NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series
… This is hardly the first time that a politician has joined Twitch, though we’ll have to see how Mamdani’s debut viewing figures stack up against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s.
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Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces
… In a release about Mythos Preview, Anthropic wrote that it had already been in “ongoing discussions with US government officials about Claude Mythos Preview and its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities.” Earlier this month, when The Verge asked for details, Dianne Penn, a head of product mana… …
Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead
… They only have 2 large tiles available and I can’t just scroll down to see everything.” The landing page has a small section up top showing steps and some other basic stats, but part of the app’s main page is now reserved for recent activity updates and chatty notes from Google’s AI health coach. …
The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’
… To the group, there is little difference between gen AI and any other kind of technology that “can be used for good or bad,” and they see their videos as prime examples of how dynamic Iranian storytelling can be. “Western audiences have, for years, been fed distorted views of our nation by mainstre… …
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Backrooms is at the forefront of horror’s YouTube wave
… That mode of storytelling works especially well for short-form YouTube videos that viewers can pause, rewind, and pore over in excited anticipation of a creator’s next upload. …
Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw
… I first reached out to Crenshaw’s office for an interview request about those claims on March 13th, shortly after the election. We were scheduled to speak on March 24th, with his office saying he would call me at 2:30PM. …
OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question
… But it also has colored my view of his direct testimony, which started afterward. …
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Can Puck reinvent news for the influencer age?
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