How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit , @besttrousers , @...
A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing
www.politico.com/news/magazin... Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan : See also: social media. In both cases, lots of people promising quick fixes with no tradeoffs. [embedded post] Max Berger / @maxberge...
In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the agent to reject fre...
OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI
Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules The Economic Times : OpenAI fixes ChatGPT's em dash problem; ‘small-but-happy-win’ says Sam Altman Kahekashan / The Hans India ...
Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents “intentional harassment”
Family of teen who took his own life after ChatGPT use alleges chatbot maker intentionally weakened protections X: @cristinacriddle , @justinbullock14 , @grady_booch , @sachalouise , @codytfenwick , @...
Users express surprise, delight, and disgust with viral Sora clips, as some warn of IP theft and that Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams
and terrifying. X: Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Someone gave my psychotic stalker an invite to Sora and he's already making AI videos of me. Thankful that Sora has the option to block and delete un...
GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI
and he's not alone Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : GPT-5 is here and Gary Marcus is not impressed Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out ...
Sources on the key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when it has reached AGI, “sufficient AGI” means $100B+ in profits, and Microsoft may not build AGI
Questions like “what biases are in the training data” and “can I keep my data out of the LLM” are critical to corporations and people! [embedded post] @breadbunny : openAi believers making a contract ...
Sam Altman says he believes in “techno-capitalism” and is “politically homeless” as Democrats no longer encourage a “culture of innovation and entrepreneurship”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's ‘politically homeless’ in July 4 post bashing Democrats — cnbc.com/2025/07/04/o... Sacha Ramtohul / @poticha : Not to anyone's surprise but Altman's as much a real-li...
Sources: OpenAI is not releasing an internal paper on AI stages as it may complicate OpenAI's ability to declare AGI and block Microsoft from its tech
despite Sam Altman admitting today's tech isn't built for it Preston Gralla / Computerworld : Microsoft/OpenAI AGI argument unlikely to impact enterprise IT Bluesky: William Robinson / @williamrobinso...