Three case studies using GPT-4o, OpenAI o1, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet for historical research show that the models are now good enough for PhD-level analysis
I had a bit of a glimpse this morning, when I used chatgpt to identify a manuscript that ended up in my backlog stack somehow. 👇 Dr. Erika Graham-Goering / @jeanneologist : Came across this and am ge...
Free Our Feeds, backed by Jimmy Wales and others, aims to raise $30M by 2028 to billionaire-proof the AT Protocol by making it easier for Bluesky users to leave
The non-profit social media foundation space is really heating up. Ciarán Mather / Silicon Republic : Campaign aims to protect Bluesky's tech from billionaires Thomas Claburn / The Register : Hulk sma...
The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue
community responds Gaurav Girotra / Tech in Asia : NYT files copyright suit against OpenAI, Microsoft Jacob Oliver / CryptoSlate : New York Times sues Microsoft, OpenAI for alleged copyright infringem...
Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability
including by trying every obvious solution out there— on several occasions. If the problem were easy to solve, it would have been solved by now. The reason we bring up the problem in a public forum ...
Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features
Amanda Silberling: — Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor … PC Gamer : With Elon Musk's Twitter in chaos Mark Zuckerberg sees his chance: Meta's Threads launches Oli Welsh / Polygon : Instagram to...
An interview with Dave Winer, who was instrumental in the creation and evolution of RSS, on Google Reader's demise, support for RSS feeds on Mastodon, and more
Thomas Claburn / The Register : Tweets: @rustybrick Tweets: Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick : Oh how I miss Google Reader and love RSS https://twitter.com/...
Twitter delays its new paid API launch by “a few more days”, claiming “there has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API”
it's another to see exactly what that entails. @kottke@botsin.space : These updates about the Twitter API continue to be insulting and full of bullshit. Enthusiasm. Optimal experience. What a bunch...
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says he rejected more than five US investors offering “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to preserve the platform's nonprofit status
Fast-growing open-source microblogging site has seen a surge of interest since Elon Musk took over Twitter Tweets: @suji_yan , @barbariancap , @wilbanks , @tariqkrim , @astaniscia86 , @davewiner , @ma...
Elon Musk says Twitter suffered “a massive drop in revenue” due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, despite doing “everything” to “appease the activists”
lets be honest—isn't any less “brand safe” than two weeks ago. But it's an unspoken rule of Serious Media that we report the weather, we don't make it. https://twitter.com/... @cabel : @elonmusk Come ...
Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts have done little to rein in COVID-19 misinformation, escaping the scrutiny social media giants face
False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications. Tweets: @carnage4life , @evan_greer , @derekwillis , @shanoorseervai , @peterham...