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...
US community colleges are battling a flood of fake, or bot, students who bilk financial aid by enrolling in online classes and submitting AI-generated work
Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. Bluesky: @socialmedialab.ca , @thealexknapp , @voiceofsandiego.org , @damon.k...
Sources: some US news outlets prepare for shortfalls as Meta weighs ending fees for news; annual fees averaged $20M+ for NYT, $15M+ for WaPo, and $10M+ for WSJ
Daily News Snapshots — Draghi's ECB Consigned to History … Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Facebook Appears To Migrate Investments From News To Better Compete With TikTok Tweets: @s_m_i : i legit checke...
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers writes to Andy Jassy asking why Amazon still sells a food preservative used for suicide, an accounting of sales, and more
Even as grieving families tried to warn Amazon and other e-commerce sites of the danger, there were more purchases and more deaths. Tweets: @dkiesow , @jodikantor , @mega2e , @maxwellstrachan , @mega2...
Forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news could lead to uncritical reporting on tech; better approaches would tackle roots of media woes, including ad markets
Exponent — as promised! — will be back tomorrow, talking about podcasting, Spotify, and working from home. — On to the update: Tweets: @raju , @jason_kint , @jarroddicker , @dkiesow , @mattyglesias ...