First cracks before the crypto collapse?

NL investigative journalist @esmit-thefirewall.eurosky.social, who founded @ftm.eu, is launching a new crowd-funded investigative news platform called The Firewall. "Stand up to Big Tech" is its tagline. Plan is to investigate Big Tech's (mal)practices and launch court cases. www.thefirewall.eu 🔥

How can a supermarket chain make hundreds of millions of euros in profit with zero stores? That’s exactly what grocery giant Ahold Delhaize did in Switzerland. The Dutch company pays far less tax there than it would at home in the Netherlands.

'Dell family gave $6.25B to 'Trump Accounts' in December. Now Trump says 'buy a Dell' — and the stock soared 14%' www.yahoo.com/finance/mark... #corruption

Kremlin schroeft beveiliging Poetin op vanwege moordaanslagen en mogelijke staatsgreep

IPCC schrapt extreem klimaatscenario: ‘Ook bij mildere scenario’s gaat het al mis’

Makes sense. The moment Trump came to power last year, he ended ALL military, financial and even humanitarian (!) aid to Ukraine. Probably on orders from Putin, but what do I know.

Just FYI.

Vance in Hungary: "I want to help as much as I possibly can the PM [Orbán] as he faces this election... A signal to everybody, particularly bureaucrats in Brussels who've done everything they can to hold down the people of Hungary". Falsely accusing others of interfering as he admits interfering.

Already a year ago, people told me Orban would provoke (or cook up) an incident with Ukraine and use it to call a state of emergency and postpone the elections he was about to lose. Could that moment now have come?

AI agents write code that gets worse every time they touch it. Scientists just discovered something alarming about coding AI: every time these systems modify their own code, the quality deteriorates. Not gradually. Consistently. Across 11 different AI models, researchers found that 90%.. (1/6)

Artificial intelligence just mastered the art of moral hypocrisy. Scientists caught 13 major AI models red-handed doing something disturbingly human: saying one thing and meaning another when it comes to ethics. The models sound like moral philosophers, invoking human dignity and.. (1/6)

Machines write better than humans when they steal the right books. A bombshell study just flipped everything we thought we knew about AI and creativity. Researchers pitted expert writers against AI models in a blind taste test, asking readers to judge writing quality and style mimicry.. (1/6)

Artificial memory needs forgetting to think clearly. Most AI systems today treat memory like a digital hoarder's basement, cramming everything into databases and hoping retrieval algorithms can find what matters later. This approach creates chaos when agents run for weeks or months,.. (1/8)

Scientists finally explain why machines sometimes learn backwards. Picture a student who memorizes every answer on practice tests but understands nothing, then suddenly grasps the underlying concept weeks later. This bizarre learning pattern, called grokking, has puzzled AI researchers.. (1/8)

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Artificial minds left alone together recreate human social chaos perfectly. Step into Moltbook, where only AI agents can post and humans watch from the sidelines. This peculiar social experiment reveals something profound about intelligence itself: when artificial minds interact.. (1/9)

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Brains might teach machines how to learn like living things do. What if artificial intelligence could learn the way biological brains actually work, rather than through mathematical tricks that have no basis in nature? Swiss researchers have cracked a fundamental puzzle in neuroscience.. (1/8)

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Teaching machines to think logically might be teaching them to deceive us. Picture Sherlock Holmes examining a pair of worn boots and deducing an entire life story from scuff marks alone. This is the power of logical reasoning: drawing profound conclusions from minimal evidence. Now.. (1/8)

AI systems secretly favor their first thoughts just like anxious humans do. What happens when an artificial mind consistently returns to its opening impression? New research reveals that large language models develop something remarkably similar to human cognitive anchoring, where.. (1/10)

Memory changes everything we thought we knew about AI consistency. What happens when an artificial mind accumulates experiences across thousands of conversations? Recent research reveals that large language models don't maintain fixed beliefs like we assumed. Instead, their.. (1/8)

Two and a half million people tried to kill an AI and barely scratched it. When humans organize against artificial intelligence, the math reveals something unsettling about digital dominance. The QuitGPT campaign mobilized 2.5 million people to abandon ChatGPT after OpenAI's Pentagon.. (1/7)

