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Sam Altman tries to calm furious ChatGPT Plus subscribers by reversing one of GPT-5’s big downgrades 200 messages a week? No thanks

So when GPT-5 was first released, there was a 200 message a week limit for subscribers. That's now been changed after serious backlash. This goes to show how costly these tools actually are when I see companies trying to milk every possible option for profit 👇🏼

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Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

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I'll be joining a live podcast event this week chatting about socio-technical approaches to design. Registrations are free 👇🏼

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

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Silicon Valley’s military drone companies have a serious ‘made in China’ problem As Pentagon leaders call for thousands of drones to face China, they are grappling with an uncomfortable reality: Silicon Valley is addicted to Chinese drone components.

The trade war between the US and China is ironically paradoxical. There's a call for thousands of drones to prepare for war in the Pacific but the components of those drones predominantly come from China. Makes those tariffs even more contentious 👇🏼

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It's basically the Government way. Instead of filling the gaps they just handball the problem off

Agreed, but that would require filling the huge skills gap in Government

Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it Interim report on digital economy also mulls changes to privacy rules and copyright collections to help harness AI’s benefits

There is a call for an overhaul of Australian copyright rules in response to big tech mining text & data to train AI models. No surprise, arguments against warn "clumsy or excessive regulation risk stifling the technology’s potentially transformative benefits" 🙄

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OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search OpenAI abruptly removed a ChatGPT feature that made conversations searchable on Google, sparking privacy concerns and industry-wide scrutiny of AI data handling.

If you're thinking this is a huge privacy breach, you're right. It is. This article goes into those issues a little more: share.google/am1MPHF6uM5I...

Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines | TechCrunch Search engines are indexing links to ChatGPT conversations that have been made sharable with a link.

So apparently there was an option to filter search results on Google, Bing & other search engines to only include the ChatGPT URL & this allowed people to find strangers’ conversations with ChatGPT. Hours after this was reported by @techcrunch.com the feature was removed share.google/ypY2QcbKvF0O...

The latest #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode with @traceyspicer.bsky.social is now live, chatting about the current tech landscape & gender bias in technology

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The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

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Should YouTube be included in Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16? We asked 5 experts All experts expressed broader concerns about the upcoming age restrictions for social media users in Australia.

In light of the news about the #YouTube ban for kids in Australia, this article brings together some interesting perspectives on the proposed ban 👇🏼

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Google threatens to sue if YouTube is included in Australia's kids social media ban Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has stared down YouTube after the platform foreshadowed a legal challenge if stripped of a social media ban exemption.

Google is threatening to sue if YouTube is included in Australia's kids social media ban 👇🏼

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Harmonic, the Robinhood CEO's AI math startup, launches an AI chatbot app | TechCrunch The chatbot app, which is available in beta on iOS and Android, lets users access its AI model, Aristotle.

Harmonic, the Robinhood CEO’s AI math startup, launches an AI chatbot app

"There is no excuse for what’s happening in Gaza. This tragedy must end now, immediately and decisively. Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch, will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.”

Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.

This tragedy must end now.

Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt

ICRC: "On Thursday, the Red Cross Field Hospital received 17 wounded women, with 2 declared dead on arrival. Those responsive said they had been trying to access distribution sites."

"The situation in Gaza is appalling."

"People cannot continue to live like this. More can & must be done."

Artificial Intelligence and Civil Liability | Think Tank | European Parliament Artificial Intelligence and Civil Liability

The European Parliament has released the findings of a study they commissioned which critically analyses the EU’s evolving approach to regulating civil liability for AI systems 👇🏼

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OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models Wide-ranging agreement with artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT comes after similar UK deal with Google

Me, a rube: governments procure a technology when a specific need is identified.

UK: “lol, no”

💯 our critical thinking skills are dwindling

As we race headlong into our glorious AI-powered future, are we on the road to Idiocracy? | Peter Lewis Self-serving policy is not the worst of the OpenAI blueprint. It is the fact that this massive corporation purports to set our future agenda at all

There is a common assumption that we are always on a path of higher intelligence, but recent advances in technology and their impacts on us have proved otherwise.

Shoutout to @tomchan1.bsky.social who shared this with me and got me thinking about idiocracy

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Just when you think your brain couldn’t be more boggled some tulip comments that Oscar Wilde isn’t Irish as ‘we gave him to the Brits’.

Wilde grew up in a home devoted to Irish culture, archaeology, research & Celtic Revival & was part of a movement in culture that would lead to Irish independence

If you want to better understand nuclear deterrence & responsible nuclear behaviour, the latest #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode with @lubazat.bsky.social is a must listen 👇🏼
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Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... I proposed a "right to your face" back in 2019. Interesting to see where this goes. Public interest exceptions will be challenging..

US Judge sides with AI firm Anthropic over copyright issue A US court has ruled Anthropic was not breaching copyright rules when it trained its AI model on books.

Anthropic were being sued for their use of books to train their AI model. A US judge has said Anthropic's use of the authors' books was "exceedingly transformative" and therefore allowed under US law. 👇🏼

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Google introduces AI mode to users in India | TechCrunch Google introduced its AI mode, a Q&A-style search tool, to users in India today. The company said that this tool is still in the experimental stage

Google introduces AI mode to users in India

GC REAIM Symposium: Next Steps for Responsible Practice Join us at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies for a timely symposium on the governance of military AI, part of the GC REAIM initiative.

If you're in the Hague this week, the @hcss.bsky.social is hosting a symposium on the governance of military AI.

You can freely register for the event here 👇🏼

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