Waymo announces 4 new cities: St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Philadelphia.

Finally, some solid East Coast cities.

Inside Meta's Effort to Build the World's Longest Underwater Cable Meta has largely kept details about Project Waterworth under wraps, but subsea cable engineer Andy Palmer-Felgate gives us sneak peek at how it will pull off this 'incredible feat.'

Shipwrecks, volcanoes, circumnavigating the globe. And AI.

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Character.AI has a new "AwkwardFamilyDinner" scene. Conveniently advertised during the holidays 😆

ChatGPT Turns 3 and Faces Its First 'Code Red' Existential Crisis. Can It Stay on Top? Gemini 3 has AI enthusiasts singing Google's praises. As chatbots become a dime a dozen, can OpenAI continue to stand out and make enough money to pay back its investors?

I've written a piece about ChatGPT for its past two anniversaries. This third one wasn't what I would've expected, with OpenAI staring down a new phase with lots of challenges.

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ChatGPT came out 3 years ago as of Nov. 30. Three years in, it's facing stiff competition from Google, Claude, and others. Have AI chatbots already been commodified, and is there any way ChatGPT can truly stand out and stay on top long-term?

New video! Made with CNET. We were asked to argue for either ChatGPT or Waymo—pick a side and develop an argument, like debate team (in the best way possible.)

A fun experiment 🎉🎉

(And confirmation that sexism is alive and well…check out this comment)

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Happy Thanksgiving!! I wish you all a relaxing, tech-free holiday.

This Calif. City Demands Waymo Halt Overnight Operations. Here's Why It's the culmination of a grassroots war against autonomous cars that just won't shut up.

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Santa Monica orders Waymo to halt overnight operations immediately.

People can't sleep with all the beeping, bright lights, constant hum of charging equipment, and worsened congestion with cars going in and out of company lots.

I'm a fan of Waymo's tech but this is...yikes.

I Was Among the First to Try ChatGPT's Ambitious, But Half-Baked Online Shopper The experience, available via ChatGPT Deep Research, aims to help you discover new products, but OpenAI says it only gets it right 64% of the time.

"Ambitious but half-baked" is pretty much how I would describe most, if not all, AI products

www.pcmag.com/news/i-was-a...

Should Jim break up with his AI girlfriend? Episode #28

We need you to weigh in: Should Jim break up with his AI girlfriend? Do chatbot relationships make sense sometimes?

www.superintelligentpodcast.com/p/should-jim... @mikeelgan.bsky.social

We switched up the format. Now, we're doing mostly single-topic deep dives, around 45min. Before, the episodes ran longer and covered multiple stories and news items. Hope you enjoy this more concise, focused version of us! @mikeelgan.bsky.social

Should Jim break up with his AI girlfriend? Episode #28

ICYMI: The latest ep of our weekend tech podcast Superintelligent is here!

This one is all about a real, crazy AI companion story. It might make you think differently about this topic, in light of rising loneliness & depression.

Oh, and one note 🧵
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Rich nepo baby cashing in on AI data centers

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Opinion | The Three G.O.P. Women Who Broke Trump’s Grip on Congress

LFG

“Love ’em or hate ’em, these House troublemakers bucked their party leadership, stared down their president and made possible Tuesday’s vote…This victory speaks to the value of having women’s voices, and strength, inside the Republican echo chamber…”

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Independent Movie Theater Chain Forced to Halt Shows After 'Random' Cyberattack It's a 'very difficult time' at Living Room Theaters in Portland and Indianapolis, after an unknown bad actor took down its computer systems, to the dismay of loyal patrons and employees.

Who cyberattacks an independent movie theater? They’re struggling enough. Evil!

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YouTube video by Lord Vader Bo Burnham: Inside - Jeff Bezos

Bezos is back, and becoming CEO again for the first time since he left Amazon in 2021. This time, it's a new AI company (shocker) called Project Prometheus.

Bo Burnham: What say ye?

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Nice!

In other words, our own AIs are now hacking us

Well, it happened. In the first documented case of this, Chinese state-sponsored hackers convinced Claude to autonomously hack into 30 institutions, get credentials (usernames and passwords), and take out "a large amount of private data."

Surprised to see emails from 2 government agencies, reaching out to pick up projects we had to abandon when the shutdown began. They are wasting no time!

Spotify’s new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far For the frequently forgetful Spotify audiobook listener.

Looks like we're finally acknowledging that memory and recall on audiobooks is in the toilet

www.theverge.com/news/819476/...

Oops. Russia's First Humanoid Robot Face-Plants Onstage, CEO Calls It a Win Shortly after taking its first steps in front of the world, the Aidol takes a tumble and gets dragged offstage by its human handlers.

It’s Mr. Steal-yo-girl

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I agree!

Rosalía’s new album is the most ambitious creative project I’ve seen in a long time. She went from reggaeton/hip hop to a sort of pop opera. And she sings in all these languages: Spanish, Catalan, Arabic, Japanese, French, Portuguese, Italian, Ukrainian, and German 🤯 setting the standard

Changes afoot at Tesla?

Leaders of the Cybertruck and Model 3/Y announce they are leaving Tesla on the same day

The power of low-tech in a high-tech world. (You should always keep up with the newest technology. But never forget how to use older technologies when they help you more.)
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Ridiculously low amount. It’s always like that 😭

Milestones Elon has to hit in the next 10 years to get his $1T pay package:

• Deliver 20M Tesla vehicles
• Deliver 1M robots
• Get 10M subs to FSD
• Deploy 1M robotaxis
• Earn $400B in profit

All of that would value put his stock value at $1T, but it's a stretch.

Dear Emily,

Bad news: We abused your data and got caught, and you'll never truly know what that means.

Good news: We will pay you a nominal sum.

Respectfully yours,

Facebook/Meta