Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art
…The inconsistent likeness on all of the faces (something a portrait illustrator could’ve controlled for) is also a dead giveaway for AI’s limitations, and the synthetic studio backdrop environment makes…
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Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn’t draw red lines for drone use
…policy actions — which, by the way, have spanned both administrations and I think are fairly bipartisan — are aimed at. There’s a supply chain and then there’s software command and control…
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
…and allowed a handful of firms to gain almost monopolistic control over markets. I also think that AI wouldn’t exist without these cases. And we’ve been talking around AI with…
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…When we had AI agents go through these policies, they just went nuts. One approach was, “Let’s rebuild all the documentation and policies the right way, and then let’s have…
Climate Change
…Policies and economies are also changing as world leaders and businesses try to cut down global greenhouse gas emissions. How energy is produced is shifting, too — from fossil fuels to carbon-free…
The things we’re building
…I also have for you a new gaming controller, a bunch of fun stuff to watch this weekend, a couple of interesting AI-y things, and a lot of feelings about how…
I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking
…So I asked California’s Department of Cannabis Control, which licenses and regulates commercial cannabis activity in the state, whether it permits products that reward consumption. Jordan Traverso, the department’s deputy…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web
…That way, you are totally in control of your data and totally in control of whatever the AI is seeing, without it going to someone else’s data center. Where do you…
Windows is back on the Microsoft menu
…That’s an appealing concept during a continued AI money squeeze for developers and consumers. Microsoft is targeting its own Surface Laptop Ultra at developers and creators and pairing it with ongoing…
Read this before you vibe-code another app
…linking to its retention policy. He’s working on a version of the app in which nothing a user types is stored by AI, even briefly, and a separate version that would…