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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib
44 posts
2025-05-17
you should skim the quotes on this tweet, bearing in mind that MIT investigated and recently asked that the paper be retracted because they had “no confidence in the provenance, reliability, or validity of the data [or] ... in the veracity of the research contained in the paper”.
2025-05-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

MIT says it no longer stands behind a widely circulated research paper by its student that claimed an AI tool boosted discoveries in a materials science lab

The university says it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student

since you're probably thinking the same thing, i went and looked at the dipshit's timeline. he was posting that night until 2:14a PST, and then started posting again at 4:37. so it tracks.
2025-05-17 View on X
TechCrunch

After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14

We are regularly updating this repository with the system prompts that we use … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Grok “White Genocide” Controversy Leads xAI to Publish Internal S...

2025-05-16
since you're probably thinking the same thing, i went and looked at the dipshit's timeline. he was posting that night until 2:14a PST, and then started posting again at 4:37. so it tracks.
2025-05-16 View on X
TechCrunch

After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14

xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok …

2024-11-10
woah, this is a smart idea. if someone who follows me happens to be at apple or connected to the team here, i would imagine implementing a shorter countdown on Lockdown Mode or something like that would be a good idea
2024-11-10 View on X
404 Media

Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement

Apple quietly introduced code into iOS 18.1 which reboots the device if it has not been unlocked for a period of time …

2024-11-09
woah, this is a smart idea. if someone who follows me happens to be at apple or connected to the team here, i would imagine implementing a shorter countdown on Lockdown Mode or something like that would be a good idea
2024-11-09 View on X
404 Media

Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement

Apple quietly introduced code into iOS 18.1 which reboots the device if it has not been unlocked for a period of time …

2024-09-10
huh, i do often look at my watch from an angle. i never thought about that.
2024-09-10 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 10, with a thinner design, a bigger screen, smaller bezels, a Jet Black finish, faster charging, more, coming Sept. 20 for $399+

similar to the Series 9 — but they are in other regions.  Apple, however, is not advertising the O2 sensor on any page in any region. … Victoria Song / @vicmsong : Fast charging de...

2024-07-27
all i'm saying is it should be financially overwhelming to companies it should be panic-inducing for the lawyers of companies that operate under any regulatory jurisdiction it should be catastrophic to the careers of the people who work on this to implement & deploy like this
2024-07-27 View on X
Windows Central

X activates a setting, on by default, that gives it permission to train Grok on user's posts; the setting can be turned off on the web but not in the mobile app

X's new experience is automatically set to opt-in and uses your data to train its Grok AI model.

2024-07-04
> Instead of algorithms, noplace leverages AI technology to drive suggestions and curation. The app doesn't edit the feed for you, but rather uses AI to do things like offering summaries of what you've missed. help me. https://techcrunch.com/...
2024-07-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Gen Z-focused social media app noplace, backed by Alexis Ohanian's 776 and others, tops the US iOS App Store, and raised a $15M Series A1 at a $75M valuation

Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launched out of invite-only mode Wednesday.

2024-05-21
the only problem with malware was branding, apparently.
2024-05-21 View on X
Engadget

Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs as a new class of AI-capable Windows PCs that have at least 40 TOPs of NPU performance, with several OEMs and chipmakers on board

The aim is to handle more AI processing locally rather than in the cloud.  —  We've been hearing rumblings for months …

2024-04-29
the instagram search page is like half advertisements for garbage AI stuff facebook is pushing, and that's before you even type anything in lmao.
2024-04-29 View on X
Fast Company

AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram

partly because is the company putting its new AI *everywhere*, but mostly because viral user-generated AI images are now ubiquitous on its apps. My latest for @FastCompany: https:/...

2024-04-19
you could've stopped reading this sentence at almost any word and it would have been equally incomprehensible.
2024-04-19 View on X
404 Media

A look at Salad, which pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their GPUs remotely to AI companies, including those making AI-generated porn

Salad, a company that pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their idle GPUs remotely to generative AI companies …

2024-04-05
this piece is great. something i don't see in the article is that (as far as i know) google mostly accepts reported publication dates at face value, so if someone wants to taint historical data, they could claim the book was published earlier than ~2024 https://www.404media.co/...
2024-04-05 View on X
404 Media

Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use

It's almost like they need...  A librarian.  —  https://www.404media.co/... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : Like Amazon, Google Books has also been infected with lo...

2023-12-09
i vaguely remember when apple was like “btw the whole presentation you just watched was shot on an iPhone” and everyone got mad as hell that apple didn't like... shoot it in natural light or something so it'll be interesting to find out what people make of this
2023-12-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Google's video demo of Gemini's multimodal AI capabilities wasn't carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts

Attached: 1 image Just tried the new google Gemini model … Reethu Aaby / The Week : ChatGPT's challenger is here! Everything you need to know about Google's Gemini AI James Laird /...

2023-12-08
i vaguely remember when apple was like “btw the whole presentation you just watched was shot on an iPhone” and everyone got mad as hell that apple didn't like... shoot it in natural light or something so it'll be interesting to find out what people make of this
2023-12-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Google's video demo of Gemini's multimodal AI capabilities wasn't carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts

The tech giant's latest AI model is only marginally better than the one from OpenAI that's been out for eight months.

2023-12-05
whenever i read a glowing profile of the heads of AI/tech companies talking about them being the smartest people in the world, at the forefront of engineering our futures, etc... i'll think about this story.
2023-12-05 View on X
404 Media

Asking ChatGPT to repeat words “forever” now violates OpenAI's terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led to revealing training data

2023-09-13
genuinely kinda curious about apple saying you'll be able to shoot log video directly to an attached SSD. these are pretty serious video features i have to assume that they're thinking about manually dialing in exposure and white balance stuff as well, because otherwise... lmao?
2023-09-13 View on X
The Verge

Apple announces the 6.1" iPhone 15 Pro and 6.7" iPhone 15 Pro Max, with Grade 5 titanium in four finishes, a 3nm A17 Pro, a customizable Action Button, and more

Apple just announced its new high-end iPhones, the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max.  It's made of titanium, it has an Action button …

so can i use a USB hub with an iPhone now? just... out of curiosity.
2023-09-13 View on X
The Verge

Apple announces the 6.1" iPhone 15 Pro and 6.7" iPhone 15 Pro Max, with Grade 5 titanium in four finishes, a 3nm A17 Pro, a customizable Action Button, and more

Apple just announced its new high-end iPhones, the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max.  It's made of titanium, it has an Action button …

the default action for double tap should be to reject calls, not accept them lol
2023-09-13 View on X
MacRumors

Apple unveils the $399 Watch Series 9, with an S9 chip, 30% faster than the S8, a four-core neural engine, Double Tap, on-device Siri, and a 2,000-nit display

2023-08-29
> In addition to the executives, others from “worker, advocacy, civil rights, and creative groups,” will join as guests, according to Schumer's office. (no names; no real details; will join “as guests”; this is per the hill's article) https://thehill.com/...
2023-08-29 View on X
The Hill

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and others are expected to attend Senator Schumer's first AI Insight Forum on September 13

Rebecca Klar / The Hill :

2023-07-17
shouldn't be surprising, but we're in an era of bad reporting on AI, so i'm taking wins where i can: this article on detecting AI-generated text (and why it's practically impossible) investigated/reported by @benjedwards is really good https://arstechnica.com/... just a few riffs >
2023-07-17 View on X
Ars Technica

Experts explain why there's no magic formula to always distinguish human-written and AI-written text, meaning AI writing detectors can only make a strong guess

Can AI writing detectors be trusted?  We dig into the theory behind them.  —  If you feed America's most important legal document …