Elon Musk says he will rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned following the exposure of his posts advocating for racism and eugenics, after Trump endorsed the idea
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.” — “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.” — “Normalize Indian hate.” — www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st... [embedded post] Ryan ...
Sources: in 2019, Donald Trump authorized the CIA to launch a clandestine social media campaign to turn China's public against the government and Xi Jinping
Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign … Mastodon: @kevincollier@mastodon.social . X: @shashj , @shashj , @ericgeller...
After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months
but Zuckerberg Calls BS Stuff.co.nz : Elon Musk to fight Mark Zuckerberg in ‘ancient Roman setting’ MMA Fighting : Mark Zuckerberg denies Elon Musk fight claims, mentions UFC and ONE as ideal partners...
OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking
White House Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and others pledge to watermark AI content for safety Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : White House secures AI safety commitment As...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
Reddit says that 80% of the site's top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 4K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12
Will Consider Letting Users Vote Out Moderators Tweets: Ben Goggin / @benjamingoggin : NEW: Reddit CEO slammed protest leaders in an interview, saying he plans to institute rule changes that would all...
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces on May 24, in a discussion with Elon Musk moderated by David Sacks
280 characters at a time Nancy Cook / Bloomberg : Ron DeSantis to Join Elon Musk on Twitter Wednesday to Announce 2024 Run Lawrence Richard / Fox News : Florida college student who shared location of ...
Amazon's third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company's revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon's one-click magic trick to hide.” https://nymag.com/... Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff : retail in 2023 inv...
Investigation: starting in November 2021, OpenAI contracted Kenya-based Sama to label violent and toxic content, paying workers $2/hour, to improve ChatGPT
Content warning: this story contains descriptions of sexual abuse — ChatGPT was hailed as one 2022's most impressive technological … Mastodon: @karengregory@mastodon.scot , @parismarx@mastodon.onlin...