This is some solid cat content. 💯🙌 instagram.com/reel/Cw-S3FSOf…

Lots of celebs in ads during #SuperBowl2024. Jerry L. Lawrence thinks they are trying to make up income from the SAG + Writers strike. Or maybe Merge Mansion & Royal Match have normalized celebrity brand endorsements for US consumers. What a time to be alive. #superbowlads

How could any of this be a problem

Tiktok ban passes in the House..... from CNN

movies are going to become video games and video games are going to become something unimaginably better

Perplexity AI, an AI–powered search engine, has become a Silicon Valley startup darling for taking on Google. It's also quietly using Google's data. theinformation.com/articles/ai-se… By aaron holmes Stephanie Palazzolo & Jon Victor

Well we did it. We're here.

Scoop: Meta has donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund, Zuckerberg's latest step to bolster his once-fraught relationship with Trump. Meta didn't donate to Biden's inaugural fund or to Trump's 2017 fund. w/Dana Mattioli wsj.com/tech/mark-zuck…

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI's API was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to DeepSeek (Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250128/p42#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

This is a good one to ponder…

o3-mini is out! smart, fast model. available in ChatGPT and API. it can search the web, and it shows its thinking. available to free-tier users! click the "reason" button. with ChatGPT plus, you can select "o3-mini-high", which thinks harder and gives better answers.

opening the black box...if only just a little

We’ve rolled back last week's GPT-4o update in ChatGPT because it was overly flattering and agreeable. You now have access to an earlier version with more balanced behavior. More on what happened, why it matters, and how we’re addressing sycophancy: openai.com/index/sycophan…

Anthropic submitted their Diffusion Rule recommendations today. From the text: 'Based on current research trajectories, we anticipate that powerful AI technology will be built during this administration, emerging as soon as late 2026 or 2027.' In this timeframe they anticipate:

I get it but what about patient privacy? HIPPA anyone?

Pope Leo XIV made the broadcast while at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series

Explosion at Shandong Youdao Chemical in Gaomi, Shandong province, China, few hours ago. The plant is the world’s largest producer of the pesticide chlorpyrifos.

RFK Jr. went on national TV and spouted egregious, dangerous falsehoods about vaccines. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. Fox News might not fact-check him, but I will. I've reviewed the trials. I've catalogued them. I have receipts. 🧵