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I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism.

From Around the Horn:

New glowing molecule, invented by AI, would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature, scientists say An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if nature were capable of producing such a thing.

www.livescience.com/technology/a... #AI #artificialintelligence

AI hallucinations can’t be stopped — but these techniques can limit their damage Developers have tricks to stop artificial intelligence from making things up, but large language models are still struggling to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AI #artificialintelligence

It’s alive! Official NIN here: bsky.app/profile/nin....

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol, he shared in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday. In anticipation of the coming U.S. TikTok ban, which will go through on Sunday unless paused by the…

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol

Cypherpunk AI: Guide to uncensored, unbiased, anonymous AI in 2025 AI models are a privacy nightmare that are often borked by the safety team. Here’s how to get around the censorship and use AI anonymously.

cointelegraph.com/magazine/cyp... #AI #artificialintelligence

Rounded is an AI orchestration platform that lets anyone build an AI voice agent French startup Rounded believes AI voice agents are going to become the default way customers interact with companies, so instead of building AI voice agents that are ready to use, the company is building an orchestration platform that lets companies…

Rounded is an AI orchestration platform that lets anyone build an AI voice agent

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Meet the Chinese ‘Typhoon’ hackers preparing for war Dubbed Volt, Flax and Salt Typhoon, U.S. intelligence says these China-backed hackers are laying the groundwork for conflict. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Meet the Chinese ‘Typhoon’ hackers preparing for war

Google is forming a new team to build AI that can simulate the physical world | TechCrunch Google is establishing a team to build AI that can simulate the physical world, led by one of the former co-leads on OpenAI's Sora model.

Is this the Matrix?

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

How much of that bonus does Dan Orlovsky receive?

#Bono 🙌👏

Do ppl on #bluesky give a fuck about ppl getting community note’d?!

Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ?

Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world.

Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.

#HappyNewYear #HNY

“Do we actually want private big tech companies, with their ethos of moving fast and breaking things, to own nuclear power plants?” 🤔

Ahead of the Paris #AIActionSummit, Dr. Sasha Luccioni joined our podcast and shared thoughts on innovation, regulation, and nuclear energy.

@sashamtl.bsky.social

Video of CyberTruck exploding in Las Vegas outside Trump Hotel. Multiple injured and one dead.

All doubt removed.

😆 love it

#cfb #collegefootballmemes

Too soon

That awkward moment when you’re Ron Burgundy-ing the field on primetime tv…

AI’s Impact On Music In 2025: Licensing, Creativity, And Industry Survival The music industry is entering a critical phase where AI could either amplify its value or decimate its foundations, real music, copyrights and artists

www.forbes.com/sites/virgin... #AI #artificialintelligence

There's a very interesting SF novel by Harry Turtledove, Guns of the South, about white 20th century South Africans time-traveling to Civil War America to help out "guess which side" with weapons & tech. No idea what's made me think of that.