai

Nobody comes out smelling good in this story. Sure, the Trump administration probably put Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos products under export controls for reasons of abject vengeance or vanity, but #Anthropic also hyped up their models so much that they made them sounds like actual cyber-weapons that should be export-controlled.

Anthropic looks like the dog that actually caught its tail. If their hype were true, then the products are dangerous and should be export-controlled. If their products were no better than anyone else’s, then they’d have to admit they were lying.

#ai #hype

“Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge”

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/16/apparently-the-real-reason-anthropics-models-are-offline-a-six-year-old-trump-grudge/

Group of Seven leaders are discussing a plan to grant select "trusted partners" access to advanced artificial intelligence models from U.S. firms such as Anthropic. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/17/tech/g7-trusted-partners-us-ai-models/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #howardlutnick #ai #anthropic #mythos #openai #us #g7

Can gzip be a language model? https://lobste.rs/s/j11pew #ai
https://nathan.rs/posts/gzip-lm/

A growing number of young consumers are turning to analog and single-purpose devices like cyberdecks and e-readers as a form of resistance to AI-first platforms and increasingly automated digital systems. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/15/world/gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #analogartificialintelligence #ai #cyberdeck #alphabet #google #ebay #siliconvalley #microsoft #siliconvalley #genz

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-employees-fun-hackathon-layoffs

#news #tech #technology #AI #meta #aislop #metaai

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-employees-fun-hackathon-layoffs

#news #tech #technology #AI #meta #aislop #metaai

With the recent crackdown on Anthropic, the White House has given global leaders another reason to panic about their place in the technology race. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/16/anthropic-crackdown-ai-alarm/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #ai #anthropic #donaldtrump

Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web.  😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it. 

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-search-is-bad

#AI #AISearch #Google 

Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web.  😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it. 

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-search-is-bad

#AI #AISearch #Google 

June Framework Memory and storage pricing updates https://lobste.rs/s/uicwti #ai #hardware
https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/updates-on-memory-pricing-and-navigating-the-volatile-memory-market

AI, Gods and Selves: Incredibly Effective Illusions via @paulbutgold https://lobste.rs/s/tdy6ws #video #ai #philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X1CQlrwgDI

A growing number of young consumers are turning to analog and single-purpose devices like cyberdecks and e-readers as a form of resistance to AI-first platforms and increasingly automated digital systems. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/15/world/gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #analogartificialintelligence #ai #cyberdeck #alphabet #google #ebay #siliconvalley #microsoft #siliconvalley #genz

CrankGPT — Local Human-powered AI https://lobste.rs/s/fdjc6i #ai #satire
https://crankgpt.com

With less than a year left in office, Emmanuel Macron wants to be remembered as the French president who put Europe back in the technology race. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/15/tech/macron-g7-legacy-ai-data-centers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #arthurmensch #emmanuelmacron #france #g7 #ai #datacenters

200 #Stanford graduates walked out when #Google’s Sundar Pichai took the stage, in protest of Google’s ties with the Israeli government.

Pichai avoided mentioning #AI at all. I guess he learned his lesson from other commencement speakers.

“Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage”

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sundar-pichai-stanford-commencement-22304888.php

A #Derbyshire police officer is being investigated over alleged use of #AI to 'create evidence'. https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/derbyshire-police-officer-investigated-over-11012397

This is claimed to be the first known case of its kind in UK criminal justice.

Note that phrase "known case". KNOWN.

I bet there are many more undiscovered uses of AI to pervert the course of justice.

#uklegal

A #Derbyshire police officer is being investigated over alleged use of #AI to 'create evidence'. https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/derbyshire-police-officer-investigated-over-11012397

This is claimed to be the first known case of its kind in UK criminal justice.

Note that phrase "known case". KNOWN.

I bet there are many more undiscovered uses of AI to pervert the course of justice.

#uklegal

A #Derbyshire police officer is being investigated over alleged use of #AI to 'create evidence'. https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/derbyshire-police-officer-investigated-over-11012397

This is claimed to be the first known case of its kind in UK criminal justice.

Note that phrase "known case". KNOWN.

I bet there are many more undiscovered uses of AI to pervert the course of justice.

#uklegal

As global capitalism bets the house on an AI future, cash-strapped governments have no easy way to square the circle if the fallout gets costly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/14/tech/global-capitalism-ai-future-voters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #cryptocurrencies #stockmarket #anthropic #openai #spacex #teck #samaltman

Welp, we did it, folks: we invented TURBO Enshittification.

