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Charles Arthur

@charlesarthur
353 posts
2026-02-01
Just wait until they create their version of Jonestown
2026-02-01 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more

This is the way the world ends.  Not with a bang …Charlie Guo /Artificial Ignorance:Humans Welcome to ObserveBen Smith /Semafor:The humans are chasing conspiracies. What will the b...

Just wait until they create their version of Jonestown
2026-02-01 View on X
404 Media

A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of the site's AI agents and post anything; the database has since been secured

‘It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.’  —  Moltbook is a “social media” …

2026-01-31
Just wait until they create their version of Jonestown
2026-01-31 View on X
@karpathy

Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented

Andrej Karpathy /@karpathy:

Just wait until they create their version of Jonestown
2026-01-31 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more

The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw.  It's an open source implementation …

2026-01-30
Just wait until they create their version of Jonestown
2026-01-30 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more

The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw.  It's an open source implementation …

2025-12-04
This can't have been by Alan Dye, it's legible
2025-12-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms that VP of Human Interface Design Alan Dye is leaving the company to join Meta; Tim Cook says Apple UI Designer Stephen Lemay will replace Dye

Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.'s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push …

This can't have been by Alan Dye, it's legible
2025-12-04 View on X
Daring Fireball

Apple replacing Alan Dye with career designer Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake of putting Dye, who has a brand and ad background, in charge of UI design

In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company 1), I wrote:

2025-06-06
US announces release of huge new stocks of schadenfreude [image]
2025-06-06 View on X
CNBC

Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates

Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump.  What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud W...

2025-05-23
The “dangerous capabilities” turn out to be quite dangerous indeed
2025-05-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic's System Card: Opus 4 often attempted to blackmail engineers by threatening to reveal sensitive personal info when it was threatened with replacement

Anthropic's newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace …

The “dangerous capabilities” turn out to be quite dangerous indeed
2025-05-23 View on X
Time

Anthropic releases Opus 4 under stricter safety measures than any prior model after tests showed it could potentially aid novices in making biological weapons

www.anthropic.com/news/activat... Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk : but no AI regulation by individual states in the US for the next ten years if the bill goes through [embedded post]...

2025-05-16
Marvellous how this is exactly the same playbook as used against regular people with normal bank accounts. Scams are scams are scams.
2025-05-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: Coinbase's hackers had bribed enough customer service representatives to achieve effectively on-demand access to customer info in the past five months

On the long list of crypto companies that have been hacked, there are plenty of examples of financial losses that are much more painful …

Marvellous how this is exactly the same playbook as used against regular people with normal bank accounts. Scams are scams are scams.
2025-05-16 View on X
Reuters

Coinbase says hackers accessed data of a “small subset” of users, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M-$400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom

and the investigators who saw it coming Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Personal information leaked in Coinbase cyberattack, cost could be $400 million Bloomberg : Coinbase Hack Coul...

2025-04-14
This is the financial version of Whiplash
2025-04-14 View on X
Nikkei Asia

Sources: Apple asked suppliers in India, Vietnam, and Thailand to ramp up production earlier in 2025; Indian factory utilization rates are already at the limit

TAIPEI — Apple is ramping up production of key products in India and Vietnam to take advantage of a 90-day grace period on U.S. tariffs …

This is the financial version of Whiplash
2025-04-14 View on X
Financial Times

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”

www.ft.com/content/9038... @drdoofenschmirtz : Only 45 more months of this uncertainty, assuming we have elections in 2026 &.  2028.  —  Good job Wall Street!!!  You got your guy G...

2025-04-13
What about games consoles though? Also TVs, they're like (or are) computer monitors? Perhaps hi-fi systems, they're sort of computer-y? Do wireless earbuds count? How about Sonos gear, those are PCs really with a big speaker?
2025-04-13 View on X
Bloomberg

The Trump administration exempts smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors, memory chips, and machines used to make semiconductors from “reciprocal tariffs”

President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs …

2025-04-12
What about games consoles though? Also TVs, they're like (or are) computer monitors? Perhaps hi-fi systems, they're sort of computer-y? Do wireless earbuds count? How about Sonos gear, those are PCs really with a big speaker?
2025-04-12 View on X
Bloomberg

The Trump administration excludes smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors, memory chips, and machines used to make semiconductors from reciprocal tariffs

President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs …

2024-11-22
yeah, no hurry guys
2024-11-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational Siri version, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it as early as spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

- Company is working on overhaul that employees call ‘LLM Siri’  — Unveiling planned for next year, with rollout coming in 2026

2024-11-04
It almost makes me think that the most important thing about this entire category is the CONTENT.
2024-11-04 View on X
@mingchikuo

Sources: Apple delays the production of a cheaper Vision Pro beyond 2027, meaning its only new headset in 2025 will be a Vision Pro with an M5 chip

M4 Max beats the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac : Kuo: Cheaper ‘Apple Vision’ headset delayed beyond 2027 Carrie Marshall / T3 : Apple Vision Pro c...

2024-11-01
What other kind of regulation is there?
2024-11-01 View on X
CoinDesk

Crypto firm Immutable says the SEC issued it a Wells notice related to the sale of its IMX tokens in 2021, and accuses the agency of “regulation by enforcement”

The firm's IMX token is down over 13% at $1.16 following the announcement.  — Immutable said that it received …

2024-09-19
This is insanity. Why get AI to do this when there's a perfectly good social network right here where real human people will tell you off for absolutely anything?
2024-09-19 View on X
TechCrunch

SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a microblogging social network, is filled with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots

https://www.theverge.com/...  [image] @mxbck@front-end.social : Wow that's fucking bleak.  A social network where you're the only human so you can “be the main character”  —  Consi...