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ChatGPT launches group chats globally | TechCrunch The company sees group chats in ChatGPT as a way for people to coordinate trips, co-write documents, settle debates, or work through research together, while ChatGPT helps search, summarize, and compare options.

ChatGPT launches group chats globally

New #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode with Alison Kershaw chatting about science communication and generative AI 👇🏼

Listen anywhere you get your podcasts 🔗🔗

𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲: open.spotify.com/show/2x2yNvU...

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/r...

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞: www.youtube.com/@Responsible...

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

Well-written and informative. To sum-AI does not belong in educational spaces.

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.

So here:

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨

‘In whose tech we trust: Part II’ by Jason Van der Schyff et al, outlines practical policy options for Indo-Pacific governments and industry to manage the national-security risks posed by foreign-owned, controlled or influenced technology suppliers.

🔖 Read it now 👉 bit.ly/3LOrkSm

Beloved SF cat’s death fuels Waymo criticism | TechCrunch The death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has shaken San Francisco’s Mission District and prompted new debates about robotaxi safety.

The death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has shaken San Francisco’s Mission District and prompted new debates about robotaxi safety.

Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...

uh this is a lotta dough www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

Recently, I had the great joy of chatting with my dear friend of 36 years Karen O'Sullivan from the destination bookstore Great Ocean Reads in Apollo Bay.

It's wonderful to be able to combine work with pleasure.

You can listen here: greatoceanreads.podbean.com/e/episode-5-...

Why threats to academic freedom are growing – and how universities can respond to intimidation When scholarship is politically steered, the public loses access to evidence and the means to hold power to account.

When scholarship is politically steered, the public loses access to evidence and the means to hold power to account.

The latest issue of the Australian Army Journal arrived in the mail yesterday. I contributed a paper to this edition on considerations for safely scaling swarms in military operations.

You can freely access and read the paper here: researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/aust...

Tired of being unemployed when my work is what companies say they need: making complex systems clear, usable. I’ve spent years designing human-centered research & translating user insights into decisions that make products and experiences better. DM #UX research leads! jgcarpenter.com #AI #HCI #HRI

The US Needs a New Suicide Prevention Plan That Tackles Social Media and AI | TechPolicy.Press Our national suicide prevention largely treats technology as a tool to be managed, not a threat to be confronted, Erich Mische writes.

The US national strategy to prevent suicide failed to address the risks posed by social media and AI, Erich Mische writes. That's why he's come to regret signing it — and calling for a new plan.

Where Is OpenAI's Money Going? Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a mathematical error around burnrate, it's been fixed. A few days ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s rev...

Based on analysis of years of revenues, losses and funding, since 2023, OpenAI has taken in $28.6bn in cash and had $13.7bn in losses.

However, reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn in cash - suggesting OpenAI's losses are billions higher than reported.

www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...

Humanity’s Endgame | NOEMA A new history of societal collapse by an expert in existential risk argues that our globalized society is edging toward the precipice.

Humanity’s Endgame www.noemamag.com/humanitys-en...

@longreads.com

Thanks for the heads up 😊

You can also freely access and download the report here: hcss.nl/wp-content/u...

If you're interested in knowing more about the recently published #GCREAIM report, this week's #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode dives into those details with the project coordinator Sofia Romansky.

🎧 You can listen to this episode anywhere you get your podcasts

A fascinating read for this spooky season 👇🏼

AI chatbots are becoming everyday tools for mundane tasks, use data shows Workplace productivity and educational challenges get the headlines, but it turns out that ChatGPT and its ilk are more likely to be used for household tasks.

#AI has quickly become a big part of everyday life with people using it for simple things like recipes and email drafts to budgeting help.

More than 70% of ChatGPT use is for personal use, not work.

I have to apologize every time I touch AI in a bid to educate people (for free) about its failures and social harms but y’all will buy bumper stickers from a guy who is literally working as a hype man to get AI startups funded as he bullies other critical tech folks, it’s honestly wild

An interesting perspective on the AI bubble...

Here's How Many People May Use ChatGPT During a Mental Health Crisis Each Week OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effecti...

NEW: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said earlier this month that ChatGPT now has 800 million weekly active users. The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis.

Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be ''objective'', data visualizations ...

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Great observation. As people are clueing on to how they can protect their data, these companies are figuring out what loop holes they can exploit

Meta charged by EU over illegal content handling on Facebook and Instagram By Investing.com Meta charged by EU over illegal content handling on Facebook and Instagram

The EU has charged Meta for
failing to provide users with a simple way to flag illegal content & for not offering adequate tools to appeal content-mod decisions when posts are removed / accounts suspended marking the 1st allegation under bloc’s online-content rules

au.investing.com/news/company...

This project is an example of @alexhanna.bsky.social's vision for DAIR, she said she wanted to make researchers organizers and organizers researchers (something to that effect and I believe there's a related quote from someone else).🧵

And finally (for now) the one we're all familiar with...Profiling for Advertising: Selling or sharing “wellness insights” with third-party marketers: ads for sleep aids, fertility products, dating apps, or even insurance premiums. 11/11

(There's more, but these are a convo starter.)

Psychological Manipulation: “Smart coaching” features can be framed as self-improvement but rely on behavioral nudging—training users to conform to app metrics rather than actual wellbeing. Data dashboards create feedback loops that gamify compliance with corporate-defined “healthy” norms.

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