#enshittification #aiSlop #privateEquity #AI

“Red Lobster's CEO says he's going to transform the chain into 'the most AI-forward restaurant company that exists'”

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/red-lobsters-ceo-says-hes-153500558.html

Anthropic has cut access to its most advanced artificial intelligence models following an order by the Trump administration to keep the technology out of the hands of all foreign nationals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/14/tech/anthropic-mythos-us-order/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #anthropic #darioamodei #mythos #ai

The future of Siri, or: why private inference isn’t private enough https://lobste.rs/s/tylzdy #ai #privacy
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/apples-siri-ai-or-more-shouting-into-the-void-about-private-agents/

The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models https://lobste.rs/s/ooggna #ai
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05795

This rings true. #Apple #AI

https://youtu.be/t7L6-fMpxFc?si=DxXjjo-_6Svjkmlr

This rings true. #Apple #AI

https://youtu.be/t7L6-fMpxFc?si=DxXjjo-_6Svjkmlr

Japan led the world in robotics for decades. But now, the lead belongs to China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/13/tech/china-robot-lead/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #chinajapanrelations #ai #robots

Japan and Canada can work more closely together to accelerate the real-world adoption of artificial intelligence, an expert at a Toronto-based, cutting-edge research institute says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/13/japan/canada-japan-ai-interview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ai #canada #canadajapanrelations #manufacturing

This story about #Meta #AI from Wired is brutal.

Apparently 6500 employees were “drafted” (i.e. given the choice to agree or quit) to form an AI training squad, and they were required to make software puzzles for their AI to solve, over and over again. It looks like the mind-numbing work was so brutal and meaningless that an employee hijacked an internal meeting to curse executives out in front of thousands of internal viewers.

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/

"TLDR: depthfirst’s production autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, after intensive security analysis by Google and Anthropic. Moving beyond theoretical analysis, our agent produces concrete, reproducible PoC inputs to confirm its findings at a fraction of the costs ($1k vs. $10k). Several of the findings had been sitting latent for 15 to 20 years. We explored the exploitability of the issues and developed a PoC demonstrating a RCE exploit primitive."

Also:

― <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510046#48510834>
― <https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/ai-agent-uncovers-21-zero-days-in.html> via <https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1tys5z7/ai_agent_uncovers_21_zerodays_in_ffmpeg_chrome/>

…

#FFmpeg #cybersecurity #security #AI

AI may reshape millions of jobs, but retraining alone is unlikely to protect workers from the economic and social disruptions that could follow. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/12/world/ai-retraining-is-comforting-lie/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #jobs #educations #reskilling #tech

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort https://lobste.rs/s/1yjftk #ai
https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/

What’s New in WeatherMesh-6 https://lobste.rs/s/b13kxr #ai #science
https://windbornesystems.com/blog/introducing-wm-6

@nixCraft

Wonderfully played.

I guess the operator learned that clouds can create lightning that will strike in the pocketbook.

#AI #Insanity

Say you? Say me.

"Lionel Richie Files Trademarks to Protect His Voice From AI"

by Josh Gerben

#AI #news #tech

https://www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/lionel-richie-files-trademarks-to-protect-his-voice-from-ai/

@HeavenlyPossum We'll see what happens here in #Nashville - folks are overwhelmingly against a proposed data center adjacent to the city's beloved zoo. Metro will probably reject it, but I suspect the state Legislature will step in. They do not hesitate to tell Nashville and Memphis what to do. #AI #politics #Tennessee https://www.newschannel5.com/news/data-center-debate-over-100-speak-out-in-city-meeting-metro-leaders-defer-action-on-proposed-legislation

Say you? Say me.

"Lionel Richie Files Trademarks to Protect His Voice From AI"

by Josh Gerben

#AI #news #tech

https://www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/lionel-richie-files-trademarks-to-protect-his-voice-from-ai/

Artificial intelligence cannot convince a frightened young person their voice matters. Only people can. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/12/japan/japans-real-ai-problem/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #ai #artificialintelligence #cabinetoffice #oecd #youth

Consultation requests made to consumer affairs centers across Japan in 2025 regarding social media topped 100,000 for the first time, nearly double the level in 2021, a government report showed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/12/japan/society/consumer-affairs-social-media/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #surveys #socialmedia #ai #elderly

Memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings replaced Toyota Motor to become Japan's largest company by market value, underscoring how the global artificial intelligence boom is reshaping the country's corporate landscape. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/12/companies/kioxia-ai-valuable-firm/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #kioxia #ai #chipmakers #toyota #softbank

During the WebEvolve 2026 conference in #Hangzhou 🇨🇳 in April 2026, @dontcallmeDOM (@w3c #AI strategist) outlined AI's potential impact on front-end development, #WebApps and #WebStandards. #a11y

🎬 Watch "Web Standards and AI-driven development": https://youtu.be/scWHFYeG-m8

Slides: https://www.w3.org/2026/Talks/dhm-webevolve-ai/

Waves of AI-guided drones are hammering Russian supply lines in occupied Ukraine as Kyiv seeks to capitalize on its latest advances in technology and tactics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/12/world/ukraine-ai-drones-battlefield-edge/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #ai #drones

