Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI
… Google famously paid Reddit $60 million for access to its site for AI training, the results of which have been a bit of a mixed bag . …
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Podcast: Elites Just Don't Get AI
… In the subscribers-only section, Joseph explains how researchers planned to stick cameras onto preschool teachers to train AI. Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube . Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power our journalism. …
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
AI 'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Jason Koebler · Mar 12, 2026 at 11:08 AM Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. …
Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don't Care About Safety or Reliability
… For the simple task of sending an email it has to do, maybe, 16 or 17 steps and at each step first you send the current screenshot, maybe the previous three screenshots, the accessibility trees of the desktop and everything.” “For 100 tasks in my benchmark, at least on Anthropic, I think it cost me… …
Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops
… Just so we can make sure it’s actually a good fit for your use case.” I told Marco that I wanted 10,000 pieces of data and said I would use it for AI training. …
Podcast: The Disappearing DOGE Depositions
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… Matthew Gault · May 15, 2026 AI ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science. …
The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It's Affecting the Entire Economy)
… Anthropic has tightened access to Claude Code , and tested removing access to Claude Code entirely in its $20 per month plan keeping access in its $100 per month plan As noted in The Verge , Anthropic restricted Claude access to users of OpenClaw because the heavy usage was unsustainable OpenAI’s C… …
The OPSEC Rave Wave (with Imani Thompson)
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It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
… The paper suggests that what we have been seeing is basically Redditor suggests you put glue on your pizza as a service , or an end-to-end attack against the systems that increasingly dominate the ways that people access information online. …
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