Matt DeSiena

a screenshot of the Techmeme home page with one story about Deloitte having to issue a $439k refund to the Australian government for using AI, followed by a 2nd story just underneath of Deloitte announcing a Claude rollout for 470k of its employees.

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No notes, @techmeme.com . Perfect placement.

a screenshot of the Techmeme home page with one story about Deloitte having to issue a $439k refund to the Australian government for using AI, followed by a 2nd story just underneath of Deloitte announcing a Claude rollout for 470k of its employees.

🤣🤣

No notes, @techmeme.com . Perfect placement.

Yup. and it's not even close.

However you *feel* about the app, this one below does not violate the Apple TOS as written, and this is a chilling moment for the ownership of your phone.

at the post we have a small team of professional pollsters who have to review the full methodology behind any survey results before we can feature them in a story. they’re super annoying sometimes and i’m also very grateful that we have them

Big tech CEOs have spent more than a decade puffing their chests and saying that they are more like heads of state running global companies with bigger revenues than many countries

… but now they’re all folding to actual government pressure faster than any tinpot dictator has ever folded

Your AI product needs to have a definitive consumer solution or be frictionless and impactful for the end-user on enterprise.

The reason why you're seeing all these panic headlines is because they don't. Friend chatbots, AI avatars, slop feeds?

Sit. down. and. talk. to. users.

Yeah they’re pivoting

This should be about as popular as the metaverse

Cool bananas 🥳

"After considering several jurisdictions, legal structures, and potential parent organizations, the new entity will form as a Swiss Association. In a period of international uncertainty around Internet governance, Switzerland provides a credibly neutral and stable global home. "

Chrome: The browser you love, reimagined with AI Google is taking the next step in its journey to make your browser smarter with new AI integrations.

Me: I find chrome a bit bloated.
Google: hold my beer

blog.google/products/chr...

This post was what me discover leaflet.pub and I love it.

If people were using it to its potential, why is it limited to a writing and search bot? #AI

How people are using ChatGPT Largest study to date of consumer ChatGPT usage shows demographic gaps shrinking, economic value being created through both personal and professional use.

Open AI just released its usage data and the most interesting part seems to be how much is unsaid.

Based on the OpenAI customer, @anthropic.com is well-positioned to win enterprise. openai.com/index/how-pe...

I also don't love that the product doesn't seem easy to understand.

Today, after picking him up from daycare, I watched my newly three year old son ride a tricycle by himself for the first time.

Third year of my eightysomething dad living with me after my mother died.

I’m finally finishing up the first draft of a novel.

And doing meaningful work during the day.

Smart sell! Unless you are hoovering personal data against your own terms of service, hard to see how a browser will be profitable.

Love the idea of agents and Jira in browser.

yet ANOTHER example of utility being such a better use case for LLMs over entertainment and content. @luok.ai

House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints

Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…

FT screenshot: Another, Avi Verma, a former OpenAI researcher, went through Meta’s onboarding process but never showed up for his first day, according to a person familiar with the matter.

If you work at OpenAI this is the funniest thing you can do www.ft.com/content/1107...

Windows Notepad, the native simple text editor, now has formatting options and a Copilot button.

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

Crypto billionaire Justin Sun has sued Bloomberg for publishing details about his wealth that he himself provided to qualify for their Billionaire Index. While Sun was initially eager for Bloomberg to publicize his multibillionaire status, he became furious when he learned they planned to publish a rough breakdown of the assets comprising his crypto fortune. This may be because it reveals an inconvenient detail: the majority of his assets are TRX, the cryptocurrency issued by his company Tron — and he owns most of the TRX in circulation (63%). This concentration is somewhat reminiscent of the 2022 revelation that Sam Bankman-Fried had built his crypto empire on a foundation of FTT, the token issued by his own company FTX, sparking concerns about the solvency of his businesses and the value of FTT that ended in the collapse of both. Sun’s fury could also stem from Bloomberg’s reporting that Sun owns the HTX cryptocurrency exchange (renamed from Huobi in late 2023 [I40]). Though it has long been clear that Sun holds more control over the exchange than he claims to have as a mere adviser, he has refused to admit he owns the company. This is a pattern with Sun, who has also denied ownership of other companies with which he’s heavily involved, such as Poloniex (which he later acknowledged owning), BiT Global, and Techteryx.

While Sun claims the lawsuit stems from fears over his privacy, personal safety, and financial security, these concerns are difficult to reconcile with his frequent public displays of wealth. Sun instead appears to be continuing his years-long pattern of trying to dictate his image in the media — downplaying his shady past1 and attempting to suppress reporting about his Tron network’s heavy use by criminal enterprises23 — now with heightened urgency as he works to reinvent himself for an American audience. Less than a year ago, Sun was a crypto entrepreneur dogged by SEC fraud allegations,4 so concerned about a reported criminal investigation into suspected financial crimes that he refused to step foot in the United States out of fear he would be arrested.5 Now he’s working to rebrand himself as a legitimate businessman, taking Tron public in US markets and securing an advisory role with one of the president’s own crypto ventures. This transformation has been aided by the mysterious easing of his legal troubles, which coincides with hundreds of millions in investments into Trump-linked businesses.

Sun has sued Bloomberg for publishing details about his wealth that he himself provided. While Sun claims the lawsuit stems from privacy concerns, Sun seems to be trying to suppress unflattering details about his wealth and business activities as he reinvents himself in the US.

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

the AI hype bubble is coming. And the news organizations and pundits that helped inflate it are going to immediately pivot to pretending they saw it coming the whole time.

Character AI and Meta almost certainly are doing shady shit with their marketing of chatbots, but you DO NOT have to hand it to Ken Paxton for investigating, as it is almost absolutely certain that this is about political retribution, not anything legit.

TBD lab, finally an accurately named Facebook product group.

Someone on a FB group just referred to Final Fantasy 8 as “Dawson’s Creek, the video game.”

I’m definitely abandoning Chrome if they buy it, but this company has no real product lock-in.

No product? No future. I don’t blame them.

The number is crazy but i think this is their way of going all-in before they need to fold.

They have to be burning cash, browser development for comet is expensive and not monetizable, and deep research is at parity or worse than everyone.

At least Chrome level market share is defensible.

If you're reacting to this thread with "Why isn't my opinion as valuable as any so-called critic's?" you are -- how shall I put this? -- the problem. You see a statement that a profession you're not in has value, and your first thought is "I'm being insulted!" You're how we got here.

If we're thinking about building GitHub alternatives, let's build ones that host not just code but everything involved in building software, including the community work involved in validating assumptions and making sure we're solving real problems, equitably, for the people we're trying to help.

PSA: If you can't launch a CLI in your operating system, your #AI posts on #LinkedIn should stay firmly in drafts.

GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff Putting the AI in Charge

Ignoring all else, I actually think "it just does stuff" is Bad, Actually. My honest to god thought about work for years and years and years has been "too much doing without thinking, productivity theater, generating just to generate" www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-5-it-j...