During the WebEvolve 2026 conference in #Hangzhou 🇨🇳 in April 2026, @dontcallmeDOM (@w3c #AI strategist) outlined AI's potential impact on front-end development, #WebApps and #WebStandards. #a11y

🎬 Watch "Web Standards and AI-driven development": https://youtu.be/scWHFYeG-m8

Slides: https://www.w3.org/2026/Talks/dhm-webevolve-ai/

This week on #openSUSE Planet: #AMD + #NVIDIA GPUs on one openSUSE #Leap 16.1 desktop, #digiKam 9.1 improves ease of use, and a survival guide for maintainers facing the #AI-generated vulnerability report flood. https://news.opensuse.org/2026/06/12/planet-roundup/

China's rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace has prompted an unusually blunt call from a state-run newspaper to protect labor rights. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/11/ai-alarm-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #china #ai #tech #jobs

Electronics maker NEC said that major financial institutions will participate in its collaboration with U.S. startup Anthropic in the field of artificial intelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/11/japan-banks-nec-collaboration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #nec #ai #anthropic #sumitomomitsui #tech #investments #banks

1am dev tip: if you have prompts that consistently work — those are assets 4grab.com lets you sell them. 10% every run, forever. https://4grab.com #ai #prompts #aitools

night shift thought: your daily prompts are quietly becoming an asset 4grab.com — publish one, earn 10% every run forever https://4grab.com #ai #prompts #aitools

@w3c China held the "WebEvolve: 2026 W3C Open Day & International Web Standards Forum" in #Hangzhou 🇨🇳 in April 2026.

Chunming Hu (Beihang University) delivered the opening speech and shared his thoughts on the future of the Web and #AI.

🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJbMCi7GDNg

▶️ Slides: https://www.w3.org/2026/04/hangzhou-webevolve-hu-chunming.pdf

One of the most off-putting things to me about #AI #LLM-based tools is that they encourage you to treat these models like people. You talk to it like it’s sentient, and you assume it has a theory of mind, and you give it tasks like you would another person. If it doesn’t work, you have a “conversation” with it as if you’re trying to explain something to another human being, then encourage it to try again.

That sort of interaction necessarily engages your “human interaction” set of skills in your brain, and it is really easy to fall into the trap of believing that an LLM *is* another human being. To me, this illusion creates a moral hazard, encouraging the user to imbue the statistical autocomplete machine with human characteristics that it doesn’t deserve, and explaining its (mis)behavior in human terms. Do this often enough, and the user will start thinking about the model in terms of human interaction, which is a category error with serious implications.

if you're using AI tools every day and haven't put your best prompts on 4grab.com you're doing work for free that you could be earning from 10% royalty, every run https://4grab.com #ai #aitools #prompts

the prompts you've refined over months have real monetary value 4grab.com — list your best prompt, earn 10% every time someone runs it set it once, earn forever https://4grab.com #ai #prompts #aitools

@w3c China held the "WebEvolve: 2026 W3C Open Day & International Web Standards Forum" in #Hangzhou 🇨🇳 in April 2026.

Chunming Hu (Beihang University) delivered the opening speech and shared his thoughts on the future of the Web and #AI.

🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJbMCi7GDNg

▶️ Slides: https://www.w3.org/2026/04/hangzhou-webevolve-hu-chunming.pdf

hot take: the people who complain AI makes everything generic are the people who haven't figured out prompting yet your prompts are an asset. sell them at 4grab.com — 10% every run https://4grab.com #ai #prompts

Japan's TDK is spending as much as $400 million to buy Fabric8Labs, a U.S. startup that's developed a technology that can be used to improve data-center cooling systems. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/11/companies/tdk-buys-3d-printing-startup/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #tdk #datacenters #startups #ai #us

Anthropic is balancing a safety-focused image while rapidly developing more autonomous AI systems like Mythos and expanding engagement with governments and others to manage risks and implications of its technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/11/world/anthropics-ais-make-users-uneasy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #amodei #mythos #tech #anthropic #chatgpt #claude

In South Korea, where around 42% of households are single-person, authorities are starting to provide artificial intelligence-powered care devices to seniors living alone. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/11/asia-pacific/science-health/south-korea-ai-dolls-elderly/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #sciencehealth #eastasia #southkorea #ai #elderly #aging #nursingcare

A group of high school students in Tokyo arrested over allegedly assaulting a boy and trying to extort money from him may have used ChatGPT to decide how much to demand, according to media reports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/11/japan/crime-legal/teenagers-extortion-chatgpt/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #chatgpt #ai #tokyo #hachioji

A fully automated AI researcher has produced a paper that meets scientific standards. This could accelerate scientific discovery — but not without a cost.

Charlotte Sachs for DW:

https://www.dw.com/en/ai-researchers-are-coming-what-will-happen-to-science/a-76538755

#science #research #AI