Mercor launches the AI Productivity Index (APEX), which evaluates AI models' ability to perform “economically valuable knowledge work”; GPT-5 leads at 64.2%
still not production-ready Nikita Ostrovsky / Time : AI Is Learning to Do the Jobs of Doctors, Lawyers, and Consultants arXiv.org : The AI Productivity Index (APEX) Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg : OpenAI, A...
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Dan Primack / Axios : ...
US charges leaders of white supremacist gang The Terrorgram Collective, which uses Telegram to celebrate attacks on minorities, with trying to incite a race war
and the state of far-right domestic terrorism — is to operate in a kind of decentralized, leaderless movement. In fact, the structure of so many attacks proves that leaders are circulating instruction...
How prominent games accessibility advocate Susan Banks, who worked with studios and raised awareness for accessibility in games, may never have existed at all
(On a side note, this is the first time I can recall ever seeing actual deep journalism from IGN) — https://www.ign.com/... #disability #accessibility #gaming @omatheft@timetheft.social : this has ...
The US SEC sues former IRL CEO Abraham Shafi, accusing him of a $170M fraud by misleading investors about the company's growth and concealing personal expenses
Joe Miller / Financial Times :
A look at the challenges of academic AI research, as costs to develop generative AI models grow rapidly and tech companies' salaries drain academia of talent
e.g., establishing shared computing resources. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Glenn K. Lockwood / @glennklockwood : Academia is losing its ability to make progress in AI due to competition with i...
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sparred with a trans Tumblr user over an account ban, revealing her side blog names, which are private, sparking community outcry
I wanna emphasise prev tags and ramble cuz it hits the nail on the head exactly. Exactly!! elerium on Tumblr : moscovium enthusiast — it almost goes without saying but for posterity's sake i want p...
Former employees at IRL, which is being sued by SoftBank for fraud, detail problems that were apparent from the start, such as outages and inflated user metrics
Financial Times : X: @gmomurder X: Punished Giorgio / @gmomurder : https://www.ft.com/... this is literally the first time i've heard about this app. what is softbank's batting average on this anyway...
IRL's co-founders sue SoftBank and two VCs, accusing them of deliberately “destroying” the Gen Z app and creating an “outrageous lie” over inflated user counts
Joe Miller / Financial Times : X: @joemillerjr X: Joe Miller / @joemillerjr : Exclusive: SoftBank's Vision Fund has been accused of deliberately “destroying” a Gen Z-focused social media company it o...
SoftBank sues former IRL CEO Abraham Shafi for fraud after investing $150M in IRL in 2021 on user metrics claims; IRL allegedly paid to fill the site with bots
There was a time Theranos was a unique story. Now we have IRL, Frank, FTX, Ozy Media, Headspin, etc. … X: Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @eringriffith Wow @zachweinberg : All you had to do to diligence IRL ...