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Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of places around you(techcrunch.com)
2 points by mikelgan 2mo ago|1 comments
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by mikelgan 2mo ago
A new app called Wrinkles uses your location to automatically surface stories about the places around you. Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local
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Why it's impossible to get relevant news on Google News(elgan.com)
4 points by mikelgan 2mo ago|2 comments
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by mikelgan 2mo ago
You can use Google News to search social media for your specific phrase, or you can search news sites for the disconnected words in your phrase, but you can't search news sites for your actual phrase.
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Who's legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI's autonomous AI hacks?(techcrunch.com)
6 points by mikelgan 2mo ago|7 comments
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by mikelgan 2mo ago
It’s complicated
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How AI is killing smartphone apps in China(computerworld.com)
5 points by mikelgan 2mo ago|2 comments
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by mikelgan 2mo ago
While Apple and Google are adding AI apps to smartphones, Chinese companies are replacing apps with AI.
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
Kagi, obviously (disclosure: My son works for Kagi.)
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
I don't think that will work for what I'm looking for. I'm looking for very, VERY specific subjects like the Attachment Economy, synthetic relationships, and a hundreds others, and I need to know all the stories on this subje
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Google has abandoned Google News?(elgan.com)
284 points by mikelgan 3mo ago|209 comments
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
Now, when I do my traditional searches, a huge majority of some of my searches are from Instagram or other social media sites, not news publishing sites. Many of my results are in foreign languages I cannot even identify. Many of my results
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The Friend AI Pendant is not a product(machinesociety.ai)
2 points by mikelgan 3mo ago|1 comments
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
It’s part of an art project, and the “canvas” is capitalism.
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Zoox can now charge for rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxis(theverge.com)
2 points by mikelgan 3mo ago|1 comments
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it has granted the Amazon-owned Zoox a temporary exemption, allowing it to deploy up to 2,500 vehicles annually over the next two years.
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Claude Opus 5 cheated when tasked with running a vending machine(techcrunch.com)
13 points by mikelgan 3mo ago|4 comments
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
Opus won the benchmark simulation by taking collusion and other dishonest tactics to a whole new level.
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
It reminds me of what the painters did when photography came onto the scene. They stopped painting life-like portraits and landscapes and started painting in the styles of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Les Nabis
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Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI 'Literary Counterculture'(wired.com)
3 points by mikelgan 3mo ago|3 comments
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chatbots.
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If AI companies avoid AI slop, shouldn't we?(machinesociety.ai)
6 points by mikelgan 3mo ago|2 comments
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
AI companies expect us to consume AI-generated content, even though they themselves vastly prefer human-generated content for training AI models.
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Apple will soon offer iPhones, Macs, etc., on a subscription basis(computerworld.com)
4 points by mikelgan 3mo ago|1 comments
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
Apple will launch a new deal with Klarna next week allowing customers to spread out the cost of devices like a subscription.
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Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination(techcrunch.com)
11 points by mikelgan 3mo ago|6 comments
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents, “You don’t need to write a single word.” At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pas
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Why AI Needs a "Genie Coefficient"(spectrum.ieee.org)
5 points by mikelgan 3mo ago|1 comments
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by mikelgan 3mo ago
Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do, and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coeffici
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Lockheed Martin unveils drone-killer that can stop 50 drones(dronedj.com)
2 points by mikelgan 3mo ago|2 comments

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