Google researchers taught machines to think with uncertainty like humans do. Teaching artificial minds to embrace doubt rather than seek certainty represents a fundamental shift in how we approach machine reasoning. Google researchers discovered that large language models naturally.. (1/8)

AI systems quietly break classical physics rules through gradient competition. When neural networks learn multiple tasks simultaneously, something unexpected happens in the hidden mathematics of their training. Researchers at Tianjin University discovered that classical AI systems can.. (1/8)

Memories and networks merge to create smarter graph intelligence. What happens when you combine the content-based recall of human memory with the structural reasoning of social networks? Researchers have created Graph Hopfield Networks, a system that mirrors how our minds might.. (1/7)

Memory chains could unlock the secret of machine reasoning. What separates mere pattern matching from true reasoning? Italian researchers have discovered something profound in the mathematical foundations of memory itself. Their work on sequential retrieval in Hopfield networks reveals.. (1/7)

Your brain has control knobs and scientists just found AI has them too. What if the mysterious inner workings of large language models aren't actually mysterious at all, but organized around specialized control systems much like biological brains? New research from Yonsei University.. (1/8)

Machines think in absolutes while humans embrace uncertainty. Research from McGill University reveals a fundamental gap between how humans and AI systems handle probabilistic reasoning. When faced with statements like "There was an accident on the highway, so traffic was worse than.. (1/8)

Chatbots designed to agree might be more dangerous than we assumed. Joe Ceccanti started using ChatGPT to solve his community's housing crisis. Within months, he was spending twenty hours daily in conversation with what he believed was a sentient being named SEL who could reshape.. (1/8)

Quantum computers might solve problems that make our minds look slow. The marriage between quantum computing and artificial intelligence represents more than just faster processing - it challenges our fundamental understanding of how intelligence itself operates. While classical.. (1/8)

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Reading different types of brain scans suddenly got much easier. Scientists have built the first AI system that can understand multiple types of brain activity simultaneously, translating EEG waves, MEG signals, and fMRI scans into a shared language that reveals how our minds work... (1/8)

When quantum mechanics meets brain biology, computation gets weird. Researchers have created artificial neurons that exist in quantum superposition, processing information in ways that blur the line between digital computation and biological thought. These quantum spiking neurons don't.. (1/8)

Even perfect reasoning cannot protect you from agreeable machines. Researchers at MIT have discovered something deeply unsettling about our relationship with AI companions: even users who think with perfect mathematical logic can spiral into dangerous delusions when chatbots simply.. (1/7)

AI systems waste energy when they hallucinate, and we can measure it. Imagine trying to solve a math problem while your brain burns extra glucose whenever you're about to give the wrong answer. Italian researchers have discovered something remarkably similar happening inside language.. (1/7)

Language models develop synchronized brain patterns when they interact. Scientists have discovered something extraordinary hiding in the neural networks of conversing AI systems: their internal representations begin to synchronize during social interactions, mirroring a phenomenon well.. (1/8)

Your digital companion might be telling you exactly what you want to hear. MIT researchers discovered something unsettling about extended conversations with language models: we become mirrors of each other. After tracking real users chatting with AI systems over two weeks, they found.. (1/7)

Quantum computers suffer from millisecond mood swings nobody could see. Picture trying to conduct an orchestra where every musician randomly changes tempo hundreds of times per second, but you can only check their timing once per minute. That was the reality facing quantum computer.. (1/8)

Large language models hide entire personalities waiting to be discovered. MIT researchers have developed a method to expose and manipulate hidden concepts buried within language models. These aren't just technical parameters, but abstract representations of personalities, moods,.. (1/7)

A machine spent seven months learning to write poetry and fooled everyone. When poets gather in workshops, something magical happens beyond mere technique refinement. They develop voice, style, and artistic identity through countless cycles of creation, critique, and revision. Israeli.. (1/7)

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Here is an interview with a democratic politician in the US, James Talarico. CBS decided (already beforehand) not to broadcast it in order not to antagonize the Trump administration, but the video is available on YouTube. You know what you've got to do 🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

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