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I wrote about the Republicans who want to Make Antitrust Great Again washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

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The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize the posting of nonconsensual sexual images of others and to require online platforms to remove them (@willoremus / Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/technology/202… techmeme.com/250428/p29#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Push notifications from the NYT and WaPo flashed on smartphone screens around the world — the traditional signal that a new pope has been chosen.

In 2019 I was the first journalist to embed within OpenAI to profile them. Afterwards they refused to speak to me for 3 years. Here's the story of what happened, and Altman’s reaction, excerpted from my book EMPIRE OF AI about the company (out May 20). 1/ technologyreview.com/2025/05/19/111…

Elon Musk has pulled back on political tweets with his businesses reeling, a Post analysis finds. In Feb, over 50% of his X posts were about DOGE and politics and 13% mentioned Trump. So far in May, less than 20% are political and just 3% mention Trump. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

A hypothesis on the accelerating decline of reading: * Broadly speaking, people read for pleasure/entertainment and for learning/obtaining information. * Reading for pleasure has been declining for a while and is being replaced by videos (very sharply among young people).

The big bill the House passed today *does* include the 10-year ban on state AI regulation. And it can pass the Senate without Democrats' help. But there is one group that could still stop it: Senate Republicans. My newsletter today: washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

good example of how AI hype can have damaging real-world consequences propublica.org/article/trump-…

People say generative AI shouldn't infringe on copyright. These researchers actually tried to do it. The result: an 8 terabyte dataset of text that's openly licensed or in the public domain & 7 B parameter model that performs on par w/ Meta's Llama 7B x.com/AiEleuther/sta…

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